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Batemans celebrates 150th with new ale
Batemans Brewery in Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, is celebrating 150 years of brewing in 2024 and has rebranded with a new logo and pump clips. It is about to launch a new cask beer called 5G to represent the fifth generation of the family to run the company. Pictured: managing director Stuart Bateman and marketing director Jaclyn Bateman
Added: Tuesday, March 12th 2024
Greene King launches new cask ales
Hooky kicks off a new range of cask ales
Hook Norton, with its classic tower brewery in Oxfordshire, celebrates 175 years of brewing this year with an exciting range of cask ales that includes old favourites and some new beers. The season hicks off in style with Outside Half for the rugby season followed with Double Stout, Haymaker, Twelve Days Porter, Lock Steady and Autumn Ways. As well as cask, there will be bottled versions too.
Added: Monday, February 19th 2024
Rooster's launches Saison aged 15 months
Carlsberg to axe historic Burton Unions
Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company -- 6o% controlled by Carlsberg -- is to close the Burton Union system of fermentation. This follows CMBC's closure of three ale breweries, Jennings, Wychwood and Ringwood. The Burton Unions are a historic method of fermenting beer developed in the 19th century to clear beer of yeast and produce a sparkling pale ale.
Added: Sunday, February 4th 2024
Greene King launches new cask ales
National brewer and retailer Greene King has stressed its commitment to cask ale with a calendar of new beers for 2024, including a warning winter ale and a beer for the rugby season. The brewer says these beers increase customer interest and help grow sales of cask
Added: Thursday, January 11th 2024
Batemans beer bonanza marks 150 years
Batemans family-owned brewery in Wainfleet, Lincs, chalks up 150 years of brewing "Good Honest Ales" with a series of celebrations throughout 2024, with a range of new beers. Head brewer Buster Grant will re-commission the Victorian brewhouse for some of the beers, using English malts and hops
Added: Thursday, January 11th 2024
Top chef helps brew a Cumbrian stout
Simon Rogan, the chef and restaurateur, has joined forces with Fell Brewery in Cumbria to fashion a stout made with the addition of woodruff leaves. It's the first of four seasonal beers the chef and brewery will make. Rogan's L'Enclume restaurant has just been named No 1 in Britain by Harden's Guide
Added: Sunday, December 17th 2023