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 name and where did it come from? Hopcraft / Pixie Spring, it was bought as scrap from Iceni in Norfolk; it was in a terrible state and it took us 6 months to get it running again. What is your brewery capacity? Not easy to answer! the copper is 35 barrels, […]
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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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What is your name? Campbell Morrissy (American), David Ross (Scottish), Patrick Howell (Canadian), and Bruce Smith (Scottish). We are all Brewing & Distilling MSc students at Heriot-Watt University. What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Natural Selection Brewing. I don’t quite know the origin, I guess it just evolved. (I love […]
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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 beerThis 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 beerAt 7:30pm it’s your chance to meet people from BrewDog including Josie Ludford their Northern Territory Sales & Marketing Manager. There’ll be talk, tasters and snacks at half time. If you’ve not been to the Tyne for a while you might not know that, alongside their Gold Tankard and two other rotating Wylam beers they […]
View Post bottled beer, BrewDog, kegged beer, northern beer, the tyneIn a first for Meet the Brewer we head across the North Sea to Norway and chat to Kjetil Jikiun of Nøgne ø What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Nøgne ø, Det Kompromissløse Bryggeri, which litteraly means Naked Island, The Uncomromising Brewery. Naked Island is a term from from the […]
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