Freedom Brewery has announced plans to double its brewing capacity by the New Year to meet current and grow future demand for its award-winning craft lagers. The Abbots Bromley based brewery has been sold recently to new owners who plan to invest £500,000 in new brewing and storage facilities as well as developing a wetland […]
Aaron Taubman has swapped the Golden State of California for leafy Warwickshire to become the new Brewery Manager at Purity Brewing Co. The 39-year-old has considerable experience working in the brewing trade, which includes head of Brewing Quality for Miller Coors in California for the past six years. Prior to that he was Head Brewer […]
As a section of the Buckingham Canal gets closer to holding water for the first time in 75 years, Buckingham’s Microbrewery has teamed up with the canal society to launch a promotional beer. Buckingham Canal Water is produced by Buckingham Brewery. The brewery will supply the beer to order via retailers, free houses and the […]
With the weather set fair and a great deal of interest in this fantastic free open day at The Chiltern Brewery, many people turned up on Saturday 20th July to see behind the scenes of the working micro brewery and find out more about traditional brewing techniques, including the crucial role of the best quality […]
Hollywood star Kate Beckinsale and a glittering array of A-listers completed a Nottinghamshire day of celebration of the life of her father, Richard, with a private party and lunch at Beeston’s Victoria Hotel. The meal, washed down with pints of ‘Richard Beckinsale’, the current Castle Rock Nottinghamian Celebration Ale, followed a morning in Chilwell where […]
The Derby Brewing Company is proud and delighted to announce securing it’s forth premises, the Kedleston Hotel, Quarndon, situated on the famous Kedleston Estate. The Kedleston Hotel is a grade II * listed building, work began on the site in 1761, commissioned by Sir Nathan Curzon Bart for the estate, the build was famously overseen […]
Purity Brewing Co has appointed former Heineken executive Darryl Hinksman as its new Head of Brand. The role includes all marketing for Purity’s portfolio of beers, as well as responsibility for driving the Warwickshire brewery’s off-trade sales, which is particularly important as Purity has ambitions to grow its national distribution. The appointment of Darryl comes […]
The Royal Exchange in Stone has been crowned Pub of the Year by beer lovers in Mid Staffordshire. The Titanic Brewery pub in Radford Street was voted as the area’s star bar by members of Camra’s Heart of Staffordshire branch. The Royal Exchange is well known for its well kept beer, local pub food and […]
Ian Paice, Deep Purple’s Nottingham-born drummer expressed one regret following his tour of Castle Rock Brewery – he was touring with the band in Morocco, Georgia and Belarus while ‘his’ Nottinghamian Celebration Ale was the ale of the season in Spring 2013. His trip round, led by Charlie Blomeley, gave Ian an insight into how […]
IT IS not every day that a Cotswold beer makes it inside the doors of Number 10. But when Prime Minister David Cameron held a barbecue in Downing Street last Thursday for 200 thirsty conservative MPs, he specifically requested Hook Norton real ales to be served. Staff at Hook Norton Brewery, near Chipping Norton, found […]