What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Our Brewery is called ‘The Big River Brewery’, we called it that because we’re right next to the River Humber and given that it drains something in the order of 1/3 of the UK it seemed right to give a nod in that direction. […]
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Here’s @kempicus (from Buxton Brewer) Golden Pints for 2011 Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer: Marble Dobber Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer: Fullers 1845, close runner up Marble/Fullers Old Manchester Best Overseas Draught Beer: Bitburger Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer: Yeastie Boys Rex Attitude, equal second Brewaucracy Pumpkin Image Inc and Epic […]
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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 breweryThe 2009 and 2010 Golden Pint awards we’re a laugh and seemed to go down well so here’s this years list. It couldn’t be simpler, just fill in your answers to the categories below. You can do this in the comments on someone’s blog post, write them in your own blog or email them to […]
View Post Beer Awards, best beer, Golden PintsI was going to write a huge post about what happened when Twissup hit Newcastle a couple of weeks ago, but to be honest, there’s been lots of great write-ups which you can read here, here, here, here , here and here (If I’ve missed your link stick it in the comments at the bottom) So […]
View Post Beer bloggers, bottled beer, cask beer, newcastle, TwissupWhat is your Brewery name and where did it come from? The XT Brewing Company. Prize if you can work out where the name comes from. What is your brewery capacity? We have a 15 barrel plant. What is different about your brewery? I want to make beers that are really accessible. It is annoying […]
View PostPork Scratchings have to be one of the best British beery bar snacks out there, crunch and salty they go with pretty much any beer you can lay your hands on. Unfortunately it would seem that the majority of packets of scratchings use rind from Danish Pigs, this travesty has lead Tom Parker Bowles and […]
View PostThe day after we’d been to the Cumbrian Beer Appreciation Group’s latest meal was mostly spent wandering around the beautiful Lake District in the rain trying to resit the temptation to go on a huge pub crawl and drink lots of Lakeland Ale, mainly because we had drank lots of beer the night before but […]
View PostIn anticipation of Twissup tomorrow here’s a meet the brewer with Mark from Tyne Bank Brewery, which we will be going for a look around. What is your brewery name and where did it come from? Tyne Bank Brewery. The name was chosen due the brewery being located on the banks of the Tyne just […]
View PostLast 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 […]
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