Just read that the Hallertau and Tettnang regions of Germany have suffered severe weather damage to this year’s hop crop. Those are the two regions our hops come from for Ironbridge Pale Ale

I’ve been on the telly again. This time it was Central News covering the forthcoming appointment of official ale taster for Wellington. I’m a judge and I can’t be bribed by any offers of favouritism Here’s a picy of me doing my piece to camera.

You can see the finished article here.

Wow! That was amazing. Our inaugural rock, folk and ale festival went like a dream. The weather was perfect, the musicians were awesome, the beer flowed, the staff were great and the crowd were absolutely fantastic. Some of them were a bit odd looking but the whole day went off without a hitch or incident and I thank you one and all for that. We won’t mention the short time that the loos were out of action but we should mention the heroic actions of Mark (aka Yetti)  who dived in there and saved the day.

If you attended the festival I hope you’ll agree that it was a really great day. If you didn’t get tickets then I apologise and hope you’ll be luckier next year. If you objected to the event taking place then I hope you’ll now realise that we’re a responsible bunch who just want to be left alone. We’ll try our hardest to comply with all the red tape and stuff but we’re not here to make trouble and would ask that you reciprocate.

All in all I hope you’ll agree that the day was a resounding success. I’m already looking forward to doing it all again next year

Dave

If you’ve got tickets to the festival on Saturday and you’re no longer able to come please call me on 01952 433910. I’ve got a waiting list of people dead keen to get hold of tickets, some of them have promised all sorts if I can get them a ticket. I’m not sure if these promises are transferable but you’ll get your money back at the very least.

Sorry if you didn’t get tickets to the party on Saturday night but it’s now too late. All the tickets have been sold.

If you bought tickets and you now find you don’t need them for whatever reason then I’ll gladly refund your monies as we can easily resell them. Just give me a call on 01952 433910.

cheers

Dave

We’ve had a super response to the Rock Folk and Ale Festival which is on a week from today. We’ve had to halt the sale of tickets on the web as there was a danger we were going to over sell them. There is very limited availability now direct from the brewery, I can take debit/credit card details by phone and keep your tickets at the gate if necessary but it’s best now to pop down to the brewery in person if you need tickets. If you do want to phone to reserve tickets or to check if we’ve got any left the number is 01952 433910.

The beers (in ascending ABV order) are:-

• Ironbridge Coracle 3.8%
• Rowton Bitter 3.9%
• Ironbridge Pale Ale 4.0%
• Morton Forever in Darkness Mild 4.0%
• Ironbridge 1779 4.2%
• Toll End P.A. 4.4%
• Stonehouse Wheeltappers Wheat Beer 4.5%
• Ironbridge Gold 4.5%
• Brough’s Pale Ale 4.8%
• Kinver May Bug 4.8%
• Ironbridge I.S.B. 5.0%

See you on Saturday 30th

Our new on line shop is now up and running. At the moment you can only buy bottled beer and a bit of clothing stuff and packs of pump clips and bottle labels.  As the weeks go by I’ll add more wearables and souvenirs and I’ll probably play around with the look and feel of the shop site. For now though it’s fully functioning, even though the aesthetics are a bit primitive.

I will be hacking the code behind the shop to provide free delivery to TF postcodes. In the meantime it’s automatically adding the courier charges, if you do go ahead and order bottles whilst it’s charging delivery and you live in sunny Telford I’ll throw in 3 free bottles as compensation

You can access the new Ironbridge Brewery Shop here.

Doing a bit of tidying up to create the new Ironbridge Brewery Shop. In the shop you’ll be able to buy bottled beer and merchandise such as polo shirts, pump clips etc. Just have to delete some stuff from the blog site to make it work. Also changing the “theme” of this blog at the same time.

Our bottled beers are now available with free home delivery provided you live in the Telford postcode area. We may be extending the service to other areas later in the year. If you have a TF postcode and would like a case or two of our bottled beers delivering please call the brewery on 01952 433910. If you’d like to order and pay on the interweb thingy our on line shopping site is nearly done. I just need to wrestle with a bit of php first.

If you live outside the TF postcode area you shouldn’t feel left out as we’re going to be doing on line sales and deliveries nation wide. I’m just waiting for a price from a courier and then we’ll be ready to go. I won’t be marking up the delivery, whatever it costs me is what I’ll charge. Whilst I’m waiting for the courier costs I’ll be building the shop site so watch this space.

(Free delivery to TF postcodes only. Delivery on Thursday afternoon/evening each week.)

Our new beer has finished fermenting and is being chilled. Ironbridge Pale Ale will be available next week and will be officially launched at the Rock Folk and Ale Festival on May 30th.