A man known to pub licensees and restaurateurs throughout Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire and to drinks wholesalers up and down the country has retired after more than 40 years in the drinks industry. Mike Turner has spent the past 21 years building sales of traditionally brewed beers for one of Shropshire’s most successful independent breweries, […]
Norman Pearce and his son Justin, of the Corvedale brewery at the Sun Inn, Corfton, were invited by local MP Philip Dunne to the House of Commons, to celebrated guest beer status for their Fuggling Good Beer last week. Norman Pearce is a well know figure in Shropshire brewing circles as the inspiration behind the […]
Dobbin’s Yakima Grande Pale Ale will be appearing at this week’s Stockport beer festival where it first appeared more than 20 years ago. Yakima Grande Pale ale was a supremely hoppy pale ale first brewed in the early 90s at the now defunct Kings Arms pub in Chorlton on Medlock by Brendan Dobbin of West […]
SIBA Wales & West Region Beer Competition 2014 Venue: Ludlow Castle, Ludlow Date : 9th May 2014 Website: www.siba.co.uk/walesandwest Overall Champion of the Competition Sponsored by Charles Faram & Co Ltd Brewery Product ABV Gold North Cotswold Brewery Hung Drawn ‘N’ Portered 5.0 Silver Salopian Brewery Automaton 7.0 Bronze Gloucester Brewery Galaxy 5.2 For the full […]
Stroud Brewery launches its latest project – Pint, Pub, Place, which aims to develop the relationship between Stroud Brewery, its community and the Cotswold farms that grow their malting barley. It has received support from the Cotswolds AONB Sustainable Development Fund who recognize the projects potential to raise public awareness and foster a sense of […]
South Shropshire’s award-winning Wood Brewery is gearing up to increase business by appointing James Owens as Sales Manager. James joins the Wistanstow brewery in his home county of Shropshire after a successful career in national consumer magazine publishing, computer software and digital sound equipment sales in the UK and northern Europe. James is one […]
Paul Benson, head brewer at Wood’s, the award-winning South Shropshire brewery at Wistanstow, Craven Arms, has retired after 12 years, handing over the hops, malt and grain to his assistant, Andrew Pinnock. Paul joined Wood’s in 2002 as a 55-year-old with no experience of brewing, having just been declared redundant after 27 years in the […]
Salopian Brewery continued its rich vein of form at the SIBA National Beer Competition collecting six awards in the prestigious beer competition, the most received by any brewery. It means that the brewery has now racked up 14 awards in the past three years at the SIBA grand finals. Bottled Oracle in the golden beer […]
A taste of home is giving some big name beers a run for their money at two favourite watering holes in the south of the county. Norman Pearce, who is the landlord at the Sun Inn in Corfton, near Craven Arms, has been brewing behind the pub for 15 years. But he has just […]
It’s always great to showcase your beers to anyone who enjoys real ale, even better when you get very positive feedback, but getting your beer into Strangers Bar at The Houses of Parliament is worth so much more. The press is always asking “What does your MP do for you?” Monty’s Brewery saw a small […]