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 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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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!)
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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.
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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.
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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.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. top
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. top
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
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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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