Ironbridge Brewery

Wow – what a week this is proving to be. Firstly our pub – The Old Fighting Cocks in Oakengates has been announced as the 2013 CAMRA Telford and East Shropshire Branch Pub Of The Year. Then in the budget today the chancellor has announced he’s scrapping the beer duty escalator and actually cutting the duty . . . → Read More: Double Good News

We’ve been keeping it a bit quiet but now’s the time to let you all know what’s been happening in the mash tun. Back in January we started experimenting with an old hopping method called mash hopping. By adding fresh whole leaf hops to the top of the grain bed just prior to sparging we can . . . → Read More: Mash hopped for a fuller flavour

Our website was hacked and as a result we had to delete whole chunks of content. The main victims were the beers page and the news posts. Hopefully we’ve removed all the nasties and updated the beers page. Unfortunately the news posts now have some gaps. Sorry . . . → Read More: Hacked

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 . . . → Read More: Stout from the wood

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 . . . → Read More: Craft beer

Our Foundry Gold features in a new recipe video by our friends at The Hundred House Hotel. Not sure who Stuart means by . . . → Read More: Video star

Today we’ve brewed ‘Four Candles’ again ready for the run up to Christmas. Yummy and not . . . → Read More: More Candles