St Barnabas, Grantham’s hospice, turns 30 this year and we are teaming up with them to help celebrate, raise money and raise awareness of their great work.
On 10th May the folk from St Barnabas will be joining us to help with a brew specially created for their birthday. We are brewing a pale straw [...]
Next week (18th to 25th April) sees the wonderful Thorold Arms in Harmston (http://www.thoroldarms.co.uk/) run an Oldershaw Beers week.
It will feature Grantham Dark (our mild), Old Boy (a chestnuty, smooth brew), Heavenly Blonde (a zesty, golden beer) Ascalon (a one off traditonal English bitter brewed for St George’s day) and our Best Bitter. It’s [...]
Much has been said on this subject and with the passing of the budget it might no longer seem topical, but it matters, really matters, which is why I am moved to down hops and put fingers to keyboard.
It is no exaggeration to say that the exponential increase in beer duty is killing off [...]
We’ve been thinking a lot about our business. We brew beer, its what we do and we’re pretty obsessive about it. But we’ve realised that it isn’t actually all about the brewing. The malt, the hops, the never ending search to make our beer even better is of course important. But, at the end of [...]
There’s lots of talk about beer and food matching (something we are really into) but this is not our subject today. Rather we are championing beer as an ingredient; something that is often overlooked. I was reminded of this a couple of weeks ago as I added (as is my habit) a dash of beer [...]
Last week saw us brewing Great Expecations, a special for the Leicester beer festival. It’s a pale beer showcasing the Galaxy Hop. We haven’t used this hop before and have - as its name suggests - high hopes for it.
The Leicester festival kicks off on 7th March. you can find details here http://www.leicestercamra.org.uk/Festivals/2012festival.shtml.
We will be [...]
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