Following on from the news that Truefitt were opening a new bar in Northallerton I’m pleased to say it’s now open. Headed up by Mother and Daughter team Steph and Val Truefitt and with beers supplied by Steph’s husband Matt it really is a family run business. With 3 cask ales, 2 craft lagers and 1 […]
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I first met Matt from Truefitt when he was working at Captain Cooks Brewery in Stokesley, he’s since become a good friend and client (we do his branding, labels and pump clips). As a result I’ve never really written that much about his beers on here, apart from the odd mention in my Golden Pints, […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Tavernale. It’s ale brewed in a tavern. It’s also the name of our house beer brewed for us by Wylam brewery. What is your brewery capacity? 9 HTL a week. What is different about your brewery? It’s brewed in the bar which is pretty […]
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For those of you who’ve not already seen its the marble arch 125 year anniversary this year and to celebrate they’ve got a whole host of events planned, one of which is a beer festival tuning from 1st – 4th August. As part of this festival they asked 25 people to pick their 5 favourite […]
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Gateshead beer festival is ran over the May Day Bank holiday weekend (3rd to the 5th of May this year), They have about 60 pumps on at any one time and over the space of the weekend they should have about 140 different beers available. They are supporting local brewer and breweries from across the […]
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I’ll be honest there’s not many places round here to buy decent bottled beer, whether it be local or from further a field. There is the odd shop like Whistle Stop Wines in Saltburn and of course the supermarkets have the odd beer, even B&M gets the odd bottle of decent ale in now and […]
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On Monday 30/07/2012 The Plimsoll Line will be holding a meet the brewer session with Saltaire brewery from 7pm. Saltaire beers available will be: Empress IPA (abv 5.0%) Tykes Gold (abv 4.4%) Raspberry Blonde (abv 4.0%) Elderflower Blonde (abv 4.0%) Five Rise Pale (abv 3.9%) In addition to these we will also have available Wall’s […]
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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 […]
View Post Beer Festival, cumbrian ale, cumbrian beer, northern beerThis just landed in my inbox so thought I’d share it as it sound like a blooming good festival and if I wasn’t going to the Hawkshed Beer Festival on Thursday I’d have popped up to Newcastle this weekend. We kick off on Friday at 3pm when our 3 bars will open. We have […]
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The Plimsoll Line in Redcar are having another meet the brewer night, this time with Black Paw brewery. Black Paw are based in Durham and have been brewing since July 2011 the beers will include Bishop’s Best, Paw’s Gold, Dark Seam, Polar Paw and Black Paw IPA Checkout their Facebook for more info and pop down any time after 19:00 on the 2nd […]
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