Oldershaw Brewery

Landmark London hotel commissions a bespoke Oldershaw beer

kathy — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:36:21 +0000

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. [...]

Silver medal in national beer competition!

kathy — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:11:08 +0000

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 [...]

Christmas is coming…….

kathy — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:02:56 +0000

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 [...]

Beer duty petition wins Parliamentary debate & we all need to get our MP’s involved

kathy — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:22:06 +0000

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 [...]

Oldershaws win Gold!

kathy — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:32:28 +0000

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 [...]

The Alchemy of Beer at The Gravity Fields Festival

kathy — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:55:44 +0000

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 [...]

Oldershaw beer in Oscars, Grantham’s new wine bar

kathy — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:29:17 +0000

Newly opened Grantham wine bar Oscars is to offer locally brewed beer, from Oldershaw brewery, from next week.

Karen Middleton, owner of Oscars, said, “Since opening we have been really keen to be a part of the local community and offering our customers a great local beer is all part of that”.

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Real beer gold coming from Oldershaws soon

kathy — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:59:02 +0000

To celebrate the coming summer of sport, our next special brew is Chariots 2012. A golden beer (geddit? We’re subtle us) coming in at an ABV of 4.2. It’s a single hopped beer using Simcoe (or should that be SebCoe?) an American hop we’ve been wanting to try for ages. Simcoe mixes citrus notes with [...]

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 [...]