The White Swan in Stokesley home of the Captain Cook Brewery is having a Beer and Cheese festival over the Easter weekend, It starts on the 22nd and runs to the 25th. The White Swan is a fantastic little pub and Captain Cook make some very tasty beers, there will be some great beers on […]
View Post beer and cheese, Beer Festival, cask beer, local ale, localeWhat is your brewery capacity? 5 Barrel with a half barrel pilot plant for crazy stuff. What is different about your brewery? Good question, there are so many small breweries around and dare i say it some pretty average beers…I guess we’re different because we never stop trying to improve our beers. There is no […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, real aleThis week’s Meet The Brewer comes from a little closer to home, with Ian from Coniston Brewery in the lovely Lake District, taking time out from his busy schedule to fill us in about the brewery. If you are ever in the area it’s definitely worth a visit but best left until after you’ve climbed Coniston Old […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, cumbrian beer, kegged beer, lakeland beer, Meet The BrewerThis weeks Meet The Brewer, comes from Colin at Marble, he’s the second brewer from Marble Brewery to take part, although Dom now brewing at Thornbridge. What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? It’s the Marble Brewery in Manchester. It was named after the Marble Arch pub where it’s based. What is […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, kegged beer, manchester beer, marble brewery, northern beerLast Friday night a group of us went to the Black Sheep Beer and Food Night at the brewery in Masham, 3 of us were beer bloggers the other 3 were our partners, some of who enjoy the odd beer and some who don’t drink beer at all. We arrived in Masham a little early, […]
View Post beer and food, Beer and food pairing, black sheep, cask ale, cask beer, Yorkshire AleIt’s that time of year again where the Captain Cook Inn at Staithes holds it’s St George beer festival, if you’re in the area it’s well worth checking out, there are usually some great beers, sausages and pies. This years festival will kick off at 11 am on Thursday 21st April 2011 and run till […]
View Post beer festival captain cook inn, captain cook, cask ale, cask beerIt already seems like ages ago since I hopped on the short train journey to York for the first Twissup of 2011. I arrived way too early so went for a quick wander around the lovely historic streets and had a look a the market in the square, only just resisting the urge to buy […]
View Post cask beer, keg beer, Twissup, york, york beer, york beers, york pubcrawl, york twissupThis week’s Meet the Brewer comes from Ian Bradford, or Brad as he’s know from Lymestone Brewery in Staffordshire. What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Lymestone Brewery:- an amalgamation of the names of the towns of Newcastle under Lyme and Stone, both in Staffordshire What is your brewery capacity? 6 […]
View Post bottled ale, bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, micro brewery, real ale, staffordshireAs well as Twissup and the Otley brewery night at the White Horse, this weekend sees the start of the Welsh beer festival at The Rake in London. It Kicks off at 12 noon on the Sunday and there will be a Meet the Brewer event at 2pm with Nick & Matt Otley & If […]
View Post cask beer, cheese and beer, kegged beer, london, london beer, Meet The Brewer, the rake, welsh beer, welsh cheeseSome big news in the world of UK Brewing is that after recently re launching the White Sheild Brewery, Molson Coors have aquired the Award winning Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall. When I first read the title I was suprised…infact it made me swear out loud, but after reading the press release It sounds like a […]
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