With the official opening of Hardknott On Track things have come full circle for Hardknott Brewery, The brewery originally started in the Woolpack Inn, berfore Dave and Ann sold up and moved the brewery to Millom so that they could focus on making great beer. 4 years on and with the new brewery site in […]
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Hawkshead very kindly sent me 3 of their new smaller batch beers, the IPA didn’t last very long at all and it certainly was a cracker, packed full of big juicy hops and ever so moreish, enough so that I bought a couple of bottles from Open All Hours in Keswick as the Hawkshead online […]
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The guys over at Hardknott have had a busy month, not only have they launched Cumbria’s strongest beer with the release of the latest edition of Granite weighing in at a huge 12.7% ABV (which you can read more about here), they are also hosting a beer dinner at Muncaster Castle on the 7th of […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Kirkby Lonsdale Brewery, It is the town in which we are based. It translates as church on a hill by the lune. What is your brewery capacity? 30 bbrl per week What is different about your brewery? We are a small family run brewery producing […]
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Last week saw lots of thirsty beer lovers descend on Staveley in Cumbria for the latest instalment in the Hawkshead Beer Festival. We arrived early afternoon on the Thursday after a quick trip round Ambleside and setting up camp at the excellent Pound Farm Campsite just over 2 miles from the Brewery in a little village called […]
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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 […]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, cumbrian ale, cumbrian beer, kegged beerLast 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 […]
View Post beer and food, bottled beer, cumbrian beer, hardknott, Hardknott breweryA couple of weeks ago HardknottDave asked me if i wanted to test his soon to be launched online shop, happy to help a mate and with the chance to order a pre release version of his newest bottled beer, I logged on and got stuck in. Not long after my paypal receipt had arrived […]
View Post Bottle conditioned beer, bottled beer, cumbria, cumbrian beer, hardknott, real aleI first heard about Coniston IPA when Ian mentioned it in his Meet the Brewer and from his tweets on twitter I knew I had to try some. So on a camping trip a couple of weeks ago we decided to have a beery night in Coniston town I popped into the Black Bull for […]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, cumbria, cumbrian beer, lake district, lakeland ales, lakeland beerAfter an excellent day in Chester the plans for the next couple of days included more walking that beer but that’s not to say it didn’t include a fair bit of beer. You can read about the walking here or have a nose at my photos here, so I thought I’d do a quick round […]
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