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The Star reopens!
The Star Inn is Saved!
Mayor's Ale available in bottles!
Cuckoo’s Nest now available in bottles from The King's Arms, Bloom St, Salford.!
Re-introducing Cuckoo’s Nest. Available in bottles
Argent for Opening Times
The summer special is Julius
Enjoy our beer with a meal at Dukes 92!
Blue Bullet and Flatbac now available in bottles!
Iechyd Da!
Salford Festival Ale is back!
2008 Salford Breweries Series
Check out our Knoll Street Porter
T-shirts
Knoll Street Porter wins bronze
Black Pig Mild overall second at Richmond
Pacific wins beer of the festival at Battersea!
Doctor Who/Christopher Eccleston
At last - the SHOP page!
Check out Dave Facer’s new website
Fourth of the Salford Series
New Image for Porter
The Salford Series, 2007
Ashley’s Ashes
Next beers in the one-hop series
Salford Food and Drink Festival 2006
Bottle-conditioned Knoll Street Porter
3rd and 4th of the film series
Second in film series
On Goldings Pond
SMALLpond launch
Knoll St Porter wins Gold!
Knoll St Porter wins Silver!

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The Star Reopens! - 20/12/09
The pub reopened yesterday (with BBC cameras and press there) and a thoroughly good time was had by all. Our Star Ale (4.0%), along with Dave Facer’s Gold Star Bitter (3.7%) were a big hit.

Click here to view the article on the BBC website.

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The Star Inn, Salford - Congratulations! - 12/11/09
Congratulations to the Star Inn, Back Hope St, Salford. The community has bought the pub, previously owned by Robinson's. Richard has brewed a test beer, possibly as its house ale.

To read more, click here and here.

Mayor’s Ale now available in bottles - 03/11/09
Richard has brewed this hoppy 4.5% beer for the Mayor of Salford’s Charity Appeal, which supports St. Ann’s Hospice & Salford Young Carers’ Service.

We were delighted that the Mayor, Councillor Roger Lightup and Mayoress, Valerie Fleet, visited us at the Brewery on Wednesday for a photo shoot.

Bottles are on sale for £3 a bottle, with £1 from every sale going to the charities. They are available to buy form Buile Hill Banqueting Hall and The Court House, Worsley. Alternatively, contact Elaine in the Mayor’s office on 0161 793 3059.

Please allow 28 days for delivery.

Click here to see the article in the Salford Advertiser.

Cuckoo’s Nest now available in bottles! - 24/08/09
Bottles of this beer are available from the The King’s Arms, Bloom Street, Salford. To order from the Brewery, and for details, please email bazensbrewery@mac.com or call 0161 7080247. Also, please visit the beer’s sponsors at www.cuckoodesign.com.

Re-introducing Cuckoo’s Nest. Available in bottles - 07/08/09
We are very grateful to Cuckoo Design in Salford who are sponsoring the return of one of our 2008 specials. Cuckoo Design 2 in cask form has been delivered to The New Oxford and The Crescent, Salford, The Steam House, Urmston, The Royal Hotel, Great Harwood and The Trackside, Bury.

From next week, this hoppy, summery, refreshing 4.3% ale will be available in bottles. (For more information please email us at bazensbrewery@mac.com.)

Cuckoo Design has produced the wonderfully eye-catching bottle label and pump clip. Click here to visit their website.

Argent for Opening Times - 07/08/09
We are delighted to have been asked to brew a special beer to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Opening Times. The award-winning Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA publication has been very supportive since the very early days of Bazens’ Brewery.

Argent is 4.2% and hoppy with a hint of lychees. Available at The New Oxford, Salford, The Trackside, Bury and The Steam House, Urmston.

The summer special is Julius -20/07/09 ...
(because of the fact that the month of July was named in honour of Julius Caesar, or Andrew Flintoff as we know him today). This pale ale is 4.0%, light amber in colour with a citrusy spicy hop character.

Our bottled beer is now being served in three Croma restaurants in the Manchester area! .. and the cask version is on at Dukes 92 - 05/06/09
You can now enjoy a bottle (or two) of our beer with your meal. Flatbac and Pacific are now available permanently at Dukes 92.

Blue Bullet and Flatbac now available in bottles! - 29/01/09
We are currently selling Blue Bullet (4.5%) and Flatbac (4.2%) in 500ml bottles. We have contracted the process out this time (to Bottled in Cumbria) so it is not bottle-conditioned - no more sediment-clouding-the-beer blues! Please allow up to 21 days for delivery although they will usually be available within a couple of days if we have enough in stock. Click here to view the flyer.

Click here if you live in the Greater Manchester area and you would like to buy some!

Iechyd Da - 04/12/08
The Salford Breweries series draws to an end with the 12th of the series - Iechyd Da (Welsh for the drinking toast Good Health). At 4.6%, this beer name refers to Facer’s Brewery. The Bazens’ and Dave Facer’s breweries shared premises and plant in Salford for 2 years enabling both to expand and develop.

Dave moved Facer’s Brewery to Flint, Wales in 2005 where it continues to prosper.

Salford Festival Ale is back! - 25/09/08
The Salford Food and Drink Festival returns from 4th-12th October. There are all kinds of mouth-watering events throughout the city with something to suit everyone. Find out more by clicking here.

We are honoured to have been asked to brew the Festival Ale again this year and have opted for a lighter version this time. It is 4.1%, pale in colour, hoppy and citrusy and should appeal to both beer and lager drinkers alike!

The ale will be available in bottles and in cask but we are only producing a limited amount so if you would like to order some, please get in touch as soon as possible.

08/08 - We had the pleasure this week of introducing some more Bazens to our beers - seven of Richard’s family travelled up North to watch some cricket! We think the beer had the thumbs up - as did the Sussex cricket team (at time of writing!). Watch this space ...! (It was a draw - the last day was rained off!)

2008 Salford Breweries Series
For our 2008 specials, we are using the theme of past Salford breweries.

OverTroubled - 11th of the Salford Breweries Series. Between 1998 & 2000, Bridgewater Ales Ltd brewed at The Old Pint Pot & at 142 Chapel Street, (where the earliest editions of the Dandy & The Beano had been printed!)

Honeycombe - 10th of the Salford Breweries Series. Honeycombe Leisure installed a 5-barrel brewery adjoining the Old Pint Pot off Adelphi Street in 1996. The brewery was closed in 2000 and exported. This beer is 4.3%.

Cuckoo’s Nest - 9th of the Salford Breweries Series. Whitbread bought the Cook Street Brewery from Threlfall’s in 1967. They brewed Chester’s bitter and mild until 1988 when brewing ceased completely.

Bitter Tirade - 8th of the Salford Breweries Series. Warrington-based brewer, Greenall Whitley, bought out Salford’s own Groves and Whitnall in 1961 only to close it again in March 1971. Not content with this they ceased their own brewing operation in 1989!

Old Punch Ale - 7th of the Salford Breweries Series. In 1931, Walker & Homfray Ltd brewed an Old Punch Ale at Woodside Brewery to celebrate the bicentenary of the Salford Charter

WWW - The Watson, Woodhead & Wagstaffe Brewery was established in the 1890s, based on Irwell Street, Salford. The Company merged with Walker & Homfray Ltd in 1912.

Cook Street IPA - The Cook Street Brewery was occupied by Threlfall's from c1880 and later merged with Chester's of Ardwick.

Joule in the Crown - Salford-born James Joule, English physicist & brewer, became a manager of the Benjamin Joule Brewing Company (owned by his father) and took an active role until the sale of the business in 1854. (See Wikipedia.)

1868 - This marks the sale in 1868 of The Regent Road Brewery by Bathe and Newbold to Groves and Whitnall for £9000.

Bent Over Backwards - (Info to follow.)

After the Flood - This marks the flood of 1831 caused by a fermenting vessel at Mottram's Brewery exploding through the wall of the building and drenching the nearby streets in beer.

Check out our Knoll Street Porter
T-shirts - 04/02/08
The intricate design is by Nicola Robinson. Click here to go to our SHOP page to find out more.

Knoll Street Porter wins bronze - 04/02/08
On the 18th January the Porter won this award in the Porters and Stouts category at the SIBA North Competition.

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Black Pig Mild overall second at Richmond - 26/10/07
Black Pig Mild came second overall at the Richmond Ale Festival in North-West Yorkshire on 14th October.

Pacific wins Beer of the Festival at Battersea! - 11/08/07
We would like to thank the South West London CAMRA members and Battersea Festival organisers who came to visit our brewery on 28th July. We were presented with a wonderful certificate for winning Beer of the Festival with Pacific Bitter. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Doctor Who/Christopher Eccleston - 05/05/07
There have been various reports in newspapers and on websites about the naming of a beer we launched in February. According to these, we changed the name from Doctor’s Orders to Salford’s Star because of Christopher Eccleston objecting to the reference to Doctor Who. We would like to make it absolutely clear that this is not the case at all. We had no feedback negative or otherwise from anyone about the name. The only reason we changed it was that we couldn’t get into contact with the relevant people in time for the launch of the beer and, out of courtesy, took out the reference to Doctor Who just in case there were any objections.

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At last, the SHOP page! - 26/04/07
We can now offer our T-shirts and Polo shirts for sale over the Internet.

Click here to visit the SHOP.

We will be building the SHOP up by adding more merchandise including bottles as soon they become available.

Orders can be paid for securely by Debit or Credit card or via PayPal.

Check out Dave Facer’s new website - 30/03/07
Bragdy Sir y Fflint/Facer’s Flintshire Brewery has a new website. Click here to open.

Fourth of the Salford Series - 22/03/07
The fourth of the Salford Series is due to be ready for racking by the middle of next week. A River Runs Through It has been brewed using Cascade hops and will be 4.3%.

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New Image for Porter - 07/02/07
Following the success of the redesign of the bottle labels for the Knoll Street Porter, Nicola L Robinson has taken the new look over to the pump clips (one is shown on the right). We think they look great.

Nicola’ s website is www.nlrobinson.co.uk.

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The Salford Series, 2007 - 07/02/07
As Bazens’ is currently the only brewery in Salford, we are producing a series of twelve special beers this year to mark events and milestones in the City’s history.

Each of the series will be brewed using an identical malt grist. What will alter with each beer is the hop formulation. (The series will be evaluated and the best hop combination will be used in the new version of the Zebra Best Bitter to be released early in 2008.)

The beers will be 4.3% and brewed using classic brewing methods to produce a range of premium traditional-style bitters.

Information about each one will be posted on the main Beers page.

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Ashley's Ashes - Beer with a hint of ginger - 17/11/06
To mark the Ashes series, we are introducing a special 4.2% light beer with a subtle ginger taste. This should be available by the end of next week.

Next beers in the one-hop series - 17/11/06
The next in the series of seasonal hopped beers - My Beautiful Williamette, using Willamette hops, Centennial and currently, Green Bullet. All at 4%, light in colour and taste and each with a unique hop flavour, they have all proved to be very popular.

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Salford Food and Drink Festival 2006 - 05/10/06
The Festival takes place at various venues from 6th-16th October. Click here to find out more. We were very pleased to be asked to brew the Salford Festival Ale for the second year. This is available in cask and as bottle-conditioned in 500ml bottles. It is light and hoppy with an abv of 4%.

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Bottle-conditioned Knoll Street Porter - 13/09/06
We are now bottling a small range of our beers including the award-winning Knoll Street Porter. We commissioned Nicola L Robinson - www.nlrobinson.co.uk - to design the label for the Porter and she has created a stunning new look for the brand which is dark and mysterious, perfectly in fitting with the beer! Click here to visit Nicola’s website to have a look at her fabulous portfolio of work.

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Third and fourth of the film series released - 16/08/06
The third and fourth in the film series are Styriana and Hopalong Cascadey using Styrian and Cascade hops respectively. Both were released over July and August and the latter should be available up until the end of this month.

Second in film series available from 12th June - 06/06/06
The Good The Bad And The Fuggly 4% is brewed with only one variety of seasonal hop - this time traditional English Fuggles.

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New series of ’one-hop wonders‘ begins with On Goldings Pond - 03/05/06
We have recently had our two new
8-barrel fermenting vessels delivered. These, together with a new mash-mixing system which arrives in the next couple of weeks, will enable us to increase production. As a result, we can at last start brewing specials again.

Late April/early May sees the first of a series of 12 monthly specials (’one-hop wonders‘!). This is a single varietal seasonal hop series each linked by reference to a classic film.

The first is called ’On Goldings Pond‘ featuring the English Golding variety. All 12 of the beers will have the same 4.0% Maris Otter malt grist so it should be easier to differentiate between the hop varieties.

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New beer brewed for SMALLpond launch - 08/03/06
We have brewed a new beer for the launch of the SALFORD & MANCHESTER ARTISTS LINK website and exhibition which is being organised by Joanne Byrne (who can be contacted by email on mail@smallpond.info).

The launch and exhibition takes place on Friday March 10th at The Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 28 Hulme St, Manchester. The exhibition is then open daily from 11th-17th March.

Click here for more details about SMALLpond and times of events.

The beer, called SMALLpond, is 4.2% and is light and hoppy. So far, it has been delivered to The King’s Arms, Bloom St, Salford and in Manchester: Cask, Liverpool Road; Corbieres, Half Moon Street; The Marble Beer House, Chorlton; The Hillary Step, Whalley Range; The Marble Arch, Rochdale Road; The Font Bar, Oxford Road.

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Knoll St Porter wins a Gold award! - 26/01/06
The Porter came up trumps again last Thursday when it was announced that it had won Gold in the Stouts & Porter category of the Champion Beer of Britain awards. The announcement was made at the Winter Ales Festival in Manchester. We are delighted (and quite overwhelmed) by the news. More news when it has all sunk in!

Knoll St Porter wins a Silver award! - 18/01/06
We attended (and very much enjoyed) the SIBA North annual bash on Friday 13th January in Southport. We were very chuffed that the Knoll St Porter (5.2%) won the Silver award in the Porter, Strong Milds, Old Ales & Stouts category of the Northern Beer Competition. Click here to find out more about SIBA.