Butcombe, the West Country’s fastest growing brewery can now welcome virtual visitors to its brewery tours on Google Street View – the first brewer in the UK to do so. Virtual visitors can enter the gates, view the yard and the inner workings of the Brewery, admire the fermenting vessels and see the much-loved tasting […]
BeerX, the Society of Independent Brewers’ celebration of British beer, concluded last Friday with the presentation of the organisation’s first-ever Lifetime Achievement Awards to two individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to SIBA and the broader brewing industry. The first two recipients of the SIBA Lifetime Achievement Award were Dave Wickett and Peter Amor. […]
Independent brewer Bath Ales has re-introduced Rare Hare, the strongest beer in the Bath Ales portfolio, just in time for the Easter holidays. Available in-store and on tap from 25th March, Rare Hare is set to live up to its name with pre-orders sales already rising fast. A smooth premium beer that is full in […]
The Chiltern Brewery, Buckinghamshire, has teamed up with innovative design agency, Dirty Design, to create a series of clever, fresh, ground-breaking and industry re-defining pump clips that change existing ideas about this ‘point of sale’ concept. What they have developed is a range of full-scale curved pint glass pump clips in superb visual colour representation […]
Beer Academy Sommelier, Jane Peyton, has trained the staff of the newly launched Bosphorus Brewing Company in Istanbul on the merits of matching beer and food. The Bosphorus Brewing Company is Istanbul’s first brew pub and opened in November 2012. It is owned and run by Britons Phil and Jill Hall both long time Istanbul […]
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 […]
Plough to pint microbrewer, the Scottish Borders Brewery, is gearing up to produce a new range of beers made from naturally foraged products created with the help of volunteer foragers and home-brewers. The brewery, which has just celebrated its second anniversary with the sale of its 500,000th pint will work in partnership with the community […]
Iron Maiden have turned their attention from heavy metal to hops – to create their own beer. The iconic British rock band, who have sold more than 85m records worldwide, have teamed up with Stockport brewery Robinsons to compose the new cask and bottle ale Trooper. They follow in the footsteps of chart toppers Elbow, […]
The closing date for entries to the Sainsbury’s 2013 Great British Beer Hunt is four weeks away – 10th April 2013 – and already over 200 brewers have signed up for further information and the entries have started coming in. With samples needed by the 17th April there is still plenty of time to prepare […]