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A special St Albans Ale has gone on sale in the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans, restoring a potent link with the time…

Added: Tuesday, November 1st 2005

Richard Everard presses all the right buttons. "The family brewers are the custodians of cask beer," he says. "The nationals aren't interested in cask -…

Added: Saturday, October 1st 2005

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Added: Saturday, October 1st 2005

The Hook Norton Brewery was featured prominently in an earlier profile on beer-pages and remains an excellent example of British brewong tradtition. Just a short…

Added: Saturday, October 1st 2005

It was when he fell off a ladder in his brewhouse that Richard Jenkinson knew it was time to hang up his mashing fork and…

Added: Thursday, September 1st 2005

There were many fine messages of support for London following 7 July but the most poignant was a one-sentence letter in the Guardian from a…

Added: Monday, August 1st 2005

White smoke suddenly gushed from the chimney at Mauldons as we stepped from the brewhouse into the loading and delivery area. Steve Sims roared with…

Added: Monday, August 1st 2005

Are British beer drinkers afraid of challenging flavours, hop bitterness in particular? The question is prompted by the recent news concerning the Meantime Brewery in…

Added: Friday, July 1st 2005

Somewhere deep in the bureaucracy of the European Union there is a unit composed of highly-paid people whose job is to think up the most…

Added: Friday, July 1st 2005

Is the British brewing industry on the verge of yet another major upheaval? Wolverhampton & Dudley has paid

Added: Friday, July 1st 2005