THE Government has not ruled out imposing a minimum unit price on alcohol, the Community Pubs Minister insisted during a recent visit to the North-East Conservative MP Brandon Lewis said the Government was taking its time to look at all the facts closely and would come to a considered conclusion. Speaking during a visit to […]
West Yorkshire’s award winning Ossett Brewing Company is celebrating an industry ‘Oscar’ for the success of its pub estate. The 16-year-old brewer was crowned Best Microbrewery Pub Company at the highly prestigious national Publican Awards 2013. Judges praised the successful mix of community and music pubs all focussed on cask-conditioned ale. Ossett’s 19 pubs are […]
ONE of the North East’s newest breweries is expanding its premises and increasing its workforce, just six months after opening its doors. Since launching in autumn, Sonnet 43 Brew House, in Coxhoe, County Durham, has exceeded initial estimations for sales of its craft ales and beers – and this week bosses recruited a new apprentice […]
Making its début at the Craft Brewers Conference & Brew Expo America®, Ilkley Brewery will next week travel to Washington DC where it will be part of a delegation of 10 British breweries who will each showcase their beers to the thousands gathered at one of North America’s biggest craft beer conventions. The delegation, organised […]
I am a native of Cumbria, but I left home aged 16 to take up an apprenticeship with GEC Telecoms in Coventry. It was the start of 30 years in an exciting industry. I rose from telecoms engineer to teaching people from all over the world at the Liverpool training school in the late eighties. Finally I […]
WharfeBank Brewery, the award winning producer of hand crafted ales situated on the banks of the River Wharfe in the heart of Yorkshire, is to supply beer to the 2013 Barcelona Beer Festival (BBF) and more than 20 bars across Catalonia. As part of its expansion into the European beer market, WharfeBank Brewery will supply […]
The West Yorkshire town of Otley is staking its claim as one of Britain’s premier pub places with the launch of an ale trail leaflet that’s set to help further boost to its growing tourism trade. The Historic Otley Ale Trail features a map of the town showing all of its 18 hostelries along with […]
A BEER brewed by Burnley firm Moorhouse’s has been named as one of the world’s best real ales. The Burnley brewer’s popular dark mild style beer Black Cat took the bronze medal for cask-conditioned beers of 2.9 to 3.8 per cent strength at the International Brewing Awards. And ‘lucky’ Black Cat was the only cask […]
Yorkshire’s Saltaire Brewery has just added another International Brewing Awards Gold Medal to its haul of more than 50 national and international awards, with its first kegged ale, Saltaire Gold 4.0% – judged to be the world’s best keg ale under 4.4% ABV. The Brewery only launched Saltaire Gold last November, and it is its […]
At Leeds’ oldest real ale house, Whitelock’s, Yorkshire’s multi-award winning Ilkley Brewery last night (Wednesday 6 February) launched The Mayan, the latest beer in its Origins range. Taking inspiration from an ancient Mayan recipe, this 5.3% chocolate Chipotle stout is velvety smooth and bittersweet with subtle smoky tones. Created in collaboration with food and drink […]