Brewdog is a small Scottish brewery with a formidable reputation for creating a marketing stir. They’ve been chasing controversy since 2007 with a combination of marketing stunts, engaging with social media and some ridiculously strong beer, peaking with last year’s Tactical Nuclear Penguin at a collosal 32% ABV. That’s a beer that will literally knock [...]
The Drunken Duck has an ace up its’ sleeve. Out the back, they’ve got their own micro-brewery. Barngates Brewery was founded in 1997, as an experiment to supply the Duck’s bar with some of it’s own beer. In 1999, the operation was expanded to a five-barrel plant, and in 2008, with the help of some [...]
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, [...]
I realised the other day that I haven’t written anything at all about Leeds Brewery yet. The brewery has been in production since 2007, and it’s got a stable of good, solid modern beers, and a trio of staggeringly good pubs to sell it in. Leeds have three permanent beers, supplemented by a range of [...]
Hebden’s Wheat is a light and lively wheat beer from the Little Valley Brewery in Hebden Bridge. The beer is bottle conditioned, with a distinct lemon taste, tinged with coriander. It goes perfectly with a curry or other spicy food. Little Valley’s beers are organic, certified by the Soil Association and overseen by the brewery’s [...]