Ironbridge Brewery

The bits are supposed to be in there!

Bottle conditioned beer is real ale in a bottle. The beer has not been filtered, pasteurised or artificially gassed up. A little yeast is left in the bottle and that gets to work on the remaining sugar and ferments one last time to create natural CO2 which in turn . . . → Read More: Bottle conditioned

The recipe has been completely overhauled and we’ve changed the hopping regime for this beer altogether. Coracle now benefits from copious (ie loads and loads) of late additions of Goldings whole leaf hops. Adding the hops later in the boil means we have to use a lot more to get the amount of bittering we want . . . → Read More: Coracle is back

Our (very) limited edition beer mats -> as supplied to a few pubs in Telford and stolen collected by a voracious band . . . → Read More: Don’t buy beer from strangers!

We bottled a fair bit of Autumn Special for the Heritage Festival and it all sold out quite quickly. We’re therefore going to be bottling some more of our beers over the next week or so…..

The sharp eyed among you will have noticed Coracle in the labels above. We’ve revamped the recipe and will be relaunching . . . → Read More: Bottles are on the way

We had some visitors today who were asking where our ingredients came from and where we sourced our brewing kit. I was proud to let them know that our malt is from Yorkshire and our hops are from Worcestershire. Our superb kit is purpose built by our good friends at Johnson Brewing and Engineering in Rochdale. . . . → Read More: Made in England

Postie brought a welcome surprise yesterday. A certificate from the Peterborough Beer Festival. Nicely framed and everything and a nice letter to boot. Thanks go to the Peterborough CAMRA branch for taking the time to send us the sticky foot and the letter explaining how the shortlist is compiled from the votes of the festival visitors . . . → Read More: A sticky foot