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They're brewing high on the hog in Surrey

They're brewing high on the hog in Surrey

Hogs Back Brewery is recording a big increase in sales and is busily expanding the site to cope with demand. As well as its core range of ales, the brewery has added a cloudy cider and a properly matured lager

Added: Sunday, August 11th 2013

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Flanders Beer Trail 4: professor and his sons restore a Belgian Crowning glory

Flanders Beer Trail 4: professor and his sons restore a Belgian Crowning glory

Professor Freddy Delvaux, revered as an expert in brewing, has restored the old De Kroon brewery and, with his sons, turned it into a vibrant museum and visitor centre. And alongside they run a major laboratory that stores and analyses yeast cultures, working with many leading Belgian breweries. Image shows Peter (left), Freddy and Filp Delvaux

Added: Sunday, July 28th 2013

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Appliance of science boosts Tring's beers

Appliance of science boosts Tring's beers

A Hertfordshire brewery -- best known for its Side Pocket for a Toad cask beer -- has called on a top designer to refashion its pump clips and labels, with warm colours aiming to attract new drinkers. And the brewery has added to its range with a new stout

Added: Saturday, July 27th 2013

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Flanders Beer Trail 3: husband-and-wife team bring pride back to Hoegaarden

Flanders Beer Trail 3: husband-and-wife team bring pride back to Hoegaarden

Hoegaarden in Belgium was a town made famous by Pierre Celis and his spiced wheat beer. His brewery is now part of global giant AB InBev but Mieke De Backer and Jan De Wachter (pictured) maintain Celis's tradition of artisan brewing with their small Nieuwhuys plant where they make blond and dark beer...and a drop of geneva

Added: Wednesday, July 10th 2013

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Yeast brings Truman's hopping back to life

Yeast brings Truman's hopping back to life

In Norwich, the National Collection of Yeast Cultures is helping to restore the famous London brewing name of Truman's by supplying the yeast cultures that once produced Mild, Porter and Pale Ale in Brick Lane, Whitechapel. Pictured are Benedikt Ott, Truman's brewer, with Vincent Johnson, who has installed the new brewing kit at Hackney Wick

Added: Monday, July 8th 2013

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Hoppy summer delight from Adnams

Hoppy summer delight from Adnams

Fat Sprat is the latest beer from Adnams in Suffolk, brewed by Fergus Fitzgerald who has been given free rein to develop new brands. Along with all the brewery's beers, sales of Fat Sprat will help the enviironment

Added: Saturday, July 6th 2013

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Flanders Beer Trail 2: No Boon of contention in classic lambic brewery

Flanders Beer Trail 2: No Boon of contention in classic lambic brewery

Frank Boon -- pronounced 'bone' -- is one of the classic brewers of lambic and gueuze, the Belgian beers made by spontaneous fermentation with long ageing in wood. He cuts no corners and sticks firmly to tradition even though he has a new, modern brewhouse

Added: Tuesday, July 2nd 2013

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Flanders Beer Trail 1: chicory and whisky add flavour to farmhouse beer in Brabant

Flanders Beer Trail 1: chicory and whisky add flavour to farmhouse beer in Brabant

Deep in the countryside of Flemish Brabant, near the university city of Leuven, the Janssens family are farmers who grow their own barley and hops to fashion their farmhouse beers and age stronger beer is oak casks from the whisky and wine industries

Added: Friday, June 28th 2013

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Beer in bid to help save the planet

Beer in bid to help save the planet

On the Suffolk coast, Aaron Hay reports, Adnams Brewery has installed one of the most enegry-efficient plants in Britain and now it's pumping renewable gas from waste into the National Grid. This article is reproduced with permission from the website of Forum For the Future.

Added: Thursday, June 13th 2013

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Waiting in line for the beers from the quietest of all Belgian Trappist monks

Waiting in line for the beers from the quietest of all Belgian Trappist monks

From the archive November 2011: beers brewed by Trappist monks at the Westvleteren abbey in Belgium are eagerly awaited and can be bought only when the message goes out over the bush telegraph that a new brew is available. Pictured: Brother Joris in the brewhouse

Added: Tuesday, June 11th 2013

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