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Magna horse-sense rustles up cash
It seems drinking is good for health, if you live in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, where real ale lovers sank so many pints at this year’s Magna beer festival, they raised enough surplus cash to re-write their own record books and give £40,000 to local health charities... |
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Bill’s probably the best locum brewer in the world!
Bill King’s not blonde or Danish… but he’s probably the best locum brewer in the world!
If you had to go away on holiday or business and leave your precious brewery running, chances are you would want to leave it to Bill.
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Hand-Pumped winner Adrian's view of the Great British Beer Festival, 2012
When Hand-Pumped offered two free tickets for this year's Great British Beer Festival - in association with organisers, CAMRA - reader Adrian Pearce was lucky enough to come out of our hat first.
And Adrian has been kind enough to share his good fortune - by writing a review of his day out... complete with pictures. |
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Why Blue Bee’s new nectar ales are the buzz-iness in Sheffield!
Blue Bee Brewery has been creating a quite a buzz since it opened last May. It already has a champion beer of festival medal to its name – and it is establishing itself as a hallmark of quality ale in its native Sheffield. Hand-Pumped spent a day in the blue beehive with king bee Richard Hough, as he brewed the “nectar” that is sending Sheffield’s ale-lovers swarming to the pumps…
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Dave bottles it… and comes out a winner!
It might sound double-Dutch to non-drinkers, but an exotically-named real-ale bottle shop in a small Yorkshire town is becoming a must-go destination for hoards of ale aficionados.
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Brewing ‘Oscars’ want to hear from you!
The world’s longest-established brewing competition, The Brewing Industry International Awards, has changed its name to The International Brewing Awards, as it gears up for a bumper entry for its 2013 competition. |
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Festival-goers down a Magna of real ale!
Real ale lovers literally supped Rotherham’s “Baa’s of Steel” Real Ale and
Music Festival dry last week… leaving fewer than a dozen of the 480 barrels delivered, unquaffed!
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How the world is turning – to British real ale!
Before Roger Protz could take the stage to officially open the 33rd Burton Beer Festival, he had to break-off from advising a clutch of would-be Spanish brewers on the finer points of English ale.
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