NEW BEER!

We are delighted to tell you that our latest beer, thieving rogue, is launched this week. It is a 4.5% golden beer and will be available in the Lion, the Chestnut Tree, the Rose and Crown (Cotgrave) and a number of other local pubs. It will also be served in the CAMRA beer tent at the Moorgreen Show and at a number of other festivals around the area. Further afield, pubs like the Forest Lodge in Edwinstowe, the Nell Gwyn in Mansfield and the Mallard in Worksop will also be amongst the first to serve it. The first brew is more or less sold out, so we have made another one for those who haven’t got their hands on the first lot!

Summer 2006 and the hard work is paying off

It seems like an age ago when we moved into Ashling Court but we now have a fully commissioned brewery. We have built the brewing rooms, painted them, put in drainage and done all the other things necessary to get up and running.

Last week, we installed our new kit (well, Dave Porter did!) and did our first brews with it.

We have changed the names of our first beer which will now be Early Bird rather than fledgling. It's a real bitter, golden in colour and comes out at 4.3% abv.

Just smell those hops when you get your first glass. Two4joy was our second brew and both of these should be available in local pubs in a week or two. Watch this space to check out where!

We will be brewing fledgling next week and intend to settle in to a regular pattern of our brews after that. We will also introduce thieving rogue later on in the summer, well in time for the Nottingham beer Festival.

Here are a couple of the masses of pictures taken by Nick over the past few weeks.