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Pub & Branch News PageThe Punchbowl at WEST HALLAM is now selling guest beers from the SIBA list. There are new opening times and a new telephone number for The Needlemakers Arms in ILKESTON. 07853-273174 and their new hours are: Mon - Thur 5:00pm - 11:30pm, Fri & Sat 12:00noon - 11:30pm, Sun 11:00am - 11:30pm. Also, there will be a beer festival held on 5th to 7th March - 10 beers and 2 ciders. The Dewdrop, ILKESTON is offering a discount of 0.10p per pint to all Camra card carrying members. The Seven Oaks, Stanton-by-Dale is offering all cask ales at £2 a pint to card carrying CAMRA members LOCAL BREWERY NEWS NUTBROOK - B.L.O. Stephen Boa - anyasnstephen@googlemail.com. Nutbrook is continuing to trade well, with their bottled beer sales up an incredible 700% on this time last year. Their design and brew-your-own-beer package is also doing extremely well. Three of Nutbrook bottled beers are being sold at George's Tradition (chip shop restaurant chain) in Ilkeston and Chellaston, Derby. George's have also purchased a pub in Woodlinkin which when open around April this year and will be selling Nutbrook beers on draught, as well as chips! Nutbrook is proud to be sponsoring the glasses at this years Erewash Valley Beer Festival BLUE MONKEY - BLO - Simon Davis - racheldavis99@btinternet.com. Things have moved forward in the quest to re-locate to larger premises, a site at Giltbrook next to the Ikea retail park has been found. The brand new state of the art brewhouse is due to be completed in March and will have the potential to triple current production to 100,000 pints per month. Meanwhile, the highly successful Guerrilla Stout went forward to the SIBA National Beer Competition 2010, which was judged at the Nottingham Canalhouse on Thursday 4th February. Winners are to be announced in early March so watch this space. MUIRHOUSE - BLO - Andy Sales - andysales@tiscali.co.uk. Order book full until at least the end May. Bottles of 'Stout Fellow' are now stocked in The Chandlery, Sawley. Bottles of 'Fully Fitted Freight', 'Stout Fellow' and 'Brass Monkey' are now in the Offie at Leicester. A full brew of 'Brass Monkey' was brewed at Full Mash as a joint effort again with Karl Waring and it was all sold within a week. Beers have been ordered for Leicester and Burton Beer Festivals with a special called 'Ceres' being brewed for Leicester. The Stumble Inn, Long Eaton is regularly taking Muirhouse beers. FUNFAIR - BLO - David Williams - dpw2008@btinternet.com Busy preparing to launch a new range of beers, once again based on the theme of funfairs, this particular series will be named after Ilkeston Fair freak shows. Kicking off the range will be a 5.2% straw coloured ale called 'Welcome to the Freak Show'. Based on New World hops initial reports suggest that this will be a very tasty addition to the already popular range of beers from the Ilkeston based brewery. In addition, the pump clips will be hand painted by the brewer himself, Dave Tizard. Apparently he's a bit of a dab hand with a paintbrush, but then again we always knew he was an artist of sorts! 'Welcome to the Freak Show' should be making a debut appearance in local outlets within the next couple of weeks and a second beer called 'Ilkeston Giant' is in the pipeline, described by Dave as a work-in-progress. Funfair are also brewing a beer in the name of the Westcrown "brewery". 'Conqueror' at 5.2% ABV is described as a light straw coloured ale with an explosion of the aroma of hops. Plans are in hand to build a brewery in the Westcrown name somewhere in the East Midlands, it will be a reasonable size, perhaps 20bbl and recipes will be based on the two beers produced by the original Westcrown Brewery in Newark from 1977 to 1980. Dave Tizard will be involved in this new project along with Alan Rutherford, who was a partner in the original Newark venture, and his sons Andrew and Stefan. To download a copy of the Branch Survey form, please click here: |
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