Saturday afternoon saw the grand opening of Truefitt Brewery, I was looking to going and having a look round especially after I’d been involved in the design of his branding and pumpclips through my company LemonTop Creative. We arrived just after 14:30 and there were already plenty of people with a beer in hand chatting […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? The Brewery is called Springhead. It comes for the name of the bend in the river Trent near where the original Brewery (the smallest brewery in Britain at the time) was founded. What is your brewery capacity? Our current capacity is 50 brewer’s barrels (BB) (that’s […]
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Matt over at Truefitt Brewing Company … Middlesbrough’s newest brewery would like to invite you along to his open day on the 12th May, The day kicks off at the brewery (3 Carcut Road, Lawson Industrial estate, Middlesbrough, TS3 6QL) at 14:30 Matt’s 4 core beers will be along with some nibbles. There will be […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? North riding brewpub –the building has been called the north riding hotel since it was built in the late 19th century What is your brewery capacity? 2bbl What is different about your brewery? Its tidgy and its in the cellers of our pub/hotel How […]
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Just before St Patricks Day this bottle arrived wrapped in a Jiffy bag, quite how it survived the post I’m not entirely sure but it did and a few days later it ended up in my glass. As far as I’m aware it’s the first time the Innis & Gunn have brewed a stout and […]
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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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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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