I suppose a quick update on the beer front is probably called for.  After all, this here bloggery-ish thing is ...   more »

just imagine a space alien landing in the UK in early January 2010.  It's their first visit, and on reading ...   more »

Well, the 2009 Christmas beer has now been brewed, and should be on sale in early December.  For those thinking ...   more »

You'd have to be pretty distant from reality (ie like a city banker or cabinet minister) not to have heard ...   more »

Well folks, it's here.  Delivered at 0800 - 1030 on Oct 22nd 2009.  Yes, despite the best efforts of Somalian ...   more »

You know what they say about men with big feet. Yes, 'Big Feet, Big Problem With Attitude Of Shoe Shop Staff (Well, Most Of 'Em)'. For the hard of thinking, I'd better warn you...   more »

Earlier this year, we proudly received, from CAMRA, their Champion Best Bitter of East Anglia award for our Britannia.  This ...   more »

Now, no-one reach just yet for a endlessly screaming female TV presenter with a slightly camp Scouser by her side, ...   more »

Regular watchers of this blog, the website, and/or visitors to our small (but perfectly formed) temple to the world of ...   more »

It's that time of year again it seems (no, not talking about the seemingly bi-annual posts to this blog) – the time of year when it becomes a good idea to poke around in a hedge for a hop leaf...   more »

In pubs across the land, little badges are appearing on hand pumps promoting locally brewed beers, under the CAMRA 'Locale' ...   more »

As the more observant will have noticed, the website has had something of a ‘tweak’ over the summer. Nothing major, just things moved around a bit, some coloured bits and a few more pictures. Still no fancy animations, pointless games or other nonsense. Partly because I can’t help thinking....   more »

What? Really? Well of course not, I’m just training to be a headline writer for the national press. The truth – at the moment, depending on your choice of source – is nearer 7 or so. Now that is a lot...   more »

Now don’t get excited, and certainly don’t ask me why, but we have a Facebook...   more »

Well, obviously it’s that time of year, and so all the local animals have paired off, and started producing offspring.    more »

Well, what a busy time. So much for the sodding recession! Whilst our beloved MP’s have been attending to their dry rot, backed-up moats and unruly wisteria, we have had our two busiest months ever...   more »

Just a quick update on the beers to look out for from us in May...

Agincourt 4.0% - a pale ...   more »

Given that spring is upon us, it's not surprising that life is getting active, and birds a-plenty are arriving to ...   more »

So, duty went up.  Surprise surprise.  But consider this - given the high increases of recent budgets, and the fact ...   more »

As you may or not know, there are a whole raft of things you can’t do, say, suggest or even obliquely hint at when advertising alcohol. For example you can’t...   more »

Like many folk, us here has been glued to that Apprentice show thing innit, on the BBC.  In fact mate, ...   more »

It is fast approaching 92 time again - indeed we expect to have 92 Squadron landing at the more discerning ...   more »

In a sure sign, that despite all the doom, gloom and 'end is nigh-ing', the world is functioning as normal, ...   more »

Just a touch to the west of Haverhill there is a village called Steeple Bumpstead – a village that lives up to the sort of images I imagine that name conjures – little old cottages with chaotic colourful gardens, twisting back streets, etc etc. It’s the sort of village that   more »

So what did you do Saturday?  Well I had to work.  Well, I say work.  What I was supposed to ...   more »

Well, it seems you might be if you are at all interested in cask beer (which is, I presume, why you are here reading this), and most definitely if you are a card carrying CAMRA-ist: http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/82346   more »

On first thoughts, the much discussed spectre of minimum alcohol pricing, as formally suggested by Sir Liam Donaldson (Chief Medical Officer, presumably of England, or at least a small village within these shores) is a very good thing...   more »

It’s early March (I can tell this from the using the angle of the sun to read the date on the calendar, an old trick I learnt some weeks back), and this can mean only one thing.   more »

In common with many other small brewers, we seem to be bucking the general trend in the UK, indeed global, ...   more »

It seems the idea for using ships as a theme for beer names is popular. We are about to release our third in the series   more »

In case you have been living on Jupiter, or an MP, there is a bit of a recession going on ...   more »

Well, so far no-one here has broken anything day, or even lightly severed any limbs, so no superstitious nonsense for ...   more »