The beautifully renovated St Pancras Renaissance Hotel now offers a bespoke beer in their bar – and its an Oldershaw beer!
The bottled St Pancras Beer is now served in the Booking Office Bar and in the mini bars throughout the hotel rooms. If you haven’t visited this bar it is well worth a trip. [...]
Great Expectations by name and great expectations by nature.
Last week saw this lovely bitter come second out of all the regional winners in the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) national competition. Great Expectations was first brewed as a special for the Leicester beer festival last year, we liked it, entered it [...]
I’m feeling somewhat ambivalent about this post. I for one, get somewhat annoyed by shops putting up Christmas decorations on the first of November and the Christmas music starting when it hardly feels as if Autumn is over. In short I’m definitely in the ‘but it isn’t even December’ camp as we are seemingly pushed [...]
It is fantastic news that over 100,000 people have signed the e-petition protesting against the beer duty escalator and as a result there is a debate in Parliament next week (1st November).
This is a subject close to our hearts, as this tax is doing real damage to local pubs. We’ve blogged on the details [...]
We started the summer with great expectations and, weather aside, we had a great one! We’re delighted to end this great British Summer with a gold medal for our beer: Great Expectations (see what we did there?).
Great Expectations (details on our beer page) won first place today in the Best Bitter category for the [...]
Gravity Fields is a fantastic and eclectic festival of science and arts in a long-overdue celebration of the life and achievements of one of the world’s greatest scientists, Sir Isaac Newton – courtesy of South Kesteven District Council (check out their website here www.gravityfields.co.uk). And we are putting beer at the heart of this.
Our [...]
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