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The brewery team are celebrating after winning three awards at the European Beer Challenge. Our first lager, Landmark Lager and gluten free favourites Scarborough Fair IPA and Marmalade Porter all won gold awards at the annual European competition that is dubbed ‘the Oscars of the beer world’. Landmark Lager won its award in the International Pilsner category; Scarborough Fair in the English IPA category and Marmalade Porter in the Robust Porter category. Brewery manager and director Alex Balchin, pictured said: “It’s been a challenging year for everyone in the brewing industry and these results are welcome news and bring some...

Wow, 2020. What a year you’ve been.  After a promising start where we announced our Viking seasonal cask range, launched our first barrel aged beer, Swell, and were starting to look for another sales person when everything went a bit pear shaped!  As we’re sure you are all aware, when hospitality venues were asked to close in late March for lockdown 1.0 we lost a big chuck of our sales overnight. However, thanks to all you lovely lot, our online sales then went through the roof, which kept us busy for the rest of the shutdown!    At our peak,...

We're pleased to introduce our new range of cask conditioned beers for people to enjoy at home during lockdown. The beers, including gluten free options and a monthly seasonal special beer that is normally reserved for pubs, are now available in 5 litre/8.7 pint mini casks. Director, Kate Balchin explains the rationale for the launch of the casks: “ Whilst nothing beats enjoying a beer in a pub with family and friends, our customers are asking for cask conditioned beer that they can enjoy at home. “The mini casks keep for up to five days and can be bought singly, or as part...

This month's newsletter included the regular insight from directors, Kate and Alex - this time it's all about barrel-aged beer - in collaboration with sister company, Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery.  "As many of you will already know, back in February we released our very first barrel-aged beer, Swell, in collaboration with the guys over at Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery. Barrel-aged beer is beer that has been aged (sorry to state the obvious here!) for a period of time in a wooden barrel. Typically, these barrels will be ex bourbon, whisky or wine with the odd sherry, brandy and port barrel...

We get a lot of questions about the price of our beer, so we thought this month’s ‘Directors' Diary’* was a great place to chat about the what and the how behind the price of good beer! First and foremost, what matters to us is quality – we ensure that everything that goes into our beer and bottles, from the barley and hops to the glass and packaging, is of the best quality. This, naturally, has an effect on our pricing!  However, we’re often asked the very reasonable question of why our beer is sometimes cheaper to buy at a supermarket...