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Happy New Year!
Bazens’ to brew the special ale for the Salford Food and Drink Festival
Dave Facer to take Brewery to Wales
eXSB wins Beer of the Festival at Great Harwood
Stockport Festival’s Special
NEW - Spring Surprise - the imaginatively named seasonal
NEW - Two awards for Facer’s Brewery
Stonker is Winter special
Apology
The autumn special - Salford’s Rose
Wild Boar to be released
Flatbac wins bronze medal!
20 Not Out - Stockport’s
Festival Special
Flatbac nominated for BIIA medal!
CAMRA visit - March 2004
The Newun - the Spring/early
Summer special
Riverside - the last of the astrological
series
Introducing eXSB
The December/January special
- Goatee Beer
Knoll St Porter
Wass Ale is back
The November/December beer
- Centaur
Thank you to the North Manchester
CAMRA branch
Thank you to the South Manchester
CAMRA branch
New recipe for Best Bitter
The October/November beer -
Stinger
The September/October beer - £Sd
The August/September beer -
Blue Bullet
Bronze for Black Pig, Champion
Beer of Britain Awards
The July/August beer - Lionbrew
The June/July beer - Scuttler
Flatbac voted Beer of the
Festival at Stockport
The Syndicate’s biere blonde
The April/May beer - Bullocks
Chester and South Clwyd
CAMRA visit
New address
The Salford Brewery Syndicate
CAMRA brewery tour
Happy New Year! - 09/01/06
Happy New Year to all and apologies again for the huge delay in posting news.
From 18th-21st January, Manchester’s New Century Hall sees the return of the National Winter Ales Festival. Click here for details. Bazens’ Brewery is launching a new beer at the Festival which will be a strong (but light in colour), hoppy beer called iBeer (5%). Look out for this on the North-West region’s bar upstairs.
We are also launching the first two of our bottle-conditioned beers - Knoll St Porter (5.2%) and eXSB (5.5%). Now that we have our own bottling line, we hope to be able to offer a range of bottled beers throughout the year through local pubs and via the website from March. We will post details as soon as stocks are ready to go on sale.
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Bazens’ to brew the special ale for the Salford Food and Drink Festival - 22/09/05
We are honoured to have been asked by Salford City Council to brew the special beer for the Festival. ‘Salford Festival Ale’ will be available at the Crescent for the duration of the Festival and, subsequently, at other outlets (to be confirmed). It is a 4% light, hoppy, fruity beer with notes of lychee!
To download a pdf file of the Festival programme via Salford City Council’s website, click here.
Dave Facer to take Brewery to Wales - 12/07/05
Dave is to set up Facer’s Brewery in Flintshire where he and his wife Annette are moving at the end of August. (Dave will continue to brew at Knoll St until the end of October and then set up an interim brewery in Flint while the new brewery is built and installed.)
Click here to read Dave’s press release for more details.
Click here to read the Bazens’ press release.
eXSB wins Beer of the Festival at Great Harwood - 27/05/05
The fifth Great Harwood Beer Festival was held at the Royal Hotel from 27th April to 3rd May. Pete Booth, who runs the Royal Hotel and Red Rose Brewery presented us with our certificate on 27th May. Many thanks to Pete and all the festival goers! It is very much appreciated.
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Stockport Festival’s Special - 26/05/05
We were very flattered to be asked to brew the Festival Special for Stockport for the second year running.
Richard has brewed a 4.1% light and very hoppy bitter - Liberty Bell. This is crammed full of new season American hops and will be available from the first day of the Festival which is taking place at Edgeley Park Football Ground from 2nd-4th June. Click here for more details.
Blue Bullet (4.5%) and Flatbac (4.2%) will also be making an appearance at the Festival.
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Spring Surprise - the imaginatively named new seasonal - 19/04/05
At 4.2%, and generously hopped with Styrian Goldings, this brew has been selling fast and we’ve received rave reviews for it so far. The Surprise refers to the fact that it wasn’t ready on time. Sorry.
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Two awards for Facer’s Brewery! - 08/02/05
Congratulations to Dave Facer (whose brewery forms the other half of The Salford Brewery Syndicate) for winning two awards: Northern County (3.8%) won silver in the Bitters up to 3.9% category at the SIBA North competition and Landslide (4.9%) won bronze in the Strong Bitter category at the 27th Norwich Beer Festival.
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Stonker is Winter special - 08/02/05
Stonker (6.5%) has sold well as our Winter special. The next special will probably appear in March. Details to be confirmed.
Apology - 03/02/05
Sorry for the lack of updates on this site over the last few months. We hope to bring the site up to date over the next three to four weeks.
The autumn special - Salford’s Rose - 05/10/04
This will be a strongish (4.8%) warming beer, amber in colour with citrus notes.
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Wild Boar to be released - 05/10/04
A strong dark smooth mild will be introduced to our autumn/winter beers from late October/early November 2004. This will be 6% (hence ‘Wild’) and continues the piggy theme of the 3.6% mild (hence ‘Boar’).
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Flatbac wins the bronze medal! - 31/05/04
We went to the Guildhall, London on 25th May for the Brewing Industry International Awards ceremony and luncheon. We learned the fabulous news that Flatbac has been awarded the bronze medal in the 3.9%-4.5% Class 2 category. We will publish the photo of Richard being presented with the medal and certificates as soon as we receive them.
As we mentioned before when we heard we had been nominated, we are thrilled with the news. It is a real honour to have won such an award when up against so many bigger and longer-established breweries from around the world.
For a list of all the winners, click here.
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20 Not Out - Stockport’s Festival Special - 31/05/04
We were very flattered to be asked to brew Stockport’s Festival Special this year. The result is the hoppy, light and very tasty 20 Not Out (4.1%). The name refers to the 20th anniversary of the award-winning Opening Times. Congratulations to everyone involved in the magazine’s production!
Stockport Beer Festival takes place at the Edgeley Park Football Ground, Hardcastle Rd, Stockport from 3rd-5th June.
The beer will continue to be available at many of our local outlets after the Festival.
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Flatbac nominated for BIIA medal! - 09/04/04
We found out last week that Flatbac has won a medal in the Brewing Industry International Awards in the Class 2: 3.9-4.5% category.
The announcements will be made at the Awards ceremony in the Guildhall in London on 25th May 2004. We will find out on the day whether we have won a bronze, silver or gold medal.
We are thrilled with the news. It is a real honour to have won such an award when up against so many big and longer-established breweries from around the world.
To see the list of winners on the BIIA site, click here and then on the link to the Burton nominations.
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CAMRA visit - March 2004 - 09/04/04
We were visited by the CAMRA Under 26 Social Group and members of the Salford University Real Ale Society last month. The visit was organised by Dave Hallows and Andi Bickerstaffe. A big thank you to everyone who came along - for your encouraging comments and for a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Dave Hallows and Andi Bickerstaffe presented us with a framed open letter of thanks for the do which was much appreciated.
Bazens’ Flatbac and Facer’s Wordsworth were sampled at the event and seemed to go down very well!
We’ll publish photos of the gathering shortly.
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The Newun - the Spring/early Summer special - 09/04/04
This 4.2% beer is light amber in colour with initial all-round fruit in the mouth balanced with refreshing citrus hop character leading to a dry finish. It will be available until mid June.
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Riverside - the last of the astrological series - 09/03/04
This is the single-hopped beer brewed (belatedly) to coincide with the Aquarius star sign. The hop variety used in this special is Challenger. It is 4.5%, pale golden in colour with a crisp and refreshing character.
Introducing eXSB - 23/01/04
Full-bodied traditional strong bitter. Hints of orange peel and various fruit overlie complex malt flavours. Balanced with strong hop character and aroma. (eXSB is a permanent addition to our range.)
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The December/January special - Goatee Beer - 23/01/04
This was brewed with only Target hops for the Capricorn sign. Light golden in colour, it is distinctively bitter (and goaty).
Knoll St Porter - 03/12/03
Formerly known as Knoll’s Porter, this dark, warming beer (5.2%) will be available again over the winter months. Dave Facer of Facer’s Brewery took some malt to be smoked locally and a small amount of this has been used in the recipe.
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Wass Ale is back - 03/12/03
This extremely popular 4.5% beer is back as the New Year special. Wass Ale is a light brown premium bitter, generously laced with Slovenian Styrian and English Goldings hops.
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The November/December beer - Centaur - 03/12/03
Centaur is 4.2% and is a traditional pale bitter using only UK-produced Northdown hops. As this Sagittarian beer will be available over Christmas, the pump clip also features Santaur’s head (as his name is pronounced in Manchester!).
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Thank you to the North Manchester CAMRA branch - 13/11/03
Sorry for the delay in publishing this news but we were visited by the above branch at the end of September. We had a wonderful Saturday afternoon showing everyone around the brewery and sampling both ours and Facer’s latest brews.
We were presented with a very impressive First Branch Visit certificate which we now have on display in the brewhouse. Thanks to all who attended for making the visit so enjoyable and for all the encouraging and flattering comments about the brews.
Click here for photos. (Our Brewery Liaison Officer, Peter Cash, in the orange, appears in almost all of them!)
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Thank you to the South Manchester CAMRA branch - 13/11/03
Sorry for the delay in publishing this news too - the South Manchester CAMRA branch members visited us in the Summer to present us with our ‘Beer of the Festival’ award for FlatbaC (at Stockport). We are very grateful for the award. It is a beautifully framed certificate which we now have on our office wall. Thank you to all who attended (on what happened to be Bazens’ Brewery’s first birthday!) and for making the tour so enjoyable.
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New recipe for Best Bitter - 13/11/03
The Best Bitter has been relaunched and is now available. Its reception so far has been very positive. It is 4.3% now instead of 4.5%. This is to make way for a new strong bitter which Richard is hoping to launch in January.
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The October/November beer - Stinger - 13/11/03
Stinger is the beer for the Scorpio sign. It is 4.3% and uses only one type of hop - Hallertauer Mittelfruh. It is a pale beer with a hint of lychee.
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The September/October beer - £SD- 30/09/03
£SD is 4.4% and uses Brewers' Gold hops. It is light in colour, fruity and refreshing.
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The August/September beer - Blue Bullet - 03/09/03
Blue Bullet is a 4.5% hoppy, light brew based on Richard’s recipe for Inglewood Ale which he brewed at Bridgewater Ales. The single hop variety used in this beer, the Virgo special, is Green Bullet.
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Champion Beer of Britain Awards, August 2003 - Bronze for Black Pig!
- 07/08/03
We attended and thoroughly enjoyed the Great British Beer Festival this week at Kensington Olympia. The awards were announced on Tuesday and we received the good news that our Black Pig Mild (3.6%) won the Bronze Award in the Mild category.
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The July/August beer - Lionbrew
- 23/07/03
Due in the pubs from week beginning 28th July 2003, this 4.4% ale is another refreshing summer drink brewed only with Maris Otter malt and Styrian Golding hops. (Lionbrew is the beer for the Leo sign.)
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The June/July beer - Scuttler
- 23/07/03
Scuttler (4.0%) has sold out now but was a light golden ale, using only one type of hop - Cascade. It was one of the astrologically-themed beers - this time the Cancer (crab) sign, hence Scuttler. Sorry if you missed it - look out for it this time next year!
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Flatbac voted Beer of the Festival at Stockport - 04/06/03
We were thrilled and flattered to receive the good news on Sunday that Flatbac was voted Beer of the Festival at Stockport last weekend. (Richard Bazen last won this award in 1999 for Delph Porter when he was Head Brewer at Bridgewater Ales.)
This is a particular honour as the Festival saw a record turnout this year and the votes are cast by the Festival’s punters.
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The Syndicate’s Biere
Blonde - 05/03
Richard Bazen and Dave Facer have brewed a lager-type beer between them, called Cliff Bier (Biere Blonde du Syndicat de Brasserie de Salford) at 5.2%.
This cask-conditioned light beer was brewed using the types of malt, hops and yeast usually associated with lagers but using a method more akin to traditional real ale.
The result is a refreshing summer drink with all the character of a quality lager.
Cliff Bier was launched at the Stockport Beer Festival.
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The April/May Beer - Bullocks - 05/03
Bullocks (4.3%) is the third of the astrologically themed series of single varietal hop beers. (This one uses Mount Hood.) It is amber in colour with a character-full flavour and magnificent aroma - characteristic of this type of hop.
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Chester and South Clwyd CAMRA
Visit - 09/05/03
On 9th May, we (The Salford Brewery Syndicate) had the pleasure of welcoming the Chester and South Clwyd branch of CAMRA to the brewery.
Organised by Jon Wainwright, the visit was very enjoyable (we hope for all). After snacks and beer at the brewery, we went on a mini crawl of some of Salford’s real ale pubs - The Crescent, The Albert Vaults and The King’s Arms.
We would like to thank the group for all their encouraging comments and their help in introducing our beers to some of Chester’s finest pubs.
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New Address - 03/03
Bazens’ Brewery has moved premises. Our new address and contact details are:
Unit 6, Knoll Street Industrial Estate
Knoll Street
Salford M7 2BL
Tel: 0161 708 0247
Fax: 0161 708 0248
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The Salford Brewery
Syndicate - 03/03
We share the premises with Dave Facer who has set up his own micro-brewery - Facer’s Brewery.
Email: dave@facers.co.uk
Facer’s and Bazens’ form The Salford Brewery Syndicate but brew independently using separate yeast strains, water treatment etc.
Dave recently left his job as Head Brewer for Boddington’s in order to start brewing his own craft beers. His first beer, First Draught (4.1) was launched at the Queen’s Arms, Honey Street in Manchester on 26th February. The launch was a great success and the beer is excellent and well worth looking out for.
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CAMRA Brewery Tour - 14/03/03
Our first brewery tour took place at the new premises on Friday 14th March.
John Clarke, the Co-Editor of Opening Times and members of CAMRA’s Stockport and South Manchester branch came to visit the brewery and tried three different beers - Bazens’ Flatbac, Facer’s First Draught and a dry-hopped version of First Draught.
We enjoyed the evening immensely and were very pleased to hear so many positive and encouraging comments about the site, the beer, the brewery and the new venture.
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20 Not Out - Stockport’s Festival Special - 31/05/04
We were very flattered to be asked to brew Stockport’s
Festival Special this year. The result is the hoppy, light and very
tasty 20 Not Out (4.1%). The name refers to the 20th anniversary
of the award-winning Opening Times. Congratulations to everyone
involved in the magazine’s production!
Stockport Beer Festival takes place at the Edgeley Park Football
Ground, Hardcastle Rd, Stockport from 3rd-5th June.
The beer will continue to be available at many of our local outlets
after the Festival.
top
Flatbac nominated for BIIA medal!
- 09/04/04
We found out last week that Flatbac has won a medal in the Brewing
Industry International Awards in the Class 2: 3.9-4.5% category.
The announcements will be made at the Awards ceremony in the Guildhall
in London on 25th May 2004. We will find out on the day whether
we have won a bronze, silver or gold medal.
We are thrilled with the news. It is a real honour to have won
such an award when up against so many big and longer-established
breweries from around the world.
To see the list of winners on the BIIA site, click
here and then on the link to the Burton nominations.
top
CAMRA visit - March 2004 - 09/04/04
We were visited by the CAMRA Under 26 Social Group and members
of the Salford University Real Ale Society last month. The visit
was organised by Dave Hallows and Andi Bickerstaffe. A big thank
you to everyone who came along - for your encouraging comments and
for a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Dave Hallows and Andi Bickerstaffe
presented us with a framed open letter of thanks for the do which
was much appreciated.
Bazens’ Flatbac and Facer’s Wordsworth were sampled at
the event and seemed to go down very well!
We’ll publish photos of the gathering shortly.
top
The Newun - the Spring/early Summer
special - 09/04/04
This 4.2% beer is light amber in colour with initial all-round fruit
in the mouth balanced with refreshing citrus hop character leading
to a dry finish. It will be available until mid June.
top
Riverside - the last of the astrological
series - 09/03/04
This is the single-hopped beer brewed (belatedly) to coincide with
the Aquarius star sign. The hop variety used in this special is
Challenger. It is 4.5%, pale golden in colour with a crisp and refreshing
character.
Introducing eXSB - 23/01/04
Full-bodied traditional strong bitter. Hints of orange peel and
various fruit overlie complex malt flavours. Balanced with strong
hop character and aroma. (eXSB
is a permanent addition to our range.)
top
The December/January special - Goatee Beer
- 23/01/04
This was brewed with only Target hops for the Capricorn sign. Light
golden in colour, it is distinctively bitter (and goaty).
Knoll St Porter - 03/12/03
Formerly known as Knoll’s Porter, this dark, warming beer (5.2%)
will be available again over the winter months. Dave Facer of Facer’s
Brewery took some malt to be smoked locally and a small amount of
this has been used in the recipe.
top
Wass Ale is back - 03/12/03
This extremely popular 4.5% beer is back as the New Year special.
Wass
Ale is a light brown premium bitter, generously laced with Slovenian
Styrian and English Goldings hops.
top
The November/December beer - Centaur
- 03/12/03
Centaur
is 4.2% and is a traditional pale bitter using only UK-produced
Northdown hops. As this Sagittarian beer will be available over
Christmas, the pump clip also features Santaur’s head (as his
name is pronounced in Manchester!). top
Thank you to the North Manchester CAMRA branch
- 13/11/03
Sorry for the delay in publishing this news but we were visited
by the above branch at the end of September. We had a wonderful
Saturday afternoon showing everyone around the brewery and sampling
both ours and Facer’s latest brews.
We were presented with a very impressive First Branch Visit certificate
which we now have on display in the brewhouse. Thanks to all who
attended for making the visit so enjoyable and for all the encouraging
and flattering comments about the brews.
Click
here for photos. (Our Brewery Liaison Officer, Peter Cash, in
the orange, appears in almost all of them!)
top
Thank you to the South Manchester CAMRA
branch - 13/11/03
Sorry for the delay in publishing this news too - the South Manchester
CAMRA branch members visited us in the Summer to present us with
our ‘Beer of the Festival’ award for FlatbaC (at Stockport).
We are very grateful for the award. It is a beautifully framed certificate
which we now have on our office wall. Thank you to all who attended
(on what happened to be Bazens’ Brewery’s first birthday!)
and for making the tour so enjoyable.
top
New recipe for Best Bitter - 13/11/03
The Best
Bitter has been relaunched and is now available. Its reception
so far has been very positive. It is 4.3% now instead of 4.5%. This
is to make way for a new strong bitter which Richard is hoping to
launch in January.
top
The October/November beer - Stinger -
13/11/03
Stinger
is the beer for the Scorpio sign. It is 4.3% and uses only one type
of hop - Hallertauer Mittelfruh. It is a pale beer with a hint of
lychee.
top
The September/October beer - £SD-
30/09/03
£SD
is 4.4% and uses Brewers' Gold hops. It is light in colour,
fruity and refreshing.
top
The August/September beer - Blue Bullet -
03/09/03
Blue
Bullet is a 4.5% hoppy, light brew based on Richard’s recipe
for Inglewood Ale which he brewed at Bridgewater Ales. The single
hop variety used in this beer, the Virgo special, is Green Bullet.
top
Champion Beer of Britain Awards, August
2003 - Bronze for Black Pig!
- 07/08/03
We attended and thoroughly enjoyed the Great British Beer Festival
this week at Kensington Olympia. The awards were announced on Tuesday
and we received the good news that our Black Pig Mild (3.6%)
won the Bronze Award in the Mild category.
top
The July/August beer - Lionbrew
- 23/07/03
Due in the pubs from week beginning 28th July 2003, this 4.4% ale
is another refreshing summer drink brewed only with Maris Otter
malt and Styrian Golding hops. (Lionbrew
is the beer for the Leo sign.)
top
The June/July beer - Scuttler
- 23/07/03
Scuttler
(4.0%) has sold out now but was a light golden ale, using only one
type of hop - Cascade. It was one of the astrologically-themed beers
- this time the Cancer (crab) sign, hence Scuttler. Sorry if you
missed it - look out for it this time next year!
top
Flatbac voted Beer of the Festival at
Stockport - 04/06/03
We were thrilled and flattered to receive the good news on Sunday
that Flatbac
was voted Beer of the Festival at Stockport last weekend. (Richard
Bazen last won this award in 1999 for Delph Porter when he was Head
Brewer at Bridgewater Ales.)
This is a particular honour as the Festival saw a record turnout
this year and the votes are cast by the Festival’s punters.
top
The Syndicate’s Biere
Blonde - 05/03
Richard Bazen and Dave Facer have brewed a lager-type beer between
them, called Cliff
Bier (Biere Blonde du Syndicat de Brasserie de Salford) at 5.2%.
This cask-conditioned light beer was brewed using the types of
malt, hops and yeast usually associated with lagers but using a
method more akin to traditional real ale.
The result is a refreshing summer drink with all the character
of a quality lager.
Cliff Bier was launched at the Stockport Beer Festival.
top
The April/May Beer - Bullocks - 05/03
Bullocks
(4.3%) is the third of the astrologically themed series of single
varietal hop beers. (This one uses Mount Hood.) It is amber in colour
with a character-full flavour and magnificent aroma - characteristic
of this type of hop.
top
Chester and South Clwyd CAMRA
Visit - 09/05/03
On 9th May, we (The Salford Brewery Syndicate) had the pleasure
of welcoming the Chester and South Clwyd branch of CAMRA to the
brewery.
Organised by Jon Wainwright, the visit was very enjoyable (we hope
for all). After snacks and beer at the brewery, we went on a mini
crawl of some of Salford’s real ale pubs - The Crescent, The
Albert Vaults and The King’s Arms.
We would like to thank the group for all their encouraging comments
and their help in introducing our beers to some of Chester’s
finest pubs.
top
New Address - 03/03
Bazens’ Brewery has moved premises. Our new address and contact
details are:
Unit 6, Knoll Street Industrial Estate
Knoll Street
Salford M7 2BL
Tel: 0161 708 0247
Fax: 0161 708 0248
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The Salford Brewery
Syndicate - 03/03
We share the premises with Dave Facer who has set up his own micro-brewery
- Facer’s Brewery.
Email: dave@facers.co.uk
Facer’s and Bazens’ form The Salford Brewery Syndicate
but brew independently using separate yeast strains, water treatment
etc.
Dave recently left his job as Head Brewer for Boddington’s
in order to start brewing his own craft beers. His first beer, First
Draught (4.1) was launched at the Queen’s Arms, Honey Street
in Manchester on 26th February. The launch was a great success and
the beer is excellent and well worth looking out for.
top
CAMRA Brewery Tour - 14/03/03
Our first brewery tour took place at the new premises on Friday
14th March.
John Clarke, the Co-Editor of Opening Times and members of CAMRA’s
Stockport and South Manchester branch came to visit the brewery
and tried three different beers - Bazens’ Flatbac, Facer’s
First Draught and a dry-hopped version of First Draught.
We enjoyed the evening immensely and were very pleased to hear
so many positive and encouraging comments about the site, the beer,
the brewery and the new venture.
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