Brewery award!

Don't get too excited. If you read the GBG it will clearly indicate that the beers are actually brewed by Weatheroak up the road!

Still worth visiting the Gate though (current local branch pub of the year).

Brett

mmm, I think I'd spotted that on Quaffale.org.uk, but didn't know whether they had got round to setting up themselves.

yep, & they've a 'Beautiful Beer' award too. cheers MikeMcG

all real ale brewery's are listed in the GBG, nothing to do with PR, its a accolade if a pub gets selected which are voted on by CAMRA members,

I think the point being made was that the owner had done a good job in publicising the fact that his "brewery" was in the Good Beer Guide. In addition, if you re-read the above, you will note that the "brewery" isn't in actual fact a brewery!

Brett

I mustn't have spotted these responses. - yes Brett, that was my point, but I shouldn't take the mick too loudly, as I also run a "cuckoo brewery" & we too get a mention in the GBG! - but I don't publicise it as a great accolade :~) cheers MikeMcG.

Surely it must be tempting to crow about being in the top 640? ;-)

Interesting issue, cuckoo brewing, and one I've been reading about in Tim Webb's good beer guide to Belgium, having finally managed to get time to shop for beer over there. He draws attention to the phenomenon of beers being contracted out even by brewers who continue to run their own plant, and also the phenomenon of the Proef brewery at Lochristi which puts out beers under 200 or so different brewery names for cuckoo brewers. Though he doesn't give these brewers any more than a mention in a list, perhaps they deserve more attention [assuming the information is available]. After all, he implies that the output from Lochristi is of a generally high standard [the PBA beers I sampled in Charleville Mezieres in France last year were not bad]. And variety is the spice of life.

I haven't had the pleasure of sampling any of Mike's beers, though one day I'll track them down somewhere I'm sure. As long as they are regularly available and they meet the criteria why should they not feature in the GBG?

Sorry you've lost me. Weatheroak beers are brewed by a Dave not a Mick???

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Mike being Mike McGuigan of Betwixt "cuckoo" Brewery to whose post, above mine, I was replying...

Sorry, before he corrects me, Betwixt Beer Co - with this name, he doesn't pretend to be a brewery in the bricks and mortar sense.

Ha! - I wasn't going to correct you, but it was why I chose the "beer co." part of the name. cheers MkeMcG (slight plug - selling seasonal beers with local wild & allotment grown hops at 2 cheshire / merseyside farmers mkts this weekend -

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Sounds very tempting. I can't follow that link at work... but being in the region I might be able to pay you a visit. Can you give more details of the products and the venues? Consider this a service to the public, don't allow modesty to hold you back!

Farmers' market Saturday, Neston (Town Hall CarPark, Neston, Wirral, Cheshire) 9am-2pm. Farmers' market Sunday - Hope Street, Liverpool (near Blackburne House) 9am-3pm-ish.

Bottled beers (500ml glass & 1litre plastic, RAIB) including 'Sunlight' (4.3% golden hoppy ale) & variants dry-hopped in cask with -

• wild Wirral hops - 'BeWilder' (odd bitter & herbal/mint flavour)

• & Wirral allotment hops 'BeLotment' (more fruitiness).

Plus Red Admiral (5% ruby ale with crystal rye - also available in

5litre minicask)

Dark Matter 4% dark beer - hybrid porter/black lager.

& a few 'guests from Northern Brewing themselves. modesty forbids me from saying any more ;~)

cheers,

MikeMcG.

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Well done that man! My mum used to brew with wild hops when she found any.