What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Our brewery, the Lerwick Brewery, is so called as we are based just outside Lerwick in Shetland. What is your brewery capacity? Our current brew length is 2000 litres or 12 barrels, with the ability to hold 22000 litres of beer at different stages […]
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What is your brewery capacity? 1300 litre/10 Barrel What is different about your brewery? Part of a brewpub How long have you been brewing for? 2 years in production, 5 years amateur. How did you get into brewing? Interest in craft beer developed into experimenting with homebrewing. After finishing my first degree I then attended […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? ShinDigger. We started brewing a couple of years ago when we were around 21. We were shocked by how many people our age were put off ale because of a perceived ‘old man’ image. We wanted to challenge this perception by building our company […]
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Beer lovers in Northallerton will soon be able to quench their thirst at Truefitt’s Tap. Due to open for the second bank holiday in May Truefitt’s first bar will serve cask, keg and bottled beers. The beers will of course include the range from Truefitt Brewing Co as well as showcasing beers from other breweries. […]
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A couple of nights ago I was lucky enough to be at the launch of their new beer , Longhorn IPA. It’s the second new beer to come out of Purity’s shiny new brewery and it’s their firs foray into the world of keg beer. The launch took part at Bar Du Vin in Birmingham, […]
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2013 has been an interesting year for beer, there’s been a lot of really good beer and an awful lot of inconsistent beer, beer that’s been lauded to death and I’ve not enjoyed there’s been some great discussions and some utterly bonkers ones and there’s been a fair bit of bandwagon jumping and circle jerking […]
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Today sees the launch of the most comprehensive search for the best British beer of 2012. Now in its second year, the competition runs until the end of November 2012, with the winners announced in early December 2012. Other beer competitions in the UK require entry by the brewers. Not all beers are entered for […]
View Post best beer, bottled beer, Canned beer, cask beer, keg 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 twissupUnsure what to do during the day on new year’s eve and with the other half at work myself and Dave managed to swing some cheap train tickets to York so I decided to dig out the map I made for 2009’s trip with Mark from Real Ale Reviews add a couple of new pubs […]
View Post Belgian Beer, bottled beer, cask beer, IPA, keg beer, pub crawl, train beer, york, york beer, york pubsWhat is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Lovibonds Brewery. Lovibonds is quite a historic name in British brewing that unfortunately died a death in the late 60’s. We resurrected it in 2005. What is your brewery capacity? We do a lot of 750l (~5 UK barrel) batches and are moving into […]
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