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Chelmsford Summer Beer Festival 2007
JUL 10-14 (Tuesday-Saturday): CHELMSFORD SUMMER BEER FESTIVAL, Moulsham Mill Football Field, Chelmsford CM2 7PX (off Parkway by Army & Navy Roundabout - 15 minutes from Railway and Bus Stations). Our...
 
Brakspear's not Special any more?
Odd & sad if unconirmed & unaccredited report (*) that Refresh/ Wychwood/Brakspear last month ceased brewing Braskpear Special. Anyone closer to the source got any more info? (*) - source of info - -...
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Smoking ban and the consumption of alcohol.
Now that the government has started to do the decent thing regarding smoking is it not about time that consideration was given to the further control of alcohol? It seems to me that we should be...
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Fernandes
Informed rumour has it that Osset Brewery have bought Wakefield's Fernandes brewery. Talking to an reliable source in an Ossett pub in Huddersfield, it appears that brewing will continue at Wakefield...
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Vertical Integration Isn't Dead
Hot on the heels of the Cains / Honeycome do, the Morning Advertiser reports as follows: A little-known pubco has bought Walsall’s historic Highgate Brewery. Global Star, which operates around 100...
 
Email to Kelham Island Brewery
I'm getting emails to bounced with the message 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable Are they aware of this? Possibly it's flooding related I guess.
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Cask Marque "Best of British Beer Awards"
I got the Cask Marque supplement with this months WB & it includes some info about their Daily Torygraph / CM joint beer competition. Just in case there's any confusion - I only wrote the bits in...
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Smoking ban. It's about time alcohol was also prohibited.
It's about time our politicians grasped the nettle and started a further legal incursion into alcohol consumption. Alcohol related illnesses are becoming a greater drain on resources than smoking...
 
Change already?
"Oo, you can smell the food", says a lady walking into the pub where I just had lunch. Odd, I'd been told that the pubs would be all boarded up, deserted and cobweb strewn by now...
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BRUMAS Home Brewery
Has anyone out there had any experience of the BRUMAS Home Brewery? It's bl**dy expensive, but looks like it would be a lot less hassle than my old Burco, Bucket and Microbore setup.
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The 5th Carlton Arms Beer Festival
For details of an excellent Beer Festival 60+ Beers and Ciders. There are also Belgian Beers and Fruit wines http://www.thecarltonarms.co.uk
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Sheffield Pubs
Does anyone know how the well known sheffield pubs Fat Cat, Kelhan Island Tavern, Hillsborough, etc fared during the recent flooding. I saw that Sheffield Wednesday had been flooded on the television...
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Cumbria
It's my home bloody county and I've lost track of all the new breweries popping up, I think I've got it sussed then someone mentions another one I've never heard of - can anyone help with an...
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George Bateman Dies
From the Morning Advertiser: George Bateman, the head of Lincolnshire family brewer George Bateman & Son, has died. Mr George, as he was affectionately known at the Wainfleet-based firm, is perhaps...
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Greene humour
The Nag's Head, Reading, has done a lot better since Greene King declared it unviable and sold it. Here's the inside view: "Everybody hates us, but we did do two things right - we spent a lot of money...
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