Oldershaw Brewery

Oldershaws teams up with local hospice, St Barnabas, to brew charity beer

kathy — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:31:18 +0000

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 [...]

Oldershaw beers week at The Thorold Arms, Harmston

kathy — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:13:54 +0000

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 [...]

The beer duty escalator is killing off the great British pub. We must all act.

kathy — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:06:11 +0000

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 [...]

Oldershaw Beers supports pubs with advertising

kathy — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:20:44 +0000

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 [...]

Cooking with beer (some thoughts and a recipe)

kathy — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:28:11 +0000

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 [...]

New beers on the way

kathy — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:57:02 +0000

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 [...]

Time to admit there is an alcohol problem

kathy — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:01:37 +0000

This week has seen much talk from politicians, media commentators and the beer industry on binge drinking, drunken behaviour in our town centres and the ‘clean up’ cost to the policing, health services and local councils.

There is undoubtedly a lot of noise. Of course politicians jump on band wagons. Of course the duty, VAT [...]

‘Top Totty’ a good name for a beer; really?

kathy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:11:32 +0000

Last week saw something of a furore with MPs insisting that a beer called Top Totty, which apparently has a similarly tasteful pump clip, be removed from the House of Commons bar on the grounds that it was demeaning to women.

I have no wish to get into the debate on sexism here (for the record it [...]

Oldershaw beers heading north

kathy — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:30:55 +0000

Last week saw Quality Casks take delivery of our beer for the first time. They are a wholesaler serving the north east.

We have Mowbray’s Mash, Heavenly Blonde, Newton’s Drop and Old Boy listed with them (you can see their brochure here if you like http://www.qualitycask.co.uk/html/brochure.html)

So if you’re a pub (or drink in one) [...]

St Wulfram’s Summit – our first new beer of the year

kathy — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:48:44 +0000

This month sees us brewing St Wulfram’s Summit for the first time. A name inspired by the wonderful flavours of the summit hop which infuse the beer (notes of citrus here) and our local landmark, St Wulfram’s church in Grantham, which has a magnificent medival spire (check out pictures and a history of the church here [...]