What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Liverpool Organic Brewery. We decided early on that we would be an Organic Brewery, the brewery name evolved almost organically you could say! What is your brewery capacity? 12.5 Barrels What is different about your brewery? We don’t sell ordinary beer, we strive for excellence […]
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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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Hawkshead Brewery are one of my favourite breweries in not just the lakes but the whole wide world. Hawkshead Brewery was founded in 2002 in a barn at Esthwaite Water, using a second hand 7 barrel plant and over the last few years they have gone from strength to strength, firstly moving across Lake Windemere to […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Shepherd Neame, Britain’s oldest brewer. Brewing has been continuous on our site since 1507, with the Shepherds getting involved in 1732 and the Neames in 1864. What is your brewery capacity? In 2010/11 we brewed 68 million pints (approximately 239,000 brewers’ barrels) What is […]
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Last weekend’s Open It saw lots of great bottles opened, shared and enjoyed throughout the country (or world??), here’s what I got through.
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This week’s Meet The Brewer is from Jonathan at Rough Draft Brewing Co in North Yorkshire. Along with filling this in Jonathan is also running a Meet the Brewer evening at The Station Hotel in Northallerton on 1 March 2012, from 7pm onwards. There will four or five beers of his beers to try – some […]
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Just a quick reminder that the first Open It! of 2012 is this weekend. It’s a reason and an excuse to open those bottles you’ve been saving. Beers which you really want to drink but also really want to hold onto until a special occasion. The thing is, not all beer gets better if you […]
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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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A couple of days ago a bottle of Cobra and a bottle of Thornbridge Jaipur arrived in the post and went straight in the fridge and then last night a freshly baked Dominos Tandoori Hot pizza arrived just before 19:00. The pizza was swiftly shared and consumed with the beers, spot on it was too, […]
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Just a quick heads up that The Free Trade Inn in Newcastle is hosting the launch of what sounds like a fantastic beer, Tyne Bank Piccolo Black from 19:00 on Monday 6th Feb 2012. Piccolo Black, is a collaboration between local Barista, Piccolo Coffee and Tyne Bank Brewery. It is a black pale ale brewed […]
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