Excellent article
This is an excellent article – unsolicited but much appreciated! I hope that many people read it and give it a try with an open mind....
View ArticleThe rudest 4 letters – HSBD
I hate getting angry and negative – I really do. And I don’t want to bring anyone down but there is no silver lining in this news. The government has introduced High Strength Beer Duty (HSBD) for beer...
View ArticleIPA Fest
Nicholson’s are running their IPA Festival 22 August – 4 September. We are totally stoked to be a part of it with not one, but two beers. Illusion will be available as a session strength example of a...
View ArticleYou can make a difference
You’ve possibly read about the new High Strength Beer Duty. If not you can start here. The silent majority are starting to shout and we want the government to listen. And if 100k people make their...
View ArticleCloser to home
You may have read about Ben McFarland’s and Tom Sandham’s beer travels across West Coast USA in the CAMRA book of the same name. My copy has been to California a few times already. Ben has been...
View ArticlePlatinum
Alex Barlow, of All Beer fame, had the pleasure of bringing the best of British brewing across the pond to Canada to be represented at the Mondial de la Biere festival. We were honoured that he...
View ArticleHomebrewers start your burners
The UK National Homebrew Competition is coming to Bristol on 3 September. Enter here: http://www.bristolhomebrewcompetition.org.uk/
View ArticleUnfined for you
When we started working with Mitchells & Butlers I went off on one of my unfined beer rants. All credit to them for putting up with me, and even more kudos for having the courage to trial it in...
View ArticleMondial Strasbourg
Fresh off the success of the British Beer Experience at Mondial de la Biere in Montreal (and Fusion winning the coveted Platinum medal!), the sister Mondial fest in Strasbourg 21-24 October will raise...
View ArticleGoing national
We are very excited to have the opportunity to work with Mitchells & Butlers on their premium cask ale programme. Summer will see the national release of Northern Star in their pubs. This is a...
View ArticleCWBOB
2012 is off to a great start, with many people’s favourite Old Freddy Walker taking another medal at CAMRA’s Champion Winter Beer of Britain competition. This time it was a Silver in the Barley Wine...
View ArticleBrewers united for unfined beer
We’ve been banging on about unfined beer for years now, winning awards, converts, and probably a few enemies along the way. I guess the old saying is true that you can’t make an omelet without...
View ArticleUnfined Update
Yes, I know my posts on the site are slow. That’s what you get spending too much time in a rural brewhouse. Let’s face it, we only got electricity in Somerset a few years ago (and not much of that...
View ArticleUnfined is the ‘Natural’ choice
No posts for two weeks (ok, maybe a bit longer than that!) and then come two corkers in a row. I think the fumes got to me from filling the Fusion barrels. But that’s a story for sometime in the...
View ArticleUnfined for you
When we started working with Mitchells & Butlers I went off on one of my unfined beer rants. All credit to them for putting up with me, and even more kudos for having the courage to trial it in...
View ArticleIPA Fest
Nicholson’s are running their IPA Festival 22 August – 4 September. We are totally stoked to be a part of it with not one, but two beers. Illusion will be available as a session strength example of a...
View ArticleExcellent article
This is an excellent article – unsolicited but much appreciated! I hope that many people read it and give it a try with an open mind....
View ArticleThe rudest 4 letters – HSBD
I hate getting angry and negative – I really do. And I don’t want to bring anyone down but there is no silver lining in this news. The government has introduced High Strength Beer Duty (HSBD) for beer...
View ArticleMondial Strasbourg
Fresh off the success of the British Beer Experience at Mondial de la Biere in Montreal (and Fusion winning the coveted Platinum medal!), the sister Mondial fest in Strasbourg 21-24 October will raise...
View ArticleYou can make a difference
You’ve possibly read about the new High Strength Beer Duty. If not you can start here. The silent majority are starting to shout and we want the government to listen. And if 100k people make their...
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