We arrived just after 14:30 and there were already plenty of people with a beer in hand chatting away.

Matt had laid all 4 of his beers on as well as a huge array of finger food plus some fruit based drinks and cider for those who weren’t into their ale.

I started with a pint of Erimus, the lightest beer in the range and a cracking pale ale which really did pack a punch for 3.9% ABV with a really big bitter kick at the end that lasted ages.

Next up came North Riding Bitter, a good old traditional bitter, plenty of nutty malt character and a little bit of grassy hop with just enough bitterness to cut through the malt.

Beer number 3  was possibly my favourite of the 4, Mydilsburgh IPA, A dangerously drinkable 5% ABV IPA, not in your face like many of the modern IPA’s but plenty of fruit flavour and a little bit of bitterness (not as bitter as Erimus) really really smooth, an absolute cracker,  although strangely Matt said it was his least favourite of his beers.  I could have quite happily stood and supped this one all day, but unfortunately I was cooking for the inlaws on the night so had to make do with a quick slurp of Dave’s pint of Ironopolis stout before heading home, from the quick slurp it tasted great but I’ll have to get my hands on a pint and give it a go.

By the sounds of it the Truefitt Beers are starting to find their way into plenty of local pubs such as The Star in Middlesbrough and Captain Cook Inn at Staithes to name two.

A big thanks to Matt for the invite, I wish I could have stayed longer, there was a great mix of people, the sun was shining and the beer was flowing…what more could you want on a Saturday afternoon.

If you want to find out more about Matt’s beers and where you can find them check out @truefittbeers on twitter.

What is your brewery capacity?
Our current capacity is 50 brewer’s barrels (BB) (that’s 8200 l, for all you modern metric types). Our kit consists of a 50 BB Mash Tun and Copper, with 4 75 BB fermentation vessels, to provide a bit of head room for any particularly vigorous fermentations. We are also now the proud owners of 4 new 55 BB conditioning tanks.

What is different about your brewery?
Always tricky question this… I guess what make us different from many of the breweries out there is our resolution to do things properly, without cutting corners. We only use the highest quality malt and whole dried hops, and we don’t add extra sugars or extracts in our beers. Any chef will tell you that  you have to use the finest quality fresh ingredients to make the best dishes, and making beer is no different. I have to admit, I’m also quite a fan of using additional natural ingredients to compliment the hops, so for example Bee’s Knees has wild honey in it, Maid Marian has over 150 fresh oranges to go with the Citra Hops, and the Spice of Life, one of our winter beers has juniper berries and cinnamon sticks thrown into the mix for that extra Christmassy taste. I’m not sure all that makes us unique, as there are some other pretty fantastic breweries out there, but we do our best to try and stand out.

How long have you been brewing for?
I’ve been working at the brewery for about 5 years now, but I’ve only really been brewing for the last 2 years. I work in partnership with another brewer (Richard Mallinson), who knows the kit backwards (and forwards too, handily), so we both handle slightly different parts of the job. I spent the first half of my life studying science, (well, at least the part where I wasn’t in the pub. Does that count as research now?) so armed with a little maths and biochemistry, I formulate the Recipes, and Richard then turns a sheet of numbers into delicious beer, and once we’ve had a chance to taste it, we both try and decide where I’ve gone right or wrong, so we can perfect the recipes.

How did you get into brewing?
Many years ago my Dad (Richard Scragg) decided that it would be a really nice idea to have a pint he could call his own. Since that fateful day, my Mum (Helen Teasdale) has been running the company. After about 10 years, I realised that it’s probably best not to trust them all by themselves, and joined them in the quest for my Dads perfect pint. I think we may have achieved in our mission now, (I think it happened somewhere between perfecting Roaring Meg, and the Robin Hood) but it turns out organising us all was still a bit much, so we’ve just roped my sister (Eve Scragg) in to help too. Good luck to her!

What beers do you brew regularly?
We have 6 core beers:

• Roaring Meg (5.5% hoppy blonde)
• Leveller (4.8% trappist style dark beer)
• Maid Marian (4.5% fruity little number packed with oranges and citra hops)
• Robin Hood (4% traditional hoppy “rough” bitter)
• Drop Of The Black Stuff (4% rich smooth porter)
• Bee’s Knees (3.9% crisp blonde beer with a hint of honey)

What special/seasonal beers do you brew?
We do a special every 2 months, although we rotate which ones we do from year to year. They are:

• Surrender (3.6% copper coloured and hoppy)
• Black Tom (3.8% chocolaty mild)
• Ginger Pig (4.4% with a hint of rosemary and ginger – uses no second hops!!)
• Barebones (4.7% spicy and bone dry. One for the hop lovers out there, but not the faint hearted!)
• Fallen Angel (4.5% a seasonal take on our Maid Marian. Made with extra cinnamon to compliment the oranges)
• Spice of Life (5.0% another seasonal treat for strong ale lovers out there, but this time with a dark twist. As mentioned before, brewed with cinnamon and juniper. It’s like Christmas in a glass!)
• Springhead (4% Amber, crisp and hoppy)
• Oliver’s Army (4.4% ruby red, rich and malty)
• Rupert’s Ruin (4.2% caramel coloured, and malty, but with a fruity flavour too.)
• Newark Castle Brown (5% classic brown ale, not too smooth and with plenty of hops and matiness from a bucket load (technical term) of crystal malt. We named it back when we were tiny, and we were kind of hoping that we’d get sued by Newcastle Brown ale for some publicity. Turns out they loved the name! Damn them for being so nice!)
• Sweetlips (4.6% another blonde, but this time bursting with grapefruit. What can I say; the public likes its citrusy blondes right now)
• Willy’s Wheatbeer (5% possibly my favourite of the specials, fruity to balance out the biscuity flavour. Declared as best beer at the Wetherspoons beer festival this year, by their chief tester Dave, the ale guru! I was doing a stock check just before doing the recipe for this one, and noticed we had a load of hops left from an old brew that we needed to use up. Turns out that was pretty fortunate. Still, better lucky than good, eh?)

Where do you think the future of brewing lies?
I’m simply hoping that the good work that breweries have been putting in over the last 10-15 years can continue. It seems like more and more people are moving away from bland flavourless lagers and on to real craft ales, with some actual taste in them. If all the small breweries in the country can continue to improve the way we seem to be then perhaps one day you’ll never have to worry about getting a poor pint of beer when you order from a small brewery. Then the lager drinkers will have no excuse! It’ll make my job harder though!

Do you bottle/keg/cask your beer?
Yeah, we have four beers we bottle at the moment: Roaring Meg, Leveller, Maid Marian and Robin Hood.

What is you proudest moment in brewing?
Probably the second brew I ever did by myself, because it didn’t turn out like the first one! Although being told Willy’s Wheatbeer was the best out of all the beers from across the world that went into the Wetherspoons beer festival was pretty pleasing. I’ve spent the last two years perfecting all of our beers, so it was nice to get some recognition! Hopefully there’ll be a few more awards for us this year!

Do you have any brewing regrets?

Well, like any brewer I’ve made a few mistakes along the way, but I’ve got a brilliant team around me with bags of experience; they usually manage to point out where I’m going wrong before it’s all too late, so I’ve nothing major to regret, yet.

What is your brewing ambition?
Well, I feel like we’ve only just got started getting Springhead running the way we want it to. It’s pretty exciting round here at the moment, with a new pub being built under my feet at this very moment (I can tell, they’re noisy buggers) a beer festival this weekend (with over 40 guest beers alongside a full complement of our own beers too, as well as being as busy as we’ve ever been. Usually my ambition at the moment it to make it through the week!

What was last beer you drank?
Other than the few I had to Q.C. this morning (it’s a hard life) I had a pretty sore head on Saturday morning thanks to a combination of Timothy Tailor’s Landlord and Kelham Island’s Pale Rider down at the Fat Cat in Sheffield. Not entirely sure which one I had last though, for some reason, although I can tell you they were both fantastic pints.

What is your favourite hop and why?
You know I have no idea. Usually the last ones I brewed with, to be honest. I brewed with a Polish hop called Marynka the other day that had an amazing aroma potential to it though. I’ll definitely be trying that one again.

What is your favourite beer/food combo?
I’m a massive fan of all things chilli infused, so anything hot and spicy. I cook a pretty mean Jambalaya, with a full head of garlic, full root of ginger and some of the Bhut Jolokia chilli’s I’ve got growing at home. That washed down with a newly pulled pint of Meg or Jaipur is pretty hard to beat.

Do you have a Brewing hero/inspiration?
My favourite brewery in the country is Thornbridge Brewey over in Bakewell, Derbyshire. I’ve never tasted a beer from them that’s less than fantastic.

When I stared brewing they were the benchmark I set for myself. I knew if all our beers were that good we’d be sorted. I’ll have to let the public decide if we’ve got there yet!

If you could brew one collaboration beer with someone who would it be with and what would it be?
I’d love to do a chilli beer at some point. I’m not sure with whom though. I’ve just waxed lyrical about the guys at Thornbridge, so they’d obviously be a fine choice, or perhaps Chris, who used to work at Brewlab. He obviously had such an amazing depth of knowledge.

Which beer do you wish you had brewed?
A few years ago I tasted a stilton porter. It was absolutely amazing, and I have no idea how they made it! I’m not entirely sure who did it either. I really want to say Brewters over in Grantham, but if anyone knows better let me know!

How do you spend your time when you aren’t brewing?
Rock climbing, mostly. It’s a bit of an obsession. Well, a lot of an obsession, if I’m honest. I try and fit seeing my friends / girlfriend, drinking, playing bass around that. If there’s time!

If you could have one superhero superpower what would it be?
Ah, the question that plagued my youth. I eventually decided I didn’t want to pick my own power. I think all the fun would be in learning how to use the power you are given as best as possible. I know that sounds like a cop out, but the best parts of all the superhero comics was the opening story. Well, in my opinion. And yes, I am a massive geek.

Do you have a website/twitter/blog?
Not a personal one. I never seem to have the time! There’s a Springhead website though, which my sister looks after. I’m sure she puts anything interesting on there. Oh, it’s www.springhead.co.uk, by the way.

Anything else you want to tell us?
Squirrels can run faster up trees than they can along the ground, 90% of all the living cells in your body are non-human, and cheese is the human invention of all time. Fact.

The day kicks off at the brewery (3 Carcut Road, Lawson Industrial estate, Middlesbrough, TS3 6QL) at 14:30 Matt’s 4 core beers will be along with some nibbles. There will be a chance to try the beers and have a poke around the Truefitt setup.

If you’d like to pop along and see what the craic is then please drop Matt and email at Matt@truefittbrewing.co.uk

Even though we’ve been engaged for a long while we’d never really thought that hard about getting married, although when we had discussed it we both knew we wanted it to be a little different and I knew I wanted to have some decent beer there as all too often wedding venues only ever have keg stuff from Tetley’s/John Smiths or Boddingtons and that’s no fun for anyone. Although there was a minor cockup and a last minute rush to find a replacement for Windemere Pale Ale….shame as I think it’s pretty much the perfect wedding beer.

So when back in November we went for a spur of the moment look round Danby Castle, somewhere we’d walked past loads over the years, never realising it was a wedding venue, after being shown round by Carolyn and Duncan, asking a few important questions, like what beer can you get? we knew this was the place we wanted to tie the knott and as it happend they had a Saturday free in 2012. Although we both like to plan stuff we’ve never been one of those couple that plans everything so far in advance so 6 months seemed like more than enough time.

It also happened that we booked it shortly before Twissup did the Toon, so Twissup had a little bit of extra celebration about it. It also meant I got to catch up wtih to Tom and Oliver who’d recently taken over Roosters Brewery in Knaresborough and whom I’d not seen since The battle of the breweries in York while we were putting the world to rights one of them (I’m not sure which one, they are twins and I had consumed a fair bit of beer) mentioned they had a small test plant at the brewery which was great for doing special runs of beer). A few phonecalls and emails  later I found my self on the train to Knaresborough ready to brew a beer for the wedding.

3 trains and 2 cups of coffee later I arrived at Knaresborough where Ol kindly picked me up and whisked me off to the brewery, having been a fan of Roosters since I can remember I was looking forward to having a look round and seeing how things worked…I know everyone says once you’ve seen one brewery they are all the same, in some ways thats true but every brewery has it’s own little twists and bits of kit that others don’t have and every brewer has his own ways of doing things.

The tour over with and a cup of tea supped, we got down to the  serious business of making some beer. Luckily for me Ol had done most of the work on cleaning the kit and weighing out ingredients so we only had a few bits to clean and then I was let loose in their huge hop store…it was a hop head’s heaven, the smell was intense, I could have quite happily sat in there all day…although I’d have probably ended up with frostbite.

I wasn’t entirely sure what to choose hop wise as I wasn’t expecting such a wide variety to choose from, In the end I picked two of my favourites…Cascade and Amarillo and then one I’d not seen before, Crystal. We weighed them out into some technical vessels otherwise known as a cereal bowl, saucepan and celebrations tub before cracking on and getting mashed in.

Time and conversation flew by, Ol was great, he explained everything to me and showed me how the kit worked, the kit it’s self was fab..I’d really love a setup like that in my garage. All too soon it was time to add the hops, they immediately added some fragrance and fruitiness to the aromas wafting up, I was in heaven.

Soon after the delicious smelling wort was transferred into a rather space aged looking fermenter and it was time to clean the kit and then sample some beers, Ol gave me a try of a couple of their new beers including their stout which was gorgeous this was then followed by a Southern Tier Oak Aged Unearthly Pale Ale which I’d taken down to share, it was probably past its best and no where near as tasty as the super fresh beers I’d tried before hand.

Brewery cleaned and beer supped it was time for a quick trip to Blind Jacks in Knaresborough for a couple more beers and a bowl of Bombay mix before heading for the train…although the less said about the train the better as I was over an hour late due to delays and cancellations.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and my stag do in Newcastle has been and gone (thanks to the guys at Bacchus and Free Trade for making a great one) and I find my self driving down the A19 though every weather condition imaginable to go and bottle the beer. I was nervous and excited to see how it had turned out. Ol and Tom had kept me up to speed with its progress over the weeks they’d let me know how it had fermented, when it went into cask and let me know when they’d dry hopped it with some more Cascade.

Arriving at the brewery it was nice to catch up with the guys face to face and after the traditional cuppa we got down to the task of cleaning and sterilising everything. For anyone that whines about the price of bottled beer from breweries who don’t bottle a lot, I suggest you go and spend some time bottling at one. Cleaning and sterilising the kit and bottles takes a huge amount of time and effort, not to mention water.

The fun doesn’t stop there, once the beer had been transferred from the cask to the bottling keg and then bottling machine set up and tested…although this did allow for a quick sample of the beer, it was smelling and tasting fantastic, the aromas were so fresh. Each bottle has to be put on the machine by hand and while it automatically caps the machine the turn table has to be moved round manually each time too…after all 53 bottles were filled, capped and numbered  It was time for more cleaning before packing the beer up for it’s journey back home for labelling.

The following day was spent cleaning the bottles and sticking all the labels on, the labels had kindly be designed by Tom after I came up with a name and some blurb which was the most difficult part until I tried to stick the labels on, getting them straight and bubble free was a task and a half, I really do feel sorry for who ever has to do this as part of their job at Roosters.

The name Four Rings came from the old joke about every marriage having four rings, the engagement ring, wedding rings, enduring and suffering. Hopefully there won’t be too much of the final two in our marriage.

While I sit typing this I’m just doing a bit of quality control on one of the bottles, it’s very nearly there, just needs a bit longer in the bottle, the lovely fresh fruity almost strawberry aromas are still there and there’s plenty of citrus and spice in the mouth with a nice underlying bitterness, with a little bit more conditioning in the bottle I honestly think it’s a cracking beer so I hope everyone who gets to try it enjoys it.

The first one is a spin off from the great docufilm Beer Tickers: Beyond The Ale the second is simply called Beer List.

1) Description

Beer List: There are so many different beers out there waiting to be tasted. Some are unforgettably new varieties we find during our travels; others are hidden gems we find in our own backyard. The Beer List app is a simple way to track and share these experiences so that they will never be forgotten.

BeerTicker: With 30,000 beers in its database, this is ultimate beer tool for collectors, ale enthusiasts, micro brewers and friends!

BeerTicking – verb [a hobby] 1. The act of searching out new beers to drink and record!

2) Features

Beer List: Beer list lets you set your self a profile picture, either by taking a photo or using one from your gallery, it also lets you set a username, add a beer…including a rating, comment and photo, edit any beers you’ve added, shows your beer count and beer list and gives you the option to share on facebook and twitter.

BeerTicking: Beerticking lets you search for beers in the database or add a new one, it then lets you tick it, shows your ticks, lets you save your ticks. It also lets you see an overall league, join a league and add a new league for your and your friends to compare ticks.

3) Cost

Beer List costs 69p and BeerTicker is free…whether these prices are permenant i’m not sure. I feel the 69p for BeerList is a fair price and would possibly pay more if it had a few more features.

3) Design

Beer List:The beer list app is nicely designed, with nice buttons, backgrounds and fonts, it’s also easy to use and everything is pretty obvious.

BeerTicking: The design of beer tickers is bright and bold, it follows the design of the DVD cover and website so is simple but effective.

4) In Use

Beer List: As soon as Beer List loads you are presented with your dashboard, it has your profile pic, beer count, rating and options to view your list or add a beer making all the functions easily accessible. Adding a beer is a case of clicking add beer, typing the beer name, taking a photo, adding a rating on the slider and then adding a comment. Once you’ve done this you can choose to share it or just leave it in your beer list. Beers you’ve added can be viewed on your beer list, which can be ordered by name, rank or date, you can also edit your entries from here. Sharing your tick logs into Twitter or Facebook, it would however be nice to be able to edit the message when it shares it.

BeerTicking: When BeerTicking is opened you are presented with the beer ticking screen, where you can search for a beer name,  or add a new beer, brewery and ABV. Before you start you need to add your email address and a username to the settings page. The buttons for my ticks, leagues and settings are all at the bottom of the screen,  you can also change your settings and set it to post ticks to Facebook and Twitter, like Beer List there is no option to change the message that is posted to either platform. Once you’ve added a tick you can’t edit it or remove it, there’s also no facility to add notes or an image on a beer which is a bit of a shame.<

6) Overall

Both Apps have the strong points, the database from BeerTicker is really handy and the fact you can email your tick list to your self is great the search function is great but spoiled  by not being able to search by beer name. Being able to take and store pics with the Beer List app is its strongest point, however it would be nice if the app stored the photos in your photo roll so you can use them with other apps or back them up. It would also be nice if it had somewhere you could see what your friends had been drinking and what they said about each beer. BeerTicker could be improved by being able to add a bit more info about the beer but as a way of quickly ticking beer it’s great and saves using the standard notes app on the Iphone.

You can download Beer List from Itunes here or BeerTicker here

On Wednesday 18th the doors open at 18:00 and close at 22:30
Thursday 12:00 til 22:30
Friday 12:00 til 22:30
Saturday 12:00 to 17:00

Entry is £3 per session unless you have a CAMRA card and then it’s free.

You can also purchase a glass for £1

There’s a full beer list over on Canny Bevvy which you can visit by clicking here

What is your brewery capacity?
2bbl

What is different about your brewery?
Its tidgy and its in the cellers of our pub/hotel

How long have you been brewing for?
Since January 2011

How did you get into brewing?
When we bought the hotel in 2005 we considered there was ample room to put a small brewery in the cellers it was just a matter of time and finances and finding one that would fit down our celler drop which is 94 centimetres!!

What beers do you brew regularly?
Peasholm pale ale -4.3% citra hopped beer and neilson’s sauvin 3.7% nelson sauvin hopped beer

North Riding Brew Pub

What special/seasonal beers do you brew?
Hilda’s flycatcher 4.1 motueka hopped beer,c.r.i.p.i.p.a 4.6% galaxy hopped beer,kinky afro 4.1% simcoe hopped beer,fat lads mild 4.6% dark mild

Where do you think the future of brewing lies?
I think you only really need to look around the real ale market nowadays and see there are over 900 breweries all providing diverse,unique beers for an appreciative palate and realise that the future is now!

Do you bottle/keg/cask your beer?
Predominantly cask although we have bottled a few of our stronger beers thanks to Malcolm bastow at 5 towns brewery

What is you proudest moment in brewing?
I am proud every time a see a pint of mine enjoyed over our bar

Do you have any brewing regrets?
Not buying more motueka last july!!!

What is your brewing ambition?
I am already living the dream

What was last beer you drank?
Red willow faithless XI

What is your favourite hop and why?
Nelsongalaxycitra sauvin!!!(did I get away with that?)

North Riding Brew Kit

What is your favourite beer/food combo?
I don’t really do the two together to be honest I either like having a couple of pints or going out for a meal I normally drink wine but this is probably because there is no beer at most restaurants that I would choose to drink.

Do you have a Brewing hero/inspiration?
Dave Sanders,Kelly Ryan,Rob Wiltshire-these are the people who helped me learn to brew I particularly spent most of my learning at Robs Yorkshire dales brewery and I am indebted to him for teaching me the basics of brewing ,also when Kelly was working at thornbridge brewery when I was collecting beers from them I would spend time chatting to him picking up tips about malt combinations and various technical sides to brewing and as for Dave Sanders what this bloke doesn’t know about brewing you could fit on the back of a postage stamp! I should also mention Sue Simpson at brown cow brewery –always been at the end of a phone for me when ive had the occasional hiccup!

If you could brew one collaboration beer with someone who would it be with and what would it be?
I have already brewed a colab beer with dave sanders at the back end of last year –we brewed a American style double ipa called articulator 6.6% but given an opportunity brewing with somebody like doug odell would be amazing!

Which beer do you wish you had brewed?
I would say my favourite three beers are summer wine diablo,five towns peculiar blue and thornbridge kipling so any of these

How do you spend your time when you aren’t brewing?
Working behind the bar,in the kitchen ,being a husband,being a father,celler work,going out picking up beers,socialising in the pub,playing pool.

If you could have one superhero superpower what would it be?
Time control

Do you have a website/twitter/blog?
www.northridingbrewpub.com @north_riding on twitter we also have a facebook page northridingbrewpub

Anything else you want to tell us?
I have the greatest respect for every single brewer out there-I may not like there beers but they are providing fuel for the growing real ale market and giving variety to us drinkers which we should embrace and certainly not take for granted. fullers are proof that big is beautiful and on the other scale brass castle are proof that you can be just as successful with a 1 barrel plant.

I love hops!

As far as I’m aware it’s the first time the Innis & Gunn have brewed a stout and unlike a lot of beers that are aged in Scottish whiskey casks this one has been aged in ones from Ireland…a neat little gimmick just before St Patricks Day.

For me it was strange seeing an Innis & Gunn beer that was a stout so I opened it with some in trepidation and worry about it being too sweet and sickly.

I needn’t have worried it smelled really tasty, like most of the I&G beers it had that slight vanilla and oak note then a little bit of whisky (or should that be whiskey as the label says?)

In the mouth it had nice body, not too heavy and not too thin, it was a lot drier than I had expected and no where near as sweet as I thought it would be.

Flavour wise this had plenty going on, there was a flavour that reminded me of flambéed bananas with toffee sauce accompanied by roast coffee…all in a nice mellow way, there was a little bit of whisky there but not in a boozy spirit kind of way.

It was actually quite refreshing and went down really easy for a stout of over 7%, I really enjoyed it and found my self wanting another bottle of it and it’s been a while since I can say that about a strong stout, usually I’m full after the first one.

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 the following;

• 8 Cask Ales on handpull
• 8 Cask Ales on gravity available from the cellar
• 4 Ciders
• 15 guest national and international kegs (a combination of CO2 and keykeg)
• 16ish new (to Bacchus) bottled beers

These can all be enjoyed with what promise to be excellent cheese plates

Breweries include:

• Floris
• Nogne O
• Westmalle
• Yorkshire Dales
• Brooklyn Brewery
• Summer Wine Brewery
• Fyne Ales
• Kwak
• Highland Brew Co
• Emelisse

To top it all off Yorkshire Dales Brewing Company will be sponsoring a “Hop your own beer” inspired by DogfishHead Brewery from the US of A .

For more info keep an eye on Twitter by following @bacchus48 and using the hashtag #Bacchuseasterfest or check out their Facebook pages

What is your brewery capacity?
12.5 Barrels

What is different about your brewery?
We don’t sell ordinary beer, we strive for excellence in our product.

How long have you been brewing for?
30+ Years

How did you get into brewing?
Helping my Dad homebrew, he used kits. I taught myself all grain brewing and built my first kit 13 years ago.

What beers do you brew regularly?
We do have a core range of beers but the hop shortage have got that list in a bit of a flux at the moment. However at the moment we have:-

• Styrian 4.2
• Cascade 3.8
• 24 Carat 4.2
• Josephine Butler 4.5
• Joseph Williamson 4.0
• Cambrinus Endurance 4.2
• Cambrinus Deliverance 4.3
• Higsons Best Bitter 4.1

Normally we also have:-

• Liverpool Pale ale 4.0
• Best Bitter 4.2
• Shipwreck 6.5

Though we cannot get the hops for these at the moment.

What special/seasonal beers do you brew?
There are so many!

• Imperial Russian Stout 7.9
• Honey Blonde 4.5
• Empire Ale 5.3
• Iron Man 4.0
• Jade 4.4
• Rakau 5.0
• William Roscoe 4.2
• Everymans Ale 3.6
• American Pale Ale 6.3
• Imperial IPA 7.3
• Cambrinus Celebrance 5.0
• Hoptopia 4.7
• Kitty Wilkinson 4.5

Where do you think the future of brewing lies?
Looking at the States, there was a massive swell of breweries followed by a massive slump. I worry that as we approach saturation point in the U.K we may see a repeat of this in England. It will sort the wheat from the chaff, the breweries that do distinctively tasty ales will flourish.

Do you bottle/keg/cask your beer?
Cask and Bottle

What is you proudest moment in brewing?
Seeing my beer for sale for the first time and watching people enjoy it.

Do you have any brewing regrets?
I didn’t so this earlier!

What is your brewing ambition?
To carry on brewing great beer despite the current hop shortages, there’s a lot of hops I haven’t tried yet!

What was last beer you drank?
Southport Brewery – Old Shrimper. A beautiful 5.5% Dark Winter Ale, absolutely stunning.

What is your favourite hop and why?
Riwaka, it a stunning hop.

What is your favourite beer/food combo?
Beer, beer, any food that does not bloat, beer!

Do you have a Brewing hero/inspiration?
Graham Wheeler, Author of “A Few Home Brew Beers”. I doubt id be writing this know without his contribution to the beer scene.

If you could brew one collaboration beer with someone who would it be with and what would it be?
James at Marble! Something blonde and hoppy!

Which beer do you wish you had brewed?
So many! Marble pint, Dobber or anything by Magic Rock.

How do you spend your time when you aren’t brewing?
With my family.

If you could have one superhero superpower what would it be?
The amazing ability to find hard to source hop!!

Do you have a website/twitter/blog?
www.liverpoolorganicbrewery.com
@livorganicbrew

Anything else you want to tell us?
Support your local micro!!!!!