Ironbridge Brewery

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We’ve now got 5 litre mini-casks of real ale available from the brewery or from the pub. These little beauties hold 8 1/2 pints of real ale. They need to be allowed to settle for 24 hours before you can enjoy the beer but it’s worth the wait. Real ale at home at £2 a pint.

We fill the mini-casks at the brewery and they contain the live yeast sediment that makes real ale real and keeps the contents fresh. Unopened they’re good for a month from filling date. Once opened they should be consumed within three days. Just like the real thing in the pub!

Mini-casks will soon be available via our website for home delivery. Should be easier to courier than bottles (I hope).

Come along to our brewery in Ironbridge or our pub in Oakengates and pick one or two up in time for the football. They’re just £17 each.

The Old Fighting Cocks has been open 9 weeks and we’re really pleased with the response. The “Bring Your Own Food” is quite popular but more importantly the real ales are flying out! We’ve currently got 8 handpulls and plan to commission another two soon. Currently we’ve got 7 real ales and a real cider permanently on – 7 days a week! We don’t reduce the lineup on quiet nights so you can be sure of a good range of beers whenever you visit.

The Poker League is now up and running. If you fancy your chances at Texas Holdem Poker then come and join us on Tuesday nights at 7:30. It doesn’t cost to play and the winner of our league goes through to the regional final to play for cash!

Work is progressing really nicely on The Old Fighting Cocks; restoring the pub to its Victorian splendour. It looks like we’re on target to open the doors on Monday March 15th. That’s just 4 weeks from today!

We’re brewing a new beer to mark the reopening of the pub. We’ve managed to get access to brewing archives dating back to the late 19th Century and we’re going to recreate the beer that would have been enjoyed at the original pub relaunch in 1885. Be warned though – beer was a lot stronger in those days!

Forget Facebook, Twitter and all the other so called social networking venues. The only real place to socially network is down the pub! In fact the traditional English pub is the original social networking site and it’s real.
You don’t need the web or any high tech browser enabled gizmo. You just need to put your shoes on, leave the house and make your way down to the pub. Once in there you’ll see other human beings. You can talk to them in plain English. If they say something amusing you can actually laugh out loud, it’s easy and you don’t have to learn any new vocabulary. If they say something hilarious you can actually roll on the floor and laugh your ass off if you want. In fact, in a real social networking experience, if the people you interact with say something that really amuses you you can actually spurt beer out of your nose. I bet there’s no emoticon for that!

Feeling isolated sat in front of that damned computer? I’m not surprised. Get down the pub and meet some real people. After a few visits they’ll start to remember you. The bar staff will start remembering your name and what you drink. You’ll strike up real friendships and people will start to take an interest in what happened in your life today. You won’t have to send out constant tweets of purile progress reports. You’ll be able to roll the whole day’s drossness into a quick summary and then get on and discuss much more important stuff.

Eventually you’ll get talking to old Fred whose mate Bill might just have a job for you as he’s looking for someone to help him out for a few hours a week. There’s no better linked in network than the pub! Just don’t go bragging to everyone that you’re an expert IT geek though cos they’ll all start asking you to fix some virus their beloved pc has caught.

In summary the only real benefit from any of those novel means of modern communication should be to arrange to meet someone in the pub. Then turn the thing off and have a wash and head off into the real world. Get yourself down to the pub and experience some real social networking at the genuine original social networking site

Work has started on refurbishing our first pub. We’re converting a tired, tatty, run-down and boarded up pub back into a quality, no-frills, real ale drinking house.
The Old Fighting Cocks in Oakengates is due to open mid March.
We guarantee a fantastic selection of real ales, no karaoke (or open mic nights as they’re called these days), no pool table, no loud juke box, no chips, no gimmicks and quality lager drinkers will be welcome too

We’re about to start the hunt for a manager for our new pub. The pub is due to open in March, in Telford. If you think you’ve got what it takes then I’d love to hear from you.

Yes it’s true. We’re opening our first pub in the Spring. Rumours have been floating and there have been a couple of items in the press and I can confirm that the first Ironbridge Brewery pub will be open around mid March 2010. Watch this space for more details and progress reports.

Having a party? Forget the girly party 7, show them you mean business and take a party 36 or party 18 instead! We’ve got polypins of our real ale available in 20L or 10L sizes. That’s about 36 pints or 18 pints in old money. We normally need 48 hours notice though so don’t leave it until the last minute. Call 01952 433910 to book your polypin and get it delivered for free if you live in a TF postcode area.