Ironbridge Brewery

The 48 Special

admin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:46:51 +0000

To complement our revised core beer line up we’re brewing a special each month. This special will always be 4.8% ABV and will be single hopped. Last week we brewed our first 48 Special and it is due to be racked into casks on Thursday. We’re kicking it off in style and the first 48 Special is CITRA! Get your orders in quick – this one won’t last long.

The 48 Special next month is likely to be a continuously hopped Galaxy.

Festival

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:54:29 +0000

The inaugural Rail Ale Trail kicks off tomorrow (19th April) at the Old Fighting Cocks, Codsall Station and Odfellows Shifnal. The RAT2012 has its own website. Over 80 beers between the three pubs and all connected by the train. Some cracking beers on offer!

Stout from the wood

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:50:30 +0000

We went down to @Wadworth brewery yesterday and collected our first oak casks. Just a couple of 18s to test out oak ageing Wenlock Stout. They’ll be filled on Thursday and then into the cellar at @F1ghtingcocks to rest for a while. Look out for Stout From The Wood at The Fighting Cocks in the new year.

Real Ale Direct

admin — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:53:36 +0000

We’re launching our new beer direct web site. You can now buy 20 litre polypins of real ale and we’ll deliver them for free to a mainland UK address.
20 litres is about 35 pints and the beer will keep fresh for at least two weeks. Real ale at home for around £1.80 a pint.

Have a look at the site at http://ironbridgebrewery.co.uk/beerdirect/ and get some beer in.

Craft beer

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:20:44 +0000

Announcing our new craft beer. Ironbridge Craft Gold is a 4.3% continental style beer in a keg. Yes – a keg!

Craft Gold is cold filtered, not pasteurised, and therefore it retains all of the flavour of its real ale counterpart (Centennial). If anything the flavour is enhanced by the light carbonation and chilling to around 5 degrees C. The end result is a very full flavoured continental style beer which doesn’t suffer from any of the drawbacks of cask (aka real) ale. We still love real ale and we’ll continue to brew it as fast as we can but real ale isn’t the be all and end all. There’s been lots of public debate recently about the merits and otherwise of real versus craft and I refuse to join in. Here’s what our craft beer is ….

+Full flavoured
+All natural ingredients
+No sulphites
+No added sugar
+Traditionally brewed and then cold filtered
+Easier to handle than real ale
+Better shelf life than real ale

and here’s what it’s not ….
-mass produced
-bland
-pasteurised
-tasteless
-full of chemicals

Best try it

No Royal Wedding beer here!

admin — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:12:02 +0000

I’m so glad I decided to shun the whole royal wedding fiasco. We refused point blank to brew a special but now we are going to release one cask of a special called “Cromwell’s Brew” to mark the event in light of the fact that the happy couple have banned beer from their big day!

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Prats.

Video star

admin — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:33:14 +0000

Our Foundry Gold features in a new recipe video by our friends at The Hundred House Hotel. Not sure who Stuart means by “grumpy” mind!

Shropshire Beer Festival

admin — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:42:40 +0000

All 15 Shropshire Breweries will be featured in the Shropshire Beer Festival at The Old Fighting Cocks, Oakengates from April 22nd through to May 2nd. Loads of bank holidays and loads of loveley Shropshire beers. There’s even a wedding in there somewhere.

New pump clips

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:07:06 +0000

We’re having a bit of a redesign of our pump clips. Here’s what we’ve got so far…

Citra again

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:00:54 +0000

What is it with these single hop one offs? We’ve listened to your feedback and brewed it again. Citra will be available from the end of the week.