After our recent Cheese and Beer matching evening we had some feedback to say you’d like to try your hand at a zoom based quiz. So we’ve roped in Quizmaster extraordinaire Phill Thorne to run our first online quiz on Saturday 27th February. You’ll need a screen to show the Read more…
Thank you to everyone who came to our first online Beer and Cheese night on Saturday; it seemed to go really well, if the smiles and reactions are anything to go by. We particularly want to thank those who took the time to complete the feedback form. We’d like to Read more…
Good afternoon everyone. I wanted to update you all on our position following the Prime Minister’s broadcast last night but also touch on a couple of topics close to our hearts. I’m talking about Dry January and mental health. You will be unsurprised to learn that locally we will revert Read more…
Those of you who read this blog regularly will know that back in 2019 I wrote about a fermentation temperature controller called MyBrewbot. The plan was to trial it over an extended period and blog about it but things, mostly covid related got in the way. I’ve been using the Read more…
Happy New Year to you all from Tier 4. I must admit we’re weren’t terribly prepared for entry into T4 but who was? Having read the guidance I was quite surprised to learn that for us it makes no difference at all whether we are in T2 or T4 we Read more…
I saw a meme on twitter earlier this month featuring the Queen about to give her Christmas speech captioned “well, where do we start?” Rest assured people writing “looking back” posts all over the country are wondering the same thing. Back in January Jacqui and I were in positive mood Read more…
We’ve had feedback from a few of our customers that they’d actually prefer the convenience of a direct debit system for our subscription boxes. So we thought we’d look into it with our website elf. The first thing we found is that the plug ins to make direct debit software Read more…
Morning Tom’s Tappers, so Lockdown number two is upon us and here we are trying to work out what we can and can’t do during the lockdown. Firstly it is important to mention that, as a brewery, we have an exemption so it is perfectly legal for us to trade Read more…
With the taproom now subject to tier two restrictions we have been looking at how customers who may no longer be able to get to the bar can get their beer fix. A number of you have asked about a subscription box plan and, having been stuck in quarantine for Read more…
One day I’ll be able to write a blog post with a different headline. Today is not that day. However I can impart some good news for you. I finish my period of self isolation at midnight tonight. I can report I’m feeling fine and ready to go back to Read more…