A total of 16 beers from the Society of Independent Brewers’ (SIBA) Wales and West region have been selected for a place in the National finals taking place at BeerX, SIBA’s flagship event. There will be a total of 8 cask beers and 8 ‘small pack’ (bottled and canned) beers in the competition, with the […]
Wood Brewery is launching a bottled version of Shropshire Hills Beauty, its increasingly popular cask conditioned draught beer. South Shropshire brewers Wood’s created the 4.2% ABV draught beer in 2008 as a limited edition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Beauty proved so popular that Wood’s have […]
A couple who pioneered serving pub bar food in the West Midlands are this month (July) celebrating 50 continuous years in the licensed trade – and have stuck to selling local real ales throughout that time. Even when real ales were going out of fashion, Peter and Cecile Williams stuck by the policy of offering […]
A brewery in Llysfaen, Colwyn Bay, is celebrating after pulling in a contract to supply Co-operative food stores in Wales with over 40,000 pints of ale. The Brewery’s beers including Clogwyn Gold, Rampart – a full bodied brown beer and, the best-selling Welsh Pride are now playing a part in The Co-operative’s move to change […]
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SIBA Wales & West Region Beer Competition 2015 DATE OF JUDGING & ANNOUNCEMENT 8th May 2015 Overall Champion of the Competition Sponsored by Muntons PLC Brewery Product ABV Gold Cotswold Spring Brewery OSM 3.9 Silver Kite Brewery Jemima’s Pitchfork 4.4 Bronze The Waen Brewery Lemon Drizzle 3.7 Champion Small Pack Beers Sponsored by Beatson Clark […]
IT WAS all hands to the pump as a new local ale came under starter’s orders at a cycling event which attracted 150 riders into their saddles. The family-run Wye Vallery Brewery at Stoke Lacy, near Bromyard, decided to stage the official launch of its special edition ale Dorothy Goodbody’s Pedal Pusher as part of […]
The Wood Brewery celebrates its emerald anniversary – 35 years of brewing – in 2015 and is planning a series of special ‘woody’ brews to celebrate. All the beers are named after trees. The first is Chestnut, a modern mild, designed with gentle malts and hops and an abv of 3.5% to deliver a well-balanced, […]
Hobsons Brewery and Cooking Like Cleopatra have teamed up to organise a special event on Thursday, 26 March at 7:30pm at the Brewery’s new tasting room in Cleobury Mortimer, where Shropshire Ales meets Egyptian mezze. The very fact that a 3,000 year old tomb of an ancient beer brewer has recently been discovered in the […]
By Mike Berry, 16-Feb-2015 A former City worker who had never pulled a pint before quitting his job and becoming a publican has picked up the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) National Pub of the Year Award. Salutation Inn, Ham, Gloucestershire http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Salutation-Inn-CAMRA-pub-of-the-year-2015