This week’s Meet the brewer comes from one of the first breweries I started drinking who are just a short trip down the road from me and close by to some excellent hiking and stunning scenery. What is your brewery capacity? 80,000 barrels What is different about your brewery? We use the Yorkshire Square […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, real ale, yorkshire, Yorkshire 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 aleWhat is your brewery capacity? 500,000 barrels What is different about your brewery? The diversity of beers and packages we produce How long have you been brewing for? Gainfully about 33 years How did you get into brewing? Doing a degree in it at Heriot Watt What beers do you brew regularly? Lots but my […]
View Post cask ale, Meet The Brewer, real ale, Yorkshire beerOn Saturday I finally got to go to the Rat Race Ale House, It’s a short train journey up the road but I’ve never gotten round to jumping on the train. Until recently it couldn’t open when Hartlepool were playing at home. So on Saturday I jumped on the train with Trev and we headed […]
View Post cask ale, hartlepool, pub, real aleToday’s Meet The Brewer comes from a brewery I am really fond of, they make some interesting and exciting ales and are regulars in a lot of the pubs where we end up after walking. Roosters Brewery name is because it is natural, male like most of our customers were when the brewery opened, and […]
View Post brewery, Meet The Brewer, real ale, uk beer, yorkshire, Yorkshire beerThis 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 aleA couple of weeks ago the lovely people at Young’s sent me a case of their new London Gold, when I say new I really mean newly bottled, as London Gold has been around in Cask form for some time now. As they were kind enough to send me 8 bottles I decided to share […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, london, real ale, summer aleWhat 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 […]
View Post brewer, english ale, Meet The Brewer, real aleThis beer arrived as part of my Beer Swap Part Deux box from Andrew at Bristol Beer Factory, It was another new beer to me and it was another of Andrew’s own ales. Again like the IPA it came without a label, which in some ways is pretty cool as you don’t quite know what […]
View Post Beer Swap, Beerswap, bristol beer, milk stout, real ale, StoutThis beer arrived as part of my Beer Swap Part Deux box from Andrew at Bristol Beer Factory, It was another new beer to me which is great as that’s the whole point of Beer Swap. The first thing that jumps out about Goat’s Leap is the label, I think it’s great, I love the […]
View Post Beer Swap, Beerswap, Bottle conditioned, Bristol Beer Factory, english ale, English IPA, IPA, real ale