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Issue 61 · Jun | July 2014
Hull Central
East Anglian retrospective
Dukeries lore and more
Chorlton-cum-beers
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Jun | July 2014
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Newsline
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Hull for a day
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Retrospective East Anglia
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Cartoon/Crossword
Page 11
Brewery Update
Page 12
New Beers Update
Page 15
Chorlton & Manchester
Page 23
Kings Head Inn, Acle
Page 26
Book review
Page 28
Newsline Extra
Page 29
Front cover: The Whalebone, Hull
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Newsline
Following on
Building on their earlier experiences in the
brewing industry, Iain McIntosh and Andy
Mansell have launched the ten-barrel Red Cat
Brewing in an industrial unit not far from the
centre of Winchester. Their plant comes from
Malrex of Burton-on-Trent, with other parts
designed by them and commissioned locally.
Landlord of the Fulflood Arms for five
years, Andy was involved with setting up both
the Fulflood’s microbrewery and that of its
sister pub The Queen, also in Winchester,
while Iain spent five years running the
Flowerpots brewery. Their core beers to date
are Prowler Pale (3.6%), Bitter (3.7%) and
Tomcat (4.7%), with a best bitter lined up next.
Both the Winchester pubs take the beers
and at present they can also be found in the
Guide Dog (Southampton) and the Phoenix
(Twyford).
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Turned on
A micro-brewery started this year in Westbury, near
the Wiltshire border with Somerset, the Twisted
Brewery consists of a six-barrrel stainless steel plant
capable of fermenting 6,500 pints at any one time.
The publicity material points out the equipment is
entirely modern but uses artisan processes to produce hand-crafted ales, which are cask-conditioned
in a temperature-controlled chill-room.
Both partners have long but complementary
experience in the trade. Andrew Murray, steeped in
the licensed, retail and manufacturing sectors, looks
after sales, marketing and the overall operation,
while Jon Pilling, who has worked for Grainstore,
Exe Valley and North Cotswold Breweries, takes care
of the recipes, brewing and conditioning of the ales.
Beers to date include Conscript (4.2%), Gaucho
(3.6%); Rider (4.2%) and Pirate (4.2%). Several pubs
around the area have taken them, mainly as guests.
Among these are the Hollies Inn and three others in
Westbury itself, the Fox & Hounds in Warminster,
the Rose & Crown in Trowbridge, the Castle Inn in
Bradford upon Avon, the Old Bath Arms and two
others in Frome and the Raven in Bath.
Newsline
Clocking In
Lancashire businessman Justin Grant reckoned
the time was right for brewing after seeing the
success of cask ales at his Grant’s Bar in Accrington,
where in five years the handpumps on the bar have
mushroomed from one to eight. He invested heavily
in 6.5 bbl plant, which wound into action on April 1
as the Big Clock Brewery. An engineer by trade and
in business for many years, Justin was able to use
his training and experience, using vessels sourced
from China for cost reasons, to build the brewery —
together with assistant Craig Devonport — which can
be viewed as a centre piece for the modern style bar.
Richard Piggle, formerly of Bowland Brewery, is
brewing at present while for the longer term the
intention is to train Craig to take on the job.
The GBG-listed pub was formerly the Punchowned Hargreaves Arms, named after local industrialist James Hargreaves, the man who invented the
spinning jenny in the industrial revolution. It had
struggled for years before finally closing. Originally,
Justin had planned to convert the property to residential accommodation, but then decided to revive
it as a popular community pub. A major
investment brought the historic building
back to life. Next year, a bar refurbishment and a restaurant opening for the
upstairs is planned.
Beers brewed to date include Pals
(4.0%), a light-coloured session beer to
commemorate the Accrington Pals of
WWI, probably the best remembered of
the local battalions raised in the early months
of the War. There’s also Dirty Blonde
(4.2%), a darker version of Pals, Dark
Knight (4.5%), a stout, and 100 (5.3%), a
complex dark ruby brew named to mark
the Pals’ centenary. As we went to press,
Sunny Boy (3.6%) was in the pipeline to
be brewed as tasty, well-hopped ale.
With five fermenting vessels in place,
the intention is to eventually supply
other outlets and go into bottling.
As for the name, Justin intends to
put a distinctive illuminated clock,
three metres in diameter, on the side of
the pub as a tribute to James Hargreaves,
a quirky attraction for people travelling
along the Manchester Road southern
gateway for Accrington.
F/O
F/O
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Running head
A halt on Humberside for David Hughes
O n the last Thursday of April, our merry band made
our way eastwards along the m56 to the end of the m62
and the city of Hull, in which I had never spent an evening. Our first call of the day was at the Whalebone
brewpub (see front cover), which I had visited just a
short time after it started brewing. We arrived just as
it was opening its doors for the day and a quick look
along the bar revealed a new beer, one brewed to
celebrate the local Premier League side getting to
Wembley: this was a 4.0% beer and very drinkable.
It was then time to book into our hotel for the
evening, quite conviently situated just a hundred
metres or so from the railway station. After a quick
wash and brush up, we walked into the city centre
and quickly found our target, which so happened to
be the Holy Trinity Church, venue for the local
Star of the West, Hull
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CAMRA branches’ beer festival. This one is held
within the main body, unlike Liverpool, and featured
some 110 beers plus cider and foreign beer. One side
was dedicated to handpump dispense, the other
to gravity and 10p a pint dearer for some reason.
Not surprisingly, there were the odd scooper or
two in attendance.
Beers sampled at the beer festival included
Fulstow Sledgehammer Stout (8.0%), Middle Earth
IPA (5.9%), Wellington Stanley (4.8%), described as
a mild but more of a stout to my taste, Bumpmill
Thunder Road (4.4%), Crystal Brew Jade (4.0%)
alf Moon F’Hops Sake (3.9%) and Old Mill Red Goose
(4.2%) all served in good condition. It’s a festival
I would go back to, and the staff seemed to be
extremely helpful.
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Hull for a day
William Wilberforce, Hull
Slow start
We decided it was time to move on after around
ninety minutes — well, we did want to see what
the pub scene was like in the city centre. First pub
visited was Kings, opposite the church entrance,
with banners indicating a beer festival was now on.
Walking in, we found just two cask beers available,
both from the Marston’s stable, so we left just as
quickly. Then adjacent almost we found the Star of
the West also with just two cask beers, a well-known
regional and Jade, which I found to be OK but
underwhelming to the taste buds.
A quick look in at one of the four Wetherspoons
found no real variety, so a quick exit was made.
We then walked past a couple of other pubs, again
with no micro beers available, until we came across
Wm Hawkes: although looking a pub with history,
we were told it had only been operating for two years.
Here we found a selection of six cask beers, of which
only one was from a large brewery and many were in
fact from Yorkshire micros, Brass Castle Cliffhanger
(3.8%) being my personal choice — top class quality
in taste. Staff and venue make this a place well
worthy of a visit.
We had a quick look in the bar across the road
which called itself a Craft Bar; some might agree
but it was disappointing, in choice, atmosphere and
service. I did try a half of one of the two cask beers
on offer but, quality wise, it was not good so will
not name it. Then on the next corner we found the
Lion and Key. owned by the same people as Hawkes.
This was another pub that did hit the spot, with again
six handpumps serving beer plus a couple of ciders.
Orkney Dark Island (4.6%) was my choice here and a
Wm Hawkes, Hull
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Good choice
good one at that. We did have a look in at the
Manchester Arms, an old Mansfield pub that had
the usual Marston’s range, but did not linger.
Still struggling
Our next port of call was at a pub one of my
travelling companions used to visit over twenty
years ago, this being the Old Black Boy where we
found a pub with four Theakstons beers on plus
two guests from regionals. My beer of choice was
Taylors Landlord (4.5%), which was disappointing
and not a patch on the beer it once was. The pub
itself had plenty of character, however.
Another short walk to another pub with
character, the Sailmakers Arms, somewhat hidden
in a cobbled street with a small courtyard. Again
we found a slightly disappointing beer choice, with
mainly national brands; in fact I had a Wychwood
beer, not a brand that normally meets my taste but
beggars cannot be choosers.
It was time to find somewhere to eat, which was
a bit problematic: looking in several promising
venues, we found either a disappointing choice of
beer or over-hyped city prices for basic bar food.
So we decided it would be a Wetherspoons Curry
Night meal at the William Wilberforce, where we
had a curry and a pint for a reasonable price.
My beer choice was one of the latest American
beers produced in this country.
After our meal, we made the decision to visit Hull’s
other brewpub, the Wellington Inn, which turned
out to be a good choice, A fifteen-minute walk from
our location, the pub stands alone in an old social
housing area just of the inner ring road. Here, we
found some eight handpumps available for cask beer
plus another with Yorkshire cider, also a decent, in
fact a very good, selection of continental bottled
beers. Four of the beers available were brewed at the
pub, and it was these we concentrated on. The first
was 1st Duke (3.7%) a good session bitter with malt
flavour throughout; second was Eagle a premier beer
at (5.0%) which did not taste its strength, and my
final beer was Peninsular Porter (4.8%), a complicated
malty beer with slight beery fruit notes.
We had a good conversation with the owner and
licensee, discovering that the pub was in fact up for
sale to the right person. They have produced over a
dozen one-off beers and plan a series’ of single hop
beers throughout the summer. Oh, and there was a
very good jazz combo playing, so another reason as
if you needed one to visit. There was no problem
with the beer quality and it is only a ten-minute
walk to the Whalebone.
We had time only for to visit one other bar before
returning to our hotel, this being the Hop & Vine in
Albion Street just a five minute walk towards the city
centre back across the ring road. This is a smallish
cellar bar with just two cask beers available, plus a
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Wellington Inn, Hull
couple of ciders and a good but small selection of
continental beers. My choice here was Ossett
Excelsior (5.2%) a beer not sampled in many a year
and I was not disappointed.
That was our final pub on this visit to Hull. It has
some pubs of historical and architectural interest,
but the pity is most are owned by national pubcompanies and brewers. If I have sounded negative
about some, don’t let that put you off. There were
a good many decent pubs not visited, because we
had time constraints and had been possibly spoilt
by the excellent beer festival.
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Retrospective
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Howard Gladwin recalls his East Anglian highlights
I t is almost nine years since my wife and I upped
sticks from Essex and moved to north Norfolk.
During that time I have visited many pubs in the
area, a few independent breweries and contributed
numerous articles to this journal. As we are now
considering a move to north Devon (to be closer to
family) I thought it would be a good time to look
back at some of the highlights of my wanderings
around this part of the world.
But, first, word about north Devon. We were
house hunting there recently and stayed in an hotel
in Barnstaple, the Cedars Inn, which I had booked
on-line. Imagine my surprise when I first visited the
bar to find that the three real ales available were all
Greene King’s — IPA, Abbot and Speckled Hen. It
turned out that the hotel was one of many owned by
these brewers (English Country Inns). Not that I am
complaining as the ales were in good condition, but
I found it ironic, having travelled more than three
hundred miles, to find myself drinking beer brewed
not too many miles from my current home. Not
finding any locally brewed ales available I expressed
my surprise to a member of the staff and was told
that they had tried a few but that they had not gone
down well — a statement that I found, in retrospect,
difficult to believe.
Whatever, I did manage to find some St Austell
beers at a pub named Hunters Inn in Newton Tracey,
just a few miles south of Barnstaple where we went
for a family meal one evening. These were Tribute at
4.2% abv and Dartmoor Best Bitter (3.5%). I had a
pint of each (I wasn’t driving!) and they went down
well — the Dartmoor malty and not too bitter (a good
session beer) and the Tribute, a prize winning ale
just bursting with complex flavours. Oh, and the
food was pretty good too so I shall be visiting this
pub again once settled in Devon.
New brewery
Now to my retrospective, in which I shall select just
a few highlights. One of my early visits was in 2007
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to the Beeston Brewery, which had commenced
brewing only a few months earlier. Just two ales
were being brewed then, Worth The Wait (4.2%) and
On the Huh (5.0%). I have sampled these beers many
times since, both in the bottle and on draught, and
enjoyed them every time. The brewery is clearly
doing well as its nicely designed website now lists
no fewer than nine beers, including the intriguingly
named The Dry Road (4.8%). This is an India Pale and
well worth seeking out, as are all this brewery’s
products. The Dry Road is actually the B1105 which
runs from Fakenham to Wells-next-the-Sea and
doesn’t pass a single pub on its route.
Astute readers with good memories will quickly
spot that The Dry Road is something of a misnomer
these days as The Real Ale Shop is situated just a few
yards off this road shortly before you reach Wells.
So to my next highlight. I first visited this shop
back in September 2006 and have been a regular
customer ever since. It stocks some sixty bottled
conditioned beers from a dozen or more Norfolk
breweries. In addition, next to the shop is a ‘Barley
to Beer Micro Maltings’ where the malting process
is demonstrated. Solar panels on the roof of the
building produce heat to finish the malt and a short
video goes through the process. So, if you are in
north Norfolk and are a bottled-conditioned ale fan
then a visit to this shop is a must. But if you are
unlikely to visit why not purchase on line?
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East Anglian Retrospective
Fog and mystery
Now to pubs which I remember with affection. There
is no order of merit here and it is a somewhat random
selection. First though, I have fond memories of my
visit to Ely in Cambridgeshire. This is a beautiful city
and worth a visit even if you are a teetotaller (but I
don’t suppose you would be reading this journal if
you are!). The city is dominated by its cathedral
which, in my view, is one of the most beautiful
buildings in the country and knocks the present day
London skyline into a cocked hat. Two pubs stand
out and are easy to find in this compact city centre —
The Town House and The Kings Arms. Both were in
interesting buildings and both had a nice selection
of real ales in good condition. The two owners each
demonstrated an enthusiasm for decent beer and I
see that the Town House is running a beer festival on
10—13 July this year.
So on to Blakeney which I visited in thick fog.
The pub which stands out is another Kings Arms and
was one of the most friendly locals I have visited.
Notable for the letters FH in the roof tiles, which
apparently are the initials of a previous owner of the
pub and do not stand for Free House! Sadly, the pub
was hit by tidal surge last December and had to close
for two weeks. Newspaper reports state that 38
barrels of beer were destroyed. Happily, the pub has
reopened and is back to full business.
Another pub I remember with affection is The
Hunny Bell in the small village of Hunworth which is
about 12 miles from Fakenham. It is not particularly
easy to reach by public transport although there is
an hourly bus service during the day which passes
right by the pub. Once in the village, the pub can’t be
missed as it stands right by the large village green.
Food seemed to be a mainstay of its business but it
had a good selection of real ales in excellent
condition. I well remember the two stuffed owls in
small recesses which were illuminated when the
glass doors in front were opened.
I well remember also my visit to Swaffham, not
least because W E Johns, the author of the Biggles
books, once lived there (he was a favourite of mine
and his books regularly featured in my Sunday
School prizes). But the pub I remember best is yet
another Kings Arms, situated close to the centre of
town in a beautiful old building dating back to the
early 1600s. It is one of the cosiest and warmest
pubs I have ever visited. Just three real ales were on
offer (including one from a mystery brewer), all in
excellent condition. But a special feature of the pub
was the display of stunning wildlife photographs by
Norfolk’s Ray Mears.
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Seaside specials
It is a couple of years since I visited the
Red Lion in Cromer when I remember
that the owner told me the bar was
being extended so that more hand
pumps could be fitted in and he hoped
to be able to offer up to twelve real ales.
This seems to have been achieved, as a
recent visit to the hotel’s website displays at
least eleven hand pumps, all badged with different
and mainly Norfolk and Suffolk brewed ales. The site
also lists eight local breweries which regularly supply
the hotel. So, when (and if) the weather warms up a
bus trip to Cromer (one of the coldest seaside resorts
I have ever visited) is on the cards.
Having mentioned Cromer, I must not leave out
nearby Sheringham (there is much friendly rivalry
between these two resorts). My visit here included
five pubs of which quite the best was the awardwinning Windham Arms. This was another warm and
welcoming pub which specialised in locally brewed
beers. Indeed, when I was there no fewer than five
were available, all from Norfolk brewers. So this is
another pub well worth seeking out if you are holidaying or just visiting the area for any other reason.
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Finally I must give special mention to
a pub my wife and I visit regularly — the
Queen’s Head in Foulsham, just about
ten miles from Fakenham. I remember
saying that my first trip to this pub
was a sheer delight and that the pint of
Woodforde’s Wherry I had one was of
the best I had ever tasted. I also enjoyed
greatly a sausage and onion baguette,
made with their own sausages (the pub has its own
Saddleback pigs from which the sausages are made).
Since then we have been regular visitors for lunchtime baguettes and Tuesday evenings for fresh fish
and chips (booking is advisable in the evenings).
Three real ales are always available — usually Adnams
Southwold Bitter (3.7%), always Woodforde’s Wherry
(3.8%) and a changing guest ale which on my last visit
was Brain’s Milkwood (4.3%). This last is a seasonal
beer which I found deliciously nutty and bitter.
I find the Queen’s Head my kind of local.
It has a good regular trade and a good passing trade,
attracted by the menu of excellent food. The owners
Jenny and Alan always give a friendly welcome
whether you are a regular or just passing through.
I think George Orwell would have approved.
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Cartoon and Crossword
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“If you taste more than you drink, the B&B goes up to 25 quid”
The New Imbiber Crossword
Three of the Across answers and three of the Down answers are names of breweries in the 2014 Good Beer Guide and clues may be
incomplete. The other clues are normal. Answers on page 31.
Across
1 Get stuck into the raw treacle. (10)
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8 Fibre for the court. (4)
9 Mess about on the wing. (4)
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10 Puff to cheer the bishop. (7)
12 Deserved — a record. (4,1,6)
14 Let’s cut and move about. (7)
16 First and second (ditto) wader? (4)
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19 Order holds nothing in the wind. (4)
20 Walk on, with fancy footwork! (4—4)
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21 Life, so complicated before turning keys. (4,2,4)
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Run into, fuel the reef? (5)
Sends abroad the old wines. (7)
Bunch in the scrum. (4)
Averse to all-energy short-circuit? (8)
Creaseless cover for frame? (5)
Incontestably the top solution. (6)
About the beaten rallies. (8)
John the First astride a horse. (6)
Take lid of sunscreen and free up? (8)
Layers — creating knots. (5)
A fracas in play? (5)
Slave to the sound of foam. (4)
Brewery Update
Breweries, brewpubs and brew-restaurants, mostly launched after CAMRA’s 2014 Good Beer Guide went to press and not listed therein.
Highlighted breweries are those reported to have started or to be about to start brewing since our previous issue.
2&Nine Brewery
Tavern Music Bar, 29 Church Street, Warrington,
Cheshire WA1 2SS
T 07917 730184
360 Degree Brewing Company
Unit 22, Bluebell Business Estate, Sheffield Park,
Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 3RB
T 01825 722375
E [email protected]
www.360degreebrewing.com
Abbey Ford Brewery
c/o 6 Ford Road, Chertsey, Surrey KT16 8HD
www.abbeyfordbrewery.co.uk
Abbot Brew House
Maygate, Dunfermline, Fife KY12 7NE
T 01383 733266
Anspach & Hobday Sharing with Bullfinch, as below
118 Druid Street,Southwark, Greater London SE1 2HH
www.anspachandhobday.com
Atom Brewing Co Ltd
Unit 4 Malmo Food Innovation & Technology Park,
Malmo Road, Hull, East Yorkshire HU7 0YF
T 07908 737769
E [email protected]
www.atombeers.com
Bad Seed Brewery Ltd
6 Rye Close, York Road Business Park, Malton,
North Yorkshire YO17 6YD
E [email protected]
www.badseedbrewery.com
Barge and Barrel Brewing Company
Park Road, Elland,West Yorkshire HX5 9HP
T 01422 371770
E [email protected]
Brewing again after several years
The Big Clock Brewery See Newsline
Grant’s Bar, 1 Manchester Road, Accrington,
Lancashire BB5 2BQ
T 01254 393938
E [email protected]
www.grantsbar.co.uk
Billericay Brewing Company
54c Chapel Street, Billericay, Essex CM12 9LS
T 01277 500121/07788 373129
E [email protected]
www.billericaybrewing.co.uk
Previously brewed at Pitfield
Bishop’s Crook Brewery
Woodford Close, Penwortham, Preston,
Lancashire PR1 9BX
T 07516 478003
E [email protected]
www.bishopscrookbrewery.com
Black Flag Brewery Ltd
Goonhavern, Truro, Cornwall TR4 9QL
T 01872 858004
E [email protected]
www.blackflagbrewery.com
Black Rock Brewing
Unit 6C Empire Way, Tregonnigie Industrial
Estate, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4SN
T 01326 379477
E [email protected]
www.blackrockbrewing.com
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Black Tap Brewing Company
Storage Boost, Tollgate Business Park,
Tollgate Drive, Stafford, Staffordshire ST16 3HS
T 07545 060648
E [email protected]
www.blacktap.co.uk
Black Tor Brewery Ltd
Britman Craft Beers
Mitchell Ward Ltd, The Stables Burton Manor,
The Village, Burton, Neston, Cheshire CH64 5SJ
T 07925 875836
E [email protected]
Brown Ales
Unit 5 Gidleys Meadow, Christow, Exeter,
Devon EX6 7QB
T 01647 252120
E [email protected]
Unit 1 Derby Road, Clay Cross, Chesterfield,
Derbyshire S45 9AG
T 01246 251859
E [email protected]
www.brownales.co.uk
Bluestone Brewing Co
Bullfinch Brewery Limited
Bobage Brewing Company
Burning Sky
Tyriet, Cligwyn, Newport, Dyfed SA42 0QW
T 01239 820833
E [email protected]
www.bluestonebrewing.co.uk
P.O. Box 96, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS12 4XS
E [email protected]
www.bobagebrewing.co.uk
The Borough Brewery Ltd
The Borough Lancaster, 3 Dalton Square,
Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 1PP
T 07912 679761
E [email protected]
www.theboroughbrewery.co.uk
The Bosun’s Brewing Co Ltd
Unit 20 Wakefield Commercial Park, Bridge Road,
Horbury, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 5NW
T 07703 535735
E [email protected]
www.bosunsbrewery.co.uk
Bournemouth Brewing Co
Unit 12 4/6 Abingdon Road, Nuffield Industrial
Estate, Poole, Dorset BH17 0UG
T 01202 280405
E [email protected]
www.bournemouthbrewery.co.uk
Brakspear Pub Company
The Bell Street Brewery, Bull on Bell Street,
57–59 Bell Street, Henley-on-Thames,
Oxfordshire RG9 2BA
T 01491 576554
www.brakspear.co.uk
Brewhouse & Kitchen
26 Guildhall Walk, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 2DD
T 07585 110850
E [email protected]
www.brewhouseandkitchen.com
The Briarbank Brewing Company
70 Fore Street, Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 1LB
E [email protected]
www.briarbank.org
Brick Brewery
Arch 209, Blenheim Grove, Greater London SE15 4QL
T 07747 787636
118 Druid Street,Southwark, Greater London SE1 2HH
E [email protected]
www.thebullfinchbrewery.co.uk
Shares plant with Anspach & Hobday
Place Barn, The Street, Firle, Lewes,
East Sussex BN8 6LP
T 01273 858080
E [email protected]
www.burningskybeer.com
Brixton Brewery Ltd
547 Brixton Station Road, Greater London SW9 8PF
E [email protected]
www.brixtonbrewery.com
Caffle Brewery
The Old School, Llawhaden, Narberth,
Dyfed SA67 8DS
T 01437 541502
www.cafflebrewery.co.uk
Calverley’s Brewery Limited
23A Hooper Street, Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire CB1 2NZ
T 01223 312370/07769 537342
E [email protected]
www.calverleys.com
The Cambridge Brewhouse
1 King Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB1 1LH
T 01223 855185
E [email protected]
www.thecambridgebrewhouse.com
Cat I’ Th’ Well Brewery
Cat I’ Th’ Well Inn, Wainstalls, Halifax,
West Yorkshire HX2 7TR
T 01422 244841
Cats Brewing Co.
Unit 22, Sugarswell Business Park, Shenington,
Oxfordshire OX15 6HW
T 07557 527789
E [email protected]
www.catsbrewingco.com
Caveman Brewery
E [email protected]
www.brickbrewery.co.uk
The George and Dragon 1 London Road,
Swanscombe, Kent DA10 0LQ
T 07769 710665
E [email protected]
www.cavemanbrewery.co.uk
The Bridge Brewery
Chapel Brewery
Woodhead Road, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire HD9 2NQ
T 07870 827360
Briggs Signature Ales Brewing elsewhere at present
Lockwood, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
T 07427 668004
E [email protected]
www.briggsales.co.uk
Dinesfield, Chapel Lane, Criftins, Ellesmere,
Shropshire SY12 9LZ
T 01691 690412/07928 682174
Cheshire Brew Brothers
Little Stanney, Cheshire
T 07890 567582
www.cheshirebrewbrothers.co.uk
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Clarkshaws Brewing
Unit 8 Tyrrell Trading Estate, Tyrrell Road,
London SE22 9NA
T 07989 402 687
E [email protected]
www.clarkshaws.co.uk
Cossack Brewery
The Phoenix, 67 Old Dover Road, Canterbury,
Kent CT1 3DB
T 01227 464220/07973 401404
E [email protected]
www.thephoenix-canterbury.co.uk
Craftsman Brewery
The Old Abbey Inn, 20 Pencroft Way, Greater
Manchester M15 6AY
T 07908 108860
E [email protected]
Crafty Pint Brewery
The Half Moon, 130 Northgate, Darlington,
County Durham DL1 1QS
T 07804 305175
De Brus Brewery
The Bruery, 25 Canmore Street, Dunfermline,
Fife KY12 7NU
T 01383 747757
www.debrusbrewery.com
Dragonfly Brewery
George & Dragon, 183–5 Acton Lane,
Greater London W3 9DJ
T 0208 992 3712
The Dropping Well Brewery
Three Horseshoes, Water Lane, Helions Bumpstead,
Haverhill, Essex CB9 7AL
T 01440 730006/07970 803383
E [email protected]
www.droppingwellbrewery.co.uk
Drygate Brewing Co. See Newsline
85 Drygate, Glasgow, G4 0UT
T 0141 212 8810
E [email protected]
www.drygate.com
Farmageddon Brewing Co-op See Newsline
25 Ballykeigle Road, Comber, Newtonards,
County Down BT23 5SD
E [email protected]
www.farmageddonbrewery.com
The Fat Pig
2 John Street, Exeter, Devon EX1 1BL
T 01392 437217
E [email protected]
www.fatpig-exeter.co.uk
Firebird Brewing Company Ltd
Old Rudgwick Brickworks, Lynwick Street,
Rudgwick, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 3DH
T 01403 823180
E [email protected]
www.firebirdbrewing.co.uk
Flat Cap Beers Ltd
Launceston, Cornwall
T 07973 418549
E [email protected]
www.flatcapbeers.com
The Flying Monk Brewery Ltd
Bradfield Manor Farm, Hullavington,
Chippenham, Wiltshire SN14 6EU
T 01666 838415
Force Brewery Ltd
Unit 2 Global Business Park, 14 Wilkinson Road,
Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 1YZ
T 07532 097050
E [email protected]
www.forcebrewery.com
Breweries Update
Fourpure Brewing Co
22 Bermondsey Trading Estate, Rotherhithe
New Road, London SE16 3LL
E [email protected]
www.fourpure.com
Froth Blowers Brewing Company Ltd
Unit W34 Hastingwood Industrial Park,
Wood Lane, Erdington, West Midlands B24 9QR
T 07599 084605
Fuggle Bunny Brew House
1 Meadowbrook Park Industrial Park, Halfway,
Sheffield, South Yorkshire S20 3PJ
T 07813 763347
E [email protected]
www.fugglebunnybrewhouse.co.uk
Geipel Brewing Ltd
Pant Glas, Llangwm, Corwen, Denbighshire LL21 0RN
T 01490 420838
E [email protected]
www.geipel.co.uk
George Samuel Brewing Company
The Duke Of Wellington, Welbury, Northallerton,
North Yorkshire DL6 2SG
T 01609 882464/07840 892751
E [email protected]
www.georgesamuelbrewingcompany.co.uk
Goldstone Brewery Ltd
The Forge, Ditchling Common, Ditchling,
Hassocks, West Sussex BN6 8SG
T 01444 257053
Granite Rock Brewery
Unit 19 Kernick Industrial Estate, Parkengue,
Kernick, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EP
T 01326 379251
E [email protected]
www.graniterockbrewery.co.uk
Gyle 59
Sadborow Estate, Thorncombe, Devon TA20 4PW
T 01297 678990/07833 204543
E [email protected]
www.gyle59.co.uk
Half Moon Brewery
Main Street, Ellerton,York, East Yorkshire YO42 4PB
T 01757 388977/07736 112399
E [email protected]
www.halfmoonbrewery.co.uk
Hammerton Brewery Limited
Unit 9 Roman Way Industrial Estate, 149 Roman
Way, Greater London N7 8XH
T 07714 752020
The Handmade Beer Co
Ffos y Ffin Fawr, Capel Dewi, Carmathen,
Dyfed SA32 8AG
T 07896 690020
E [email protected]
www.handmadebeer.co.uk
Hanlons Brewery New version of O’Hanlons
The Brewery, Hill Farm, Half Moon Village,
Newton St Cyres, Exeter, Devon EX5 5AE
T 01392 851160/07725 715155
E [email protected]
www.hanlonsbrewery.co.uk
Harrogate Brewing Co
The Coach House, 31—35 West Lea Avenue,
Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG2 0AT
T 07774 891664
E [email protected]
http://harrogatebrewery.co.uk
Hooded Ram Brewing Company
Unit 3 Hills Meadow Industrial Estate,
Douglas, Isle of Man IM1 5EB
T 01624 612464
E [email protected]
www.hoodedram.com
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Hope Brewery
Corringham Road, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex SS17 0AE
T 07956 764663
Hops & Glory
382 Essex Road, Islington, Greater London N1 3PF
T 0207 226 2277
E [email protected]
www.hopsandglory.co.uk
Hop Stuff Brewery Limited
Unit 7 Gunnery Terrace, Cornwallis Road,
Greater London SE18 6SW (?SE18 6SS)
E [email protected]
www.hopstuffbrewery.wordpress.com
Hoptimists Brewery Ltd
Unit 6 Ground Floor, Coopers Place, Combe Lane,
Wormley, Godalming, Surrey GU8 5SZ
T 01428 684121
Hoxne Brewery Ltd
Larch Barn, Heckfield Green, Hoxne, Eye,
Suffolk IP21 5AA
T 07563 558889
E [email protected]
www.hoxnebrewery.co.uk
The Instant Karma Brewing Co Ltd
The Rykneld Turnpyke, 4 John Street, Clay Cross,
Chesterfield, Derbyshire S45 9NQ
T 01246 250366
E [email protected]
www.instantkarmabrewery.co.uk
James Street Brewery
The Bath Brew House, 14 James Street West, Bath,
Somerset BA1 2BX
T 01225 805609
www.thebathbrewhouse.com
Jones The Brewer Ltd
Unit 2 The Old Garage, Whitney-On-Wye, Hereford,
Herefordshire HR3 6ER
T 01497 831037/07010 717232
E [email protected]
www.jonesthebrewer.co.uk
The Kennet & Avon Brewing Company Ltd
The Old Sawmills, Sells Green, Devizes,
Wiltshire SN12 6RW
T 07917 272482
E [email protected]
www.kennetandavonbrewery.co.uk
Brewing elsewhere at present
Laine Brewery (Acton)
The Aeronaut, 264 High Street, Acton,
Greater London W3 9BH
T 0208 993 4242
E [email protected]
www.drinkinlondon.co.uk/aeronaut
Laines Brewery (Hackney)
The People’s Park Tavern, 360 Victoria Park Road,
Greater London E9 7BT
T 0208 533 0040
E [email protected]
www.drinkinlondon.co.uk/peoplestavern
Leazes Lane Brewery
The Trent House, 1—2 Leazes Lane,
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1 4QT
T 0191 261 2154
Liquid Brewery
64 Jane Street, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 5HG
E [email protected]
www.liquidbrewery.co.uk
Lister’s Brewery
The Little Coffee House & Bistro, 44 High Street,
Littlehampton, West Sussex BN17 5ED
T 07775853412
E [email protected]
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The Longden Brewing Co Ltd
The Red Lion, Longden Common, Shrewsbury,
Shropshire SY5 8AE
T 01743 718889
E [email protected]
www.theredlionlongden.co.uk
The Lymm Brewing Company
18 Bridgewater Street, Lymm, Warrington,
Cheshire WA13 0AA
www.lymmbrewing.co.uk
Malmesbury Brewery Limited
Whitehill Industrial Estate, Royal Wootton Bassett,
Swindon, Wiltshire SN4 7DB
T 07920 776274
E [email protected]
www.malmesburybrewery.co.uk
Mantle Brewery
Unit 16 Pentood Industrial Estate, Cardigan,
Ceredigion SA43 3AG
T 01239 623898
E [email protected]
www.mantlebrewery.com
Mash Brewery
Middle Barn, Burcot Farm, East Stratton,
Winchester, Hampshire SO21 3DZ
T 01962 795023
E [email protected]
www.mashbrewery.com
MerriMen Brewing
Unit 12 Northampton Road, Litchborough,
Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 8JB
T 01327 831308/07414 007999
E [email protected]
www.merrimen.co.uk
Mix Brewery
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
E [email protected]
www.mixbrewery.co.uk
Moorish Ales Brewing elsewhere at present
Moorish Farm Shop & Café, Waytown Farm,
Kentisbury, Barnstaple, Devon EX31 4NS
T 01271 883309
www.moorish.co.uk
Mountain Hare Brewery
The Mountain Hare Inn, Brynna Road, Pencoed,
Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan CF35 6PG
T 01656 860453
E [email protected]
www.mountainhare.co.uk
Musket Brewery Limited
Unit 7 Loddington Farm, Loddington Lane,
Maidstone, Kent ME17 4AG
T 079671 27278
E [email protected]
www.musketbrewery.co.uk
Naked Beer Co
Unit F Modern Mould Business Centre,
2–3 Commerce Way, Lancing Business Park,
Lancing, West Sussex BN15 8TA
T 01903 791230
E [email protected]
New Bristol Brewery
20a Wilson Street, Bristol, Gloucestershire BS2 9HH
T 07837 976871
E [email protected]
www.newbristolbrewery.co.uk
New Lion Brewery
Station Road, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5JG
E [email protected]
www.newlionbrewery.co.uk
Northern Monk Brew Co.
Albion Mills, Albion Road, Bradford BD10 9TQ
E [email protected]
http://northernmonkbrew.co
Currently brewing at Hambleton
Odley Ales Ltd
Bell & Talbot, 2 Salop Street, Bridgnorth,
Shropshire WV16 4QU
T 01746 763233
Phipps Northampton Brewery Company
54 Kingwell Road, Northampton,
Northamptonshire NN1 2PR
T 07510 290983
E [email protected]
www.phipps-nbc.co.uk
Pig & Porter
18H Chapman Way, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 3EF
T 01424 893519
E [email protected]
www.pigandporter.co.uk
The Pigeon Fishers Craft Brewery
Unit B1 Devonshire Buildings, Works Road,
Hollingwood, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S43 2PE
T 07717 424767
E [email protected]
www.pigeonfishers.com
Pilot Beer
22 Jane Street, Edinburgh EH6 5HD
E [email protected]
www.pilotbeer.co.uk
Potting Shed Brewery
The Plough Inn, 8 The Street, Wissett,
Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 0JE
T 01986 872201
E [email protected]
www.thewissettplough.com
Problem Child Brewery
7 Alder Lane, Parbold, Wigan, Lancashire WN8 7NL
T 01257 464600
E [email protected]
www.wayfarerparbold.co.uk
The Queen Inn Brewery
The Queen Inn, 28 Kingsgate Road, Winchester,
Hampshire SO23 9PG
T 01962 853898
E [email protected]
www.thequeeninnwinchester.com
Redball Brewery
Kash Bar, 121 Brook Street, Chester, Cheshire CH1 3DU
T 01244 401777
Red Cat Brewing See Newsline
Unit 10 Sun Valley Business Park, Winnall Close,
Winchester, Hampshire SO23 0LB
T 01962 863423/07824 876489
E [email protected]
www.redcatbrewing.co.uk
Red Even Brewery
Red Even Ltd, Unit 53 Coleshill Industrial Estate,
Station Road, Coleshill, Birmingham,
West Midlands B46 1JT
T 01675 464762
E [email protected]
www.redeven.co.uk
Redwell Brewing
7 The Arches, Bracondale, Norwich, Norfolk NR12EF
T 01603 624072
www.redwellbrewing.co.uk
Rtwo Dtoo Brewery
The Steamhouse, Station Road, Urmston,
Greater Manchester M41 9SB
T 0161 748 6487
E [email protected]
www.thesteamhouse.co.uk
S&P Brewery
The Homestead, Drayton Lane, Horsford,
Norwich, Norfolk NR10 3AN
T 07552 300768
E [email protected]
www.spbrewery.co.uk
Salisbury Brewery (Bournemouth)
Inferno, 38 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth,
Dorset BH8 8AD
T 01202 589167
E [email protected]
Scribblers Ales Ltd
St. Apleford Brewery, 7 Lime Grove, Stapleford,
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG9 7GF
T 0115 9751759/07970 272383
E [email protected]
www.scribblers-ales.com
Seren Brewing Company
Rosebush, Clynderwen, Dyfed SA66 7QY
T 01437 532098
E [email protected]
www.serenbrewing.co.uk
Shindigger Brewing Co Brewing at Outstanding
c/o Innospace, Minshull House, 47 Chorlton Street,
Manchester M1 3FY
E [email protected]
www.shindiggerbrewing.co
Silver Street Brewing Co
The Clarence Hotel, 2 Silver Street, Bury,
Greater Manchester BL9 0EX
T 0161 763 9399
Previously brewed at Outstanding
Six O’Clock Beer Company
Greater Manchester
E [email protected]
www.sixoclockbeer.co.uk
Small World Beers Ltd
Unit 10, Barncliffe Business Park, Near Bank,
Shelley, West Yorkshire HD8 8LU
T 01484 602805/07540 319326
E [email protected]
www.smallworldbeers.com
Songbird Brewery
The Stumble Inn, 37 Tamworth Road, Long Eaton,
Derbyshire NG10 1JF
T 0115 972 4529
E [email protected]
www.songbirdbrewery.co.uk
Southbourne Ales
Bournemouth. Brewing elsewhere at present
T 07845 795464
E [email protected]
www.southbourneales.co.uk
Stancill Brewery
Parkwood Industrial Estate, Oakham Drive,
Sheffield, South Yorkshire S3 9QX
T 07809 427716
Star Brewing Company Ltd
Unit D Bentley Business Park, Northfields
Industrial Estate, Market Deeping, Peterborough,
Lincolnshire PE6 8LD
T 01778 380480
E [email protected]
Now brewing on own plant
Stod Fold Brewing Company
Stod Fold Farm, Hays Lane, Halifax,
West Yorkshire HX2 8UL
T 01422 245951/07870 498324
E [email protected]
www.stodfoldbrewing.com
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Strawman Brewery
6 Émigré Studios, 274 Richmond Road,
Greater London E8 3QW
T 020 7112 9102
E [email protected]
www.strawmanbrewery.com
Tapped Brewery (Leeds)
51 Boar Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS1 5EL
T 0113 2441953
www.tappedleeds.co.uk
Tavernale Brewery
The Bridge Tavern, 7 Akenside Hill,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3UF
T 0191 261 9966
www.thebridgetavern.com
Thirstin Brewhouse Ltd
Thirstin Road, Honley, Holmfirth,
West Yorkshire HD9 6JG
T 07908 986562
E [email protected]
www.thirstinbrewhouse.co.uk
Thorn Dhu Brewery
Lochgair, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire PA31 8SB
E [email protected]
Three Blind Mice Brewery
Unit W10 Black Bank Business Park, Black Bank Road,
Little Downham, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB6 2UA
T 07912 875825
The Ticketybrew Company
Unit 25 Waterloo Court, Waterloo Road,
Stalybridge, Greater Manchester SK15 2AU
T 07970 093665
E [email protected]
www.ticketybrew.co.uk
Titan Brewery Ltd
Golden Eagle, 55 Agard Street, Derby,
Derbyshire DE1 1DZ
T 01332 298465/07749 556837
E [email protected]
www.titanbrewery.co.uk
Temporarily brewing at Mr Grundys
Tombstone Brewery
20 Estcourt Road, Great Yarmouth,
Norfolk NR30 4JQ
T 07584 504444
E [email protected]
www.tombstonebrewery.co.uk/index.html
The Top-Notch Brewing Company
Breweries
Running
Update
head
Two Beach Brewing Co Ltd
Cafe-ODE, Ness Cove, Shaldon, Devon TQ14 0HP
T 01626 873427
Wellcross Brewing Company
Wellcross Farm, 123 Tower Hill Road, Upholland,
Skelmersdale, Lancashire WN8 0DS
E [email protected]
Whaley Bridge Brewery
Elnor Lane, Whaley Bridge, High Peak,
Derbyshire SK23 7JR
T 07890 455279
E [email protected]
www.whaleybridgebrewery.co.uk
The White Hart Formerly known as Mulligans
1 Mile End Road, London E1 4TP
T 0207 790 2894
The Wild Beer Company Ltd
Lower Westcombe Farm, Westcombe,
Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 6ER
T 01749 838742
E [email protected]
www.wildbeerco.com
Wild Boar Brewery
The Wild Boar, Crook Road, Windermere,
Cumbria LA23 3NF
T 01539 445225
Winning Post Brewery Ltd
Witham Brewery
The Woolpack, 7 Church Street, Witham,
Essex CM8 2JP
T 01376 511195
Xtreme Ales
67 Red Barn, Turves, Whittlesey, Peterborough
Cambridgeshire PE7 2DZ
T 07427 661839
E [email protected]
MORE INFORMATION NEEDED
Didlington, Norfolk
The Olde Potting Shed Brewery
Rowland’s Gill, Tyne & Wear
Otherton Ales
Birmingham
Quaffing Gravy
Shipley, West Yorkshire
Robin Hood Brewery
Nottingham
Seismic
Derby
Brewing elsewhere at present
The Smart Brewing Company
Preston, Lancashire
Brewed under contract at present
Squawk
Greater Manchester
Time & Tide Brewing
Deal, Kent
Currently brewing at Ripple Steam
Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire
Yubberton Brewery
Zoo-Brew
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
QUOTED FORTHCOMING BRE WERIES
Against the Grain
Kings Cross, Greater London
Dog Inn
Nether Whitacre, West Midlands
East Wickham
Greenwich, Greater London
Greg’s Brewery
Scampton, Lincolnshire
Kettledrum Brewery
Addled Brewery
Rochester, Kent
Alpha State
York, North Yorkshire
Axiom
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Ben Rhydding Brewery
Stockport, Greater Manchester
Tonbridge, Kent
West Yorkshire
Bottled beers
Big Shed
Shropshire
Black Tap
Staffordshire
Brewshine
Kendal, Cumbria
Turpins Lodge, Lodge Farm, Tadmarton Heath Road,
Hook Norton, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5DQ
T 07779 447769
Clouded Minds
The Twisted Brewing Company Ltd See Newsline
Leicester
Unit 8 Commerce Business Centre, Commerce
Close, West Wilts Trading Estate, Westbury,
Wiltshire BA13 4LS
T 01373 864441
E [email protected]
www.twisted-brewing.com
Norfocopia
Ebrington, Gloucestershire
E [email protected]
www.wiperandtrue.com
Wrexham
Turpins Brewery Ltd
South Yorkshire
Wiper & True Brewing Co
T 07739 017636
Top Out Brewery llp
Unit 10 Wholesale Fruit And Flower Market, Clarke
Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG2 3JJ
T 07702 800639
E [email protected]
www.totally-brewed.com
Latitude Brewery
Two Crowns
Weston, Hertfordshire
Totally Brewed Limited See Newsline
Ripley, Derbyshire
The Winning Post, 6 Pope Iron Road, Worcester,
Worcestershire WR1 3HB
T 01905 21178
Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH16 1UQ
T 07963 829368
E [email protected]
www.topnotchbrewing.co.uk
Unit 3 6b Dryden Road, Loanhead,
Midlothian EH20 9TY
T 0131 440 0270
Landlocked
(Hornsey), Greater London
Little Brew
Sarum Shield Brewery
Stockport Brewing Co
Telegraph Inn
Bridlington, East Yorkshire
BRE WERY CHANGES,
RELOC ATIONS AND CLOSURES
Bishop’s Stortford Moved to:
Green Tye, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire SG10 6JP
Green Tye
Reported closed
Halfway Brewhouse
Dem Bones Brewery
Reported closed
Firebrand
Reported closed
Cornwall
Fleetwood Brewing Company
Fleetwood, Lancashire
Currently brewing at Reedley Hallows
White Dog
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New Beers Update
New beers which have recently been noted. These do not include beers already listed in previous issues or in the 2014 Good Beer Guide.
2 & Nine Brewery
First of Many No1 5.5%
American Stout 4.0%
Black IPA No 3 5.6%
No 4 Morning Glory 4.7%
4Ts
(2 & Nine) Citra 5.0%
(2 & Nine) Stout 4.1%
Hoppy Bunny 4.2%
Magnc 4.8%
Nelson 3.8%
Premium Pale Ale PPA 6.8%
Super League 4.5%
Untouchable 5.0%
6 Degrees North
Auld Toon Belgian Tripel 9.0%
8 Sail
Old Colony 5.3%
Abbeydale
Doctor Morton’s Pylon Climber 4.1%
COR
Contraption 4.1%
Doctor Morton’s Cattle Prod 4.1%
Doctor Morton’s Aftersave 4.1%
Doctor Morton’s Undetectable
Poisson 3.9%
Abbey Ford
Knight on the Tiles 4.0%
Abbot Brew House
Pot Strirrer 4.2%
Dunfermline Pilsner 5.2%
Acorn
Black Oak 4.8%
Bourbon Age Gorlovka Stout 6.0%
Dead Good 4.5%
Dr. Rudi IPA 5.0%
Acton
40 IPA 4.2%
Adnams
(Six Point) Make It Rain 5.0% FS
(Wetherspoons)
(Yeastie Boys) Gunnamatta Tea Leaf
IPA 6.5% FS (Wetherspoons)
Mosaic 4.1%
English Red Ale 4.5%
Two Brewers Irish Stout 4.4%
Adventure
East 5.6% RB (New ABV)
Alchemy
Onyx – Black IPA 6.5%
Ritual – Pale Ale 4.1% RB (New ABV)
Five Sisters Red IPA 4.3%
St. Ella. IPA 5.3%
AleCraft
Night On The Tiles 4.7%
Alfred’s
Saxon Breeze 3.8%
Allendale
Rye Pilsner 4.5%
Allgates
Quaker House 4.9%
St Georges – Challenger 4.0%
All Hallows
Vicar’s Gingerbread 4.0%
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Alpha State
Neopolitan Dunkel Weizen 4.8%
Ambridge
WPA 4.2%
Anspach & Hobday
The Smoked Brown 6.0%
The Porter 6.7%
Anarchy
Crime Scene American Amber 5.5%
Angel
Bob 63 6.3%
Tainted Love 4.6%
Arbor
Banks’s
Czech Mate 4.4%
Young Henrys Real Ale 4.0% FS
(Wetherspoons)
(Saint Archer) Pale Ale 5.5% FS
(Wetherspoons)
Barrowden
Black Adder 4.6%
Storm 3.6%
Bartrams
John Peel Special 3.7%
Folk East 3.8%
Thy Last Drop 4.0%
Makeshift 4.0%
Goo Goo J’Goob 12.0% RB (New ABV) Baseline
Halcyon Hop Haze 4.0%
Art Brew
Earth Roots Resin 6.0%
Batemans
(Norge Ø) Brown Ale 4.5% FS
Artisan
(Wetherspoons)
Spiced ‘N’ Ale 4.9%
Springtime Oatmeal Biscuit 3.6%
Hop Blast 4.4%
Ascot
Beavertown
Alligator 1000 4.6%
AJ 18 Smoked Stout 8.0% FS
Blood Orange IPA 7.2%
Ashley Down
Hefe Weizen 5.5%
Beeches
Red Stoat 5.6%
Stokes Croft IPA 7.0%
York Street 3.5%
Beerd
Ashover
Afternoon Delight 3.7%
Golden Valley 3.5%
Pudding Bag 7.4%
Atlantic
Red Celtic 5.0%
Atom
Anglo Wheat 4.2%
Bunsen Brown Ale 5.0%
Blending Room Series – Blend 1 –
Camomile 4.2%
Camomile 4.2%
Dark Alchemy 4.9%
Vigilante – Pale Ale 4.5%
Beeston
Belleville
Tye Dye Rye 5.8%
Belvoir
Blue Brew 4.2%
VC Veterans Choice 4.2% FS
(Leicester)
Oatmeal Stout Stout 4.3%
Beowulf
Pilgrim 6.5%
Bexar County
Parallax 3.9%
The Right Stuff 4.7%
Robusto Pequeño 2.8%
An Experiment In Yeast T58 6.0%
Root Beer 7.0%
Cherry Mysterious (Kara’s 21st
Birthday Beer) 5.3%
Does A Bexar Shit In The Woods? 7.3%
FS COLL (B/Hand Drawn Monkey)
Ayr
Big Clock
Axholme
Goze 4.5%
Stockwith Stinger 3.9%
Aylesbury
Dr Hornbrook Blonde Stout 7.2%
Backyard
Autumn 4.4%
Big Daddy 4.1%
Bostin 4.2%
Chinook X2 7.4%
Double Stout 9.6%
Dragon 4.4%
East Kent Goldings IPA 5.0%
Fiesta 4.1%
Joker 3.8%
Love Birds 4.1%
March Hare 4.3%
Marynka IPA 5.0%
May the 4th Be With You 4.0%
Nelson Sauvin IPA 5.0%
Snake Shifter 4.4%
Spring 4%
SRD 4.8%
Treason 4.2%
(Walsall Brewing Company) Jigger
Pale 4.0%
Winter 5.3%
Dirty Blonde 5.0%
Pals 4.0%
Dark Knight 4.5%
100 5.3%
Big Hand
Kings Bane Bitter 3.9%
Havok 5.0%
Big Lamp
Reedham 5.7%
Big Shed
Ruby Red 4.7%
Best Pale Ale 4.3%
Binghams
Bricks and Mortar 5.0%
Vanilla Hoppy IPA... 5.0%
Bird Brain
Silly Old Coote 4.2%
Orange-Fronted Barbet 4.0%
Bird’s
Afterglow 4.6%
Night Jar 4.0%
Bishop Nick
Hop Cross 3.8%
Black Bar
Backlight 4.0%
Blackhill
Tilly 3.9%
Black Horse
Mild Midlander 3.4%
Where’s My Fiorucci? 3.8%
Black Edge
One-Citra 4.3%
Dark Rum... 4.6%
Black Port 4.9%
Black Flag
White Cross IPA 5.7%
White Export 5.5% QUE
Black Iris
Citra Pale 4.0%
Juniper 4.2%
Pale No.1 3.8%
Black Jack
Exp 366 5.2%
Jack Schlafkopf 5.0%
Black Sheep
Bighorn 4.5%
Black Tor
Templar IPA 5.8%
Pride of Dartmoor 4.0%
Blindmans
Russian Roulette 4.5%
Blue Bee
The Pub Pint 4.8%
Section 4.7%
Blue Bell
Ariel Bitter 4.0%
Ingle Dingle Ale 5.1%
Raspberry Zeppelin 5.5%
Blue Monkey
Fat Portly Ape 7.2%
Bonobo Black IPA 5.3%
Bluestone (Dyfed)
Pasg Hapus 4.5%
Borough
Summertime Dark 4.0%
Botley
Cobbett’s 4.5%
Bournemouth
Dolphin 4.6%
Battleaxe 6.3%
Bowmans
Pukka Porter 5.0%
Yumi 3.9%
Bowness
Waterbird Wheat 4.5%
Bradfield
Ye Old English Ale 4.6%
Sixer 6.0%
Brains
Simply Red 4.0%
Rye Catcher 5.0%
The Solution 6.0%
Three-C’Son 5.0%
Dragon 3.9%
Little Sipper 3.5%
The New Imbiber · Jun | July 2014
New Beers Update
Cannon Royall
Guidelines used by the New Imbiber
Identities One recipe from a particular brewery equates to one beer, regardless of whether it has been known by
more than one name. ‘Re-brews’ and addition of adjuncts Distinct variations in recipe are countable as ‘re-brews’.
The definition of a ‘distinct variation’ is basically left to common sense. A one-off ‘mis-brew’ can count as such.
A brew with an added adjunct (e.g. coriander, food colouring or dry hopping where not normally done) can be
legitimately referred to as a ‘new beer’ provided this was done at the brewery by their personnel.
Brewery mixes A brewery mix can be counted as an individual beer as long as it is exactly that, i.e. two (or more)
brews mixed in the brewery (either directly racked into the cask or blended in the fermenting vessel) by brewery
personnel. Mixing beers or adding adjuncts to casks which have left the brewery cannot count as the legitimate
creation of a ‘new’ beer. Different ratios of the same two brews to make different variants of mix can be recognised
in multiples of 25% and normally nothing less, therefore giving a maximum possible three variants. Where known,
brewery mixes state which brews they are made up of, if no ratio is shown it is generally 50% each. Beers thought to
infringe these principals (unless confirmed otherwise) are not shown in the list, or are noted as ‘not recognisable’.
Note: many ales on the market are in fact brewery mixes without being made common knowledge.
Dates of one-off ales These are approximate, generally they denote the month when the beer was first noted on sale.
aka Also known as
BC Bottle Conditioned
BM Brewery Mix
COLL Brewed in collaboration
COR Amends earlier entry
D&B Draught and Bottle Conditioned
ERR Incorrect entry in an earlier issue
FS One-off Festival Special
HB House Beer
Brairbank
Briar Cobnut 4.2%
Samuel Harvey VC 3.7%
Brampton
Bock Daniel’s 7.3%
Ascalon 3.8%
Brentwood
HOBR Hobby Brewer
MB One-off miss-brew
NRC Not recognised as a real ale by CAMRA
OOB One-off House Beer
QUE Are details correct (where, e.g., another beer has similar name)?
REG Intended to be brewed regularly
RB Confirmed distinct alteration of recipe/strength or change of name
SEA A seasonal beer, or one brewed at irregular intervals
TB Test Brew
Briggs
Brass 4.2%
Signature Ales – Symphony No 1 4.2%
Folk 3.7%
Brighton Bier
No Name Stout 6.0%
Underdog Bitter 4.2%
Golden Galaxy 4.0% COLL (B/Greene
King)
Alastair Cook Benefit Beer 3.8%
Brightside
Brew by Numbers
Wild Orchid Oatmeal Stout 4.0%
02.01 Golden 5.4%
Brew Company
Ice Ice Baby 4.3%
Spring Has Sprung 4.5%
Brew Lab
Power Strick 4.2%
Seaside Special 4.2%
Brewmeister
Supersonic IPA 5.0%
Black Hawk 5.0%
Kaiser 4.5%
Neon Blonde 4.0%
Brewshed
Tellow 3.9%
Brewshine
Silly Billy 4.0%
Billonde 4.0%
Brewsters
EtCitra EtCitra EtCitra 4.0%
Ice Queen 4.8%
Brew Wharf
In the Meantime IPA 6.8% RB (dryhopped)
Brick
Blenheim Black 5.1%
Sir Thomas Gardyner 3.8%
Kinsale 4.0% RB (New ABV)
Bridgehouse
Stokers 3.9%
Bridestones
Hebden Bridge Girl Crush 5.0%
Brunswick
Gold Course New E.R.A. 5.5%
Synergy 5.6%
Tighthead 3.9%
Buffys
Vicenniale 3.8%
Bumpmill
Amarillo American Style IPA 5.0%
Thunder Road 4.4%
Lightning Bolt 4.6%
Brightwater
Burscough
Brixton
Sorrel Effra Amber Ale 4.5%
Brodie’s
Baby Mild Coffee & Cinnamon 2.7%
Baby Mild Vanilla & Coconut 2.7%
Chinook Coffee IPA 6.0%
Dry Hoppin Mad Bramling Cross 5.5%
Dry Hoppin Mad Columbus 5.5%
Dry Hoppin Mad Kohatu 5.5%
Dry Hoppin Mad Motueka 5.5%
Dry Hoppin Mad Sorachi Ace 5.5%
Dry Hoppin Mad Walmea 5.5%
Dry Hoppin Mad Williamette 5.5%
Elderflower Lager 4.5%
Hackney Red IPA 6.1%
Hackney Red IPA Rosemary 6.1%
Hackney Red IPA Seville Orange 6.1%
Jamaican Stout Chilli 5.4%
Jamaican Stout Chocolate 5.4%
Jamaican Stout Coffee 5.4%
Jamaican Stout Ginger 5.4%
Jamaican Stout Jerk 5.4%
Jamaican Stout Rum & Raisin 5.4%
Jamaican Stout Sarsaparilla 5.4%
Kentish Town Maple Brown IPA 6.2%
Kentish Town Nut Brown IPA 6.2%
Mocha Milk Stout Chilli 9.0%
Mocha Milk Stout Vanilla 9.0%
Peppermint Pale Ale 5.5%
Broughton
IPA No.5 5.0%
Brown Ales
Inception 3.8%
The Shining 4.0%
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Hop 500 Gyles 3.9%
Spartan 3.9%
Black Bear 4.0%
Canterbury Brewers
Kentish Pale Ale 5.0%
Street Light Porter 5.8%
Cap House
Hey Blondie 4.2%
Castle Rock
Hare 4.2%
Dingy Skipper 4.5%
Castor
12th Man 4.5%
I’ve Got An App For That Beer 4.2% FS
Posh at Wem-BEER-ley 4.5%
Cats
Clouder 5.0%
Mog 3.8%
Catherdral Heights
Castle Dungeon 5.4%
Devil’s Nightmare 4.3%
Steep Hill 4.3%
Caveman
Clovis Point Brown 5.2% QUE/COR
Celt Experience
Ogham Willow 8.8%
Cerddin
Winter Warmer 4.3%
Chapel
Epiphany 4.7%
Angel’s Ale 4.0%
Cheshire Brew Brothers
Brothers Gold 3.6%
Cheshire Brewhouse
Buckleys Chance 4.0%
Lupy As A Toucan 5.8%
Julian Church
Buzzard
Cwrw Dyffryn 4.5%
Gold Testament 3.9%
Dark Desciple 4.3%
Byatts
Church End
3 C’S 4.1%
Alisons Hanky Panky 4.3%
Amandas Alluring Ale 4.1%
By the Horns
Anchor Gold 4.5%
Stiff Upper Lip Extra Dry hopped 3.8% Babs’ Brum-A-Licious Brew 6.0%
FS
Brewsters Pocket 3.5%
Lambeth Walk (Whisky Vanilla
Brewt 8.0%
Festival Version) 5.3%
Cascade 4.1%
Ol’ Blue Eyes 4.2%
Centenial 4.1%
Gift Of The Gab BA Stout 5.9%
Chindit’s Jungle Juice 7.0% FS
(Leicester)
Cader
Chinook 4.1%
Glasdir Copper 4.5%
Cutting Ale 4.8%
TPA 4.4%
Damson in Distress 6.0%
Caffe
Drunken Tommy 4.6% FS (Leicester)
Drop Squint 5.2%
Emerald Aisle 4.4%
Cairngorm
Fennel 5.0%
Red Rye IPA 4.5%
Gaelic Coffee 4.6%
Mountain Blue 4.3%
Harry’s Heifer 4.2%
Honey & Almond 4.4%
Caledonian
Irish Coffee 4.6%
(Standeven) African Pale Ale 4.2 %
Juniper & Lime 3.8%
FS (Wetherspoon)
Lemon Fallen Angel 5.0%
Port of Leith IPA 5.0%
Madamoiselle 4.4% FS (Leicester)
Calvors
Mammy P’s Perfect Poison 3.6%
Four Runner 3.8%
Mango 3.5%
Olivias Titivating Tipple 4.5%
Cambridge Moonshine
Piarais Perfect Pint 5.9%
Reach For The Moon 4.1%
Pineapple 3.8%
Camerons
Poachers Wolf 4.1%
Galactico 4.2%
Rascals Stand Up Ale 4.4%
Columbo Extra 4.8%
XK Strong 4.9%
The New Imbiber · Jun | July 2014
18 New Beers Update
Reggy Ments Revenge 4.8% FS
(Leicester)
Subvert Ale 3.8%
Team Badger 3.5%
Wolf’s Coffin 4.6%
Cliff Quay
Milk Float 4.0%
Leicester’s Finest 4.5% FS
(Leicester)
Ellington Black IPA 5.0%
Oporto Porter 4.6%
Somme Or Nothing 5.6% FS
(Leicester)
Denbigh
Clouded Minds
Goblin Tower 3.5% RB (New ABV)
Coastal
Imperial Red 4.9%
Indian Ink 5.2%
Westminster Cornish Gold 4.5%
Buzzin 4.4%
Junipale 4.0%
Ten 4.2%
Earl Grey IPA 5.1%
Double Clout Coffee Stout 5.6%
Gold 3.8%
Magnum 4.2%
Junga 4.2%
Rampant Ruby 6.5%
Colchester
Trinovantes Gold 4.3%
Compass
Pilot 79 4.0%
Conwy
Scrum Down 4.0%
Surfin IPA 4.8%
Copper Dragon
Cobblers Cask 4.0%
Vienna Ale 4.1%
Copper Dragon
Nation’s Pride 4.0%
Coquetdale
Snitter Bitter 3.8%
Thrum... 4.3%
Corinium
Derby
Derventio
Ostara 4.0%
Devon
Devon IPA 4.0%
Devon Earth
Grounded 4.7%
Lost In The Woods 5.2%
Doghouse
Mild 3.5%
Doncaster
Sandhouse 3.8%
Dorset
15 Years 4.0%
Mutiny Dark Lager 4.4%
Eden (St Andrews)
The 19th Brew 3.9%
Seggie Porter 5.5% QUE/COR
Shipwreck 6.2%
Elgood’s
Elixer
Peas Pipe 6.6%
Sugar Lumps 7.7%
Elland
Red River IPA – Head Brewers Reserve
2014 4.6%
Lambo’s First Pint 4.0%
Rudimentary 4.6%
Elliswood
Best Of British 4.5% FS (Leicester)
Hands To Bathe 4.7%
Pubtastic 4.5%
(Black Galleon) Drown Your Sorrows
Ginger 5.2%
Elveden
Rich IPA 5.0%
Empire
Shadows 4.1%
Evan Evans
Artisan Hop Blast 4.4%
Everards
Regimental 5.0%
Farmer’s Ales
Over the Sticks 3.8%
Can I Try Real Ale 3.8%
Old Ipswich Liquor 5.5%
Cottage
Dowbridge
Fat Cat
Cotleigh
Old Steamer 4.2%
Cotswold Lion
Battle Of The Blues 4.7%
St Patrick’s Stout 4.6%
On The Nose 4.2%
Chocolate Stout 4.5%
Double Top
Adonis 4.3%
Bad Boy 4.7%
Dove Street
Kings Shilling 4.9% FS (Leicester)
Onslaught 5.2%
Downlands
Mad-Ass Chilli Porter 5.2%
Single Hop Series 6.0%
Ltd Edition Pale 1 Amarillo & Cascade
Hops 4.1%
Ltd Edition Pale 2 Simco & Marynka
4.1%
Devils Dyke Honey Porter 5.0%
Cloud Physics 4.1%
Up Periscope! 4.1% FS
Crystal Brew
Downton
Cromarty
Hop Your Cherry 4.5%
AKA IPA 6.7%
Cronx
Jade 4.0%
Cych Valley
410 4.1%
Daleside
Sea Fever 4.5%
Pedal Power 3.4%
Dancing Man
Hope Stout’ 6.0%
Endeavour 10.0%
Dragonfly Brewery
2 O’clock Ordinary 4.0%
Dark Matter 4.3%
Driftwood
Blue Hills 4.1%
16 Tonne Chilli Chocolate Stout 5.5% Dukeries
Bolt out of the Blue 5.0%
Dark Star
Bowled Out 3.9%
Craft Star Pale Ale 3.5%
Gunsmoke 5.5%
Hoods Hideaway 4.3%
Dark Tribe
Ray of Sunshine 4.2%
Captain Floyd 3.9%
Lime Tree 4.4%
Dartmoor
Three Stout Hares 4.5%
Dawkins
Foresters Dark 4.8%
Deeply Vale
Citra Storm 4.0%
Dem Bones
Leicester’s Own 4.0% FS (Leicester)
Earls
Pussy Porter 4.9%
Fell
Tinderbox IPA 6.3%
Fellows
Voliaire 4.5%
Felstar
Light Burst 4.0%
Fernandes
Lime Lite 3.8%
Trinity Ale 4.5%
Bramling Stoker 3.8%
Firebrand 4.2%
Night Jar 4.3%
Firebird
Heritage XX 4.0%
No.79 4.3%
West 4.7%
Firebrand (brewed at Penpont)
Toasted Porter 5.2%
Graffiti IPA 5.0%
Firebrick
Root ‘N’ Branch 5.2%
Firestorm
Furious American Pale Ale 6.0%
Five Points
Broken Biscuits Brown 4.5%
Simcoe/Zeus Pale Ale 5.2%
3 Hop Pale Ale 5.0%
Railway Porter 4.8%
Hook Island Red 6.0%
East London
Roobarb 5.0%
Three Ton 8.0%
Day At The Races 3.9%
Three Hop Hare 4.5%
Cowcatcher – American Pale Ale
4.8%
Wheat Porter 4.8%
Financial Groat 4.8%
Flying Monk
Elmer’s 3.9%
Fool Hardy
Plum Porter 4.5%
Rendezvous 4.4%
Spring Challenge 3.7% RB (New ABV)
Aces High 3.8%
Black Maria 3.3%
Captain Ridley 4.0%
Dawn Patrol 4.0%
Dog Fight 4.0%
Mascot 4.2%
Bunnies 4.0%
Centurion Stout 4.7%
Flipside
Five Towns
Fourpure
Session IPA 4.3%
Pale Ale 5.0%
Amber Ale 5.1%
Stout 5.1%
Four Thorns
Misunderstood Starfish 3.8%
Outrangeous Toad 4.3%
Fiddling Beaver 4.3%
Dancing Zebra 4.7%
Fownes
Korvak’s Rise 4.5%
King Korvak’s Saga 5.4%
Maiden Mellow Mild 3.7%
Fox
Cassarado 4.0%
Foxfield
Boss IPA 5.0%
Sand Cascade 3.7%
Malty Madness 5.1%
Frodsham
Blush 5.0%
Fuggle Bunny
Chapter 1 – New Beginnings 4.9%
Chapter 2 – Cotton Tail 4.0%
Chapter 3 – Orchard Gold 5.0%
Chapter 4 – 24 Carrot IPA 6.0%
Fullers
Spring Sprinter 4.0%
Brit Hop 4.1%
1845 (150th Commemorative) 6.3%
Fulstow
Sledgehammer Stout 8.0%
Funfair
The Freak Show 5.2%
Tom Thumb 3.8%
Fuzzy Duck
Au 3.9%
Fyne Ales
Nebbula Bitter 4.2%
Brewers Fuel 5.0%
Gas Dog
Geordan 15 3.8% RB (New ABV)
Mustard Gas 4.0% FS (Leicester)
Geeves
Clear Cut 4.4%
Navvy’s Nightlight 8.5%
George & Porter
The Twitcher 3.8%
George Samuel
Brew It Again Sam 4.2%
By George She’s Got It 3.6%
Golden Wellingtons 5.0%
Glastonbury
Equinox Black IPA 5.9%
Glentworth
Crackerjack 4.1%
Gloucester
Galaxy 5.2%
Golden Duck
Tinners Tipple 4.1%
LFB 4.3%
Wristy Fitzy 4.6%
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Golden Triangle
Hardknott
Goody’s
Harrogate
Goosnargh
Harthill Village
Red Square 4.6% RB (New ABV)
Genesis 3.5%
Pale 3.6%
Grafters
Yerba 6.2% Collab with Metalman
No.5 Porter 5.4%
Dark Hart Festival Reserve 6.5%
Hart Of Steel 5.5%
Brewer’s Troop 4.4%
Moonlight 3.6%
Harviestoun
Grafton
Harwich
Ironman 4.2%
Marmalady 4.8%
Grain
Cascade 4.4%
Grainstore
Bootleggers Steelback IPA 4.2%
Great Heck
Simcoe 6.5%
Great Newsome
Ploughmans Pride 4.2%
Marvellously Poetic Porter 4.9%
Great Western
Moose River 5.0%
Green Duck
Anniversary Ale 4.0%
Dandelion & Burduck 4.5%
Duck Turpin 4.5%
Duck Vader 5.9%
(Fixed Wheel) No Brakes IPA 5.5%
Portland Pale Ale 6.0%
Spiced Orange Saison 5.5%
Greenfield
Dunkel Bierre 4.2%
1000th Brew Super Silver Owl 5.2%
Greytrees
Drummer Boy 4.2%
JRP Pale 4.7%
Growler
Night Boat Stout 4.2%
Gyle 59
Pale & Bitter 5.0%
Dorset GIPA 5.4%
Double IPA 7.2%
IPA 5.3%
Hackney
Broken Dial 4.5%
Pilgrim 4.0%
Hastings
Handmade No. 6 Hop Forward Pale
Ale – Columbus 4.8%
Handmade No 12 Green Bullet 4.8%
HandmadeNo 13 Slovenian Brown Ale
6.5%
Handmade No 14 3 C’s American Pale
Ale 5.5%
Hayrake
Autumn Gold 4.5%
Head in a Hat
Honey Brown Ale 6.1%
Healeys
Golden 3.6%
Hearsall
Dark Masquerade 3.6%
Kismet 4.3%
Old Forge Bitter 3.8%
Hambleton
Resolution Mild Ale 4.0%
Half Moon 4.0%
Harbour
Mango and Chillie IPA 7.0%
Farmhouse IPA: Cedar Edition 7.2%
Saaz Blonde 4.0%
Tower Tipple 3.9%
Hop Studio
Dark Rose 3.5%
Hoptimists
Glass Half Full 4.0%
Hop Studio
York Ale Pale Ale 3.8%
Dark Rose 3.5%
Hornbeam
Chocolate Domination 5.5%
Winterlong – Amber Ale 4.7%
Hoxne
Torchlight 5.2%
Valiant 5.4%
Plum Porter 5.4%
Iceni
Hesket Newmarket
Ilkley
Dirty Blonde 3.9%
Brim Fell IPA 4.5%
Loughrigg 4.2%
Highland
Jack Flag 3.9%
Duke IPA 5.2%
High Weald
Green Stede Gold 4.0% QUE/COR
Nut Brown 4.8%
Amber – UK Special 4.6%
Swallowtail 4.0%
Good Egg 4.1%
(Beer Studio) Vermillion Hue 4.5%
(Beer Studio) Dark Odyssey 4.4%
Hopstring 4.5%
Olicana Pale 4.4%
Pata Negra BIPA 6.2%
American Cream Smooth 4.3%
Rye N’ Dry 5.0%
Imperial
Mad Micks Hop Dance 5.5%
Mad Mick’s Hop Dance 6.0% RB
Rubus 4.0%
Instant Karma
Albion Bitter 3.6%
NBC IPA 4.2%
Test Brew No 1 3.9%
Test Brew No 2 4.3%
Extra Special Bitter 5.0%
Sutra IPA 5.5%
Holdens
Inveralmond
Some Like It Blonde 4.5%
Movie Classic’s Aging Bull 4.8%
Gone with the Wind 4.2%
Holsworthy
Bizzy Buzzy 4.1%
Hope
Hanlons
Hopstar
Hellhound
Hammerpot
Hop Water Music Baby 3.4%
Lionheart 4.6%
Hydes
Trousertown IPA 6.2%
Girl Crush 5.0%
Hopdaemon
Hand Drawn Monkey
Hop & Stagger
Hebden Bridge
77 4.9%
Big Nuts 5.5%
Bucking Brilliant Beer 4.0%
Easter Beer Hunt 4.0%
Mocha Mild 4.6%
Wild Hop 3.7%
Deeping Jack 3.8%
Kinesis 3.8%
Black Mule 7.0%
Humpty Dumpty
Hoggleys
Half Moon
Hopshackle
Heavy Industry
Hadrian Border
Billy Stinger 4.5%
Budgie’s Migration 4.4%
Black Adder 6.7%
Howling Hops
Hilden
Hall & Woodhouse
Hop Kettle
Brown 5.3%
40 Not Out 5.2%
Craft Line Falconers Flight 5.0%
Craft Line Citra Amarillo 5.0%
Deus 3.9%
New Beers Update
Green Daemon Helles 5.0%
Citra 4.2%
Dark Demon 4.4%
IPA 3.6%
Strangely Brown 4.0%
SX Dark 4.2%
SX Gold 4.2%
Hops and Glory
Early Spring Quaffing Ale 3.6%
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Kelburn
Kracker 6.0%
Kelham Island
Dunkel Devastator 5.6%
Kendal
Tenter Hooks 3.7%
Eleven Bells 3.9%
Ebster’s Amber Ale 3.7%
Kennet & Avon
Caen Hill Hop 5.0%
Rusty Lane 4.4%
Kent
Simcoe Cascade Pale Ale 4.5%
Keswick
Thirst Blossom 4.4%
Keystone
Cheer Up 4.6%
King
Lost Kingdom 5.2%
Kinneil
Katies Wearie’s 3.8%
Pennvael Clootie 5.3%
Golden Holden 4.4%
Caer Edin Dark 4.2%
Kingstone
Humpty Fuddle IPA 5.8%
Kinver
Cut Above 6.0%
Golden Holden 4.5%
Maybug 4.8%
Vintage 57 5.7%
Regimentale 6.5% FS (Leicester)
The Only One 4.5%
Life Begins 4.0%
Kirkby Lonsdale
Radical Red 4.2%
Kirkstall
Cafe Au Lait 5.6%
Oaked Drophammer Imperial Stout 10.0%
Half and Half 5.2%
Kissingate
Toffee Cog 5.0%
Buffalo Black 5.0%
Gardenia Amber Mild 4.5%
Kite
Try Time 4.0%
Billy Gwynt VPA 4.0%
Laine Brewery (Acton)
RPA – Random Pale Ale 4.7%
Laine Brewery (Brighton)
Crazy 8 5.3%
Homecoming Scotland Beer 2014 4.2% Laine Brewery (Hackney)
Marzen Fest 4.5%
Black Ol’ Song 4.5%
Ironbridge
JD Stout 5.5%
Isca
No.105 5.4%
Isle of Skye
Tarasgeir 4.0%
Jennings
Lakeland Stunner 4.8% QUE/RB
(New ABV)
Jones the Brewer
Dennis Hopper 4.7%
Malty Python 4.2%
Wheat Stone Bridge 5.4%
Joules
X1 4.8%
Cwrw Lal
Limestone Cowboy 4.5%
Lancaster
Raspberry Rose 4.2%
Tales From The Brewhouse American Hop 4.4%
Landlocked
A & E 7.2%
Langham
Co-ALE-ition Gold Ale 4.9%
Arapaho 4.9%
Langton
Bugler 4.2% FS (Leicester)
Angler 3.6%
Grand Bru 7.3%
Welland Poacher 5.0% RB (New ABV)
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Late Knights
Lymestone
Millstone
Noss
Leamside
Lytham
Mill Town
Nottingham
Mad Cat
Moles
Nutbrook
Frosty Morning 5.7%
Alexandrina 4.1%
Five Quarter 4.5%
Lemon & Ginger 4.1%
Vanilla Porter 4.5%
Leazes Lane
Park Lite 3.7%
RVI IPA 4.7%
Lees
Storm Chaser 4.1%
Leila Cottage
Leila’s One Off 5.1%
Leyden
Florence Nightingale 4.0%
Pounamu 4.2% RB (New ABV)
Fetler’s Ale 4.1%
Meaney’s Golden IPA 4.2%
Auburn Copper Ale 4.2%
Mad Hatter
Magic Rock
Mouselow Farm
Magpie
Moor
Stooge American Brown Ale 4.0%
Magpie IPA 4.6%
500 Tidings 5.0%
Mallard
Lincoln Green
Allias 3.9%
Booom! 4.3%
Highly Sprung 4.4%
Hudderswood 4.6%
Jack The Lass 3.9%
Mercury 4.4%
Mercury Pale Ale 4.4%
Mild Thing 3.6%
Silk Tail 3.9%
Simcoe 3.9%
Small Straw 4.1%
Spring Steen – A Brucy Bonus 3.8%
Little Ale Cart
Archer 4.0%
Borderer 4.3%
Cicero MkII 4.3%
Harley’s Dog’s Dinner 102 Bone Dry
4.0%
Harley’s Dog’s Dinner 101 Dopey
Lamb 4.7%
Harley’s Hop Special #55 Pacific
Bullet 4.0%
Harley’s Hop Special 52 Nelson’s
Bullet 4.0%
Harley’s Hop Special 56(?) Golden
Breeze 4.0%
Harley’s First Brew 4.0%
Requiem For A Brick Shed 6.0%
Viscount Ridley 4.3%
Little Beer
Little Boileroom 5.4%
Little Haka 4.5%
1917 Imperial Pilsner 7.4%
Little Slow Vienna Pilsner 5.0%
Liverpool Craft
Session 3 3.9%
Lark Lane 4.5%
Loch Lomond
Southern Summit 4.0%
Brave Hop Amber IPA 6.0%
Southern Summit 4.0%
Unite Ale 4.0%
Loch Ness
Nesstrovia 8.5%
MadNess 4.0%
SazzinNess 4.0%
NESStonia 6.4%
London Brewing
Everafter Belgian Blonde 5.0%
Longdog
Brindle Bitter 4.2%
Longdon
First Gold 4.4%
Northdown 4.3%
Long Itch
Seven Year Itch 4.0%
Long Lane
Copper 4.2% RB (New ABV)
Colonel Ellis 6.5%
Luckie
Yellae Lintae 6.3%
Paddy’s Tarmac Tipple 4.5%
Dayffd Ale 4.4%
Bloomin Moles 5.0%
Moncada
Dabblin Duck 4.3%
Torkard Tipple 4.3%
Quarterstaff 5.0%
Jugs Of Joy 3.8%
Fatter Stout 9.0% QUE/COR
Mad Hat Pale 4.2%
Liberation
Crowd Pleaser 4.2%
Rising Sunsation 4.7%
Mallinsons
Malmesbury
Burnivale Hop 5.4%
Kings Wall 5.6%
Daystar 4.0.%
Malvern Hills
Beacon Gold 3.7%
Marble
IMBC Saison 7.0%
Inter Regnum 3.4%
Craft Pale Ale 4.0%
Spring APA 4.6%
Marpool
Brennan’s Best 4.0%
Marston’s
Notting Hill Blizzard 7.0%
Udder the Influence 4.0%
Lemon Adder 4.0%
Maxim
Simcoe Kid 4.2%
Black Maxim – Naked Oat Stout 4.0%
Medieval
Anne Boleyn 3.5%
Merrimen
Be Merri 4.5%
Merryweather 4.0%
Mighty Hop
Vallances Nut Brown Ale 5.0%
Spoon & Arrow 4.8%
Ruby Saint 6.0%
Oakham
Gangster 4.9%
Oates
Equinox Lager 4.2%
Thirsty Marmot 4.8%
Old Chimneys
Confidence 4.6%
Scarlet Tiger 4.7%
Arrowhead 4.8%
Moorish Ales
Old Dairy
A Tarr Step Too Far 4.4%
Sitting Bull Dry Hopped 5.6%
Lynmouth Cliff Aleway 3.8%
Porlock Stock &Two Empty Barrels 4.4% Old Slewfoot
Devils Dream 5.0%
Mòr Brewing
MoR Please 4.5%
Morton
Gregorys Gold 4.4%
Moscee Valley IPA 5.5%
Mouselow
Udder The Influence 4.0%
Muirhouse
Mango Man 4.2%
Redan Red 4.0% FS (Leicester)
Mumbles
IPA 5.8%
Musket
Fire And Drum 3.8%
Flintlock 4.2%
Old Spot
By George 4.9%
Tongue Tangler 4.5% QUE/COR
Shady Spot 3.7%
Old Mill
March Mist 4.0%
Olde Potting Shed
Dark Wing 4.3%
Oldershaw
Epic Action 4.0% FS (Leicester)
American Quadhop 5.5%
Grantham Porter 4.5%
Ordnance City
Ice Breaker 4.0%
Storm Shadow 4.7%
Aunt Sally 4.8%
Barbers Bridge Black IPA 5.0%
Knowing Me, Knowing You 4.5%
Naylors
Orkney
Navigation
Kour 4.5%
Cranachan 4.0%
Aramis 4.5%
Merrie England 5.9%
Nene Valley
Big Bang Theory 5.3%
Fenland Farmhouse Saison 5.0%
Revisionist Dark IPA 4.8%
New Bristol
S*M*A*S*H 3.9%
365 4.0%
(Zeunurts) Swedish IPA 5.5 % FS
(Wetherspoons) Who Hit Clive? 4.5%
Mash
Super Natural IPA 7.0%
Chocolate Stout 5.0%
Mauldons
Mew Stone 4.3%
Newby Wyke
(Atlas) Meridian 3.9%
Ouseburn
Newcastle XXXX 5.2%
Ossett
Golden Hopportunity 3.8%
Amethyst 4.0%
Otley
Hop Angeles 4.8%
Otter
Admiral Otter 4.8%
Outstanding
(New-K-Ham) The Black Pig – Oat Malt Imperial IPA 7.4%
Stout 4.3%
Out There
Scharnhorst 5.2%
Valentina 5.8%
New Lion
Mane Event 3.8%
Nobbys
Guilsborough Guzzler 3.6%
Worts n’ All 4.2%
Claridges Crystal 3.6%
Owenshaw Mill
Gollom’s Revenge 4.0%
Padstow
Summer Ale 5.0%
Padstow Mayday 5.0%
Nook
Panther
Northern
Parish
Sprocket Fuel 3.8%
Honey Panther 4.0%
Hoppily Ever After 4.3%
Flying Inn 4.1%
Blakemere Fruit Stout 5.0%
Blakemere Scarf My Father Wore 3.9%
Blakemere Man from Uruguay 4.4%
Worn Down Boots 4.4% FS
(Leicester)
Mile Tree
North Riding
Metric Porter 11.3%
From Dallas With Love 3.8%
1850 Porter 5.3%
Deathwish Coffee Porter 5.8%
North Riding IPA 6.5%
Peakstones Rock
Mill Green
Northumberland
Peerless
Mighty Oak
Farmhouse Citra 4.2%
Golden Fleece 4.0%
Crash Test Dummies 3.9%
Fanny Chmelar 3.9%
Partizan
Pugin’s Gold 4.0%
Down Under 3.6%
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Pennine
Hair of the Dog 3.9%
Ramsbottom
Rammy Mazen 5.0%
Crazy Mare 3.7%
Penpont
Ice Cap Pilsner 4.9%
Chateaux Civrac Old Ale 7.5%
Firebrand Brewing Toasted Porter 5.2% Fat Lady Stout 4.3%
Bumble’s Honeyed Ale 4.0%
Pheasantry
Lincoln Tank Ale 4.2%
Pictish
Ramsbury
Rum Truffle 5.6%
Slabek 4.4%
Entrophy 4.3%
Mosaic 4.3%
Ramsgate
Piddle
Black Forest Ratteaux 4.5%
Anth-Rats 4.5%
Rat Bag 3.8%
Rata Nui 5.0%
Fancy Rat 3.9%
Rat Mother 5.5%
Monkey Rat 6.0%
Black Hole IPA 5.5%
Pig & Porter
Red Spider 3.0%
Pilot
Mochaccino 5.5%
Iced Tea 5.0%
Pitfield
Dr Sunshine’s 4.2%
Rat
Raw
Artisan Organic Red Ale 4.8%
Educatables 3.8%
Euro IPA 5.6%
Pixie Spring
Rebel
(Hopcraft) Barrel Aged Long Nine
Imp.Stout 6.0%
(Hopcraft) Chorister’s Gold 4.3%
(Hopcraft) Citraic 5.2%
(Hopcraft) Fault Line 5.9% COLL
(PS/Axiom/Art Brew)
(Hopcraft) Going To Australia 4.9%
(Hopcraft) Hop Secret 3 4.1%
(Hopcraft) Monkey Business Whisky
BA Dubbel 5.6%
(Hopcraft) Naughty Boy 4.2%
(Hopcraft) No Love Lost 4.3%
(Hopcraft) Steady as She Goe’s 4.5%
(Hopcraft) Sucker Punch 4.3%
(Hopcraft) Whisky Barrel Long Nines
Stout 6.0%
Plain Ales
IPA 5.2%
Poachers
Bog Trotter 4.2%
Monkey hanger 4.5%
Poppyland
Smokehouse Porter 5.7%
Portobello
Very Pale 4.0%
Gold 4.3%
Potbelly
Hogzilla 5.9%
Craic-ling 4.6%
Potting Shed
Sunny Daze 4.4%
Privateer
Mexi-Cocoa 8.5%
Penryn Pale 4.3%
Spelt Blonde 4.2%
Salamander
Lights, Camra, Action 4.0%
Bright Black 4.8%
Gaffer 4.0%
Snowflake 4.0%
Resistance Is Futile 3.8%
I’ll be Back 4.2%
New Romantic 4.2%
Queens Ransom 3.8%
Putin’s Pardon Porter 6.0%
Salopian
Archer Mild Ale 3.6%
Sambrooks
Scarborough
Red Fox
Java 4.3%
Citra 4.2%
Sea Lord 4.3% RB (New ABV)
Red Kite
Scribblers
Red Rock
Breakwater 4.6%
Cock Hop 4.5%
Redscar
Beacon 4.0%
Redstone
Oliver’s Twist 4.0%
Redemption
Mango Pale Ale 3.5%
Revolutions
Go Go 4.5%
Kurt and Courtney 6.9%
Dare Black Lager 4.5%
Pretender Blonde 4.5%
Richmond
Wor Stout 4.3%
Riverhead
Spring Moose 4.0%
Stratus 3.8%
Andromeda 4.0%
Storm Cloud 5.0%
Quantum
Rock & Roll
1987 Manchester Mild 3.0%
Dr Feelgood 6.5%
Quercus
Rooster’s
Harry’s 4.6%
41 Degrees South 4.1% (Special)
RCH
Round Tower
Wild Mild 4.2%
Halcyon 4.0%
Sadler’s
Red Even
Purple Moose
Rainbow
Signature
Cherry Pale 3.9%
Hop & Glory 3.8%
Dave Sanders Porter 5.0%
Juniper Rye 4.2%
Ringway
Chocolate Slugh Porter 5.0%
St Peter’s
Rudgate
Saltaire
Bull Ring Porter 4.6%
Aylett 3.5%
Stout 4.3%
Longshots 4.9%
Slipstream 6.0%
Shiny
Boris Citrov 4.7%
Peaky Blinder 4.6%
Vanilla Stout 4.6%
Choc Vanilla 4.6%
Red Cat Bitter 3.7%
Prowler Pale 3.6%
Tomcat 4.7%
Shooting Dice 4.2%
21
Award 6.0%
Bank Vault 4.3%
Blue Oyster 3.9% COLL (S/Nutbrook)
Crown Of Bhutan 6.0%
Dealer Button 4.2%
Doubloon Cask Lager 5.0%
Furnace 666 6.0%
Keyworth 4.2%
Pail USA 4.0%
Rat Trap 4.6%
Tomahawk 6.0%
Rowton
Red Cat
Problem Child
Pickaxe Porter 5.0%
Mount Doom 5.3%
Sentinel 8.4% COLL (S/Celt
Experiance)
Station Ale 4.0%
Stump Cross Ale 4.7%
Prospect
Rowditch
Zeppelin 5.5%
Redball
Roebuck 3.8%
Scandalous 4.6%
New Beers Update
Brew Remedy 4.5%
Red Wedge 4.4%
Black Tongue 8.3%
Silhill
Stars & Stripes APA 3.9%
Silver Street
Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby 4.7% (brewed at
Outstanding)
Fire Island Pale 4.2% (brewed at
Outstanding)
Porter 5.5%
North 4.5%
Cascade 4.0%
Silverstone
Skid Mark 4.2%
High Octane 5.5%
Siren Craft
Seven Seas Wheat/BIPA 6.0%
Aramid American Amber 3.8%
Neither Imperial IPA 8.3%
Carribean Chocolate Cake (Jerk Spice) 7.4%
Gordon’s Strong (Remy Martin) IPA 9.2%
Flying Dutchman Pale Ale 5.7% COLL (S/
Evil Twin)
Das Soundwave 5.6%
Beerfest At Tiffanies 3.8%
Masher in the Rye 4.8%
One Brew Over The Cuckoos Nest 5.2% Six° North
Sweet Action 5.2%
Beyond Reasonable Stout 6.0%
Hoppy Potter & The Goblet of Ale 4.2% Skinners
River Cottage EPA 4.0%
Seven Vale
Nibley Ale 3.8%
Dance of the Severn Vales 4.5%
Shalford
Winter Ale 3.2%
Braintree Market 4.0%
Barnfield Pale Ale 3.8%
Rotten End 6.5%
Slater’s
Goalden Glory 3.8%
Western American Pale Ale 5.0%
Slaughterhouse
Dark Swine 4.0%
Sleaford
Shamblemoose
No 5 Amber Rye 4.3%
Old Albert ESB 5.0%
Screaming Eagle Stout 4.8%
Tropico 3.5%
Shardlow
Slightly Foxed
Hogshead 5.4%
Sharp’s
Cornwall Brewers Alliance: Surf
Action 3.8%
Shed Ales
Star Special 4.3% FS (Star, Huddersfield)
Small Paul’s
Gylla’s Gold 3.8%
Sonnet 43
Spring Passion 3.9%
Better After Death 5.5%
Steam Beer 3.8%
Sheffield
Son of Sid
(Ales without Limits) Vanilla
Breakfast Stout 4.1%
(Ales without Limits) Breakfast Stout
4.1%
(Ales Without Limits) Australian
Lager 5.2%
Shepherd Neame
English Ale 3.7%
Rides Again 4.4%
Sperrin
Pinch an Inch 4.4%
Golden Bounty 4.8%
Spey Valley
Muddy Waters 4.5%
India Pale Ale 4.5% RB (New ABV)
Mateo & Bernabe Fermin Red Ale 5.8%
Spey Stout 5.4%
Shindigger
Spitting Feathers
Pacific Pale Ale 4.5%
Spire
Sheffield RUFC 3000 Ale 5.2%
Red Tape 3.8%
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Stables
Beamish Burn Brown Ale 4.5%
Stancill
Porter 4.7%
Star
Meteor (dry hopped) 4.0% FS
Three Kings
Northdown X 4.4%
Musketeer 4.5%
Thurstons
Strathbaan
Due South 3.8%
Strathaven
Duchess Anne 3.9%
Stonehouse
Polar Express 4.6%
Stroud
Last Duel 3.8%
Shadow 4.5%
Sulwath
Tunnel
Tickety Brew
Tickety Few Munich 4.3%
Rose Wheat Beer 4.5%
Tigertops
Hop Rain 4.1%
Black Ball 5.9%
Duel 4.6%
Angram IPA 4.6%
Tillingbourne
Evolution No.4 — Extreme Amarillo
with Citra & Cascade 4.3%
Tin Pot
Gold Po 4.0%
Tintagel
Summerskills
Tiny Rebel
Special 4.8%
Piha Pale Ale 3.9%
Cherokee 4.2%
Hadouken Amplified IPA 7.4%
New Pale Ale 3.9%
Double Dry Hop Billabong 4.6%
One Inch Punch 3.9%
Surrey Hills
Tipsy Angel
Summer Wine
Gilt Complex (dry-hopped) 4.6% FS
Tap East
JWB – Jim Wilson Bitter 3.8%
Grind Coffee Bar – Coffee in the
Morning 5.5%
Tapped
Weighbridge
Thwaites
Double D 4.4%
Saltire Crose 4.1%
Meavy Oak Ale 4.2%
Truman’s
Horsell Best 3.8%
(Driftwood) Pale Ale 5.0% FS
(Wetherspoons)
A Slight Case of Overhopping 26 4.9%
Coiled Spring 3.8%
Grim Overlords 4.9% COLL
Crow
Black 4.6%
(SC/Great Heck)
Cascadian East 5.0%
Unleash the Beast 5.0%
Weatheroak Hill
Goldfinger 5.5%
Blindside 4.4%
Tom Ditto IPA 5.0%
Steel City
Stewart
Triple fff
Battlefield Henry Tudor 5.0%
Ginger Beered 5.4%
Twickenham
Wellington
Conscript 4.2%
Gaucho 3.6%
Rider 4.2%
Pirate 4.2%
Wensleydale
Two Roses
T’ Yellow Jersey 4.2%
Two Towers
Bhacker Ackhams 5.6%
Tydd Steam
Titanic
Unsworth Yard
Grandma’s Milk Stout 4.2%
Tavernale
Lone Rider 4.8%
Stagecoach 4.4%
Urban
Tom Wood
Vale
Tonbridge
Vale of Glamorgan
Ideal Pale Ale 4.8%
Teignworthy
Cor Bugga! 6.2%
Tempest
The Pub Beer 300 4.8%
Alsace Gold 4.0%
Toolmakers
Black Edge Stout 5.2%
Extra IPA (dry-hopped with 366) 5.2% Fine Finish 4.3%
Ball Park Pale Ale 3.8%
Top Out
Infidale Pale Ale 4.3%
Smoked Porter 5.6%
Double Cresta 8.2%
Staple Pale Ale 4.0%
Thirstin
Fruity Mick 4.2%
Thornbridge
Lileth Stout 5.0%
Three Blind Mice
Pale Ale No2 3.8%
Chocolate IPA 5.0%
Lazy Snake 6.2%
Spring Thin 4.0%
Three Castles
Tornado 4.3%
Three Friends
Pale Motueka 3.9%
Dry Hopped Motueka Pale Ale 3.9%
Totally Brewed
Land of Cartmel 3.7%
Crusader Gold 4.1%
Upham
1st Drop 4.2%
Keep Calm & Sup Up 5.5%
Metamophosis Golden 3.9%
Cwrw Dewi 5.0%
Dakota Red – American Style Ale 4.5%
Valhalla
Island Bere 4.2%
Old Scatness 4.0%
Vibrant Forest
Black Forest Porte 4.9%
Pale Ale Citra 5.0%
Radicale – Lemon and Elderflower
Wit 5.0%
Captain Hop Beard 5.5%
Slap In The Face 3.9%
Wadworth
Papa Jangle’s Voodoo Stout 4.2%
Four Hop Men of The Apocalypse 5.2% (Klosterbrauerei) Scheyern
Klosterbock 6.5% FS (Wetherspoons)
Towles
Crimson Dawn 4.5%
Philomont IPA 6.5%
(The Beer Kitchen) Orange Peel 6.0%
Ma Beese’s Chocolate Stout 6.9%
Treboom
Two Man Bob 4.1%
Tring
Great Bustard 4.0%
Blue Jay – Brown Ale 4.3%
By George 4.0%
Weltons
Tyne Bank
Goldings IPA 4.5%
Sheriff Fatman 5.0%
Ship of Dreams 4.5%
Tavy
B100 Stout 4.6%
Golden Kiwi 4.1%
Post Horn Gallop 4.2% FS
Twisted Oak
Stogie Stout 4.0%
Noisette Noir Hazelnut Porter 4.5%
COLL (T/Hand Drawn Monkey)
Rodeo APA 4.0%
Anamchara Stout 4.0%
Bear Heed 4.1%
Nightingale IPA 5.5%
Hentietta Grande 4.0%
Azuri Gold 5.0%
Crusader Longsword 4.2%
English Pride 3.8%
Equinox Gold 4.3%
Flower of Scotland 4.4% RB (New ABV)
Golden Springtide 4.7%
Golden Springtide 4.7%
Golden Taff 4.6%
Lo Coq 5.1%
Molly Malone 4.1%
Our England 3.5%
Ozzie’s Folly 3.9%
Spring Burst 5.0%
Uncle Stuart’s
Tombstone
Boring Brown Beer 7.4%
Little Things That Kill: Batch 6 IPA 3.3%
Twisted
Tirril
California Steam 4.2%
Weird Beard
Wellbeck Abbey
Winnie 5.7%
Hoppy Angel 4.4%
Easter Angel 4.5%
Tollgate
Crystal Galaxy 3.9%
Hopzinger 4.9%
Chinook 4.6%
Nooksack 5.0% COLL (T/Kissingate)
Black Eel — Dry Hopped IPA 5.0%
Wolf of the Woods 4.7%
Dark Brown Ale 4.2%
Sarachi Ace 5.2%
Communique Stout 6.0%
Heavenly Porter 5.4%
Dark Mild 3.3%
Quarenta 4.2%
Graduate 4.6%
Old Legend 7.4%
Wall’s
Brewers Gold 4.0%
Wantsum
Dynamo 4.6%
Watermill
Shih Tzu Faced 7.0%
Number Train 3.7%
Wentworth
Caught Nowt! 4.1%
At The Hop 4.5%
West Berkshire
Gamer Stang 4.2%
Westerham
Double Stout 5.5%
Whale
Pale Whale 3.6%
Wharfebank
Golden Ticket4.5%
Wharfedale
Sir Geoff 4.2%
Whim
Northern Brewer 3.7%
Whistling Kite
Starry Kite 3.6%
Honeymoon 4.0%
Trench Dog 4.2%
Eleanor’s Ise 4.2%
White Horse
Nelson IPA 4.5%
White Rose
Twelve Ponies 4.4%
Whitstable
Citra 4.4%
Whittlebury
Ammarillo 5.0%
Whitworth
Chocoholic Porter 5.6%
Wild Beer
Scarlet Fever 4.8%
English Roots 4.8%
Wild Weather
Black Night 3.9%
Shepherds Warning 5.6%
Storm Bringer 4.5%
Big Muddy 3.8%
Chorlton and Manchester
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An excuse to visit taken up by David Hughes
Easter Saturday and having no fixed plans, I spotted
a message on that famous group Scoopgen about
a pub’s beer festival in Chorlton-cum-Hardy that
gave me an excuse, as if I needed one, for another
Manchester visit. So, an hour and a half later via
Arriva trains, I arrived at Piccadilly station with an
hour or so to waste before midday. A coffee and a
quick look in a couple of shops for the purchasing of
a few items later, I was ready for a drink — alcoholic,
this time. As I was in the Arndale shopping centre,
I had a look in at the micro-bar but it was not fully
open, which was a little surprising as they are usually
open at 11 am on a Saturday, but to be honest there
were no cask beers on that tickled my fancy.
Discovering there were no trams running to
Chorlton because of engineering works, I found
myself on a 96 bus from Piccadilly Gardens, a journey
that took twenty-five minutes through Moss Side
and past the old Hyde’s Brewery before dropping me
off just a matter of yards from my first target, the
Disclaimer Bar on Wilbraham Road, five minutes
before it was due to open. Time flies when you are
having fun and the doors soon opened and a solitary
person entered — me. The beer selection was a mix
of cask beers and key-cask/keg so-called craft beer
(don’t get me going on this argument). Two beers
sampled at the downstairs bar, Pixie Spring (Hopcraft)
Williams
Paradigm Shift 6.3%
Wilson Potter
Venus Unite 4.0%
In Shreds 4.7%
Windy
Foggy Dew 4.5%
Windsor & Eton
Windsor Knot ‘Lychee Special’ 4.0%
Winster Valley
Lakes Blonde 3.7%
Wiper & True
Winter Rye 5.4%
Fire Plough 5.5%
Naughty Boy 4.2% and a key-keg, or possibly keg,
Italian beer Birrificio Italiano Tipopils, 5.2% and not
that clever taste-wise, a bit to much on the dry side.
Strong beers
By the time of serving, a couple of well-known
Greater Manchester scoopers also entered, including
the Beige one, so it was a general chit-chat on where
one should also visit during the afternoon. There is an
upstairs room in this bar, which featured the majority
of the beers, some on a tempory stillage and we
ascended to the rooms to find a rather good selection.
A few of these were sampled — Hardknot/Metalman
Yerba (6.2%), Brodies Prime Export (8.5%), Steel City
Protz’s Pleasure (5.3%), Tickety Brew Tickety Few
Munich (4.3%) — plus a couple of key-keg Italian beers,
one from Brewfist — the name escapes me at the time
of writing this article and the photo I took of the
pump-clip is rather blurred. By this time, a couple
more well-known scoopers arrived, these being
from Merseyside, so again a general conversation
on bars to visit and bars to avoid was undertaken.
With a number of beers consumed at the
Disclaimer being on the high-gravity side, I decided
to call it a day, at this bar at least, so that I could
continue my explorations. It was just a few yards over
the road turning right back towards Manchester to
Wobbly
Worcester
Wolf
Wychwood
Wabbit 4.0%
Wobbly Bob’s Chocolate Porter 6.0%
Silver Fox 4.6%
Wolf Whiskers 4.5%
Wood Farm
Scrum 4.0%
Winter Warmer 6.2%
Woodforde’s
Norfolk Craft Lager 4.1%
Flagon Dry 3.6%
Wood Street
Red Buck Eye 5.0%
Chokecherry 4.5%
Scarlet Oak 4.2%
Tuliptree 4.8%
Sabrina Bramble On 3.9%
Sabrina Porter 4.5%
Piledriver 4.3%
(Cigar City) Siren’s Song Session IPA
5.0% FS (Wetherspoons)
Wylam
Jakehead IPA 6.3%
Silver Ghost Re-dux 5.0%
Xtreme
Ligore 4.3%
Co Co Cuckoo 6.8% COLL (X/Bexar)
Floyd’s Revenge 4.3% FS
Fantastic Foxes 4.4% FS
Chocolate Stout 5.0%
Yard of Ale
Cuthbert’s Cross 4.0%
Yates
O Hoppy Day 4.5%
Yeovil
Sun Grazer 3.6%
York
Off the Wall Tomahawk 6.0%
Chocolate Stout 5.0%
Yorkshire Brewing
Holy Trinity 4.1%
Passion 4.5%
Rasberry Tipple 4.8%
Yorkshire Dales
Low Row 4.3%
Feetham 4.0%
High Hangers 3.7%
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24 Chorlton and Manchester
Beagle, Manchester
my next port of call, the Beagle. Another bar I have
never visited, modern in appearance with a veranda
for drinking outside, there were four handpumps
and ten keg taps, plus four cider taps for those
interested. Only one beer consumed here, Siren
Undercurrent (4.5%), a good stout, well-balanced
with underlying chocolate malt flavours.
Just a few yards down is the Proof bar; just a quick
look found no cask beer which was disappointing,
but a couple of micro-keg beers from Manchester
breweries plus a decent selection of Belgium
bottled beers.
Collaboration ale
Crossing the road, I ventured into an interesting
looking Wetherspoons where I sampled Banks’s
Saint Archer Pale Ale (5.5%), the latest of the American
craft series to be brewed at the Banks brewery in
Wolverhampton. Although OK-ish, it was not as good
as the ones brewed at Adnam’s. This bar was rather
full with people watching some football match involving a local team in blue. I then walked just a few yards
towards Manchester to Marble’s Beerhouse, another
bar not visited before, where I just had another quick
half of a beer sampled before, Earl Grey, because it
was brewed originally as a collaboration with my
favourite Dutch brewery, Emelisse.
Just fifty yards or so in the City Centre direction
to my final Chorlton bar of the afternoon and yet
another never visited (I must be getting old or
something), this time the Font. Another modern bar
but this one seemed to have more diners that those
visited already. Little Valley Vanilla Porter (4.5%)
and Mad Hat Copper (5.1%) sampled here, both
served in excellent condition.
With the 96 bus stop directly outside, it was time
to leave this suburb of Manchester to return to the
centre. Twenty or so minutes later, I got off the bus
with a few hunger pains so headed for the curry cafes
in the northern quarter and in particular one of my
favourites, the Yagmar, where a very nice rice and
three plus a couple of shami kebabs were purchased
and consumed. My taste buds having been revitalised,
it was only fitting that one should visit a couple of
pubs, the first of these being the Crown and Kettle,
who by chance were also having a beer festival.
A Rat beer was consumed here, OK but the quality
could have been better.
High gravities again
It was a short walk to the Soup Kitchen, which was
totally packed and one struggled to the bar to find
nothing that tickled ones fancy, so another struggle
to depart. Crossing the road, I visited the Pie and Ale
bar and here I did find a beer to sample that hit the
The Font, Chorlton, Manchester
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taste buds, Abbeydale Doctor Morton’s Reality
Filter (4.0%), complicated malt and hop flavours
throughout the taste and finish. Another short walk
found me entering the Port Street Beer House: one
of my favourite bars in Manchester, also the local
CAMRA Branch’s Pub of the Year and always worth a
visit. My final two on a day of drinking mainly highgravity beers, both were keg but with breweries like
Kernel and Mikkeller one cannot go wrong and they
did not disappoint. Again, both had an abv of over
six percent.
It was then a short walk back to Piccadilly station
for my journey home, only to find my train already on
an unfamiliar platform because it was being diverted
due to engineering works. Quickly boarding, I settled
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in my seat and cannot remember any part of my
journey home until the train arrived at Shotton,
just one stop before I had to get off.
Dates for my next visit have been entered into
my forward schedule.
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Time off in a Norfolk pub for Richard Plumb
A family event (brother’s sixtieth birthday), brings
my wife and I to Acle on the edge of the Norfolk
Broads and what a quaint little town it turns out to be,
with a selection of independent shops, a small
supermarket, a hotel and a pub — The Kings Head Inn.
I intended to make it a point to spend some time here
over the two-day period of our stay. After all, there’s
just so much family interaction a body can stand.
During the first gathering, after a splendid dinner
washed down with copious bottles of Woodforde’s
beer, I saw the opportunity to “feel it was time to
leave,” so my wife and I returned to the Travelodge,
dressed down a bit, and set out for the pub.
The Kings Head is a decent detached building
boasting a comfortable lounge, a vibrant bar with a
range of games, and a restaurant. There are also six
letting rooms which, had this been known to me,
would be my preferred choice over the Travelodge
on the edge of town. We quickly decided which was
the better table for people watching and staked our
claim. Then, to the bar so see what was on offer.
The pub stocks local and national brands but, of
the three hand pumps, only two were in use that day,
with Adnams Best Bitter (3.7%) on one and the formidable Broadside (4.7%) on the other. No Woodeforde’s,
on this occasion, nor ale from Acle’s own brewery,
Tipples. As I had consciously uncoupled from the
car, it was fairly late and I was already warmed up
from the pints at my brother’s house, I opted for the
Broadside which was dark, smooth, malty and gone
very quickly. Fortunately the pub had plenty more.
Controlling hand
To the right of the bar, sat at a table reading a paper,
was whom I took to be the landlord. He certainly
seemed to be in charge and would venture behind
the bar on occasion to have a word here or point
some failing out to a member of staff there.
Certainly he appeared to have the best of all worlds
with high quality, attentive staff, no competition and,
apparently, sufficient turnover to not require him physi-
cally pull pints except in extremis. He was, in short,
the type of pub landlord I always felt I ought to be.
After as many pints as could be consumed in the
available time, we braced ourselves for the walk to
the Travelodge and bed. Day Two was to be largely
given over to a barbecue. Arrival during the early
afternoon would, I felt, ensure an opportunity to
leave at a reasonable time to return to the pub and
continue research.
An overcast and chilly Day Two arrived and we
walked towards our BBQ destination. But this
entailed walking past the pub so, surely, it wouldn’t
do any harm to pop in for a couple en-route? After
all, it wasn’t as if we had to be there for a given time.
BBQ’s by their very nature are movable feasts anyway.
Price puzzle
This time, I opted for the Best Bitter and was surprised
to be charged the same as I had been for Broadside
the previous day. I queried this and was advised both
real ales were the same price. Note to self, get back on
to the Broadside soon. The hands-off landlord was
again at his table reading papers and his lunchtime
staff were carrying on in an industrious way, serving
meals to the several enthusiastic diners. The menu
was standard pub-fare but everything was well
presented and equally well received.
A customer entered, clearly having completed
some walking event as he had all the kit including a
map in a plastic holder around his neck. Unbidden,
he approached us and showed us exactly where he
had walked (six miles) and, more specifically, where
he hadn’t walked “because I didn’t need to go there
today.” He then told us about the buses and how there
were three an hour even on a bank holiday. Having
shared with us the highpoints of his day, he settled
himself and ordered lunch. As an advert for the
catering, he was ideal as he waded through a roast
turkey dinner, bread and butter pudding and a coffee,
all the while talking to himself. He may have been
somewhat eccentric, but in a harmless sort of way.
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It struck me several times during our short break
in Norfolk how friendly everyone was. I even received
a cheery “good morning” at a petrol station from
someone I had never seen before, and this was
another customer, not a member of staff. It resonated
with my memories of Ireland many years before,
where everyone seems to be your best friend.
We had to leave for the barbeque. No need to
discuss this in too much depth, save to say I did a deal
with my wife — if I fetched the car, to reduce walking,
we would escape the family event at an early opportunity and return to the pub. Stick and carrot works
for me, so I returned to the hotel and fetched the car.
This meant no drinking at the BBQ but a pleasant
trade-off later. As it happened, the event was well
attended and the food was fine, but it was freezing
and folk started to drift away during the early evening.
Reunion in pub
I saw my chance at about 7pm, to make our excuses
and leave. “Why go to the pub when I have so much
beer here?” asked my brother. “Because I love pubs,”
I informed him, “and surely you have seen enough
of us by now?” He seemed content so we drove off,
promising to look in on the Saturday morning before
departing homewards.
Whilst at the hotel getting changed and freshening
up, I received a call. “Where are you?” It was my
brother, in the pub. Evidently, his partner plus our
two female cousins had packed him off so they could
clear up without him getting in the way. We were back
in the pub within fifteen minutes, and were quickly
joined by other relatives also staying in the hotel.
A lively evening followed and much more
Broadside was consumed. The same group of smokers
passed our table several times on their way to the
gardens, demonstrating great dedication to their
habit. By closing time we were almost on first name
terms. Then an expensive-sounding crash produced
a roar from the clientele. The barmaid had dropped
an entire tray of glasses as she took them out of the
washer. Would the landlord now spring into action?
Well, not quite. Calling from his table he enjoined her
to “clear all that up before you serve anyone else.”
I felt sure he was a lot busier when we weren’t around.
Single malts followed pints and the evening
gradually deteriorated. At closing time, we left in
good spirits with that cosy feeling that only comes
from a great night in a pub with real atmosphere.
Next morning, we set off towards home but made a
short detour near Kings Lynn to find Setchey and
Britain’s biggest beer shop. As I entered, I realised
this was Beer Heaven. It was a great wrench to stop at
one full trolley. All my favourite German and Belgian
bottled beers were here and all quite reasonably
priced. Now, I have enough beer at home to not go
near a pub for months. But that would never do.
Not while there are great pubs still surviving in this
country, and I have confidence the Kings Head Inn
at Acle will remain one of them.
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Book review
The Worksop and Retford
Brewery Company
by Dave Pickersgill
(46 pages*)
History of a sort made herein, the New Imbiber’s
first review of a book not available in the traditional
manner. One of our valued contributors, Dave
Pickersgill put it together after doing considerable
research on behalf of a couple of friends who were
writing a beer-related novel.
The Worksop & Retford Brewery was quite
substantial, if not among the biggest of the old
brigade. The towns involved, Worksop, described as
the “Gateway to the Dukeries,” and Retford just up
the road benefitted commercially from the building
of the Chesterfield Canal and, later, from the birth
of rail travel. The new company formed in 1881
consisted of three existing breweries, two of them in
Worksop, and brewing was eventually concentrated
on one of these. Pubs among their tied houses
that until then had been brewing on the
premises were also made to fall into line.
The locality was rated among the best
for maltings, no doubt contributing to
the brewery’s success and helping it to
take a prominent role as sponsors of
sporting and other activities, among
them the installation of Worksop’s
electric lights. Expansion included
snapping up Sheffield’s Old Albion brewery in 1939
along with its 52 pubs: apparently, Sheffield was
then too far for direct deliveries, so the Old Albion
carried on brewing for another ten years.
Eventually, you will not be surprised
to learn, they were themselves taken
over. According to Dave, the Tennant
Brothers brewery in Sheffield might
have been upset because WRB’s
Donovan Ale was affecting sales of their
own Gold Label barley wine — a familiarsounding scenario. They took WRB
over in 1959 and the Worksop brewery
was demolished in 1962, coincidentally
or not the very year in which Tennant
Brothers themselves were taken over by
Whitbread, as a result of which their
much-admired Gold Label became
marketed under the Whitbread banner.
This is a scholarly work, with copious
footnotes to prove it. Crucial to any
historical brewery narrative is the
profusion and quality of the illustrations,
and here the WRB story certainly does
hit the spot. Newspaper photographs
add to the breweriana, including an eye-catching
shot of the Worksop brewery’s tall chimney caught
half-way down during demolition.
Joined by one of the authors of the
aforementioned novel, entitled Beer,
Balls and the Belgian Mafia, Dave has
already given one very successful talk
at the Bassetlaw Museum in Retford
and they will be back there on the
morning of 19 July from 10.30 to 12.30,
admission free.
RA
*The Worksop & Retford Brewery Company is
available from the Amazon Kindle shop for £1.53 —
details on http://tinyurl.com/ptakjfm.
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All the way
Another home brewer to take the plunge, Rob Witt
has a degree in microbiology from the University of
Nottingham. He decided recently to switch from
landscape gardening to setting up a commercial
microbrewery, Totally Brewed, based in Nottingham
and not far from his home in Beeston. He has also
been renovating houses, and the money made from
that helped to pay for his new venture in premises
forming part of a wholesale fruit and flower market,
brewing on a 7bbl plant once used by the closed
White Dog brewery.
Among the beers are Papa Jangles Voodoo Stout
(4.2%), Captain Hop Beard (5.5%) and 4 Hop Men of the
Apocalypse (5.2%). They should be available at the
Crafty Crow, newly opened In Nottingham by Magpie
Brewery, and in selected Castle Rock pubs in the city.
— which the brewer Eoin Wilson runs with his wife:
five acres of land with apple trees, food plots and
assorted animals. Self-sufficiency is crucial and Eoin
underlines that spent grain from brewing is all
gobbled down by the pigs.
The brew-length is only 100 gallons though that
should be trebled soon and the current range of Gold
Pale Ale (4.2%), India Export Porter (5.2%) and India
Pale Ale (5.5%) should be joined by, among others,
a Double IPA at around 8.0%. Only bottles so far;
plans to introduce kegs have been delayed because,
according to Eoin, it is hard to find suitable outlets
when most are controlled by the ‘big boys’. The
website nevertheless lists a substantial number,
including the Aether & Echo bar in Belfast where
the beers were launched, while off-licences include
the Vineyard.
Crafty collaboration
An unusual and imaginative coming together of a
different type has led to a new project in Glasgow,
intended to be properly under way by the time the
Commonwealth Games hit the city in July. We have
noted how some of the biggest companies in the
USA devised strategies to benefit from the craft-beer
craze. Now, the owners of Scotland’s very own
Tennents Lager — the C&C Group, otherwise mainly
linked to cider — have joined forces with Williams
Brothers, one of the best-regarded of the newer
Coming together
Our national example may have taken plenty of flak,
but the principle of companies run on a co-operative
basis has never seemed more attractive. Newly
started brewing in Northern Ireland, Farmageddon
is described as a Co-op comprising seven friends
who know each other from either the martial arts or
the punk rock scene in Belfast. The name tells you it
is based on a farm — at Comber, to the east of Belfast
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breed of Scottish breweries. As described by Scott
Williams, C&C have given them the run of a
substantial site, once a box factory, near Tennents
Wellpark brewery.
This has become the Drygate Brewing Company,
part of the Drygate complex that is very much more
than the average brewpub. The fashion for doubling-up
on equipment has led to a 24-hectolitre brew-kit in
full view of the punters, capable of producing a
million litres annually, joined by the so-called
Drygate Studio Kit with a capacity of 2.5-hectolitres.
While the former is obviously the major operation,
the smaller kit will be given over to outsiders,
novices included, to brew whatever they want.
The result is a mix of beer, food and plenty more.
Brewing the main beers are Jake Griffin, Alessandra
Confessore and Edward Furmston-Evans, with
experience respectively at Fyne Ales, Harviestoun
and Traditional Scottish Ales. Available in kegs and
bottles are Bearface Lager (4.4%), Gladeye IPA (5.5%)
and Outaspace Apple Ale (4.7%), all with clips and
labels designed by members of the Glasgow School
of Art. At present, beers are available only in-house
but the plan is for them to be distributed very widely.
Crafty confab
As noted in these pages a few issues ago, the global
spread of craft brewing has kept Germany, or at least
Berlin, strongly in its sights. No surprise, then, at the
formation in Berlin of The Global Association of
Craft Beer Brewers nor at the news the association’s
founding president is Sebastian Mergel of the
Berliner Bierfabrik brewery.
Under him, there is a board of sixteen who include
representatives from self-styled craft breweries
covering the globe, with Peru, South Korea, Israel
and Kenya among countries involved, while John
Kyme from Stringer’s looks after Britain’s interests.
As with the originating American movement,
qualifications for membership are relatively loose:
breweries must be local, creative and independent,
the latter ruling out anything connected to a big
brewery, but no criteria over brewing methods nor
dispense. Our other member to date is the Ramsgate
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Founded in Berlin, it is fitting that the first big
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The Global Craft Beer Festival of 2014 will take place
over two days, July 25th and 26th. Alongside will be
a Craft Beer Conference, not to mention the Global
Craft Beer Awards presented to winners in various
categories over the course of the festival. Very much
like CAMRA’s GBBF, with pressurised dispense no
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