One of my all time favourite breweries and in my opinion a very underrated brewery celebrates their 20th Anniversary this year and are having a bit of a knees up to mark the occasion. Details are below but if you plan on joining me there please give the brewery a shout on info@durhambrewery.co.uk and let […]
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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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Following on from the news that Truefitt were opening a new bar in Northallerton I’m pleased to say it’s now open. Headed up by Mother and Daughter team Steph and Val Truefitt and with beers supplied by Steph’s husband Matt it really is a family run business. With 3 cask ales, 2 craft lagers and 1 […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Hopcraft / Pixie Spring, it was bought as scrap from Iceni in Norfolk; it was in a terrible state and it took us 6 months to get it running again. What is your brewery capacity? Not easy to answer! the copper is 35 barrels, […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? ShinDigger. We started brewing a couple of years ago when we were around 21. We were shocked by how many people our age were put off ale because of a perceived ‘old man’ image. We wanted to challenge this perception by building our company […]
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For me honey beer is a pretty hard beer to get right, If you say a beer has honey in, it needs to taste of honey but not be overly sweet and still taste like beer, rather than drinking a pint of sweet malty water or not being able to taste the honey. For me […]
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Beer lovers in Northallerton will soon be able to quench their thirst at Truefitt’s Tap. Due to open for the second bank holiday in May Truefitt’s first bar will serve cask, keg and bottled beers. The beers will of course include the range from Truefitt Brewing Co as well as showcasing beers from other breweries. […]
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I’m a big fan of Adnams they are certainly in my favourite breweries, they do some really cracking beers, like the recent Fat Sprat and the always excellent Innovation, what’s more they are really consistent so you know that when you buy their beer it will be the same as the last time you bought […]
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Yarm has it’s first specialist beer and drinks shop, with roughly 180 beers, 24 ciders, 70 spirits, 150 wines, 25 whiskeys and 20 liqueurs, a huge 98% of which are not sold in the supermarket, what’s more if they don’t stock something a customer is trying to find they will do their best to source it […]
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A little over a week ago Wetherspoons did something I never thought I’d see, they put American canned beer into my local pub, not only my local but every Wetherspoon Pub in the UK. The cans are 3 beers from Sixpoint Brewery in Brooklyn and I was one of the lucky ones to be sent […]
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