What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Cornish Crown I have owned a pub in Penzance for 8 years called the Crown. I also like to have the word Cornish in the name as I am proud of where I live. I liked the name so much I registered the company in […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? The Old Dairy Brewery. We’re in an old dairy building, and still have cows next door. What is your brewery capacity? The brew length is 5 barrels, though we usually squeeze out 5 ¼. What is different about your brewery? We took our name […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? North riding brewpub –the building has been called the north riding hotel since it was built in the late 19th century What is your brewery capacity? 2bbl What is different about your brewery? Its tidgy and its in the cellers of our pub/hotel How […]
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This Easter Sunday Bacchus in Newcastle is the place to be as it’s their Easter Beer festival, not only that it’s the presentation of ‘CAMRA Tyneside Pub Of The Year 2012’. The festival starts at 12 noon and runs until 22:30 with the CAMRA presentation likely to be soon after opening. Bacchus will be offering […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Shepherd Neame, Britain’s oldest brewer. Brewing has been continuous on our site since 1507, with the Shepherds getting involved in 1732 and the Neames in 1864. What is your brewery capacity? In 2010/11 we brewed 68 million pints (approximately 239,000 brewers’ barrels) What is […]
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Just a quick heads up that The Free Trade Inn in Newcastle is hosting the launch of what sounds like a fantastic beer, Tyne Bank Piccolo Black from 19:00 on Monday 6th Feb 2012. Piccolo Black, is a collaboration between local Barista, Piccolo Coffee and Tyne Bank Brewery. It is a black pale ale brewed […]
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The Highland Brewing Company is one of my favourite breweries north of the border, Rob and his son produce some cracking ales which is no surprise really when Rob has been brewing for over 28 years and brewed in some great breweries across the UK. Based on the beautiful island of Orkney they are also known as […]
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A few months ago well known Yorkshire Brewery, Black Sheep did something a little bit different. Known for producing a solid range of tasty cask and bottled beer they decided to brew a beer they’d not tried before…an Imperial Russian Stout, weighing in at 8.5% ABV, what’s more they then sent the beer on a […]
View Post bottled beer, real ale, Stout, york, Yorkshire beerA 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 aleDurham Brewery have recently undergone a bit of a makeover not only releasing some new beers but they’ve changed their iconic branding and got themselves a shiny new website. The branding is starting to grow on me, I was a huge fan of the old bottles and pumpclips so I was a little shocked when […]
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