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Copper Dragon Brewery, Skipton

September 25, 2009 Food & drink
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The Copper Dragon Brewery resurrected the local brewing industry in Skipton in 2002, with the aim of re-establishing the long defunct Skipton Brewery. Their aim, after much research which basically indicated that the more artisan end of the beer market was being squeezed to near death by the big multinational breweries, was to brew traditional, [...]

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Grozet – Scottish gooseberry beer

June 19, 2009 Food & drink
Grozet gooseberry beer

Grozet is a gooseberry flavoured beer from William Bros. Brewing Company, a Scottish brewer based in Alloa who specialise in the historic or slightly esoteric end of the market. William Bros. brew a range of unusual beers, Grozet being the prime example. It’s a heritage beer, based on a 16th century beer brewed at harvest [...]

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Doom Bar and Eden Pure Ale from Sharp’s Brewery, Cornwall

June 5, 2009 Food & drink
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Year’s ago, in the seas around the Cornish town of Padstow, there lived a mermaid. As mermaids do, she fell in love with a local fisherman, and tried to lure him beneath the waves, into her realm. The fisherman, in terror, and fearing for his life, shot her to escape. In her dying moments, the [...]

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