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Pretty awesome to see how many great beers we produce here 😀
These are based in the next village from me.
Do some great beer including a green hop one in September.
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1 mile from Craddocks
1.2 miles from Bathams and Green Duck
2 miles from Sadlers
Few more miles to Kinver, Enville, Sarah Hughes, Pardoes, Fixed Wheel, Black Country Ales, Holdens, Banks', Pig iron and probably many more I can't think of
Walking distance:
Abbey ales
Electric bear
(Plus 2 gin distilleries)
A short ride away:
Bath ales
Handmade cider co
Box steam brewery
Pied Bull
Kash
Brewery Tap
Forest House
Brewhouse & Kitchen
Deva (Bear & Billet, Cellar Bar and Cross Keys).
Weetwood (The Mill)
Yet none of them do a decent bloody mild.
In my adopted country it's whitewater brewery, Hilden, mourne or longmeadow cider
In God's country it's Brains
My favourite Beer Pub, ever.
The Flower Pots, Cheriton, Hampshire.
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Upham Ales are just down the road, Wallops Wood too, both produce great beers. In saying that I've not been to the Hampshire Bowman in a while, think I might go there tomorrow night.
Acorn Brewey in Barnsley. The owner has a real ale pub in town which sells plenty of their own ales. Gorlovka is a good beer.
Microbrewery in my garage, next closest is Hogs Back brewery at about 2km away 🙂
Lots of smaller breweries opening there own bars around the north east now which is great to see.
Bummer is I'm coeliac so a bit limited, but Hadrian & Border brewery have opened a great pub in Gateshead near the high level bridge and they have a cracking pint Grainger Ale which is GF. Thankfully that gets picked up by a load of pubs now, so one has started hitting the town again with his dancing shoes on.
I have (I do, I really do...) to buy quite a bit in online or make detours whilst at work to breweries to pick up decent GF beer.
Went to Oundle recently to the Nene Valley Brewery, some fantastic beers and all GF.
Westerham Brewery in Kent are really good as well, Wold Top near Scarborough and Hambletons near Ripon.
About 200m as the drunken crow flies from Binghams
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Purveyors of the GBBF Supreme Champion Beer of Britain 2016 - vanilla stout
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Hawkshead Brewery, although it's not very local. They do one called lakeland gold which is quite nice. Actually, Coniston Brewery is closer, but I dunno if that counts; think they only do one beer.
I only really drink Guiness, or blue wickeds; not sure real ale has caught on here as well as it has in other parts of the county/country.
There're no breweries in Barrow that I know of; all Barrovians drink lager. Ulverston's Hartleys brewery closed just before real ale became fashionable IIRC.
Just round the corner it's Cairngorm Brewery (I can see it from my window). A nice range of beers but they've saturated the locale making alternatives difficult to find.
Other nearby favourites are Spey Valley Brewery and Windswept.
Wye Valley Brewery, can't go wrong with a Butty Back or HPA.
Well, you can, more than four is a recipe for disaster, both that night and the next day, but after the third I usually forget this fact!
Quite a few within 10 miles.
West Berkshire (and hence Renegade)
Butts
Hermitage
Indigenous
Innformal
Two Cocks
Out of ones I really like, Siren and Red Cat are probably closest.
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Not far, and their pub is just around the corner.
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The biggest local.
Buuuut, we've got the Irwell Valley Brewery in Ramsbottom, which, to my taste, is pretty much perfect.
They even do a lovely drop for the infirm and visitors from all points south:
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I've genuinely just noticed, but it looks, rather appropriately, like that might be the work of Binners.
🙂
Saltaire Brewery is about half a mile away as the crow flies. Nice beers, widely available. I'm quite partial to their Triple Chocoholic chocolate stout
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Sadly Chippenham no longer has a brewery, used to be Slade's Brewery, but there are loads of breweries around, several have been mentioned, like Bath Ales, Wiper and True and Stroud Ales, but there's Wadworth's in Devizes, Moles in Melksham, Flying Monk in Hullavington, Box Steam Brewery, Abbey Ales, Castle Combe Brewery, there's a new one in Bradford-on-Avon, Milk Brewery in Frome, all the breweries around Bristol...
Difficult to keep track, there are almost certainly others I've forgotten.
And I've managed to drink a pretty wide selection of the product from all those listed.
It's a filthy job, but some poor sod has to to it, in the interests of protecting the populace from inferior products.
Sulwath brewery in Castle Douglas for me, only 10 miles away and the nearest after that is up at Ayr 60 miles away
Phesantry IPA
Roaring Meg
Jaipur
😉
For research purposes, why don't you guys send me four bottles of your favourite ale from around the country and I will taste them and let you know which tastes the best.
It may take some months bur I will do it for free. 😀
Love this thread
I can tell where you all live from the breweries , and what you like to drink from the beer styles
Having been a 'professional' brewer since I was 17, I have made over 10,000,000 pints of beer in my lifetime so thats alot of ( hopefully ) happy drinkers.
Its not easy . Designing new brews, coming up with catchy or clever names and original ideas can be hard. Brewing consistant quality beer, and keeping the taste and colour the same with a constantly changing supply of raw materials takes skill and effort.
The time it takes to simply design a new bottle label, that meets all supplier and legal requirements can take months, can be right first time, but mostly it isnt.
Cheers
[url= http://www.nutbrookbrewery.com/responsibly.html ]Nutbrook Brewery Responsibly[/url]
Brewed in a garage up the road. Everyone should drink Responsibly.
Nene Valley
Oakham Ales
And quite a few micro breweries, helped by the fact we have the largest beer festival outside of London each August.
Not a big real ale drinker. More partial to a wheat beer, so do like Oakham White Dwarf when I can get it.
McMullens
Loving how this thread has morphed from beer appreciation into a massive cock waving session 😉 😛
The closest is probably:
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Unless (yet) another one has opened up since I last checked! Within the immediate surrounding area (upto 15 minutes drive) there are a few more:
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And there are many, many, many more!!!
Back in the promised land it's http://www.blackislebrewery.com but down south here it's http://www.freewheelinbrewery.co.uk a few hundred metres from the flat or I guess Tempest a bit further down the road.
Caledonian back in Edinburgh, mmm 80 shilling, and I'm old enough to have lived next to the old Mcewans brewery on fountainbridge in Edinburgh which is now gone. Used to be the characteristic smell of Edinburgh on a cold windy day.
Uley Brewery. 'Pigs ear' was the last pint I had, 20 years ago now.
Ossett Brewery.
So many great breweries and beers mentioned on this thread, made me thirsty!
RM.
[quote=davidtaylforth ] Actually, Coniston Brewery is closer, but I dunno if that counts; think they only do one beer.
Which one of these eight beers is the only one they brew ?
http://www.conistonbrewery.com/coniston-ales.htm
Got 5 really good ones within a 20 mile walk of the house, Winston brewing, shambles,t bone, captain blighs and hobart brewing company. Hard to pick but it's between Winston and Hbc for my pick of the best at the moment
[url= http://www.peakales.co.uk ]Peak Ales[/url] do a good range and are about 1000m from my door, but luckily there a a bar within 500m that will pull the stuff for me at a very reasonable price.
Outside of that given I'm in Derbyshire but close to Sheffield I really am spoilt. Life is tough.
Which one of these eight beers is the only one they brew ?
The Thurstein Pilsner is fantastic through a superchiller 😉
As to Ulverston David - there are 3 at the moment I think! There was one in Barrow, but can't remember it's name... and not sure if it is still there. Foxfield Brewery isn't far away though either.
Then you have a few over in Millom too - Hardknott is over that way.
Infact - a convenient list is [url= http://www.furness.camra.org.uk/viewnode.php?id=12611 ]here![/url]
The Thurstein Pilsner is fantastic through a superchillerAs to Ulverston David - there are 3 at the moment I think! There was one in Barrow, but can't remember it's name... and not sure if it is still there. Foxfield Brewery isn't far away though either.
Then you have a few over in Millom too - Hardknott is over that way.
Infact - a convenient list is here!
Turns out I'm completely ignorant. Assumed Hardknott brewery was up the coast for some reason, but I've had some of their ales and they were really good from what I remember.
And of course, Greenodd brewery; used to drink in the Ship alot years ago. Although the brewery wasn't a thing then.
Update.
Teasel is on now !!
mikewsmith - Member
Got 5 really good ones within a 20 mile walk of the house, Winston brewing, shambles,t bone, captain blighs and hobart brewing company. Hard to pick but it's between Winston and Hbc for my pick of the best at the moment
20 miles would get you to Cascade, Last Rites, Moo Brew, Double Head & maybe that one in the Margate train.
There days its Flack's Double Drop - Flackmanor in Romsey
When in Surrey ...
Hogs Back Brewery, TEA or Hop Garden Gold
Shere Drop and Ranmore Ales from Surrey Hills
Spoilt for choice. Milltown, Empire, Golcar, Magic Rock, Riverhead, plenty of microbrewery pub and taps Sair (RIP Ron!!) Rat n Ratchet, loads of great CAMRA pubs showcasing the great stuff out the nearby good stuff like Ossett. #prayforhuddersfield
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This 2 are a stones throw away, a bit further but owned and ran by 2 friends of mine is:
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Can I just say that there's some impressive 'modern' labels which make a refreshing change to the more traditional type.