Inspired by Record Store Day, Indie Beer Shop Day is an annual celebration to showcase the independent beer shop sector in the UK on Saturday 17th July 2021. With a month to go until the first national Indie Beer Shop…
Thursday, 23rd September to Sunday, 3rd October 2021 Industry bodies are making a call to pubs, bars, pubcos and breweries for this year’s Cask Ale Week, to be part of their comeback strategy. “It’s not enough for pubs to be…
Moonwake Beer, based in Leith, Edinburgh, has announced their 4.2% Pale Ale will be pouring at selected sites across the Scottish capital as the warm weather continues this weekend. The brewery, over a year in the making, was held back…
Hops & Dots Brew Co. in County Durham have smashed their original target to raise £4,000 to bring more accessibility to the craft beer industry. The Crowdfunder campaign ends at 10.01 am on Tuesday 1st June, and has raised £6,333 already, thanks…
James Clay and Sons will continue a three-decade-long partnership with the Schneider brewing family that has seen the company exclusively import from Schneider Weisse Brewery to now include beers from the new Schneider’s Landbrauerei brewery, starting with Schneider’s Bayrisch Hell,…
West Yorkshire beer distributor James Clay and Sons has partnered with Westmalle Trappist Brewery to bring Westmalle Extra to the UK for the very first time. The brewery Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle, (a.k.a. Westmalle Brewery), is a Trappist Brewery…
Redundancy is something a lot of people in the brewing industry have become familiar with during the past few months, none more so than former employees of Hawkshead Brewery. At the beginning of the first lockdown restrictions last year, four…
As we did last year, we’ve been compiling a list of reopening dates for pubs, breweries, and your other favourite places to grab a beer in Newcastle and the rest of the North East. The list includes places opening their…
We teamed up with the wonderful Forum Books in Corbridge, to bring you their recommended book pairings for some of the North East’s best core beers. All beers were purchased from CentrAle and sent on to Helen at Forum to…
Stout Day 2020 is upon us, so we’ve compiled a list of ten fantastic local stouts to try, and where to buy them online (although maybe don’t try them all at once!). 1. Durham Brewery – Temptation We’re starting big,…
