Bazens’ Brewery - News

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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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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.thesurrealdemon.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.thesurrealdemon.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.


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