Acorn is a brewery that’s beer is available on cask quite regularly round these parts as they are based just down the road in Barnsley, having said that we don’t see them in bottles very much, if at all, mainly because we are lacking any sort of decent bottle shop. I came across Gorlovka, or […]
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A few months ago well known Yorkshire Brewery, Black Sheep did something a little bit different. Known for producing a solid range of tasty cask and bottled beer they decided to brew a beer they’d not tried before…an Imperial Russian Stout, weighing in at 8.5% ABV, what’s more they then sent the beer on a […]
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Bristol Beer Factory have recently announced (well recently when I started writing this post) they are going to brew another 12 Stouts of Christmas, which is great news, it also reminded me that I’d not written about the first 12 so here goes. Myself and @davelozman had planned on splitting the 12 stouts over one night but after […]
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What is your brewery capacity? 1300 litre/10 Barrel What is different about your brewery? Part of a brewpub How long have you been brewing for? 2 years in production, 5 years amateur. How did you get into brewing? Interest in craft beer developed into experimenting with homebrewing. After finishing my first degree I then attended […]
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Last week saw lots of thirsty beer lovers descend on Staveley in Cumbria for the latest instalment in the Hawkshead Beer Festival. We arrived early afternoon on the Thursday after a quick trip round Ambleside and setting up camp at the excellent Pound Farm Campsite just over 2 miles from the Brewery in a little village called […]
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Does your homebrewery have a name? if so what’s the story behind it? I’m one of those homebrewers who thought of a brewery name before I had brewed a beer. I went with Broadford Brewery. I’ve lived in Bradford most of my 34 years but didn’t feel ballsy enough to take Bradford Brewery. Broadford was […]
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This week’s meet the brewer comes from a brewery close to my heart as their Workie Ticket was one of the first beers I ever had at a beer festival, It’s also one that’s recently undergone a bit of a transformation and is going from strength to strength Where did your brewery name come from? […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? We are the Revolutions Brewing Company. The name is a reference to the revolutions of vinyl record-playing turntables. Before CDs and digital downloads music used to revolve at 33 and 45 rpm — and for those with longer memories, 78 rpm. Until the high […]
View Post cask ale, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, yorkshire breweryLast week saw the latest get together of the Cumbrian Beer Appreciation Group (CBAG), after seeing tweets from previous events I’d quite fancied going to one but had never manged to time my holidays with the meals, this time however my luck was in and we were planning on heading to the Lake District when […]
View Post beer and food, bottled beer, cumbrian beer, hardknott, Hardknott breweryAs a change from their usual beer and food matching events the Bacchus in Newcastle has decided to hold a cheese and Norwegian beer afternoon starting at 4pm on Sunday 28th August. The beers are all from Nøgne ø brewery, the cheeses have been advised and supplied by the Norbiton fine cheese company and Norbiton’s […]
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