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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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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When Matt from Truefitt brewing asked for people to go give him a hand brewing a special double india pale ale for his 50th brew there was no way I was going to miss it, even if I had drank far to much gin the night before. We arrived at the brewery just before 8am [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I received an email asking if I was available to take part in the Sharp’s connoisseur choice cook off final, apparently the recipe I’d submitted on Sharp’s Facebook pagehad been chosen by 2 michelin star chef Nathan Outlaw to represent him in the final. It seemed like far too good of an [...]
View Post beer and food, beer recipe, beer recipes, bottled beer, cask ale, cornish beer, recipeWhat is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Axholme Brewing Company. It is named after where I live, the Isle of Axholme (an inland river island in North Lincolnshire) What is your brewery capacity? 2.5 brewers barrels, or 410L if you prefer. What is different about your brewery? Our small size allows [...]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Old Worthy Brewing Co. I used to work in the scotch whisky industry and the old boys who worked at our distilleries had cracking stories of the whisky men from another era who mischievously helped themselves to the distillery ‘wash’; a form of ‘beer’ [...]
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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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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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Things have been a bit hectic since my trip to Leeds for the European Beer Bloggers Conference so this post has taken a while to get to the top of my list. Lots has already been written, plenty of photographs shared and plenty of stories told and fondly remembered. It was my first Beer Bloggers conference and [...]
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The last Battle of the Breweries pitted Marble against Summer Wine and was a great day out with plenty of excellent beers and a tasty BBQ. This one promises to be another corker with 16 beers from 2 of Yorkshires best breweries….Mallinsons and Roosters. It kicks off at midday and along with the beer there [...]
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