What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Pig and Porter, my wife thought of it. It’s because we are an event catering business, specialising in Hog Roasts and barbecued food, that brews it’s own beer. What is your brewery capacity? We currently cuckoo brew so, depending on the brewery, it is […]
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It’s ages since I’ve written about a particular beer, mainly because I’ve been busy but also because I’ve kind of got stuck in a rut with beer, having had too many beers that just didn’t get me excited enough to put the effort into writing a blog post about it, until I popped into the […]
View Post best beer, cask beer, green tea, IPA, jasmine, outlaw, roostersWhat 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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Today sees the launch of the most comprehensive search for the best British beer of 2012. Now in its second year, the competition runs until the end of November 2012, with the winners announced in early December 2012. Other beer competitions in the UK require entry by the brewers. Not all beers are entered for […]
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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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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Williams Bros Brewing Co. named after the Brothers who started it (My dad & uncle, Bruce & Scott Williams) It was previously Heather Ale Ltd but it grew beyond our historic ales and a new brand was born to include our contempoary brews too. […]
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As new regular feature at The Plimsoll Line in Redcar are holding Meet the Brewer events with different local breweries, the events will be held once a month for the next few months, each one will include a chance to sample a range of beers from the featured brewery as well as the opportunity to […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Liverpool Organic Brewery. We decided early on that we would be an Organic Brewery, the brewery name evolved almost organically you could say! What is your brewery capacity? 12.5 Barrels What is different about your brewery? We don’t sell ordinary beer, we strive for excellence […]
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Hawkshead Brewery are one of my favourite breweries in not just the lakes but the whole wide world. Hawkshead Brewery was founded in 2002 in a barn at Esthwaite Water, using a second hand 7 barrel plant and over the last few years they have gone from strength to strength, firstly moving across Lake Windemere to […]
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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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