Shepherd Neame have been doing a great job of late with the release of their Classic Collection, including Generation Ale, India Pale Ale and Double Stout, all with new branding that has a lovely historical feel to it and (thankfully) steps away from the glossy labels and clear bottles of main Shepherd Neame range. The […]
View Post bottled beer, english ale, kent beer, southern beerWhat 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 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 aleThose of you who are regular readers of the blog or who know me, will know how much of a huge fan I am of Moor Beer. Justin makes some absolutely brilliant beers and is a really nice guy to boot. I’ve been lucky enough to try alot of Moor beer both in bottle and from cask […]
View Post bottled beer, english ale, Kent, kent ale, moor brewing co, southern beerI was sorting through my beer photos a couple of days ago when I spotted a whole bunch of photos of Marble Beers, It was then when I realised I’d not actually written about any of them on here., Im also surprised Dom hasn’t nagged me at some point although other than the Marble facebook […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, bottled beer, english ale, marbleThis week’s Meet The Brewer comes from Chris who Brews for Bristol Beer Factory, I first came across them on twitter when they joing in with Beer Swap and sent me some rather tasty ales! What is your brewery capacity? 80bbls per week What is different about your brewery? Sited in an old brewery building, […]
View Post Beer Swap, Bristol Beer Factory, english ale, Meet The BrewerOne of the many reasons it’s been a bit quiet on here of late (other than hosting problems) is that this time last week I was down south for the Great British Beer Festival, I felt slightly under prepared having only briefly glanced at the beer list, decided not to make a list, mainly because […]
View Post american beer, Beer Festival, english ale, GBBF, locale, londonLast year I was lucky enough to get my hands on a box of Thornbridge’s marvellous Halcyon for the bargain price of £1 a bottle, After that Halcyon was hard to track down and disappeared from my life. That was until Rich from My Brewery Tap very kindly sent me a bottle of the new […]
View Post derbyshire, english ale, English IPA, IPA, my brewery tap, ThornbridgeWhat is your brewery capacity? Up to 200,000Hl What is different about your brewery? We have been brewing since 1777, whilst the existing brewery was built in 1899. We only supply draught beers (cask & keg) to our own pubs of which H&W owns 250. The Chairman (Mark Woodhouse) has a team of auditors whose […]
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