The Stockton CAMRA Ale and Arty Beer Festival returns for its seventh year after another huge success in 2010. The festival, as always, takes place over three days (Thur 24 : Sat 26 Feb) with festival goers supping up the selections during the day and enjoying entertainment on the evening. You can expect another weekend […]
View Post beer and music, Beer Festival, CAMRA, cask aleThis weeks Meet the brewer comes from home of Last of the Summer wine, a true British Classic and from two guys who after spending a few hours gettting twissed and sharing a monster curry, They were a great laugh, their passion and knowledge came across in bucket loads and I’ve got a feeling they […]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, Yorkshire AleWhat is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Green Jack : The Jack in the green : Jethro Tull Song What is your brewery capacity? 40 Barrels per brew What is different about your brewery? Most Easterly brewery in the UK, Built in an old smoke house How long have you been […]
View Post bottled ale, cask ale, english ale, Meet The Brewer, real aleLast week I received an email asking if I’d like to go and sample some of the ales available as part of the the NovEMBER Ale festival at my local Ember Inns. Not one to pass up on an excuse to visit the pub I hot footed it along the road to our local, Turners […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask ale, locale, pub, redcar beerAs well as the Whitby Beer festival this week also sees another local Beer festival at Redcar, It’s not been particularly well advertised hence this rather late post but here are the details for those of you that are close by. It starts on Thursday and runs through to Saturday, There is entertainment on each […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask ale, redcar, yorkshireI had the following info through about Whitby Beer Festival, It’s a cracking time of year to visit Whitby if you’re not local and with over 100 beers on there’s bound to be something worth trying. Thursday 11th – Sunday 14th November 2010 Bar open 11am-11pm each day At The Whitby Mission & Seafarers Centre […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask ale, whitbyWhat is your brewery capacity? 500,000 barrels What is different about your brewery? The diversity of beers and packages we produce How long have you been brewing for? Gainfully about 33 years How did you get into brewing? Doing a degree in it at Heriot Watt What beers do you brew regularly? Lots but my […]
View Post cask ale, Meet The Brewer, real ale, Yorkshire beerOn Saturday I finally got to go to the Rat Race Ale House, It’s a short train journey up the road but I’ve never gotten round to jumping on the train. Until recently it couldn’t open when Hartlepool were playing at home. So on Saturday I jumped on the train with Trev and we headed […]
View Post cask ale, hartlepool, pub, real aleToday saw the release of the National Cask Ale Report 2010-2011. The report is written by Pete Brown and reports on the latest trends in the beer and pub market, It’s choc full of facts and figures and is well worth a read. I digested most of it over my first cuppa of the day […]
View Post ale, Beer, british beer, cask ale, drinking, english ale, pubsThis week’s meet the brewer comes from a brewery that very nearly makes me want to move down south, they make some fantastic beers and I can only dream of trying them on cask. What is your brewery capacity? 60 bbrls/wk What is different about your brewery? It’s the only one in town. How long […]
View Post bottled ale, cask ale, english ale, Gadds, kent ale, Meet The Brewer, real ale