{"id":2837,"date":"2022-07-25T16:15:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2022-07-25T16:15:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:15:37","slug":"brewery-news-july-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/brewery-news-july-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewery news – July 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Godalming Beerworks<\/strong> : many readers will know the Star Inn in Godalming, Surrey (GU7 1EL), which has long been a \u2018destination\u2019 pub for good beer. The building, which dates from the 1700s and has been a pub since 1832, has now become home to a brewery, the Godalming Beerworks, and the landlord is one of the brewers. The town once had a proud record of brewing, with a John George being recorded as brewing \u2018byere\u2019 there as early as 1483 but brewing ended in 1887. Andy, the landlord, and his co- brewer, Phil, have been brewing together as a hobby for ten years but are now ready to go commercial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mondo go the whole Hog<\/strong> : the Mondo Brewing Company have brewed their first ever cask beer, in partnership with the Hogs Back Brewery from Tongham in Surrey. It is an American pale ale called When Hogs Fly (4.2% ABV) and went on sale on 4 July exclusively in a hundred selected Fuller\u2019s pubs, as well as Hogs Back\u2019s own brewery shop. It is brewed with Cascade, Mosaic and Cryo Citra hops. The Cascade come from Hogs Back\u2019s own hop garden. It will be available for as long as stocks last. The managing director of Hogs Back, Rupert Thompson, said, \u201cThe partnership between our two breweries worked well, combining our different skills and expertise to create a beer we\u2019re both very proud of. This was Hogs Back\u2019s first collaboration with another brewer, but we\u2019re confident it won\u2019t be our last !<\/em>\u201d Tom Palmer, Mondo Brewing\u2019s founder and director of brewing added, \u201cWe had never brewed a cask ale before and as an American it\u2019s not a style I knew much about. Brewing with the Hogs Back\u2019s team, including head brewer Miles Chesterton, was an eye-opener. I hadn\u2019t realised that brewing cask ale is such a manual operation, completely different to keg in so many ways. It was also great to add Cascade hops grown just yards from the brewhouse, an option that\u2019s not available to us at our brewery in Battersea<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portobello Brewing<\/strong> : Portobello, in conjunction with Peckham based mead producers, Gosnells, have produced a limited edition Summer Honey Ale which will be on sale in all of Portobello\u2019s pubs. The \u2018mellifluous blonde\u2019 3.8% ABV brew will be available in cask form only. It is brewed with honey from Oxfordshire Honey, pale and wheat malt and Styrian Golding hops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sambrook\u2019s<\/strong> : over the weekend 27 to 29 May, the Sambrook\u2019s Brewery Tap in Wandsworth hosted a successful mild revival festival with 17 cask milds on offer from UK breweries. The festival featured tutored tastings hosted by beer writer Des de Moor, who co-brewed one the beers, a light mild called London X Ale 1880, with Sambrook\u2019s John Hatch. Sambrook\u2019s hope to make this an annual event to coincide with CAMRA\u2019s long-running May Mild Month promotion which aims to promote interest in this often misunderstood and historic beer style. Twelve of the 17 sold out, with those from Beerblefish, Gadds, Southwark, Twickenham, Tap East, Partizan and Sambrook\u2019s all proving very popular. I drank at least one pint of all of them but the star of the festival was the magnificent Ruby Mild from Sarah Hughes of Sedgeley in the West Midlands. I personally can take some responsibility for its rapid disappearance.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Duncan Sambrook gets stuck in!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

P<\/em><\/strong><\/span>eter J Sutcliffe <\/em>(CAMRA BLO for Sambrook\u2019s)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signature Brew<\/strong> : as part of the celebration of the Women\u2019s EURO football tournament, AFC Leyton, one of the country\u2019s largest women\u2019s football clubs, have joined with Signature Brew to produce an IPA style beer. To match AFC\u2019s shirts, the beer will be red in colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vale Brewery<\/strong> : the brewery, based in Brill, Buckinghamshire HP18 9TY, won two bronze awards in the SIBA Midlands Independent Beer Awards 2022 for their Red Kite (4.3% ABV) and VPA (4.2% ABV) beers. Vale have also started doing brewery tours again. For more information and bookings, visit their website: www.valebrewery.co.uk.<\/a> Their taproom and shop is open every Friday, 12 to 6pm, and on the last Saturday of each month at the same times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caledonian Brewery<\/strong> : not a London brewery, I know, but it is part of the UK\u2019s brewing heritage. Heineken UK have announced that they will be closing the 150 year old Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh. It is the last of 41 breweries in the City. Heineken\u2019s UK Supply Director was quoted in the Morning Advertiser as saying, \u201cThe sad fact is, its Victorian infrastructure means significant inefficiencies and costs, particularly as it is operating below capacity. To modernise the brewery, and to meet our own sustainability commitments, would require considerable ongoing investment, which would make operating the brewery economically unviable<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0Consultations with the 30 employees are in progress. Heineken are negotiating with Greene King about the possibility of some of Caledonian\u2019s brands, including Deuchars, being brewed under licence at the Belhaven Brewery in Dunbar, which is Scotland\u2019s oldest working brewery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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