Everards pub the Seven Stars has proved a shining success only seven months after re-opening by being named Rugby CAMRA Pub of the Year. The pub claimed the title just months after it first re-opened its doors following a £200,000 refurbishment. The winner’s certificate was handed over by CAMRA representative Steve Durrants at a special […]
Duvel Moortgat has won the top brewer award in the annual Castle Rock Brewery Beer of the Year night held at the Canalhouse pub in Nottingham. Their win, in the 14th year of the competition, is the first to have been awarded to a continental brewer and is the first time the award has gone […]
The generosity of an Oadby licensee has helped lift spirits at Leicester Hospital after he arranged for six televisions to be installed at one of its wards. Phillip Wharton, 61, who runs the Fox Inn in Oadby has paid £1,000 of his own money to buy five of the televisions and organised a raffle which […]
The Chiltern Brewery, the oldest independent brewery in Buckinghamshire and the Chilterns, has won yet another award for one of their beers. The bottled Lord Lieutenant’s Porter has won a bronze medal in the International Brewing Awards held in Burton on Trent. The awards, held on Friday 15th February and known as the ‘Beer Oscars’, […]
At Thornbridge we are keen to encourage aspiring brewers to try and make new and exciting beers. With Brew Team 2013 we gave the opportunity to two teams, one from each of the Universities Real Ale Societies, to come up with some exciting new beer recipes. We assigned each team with one of our brewers […]
25 years ago Richard Scragg and Helen Teasdale bought the current Springhead Brewery site on Main Street in Laneham from long-term resident, Robin Minnitt. Historically the buildings had been used as the Minnitts family home, a mill, a bakery and a grocery shop. Richard went on to use the main buildings as a mill for […]
Real ale fans have a reason to be ‘merry’ as two new beers with a legendary connection hit the shelves in 75 Lincolnshire Co-operative foodstores. Robin Hood and Maid Marian are both brewed by the Springhead Brewery in Laneham, near Retford. They join the firm’s beers Roaring Meg and The Leveller which are already popular […]
The SIBA Midlands Region Meeting is now 26th February http://siba.co.uk/2013/02/siba-midlands-regional-meeting-2/
Real ale drinkers, supping alongside fellow judges Lilian Greenwood MP, Robin Hood aka Tim Pollard, and Mark Dennison from BBC Radio Nottingham have chosen the winner in the first Nottingham CAMRA champion beer of Nottingham competition. The event, hosted by Yvette Storey and her staff at Castle Rock’s Canalhouse pub, had 26 different real ales […]
A couple who met, dated and got married, all while regulars at the same pub, have won Everards’ new Valentines ‘Love in a Pub’ competition. For Steve and Dawn Hinks love did truly blossom in the pub after the couple were first introduced to each other in 2007 by friends at the Barley Mow pub […]