– Photos / Meet The Brewer with Buxton – Monday 28th May
The sun was out and the beer was flowing at yet another sold out event.
Buxton brewery brought their wonderful beers for us to sample, they included Imperial Black, Axe Edge, Wild Boar, Buxton Best and Moor Top. Buxton also gave everyone a leaving present in the form of a bottle of Tsar (Imperial Russion Stout), very tasty indeed.
Of course the evening wouldn’t be complete without some cheese! This was kindly supplied by the Hartington Cheese Shop.
Thanks to all who came down and especially Buxton brewery. Cheers!
– Meet The Brewer with Doug Odell / Monday 11th June 2012 – 7pm
SOLD OUT
Doors 6pm / Event runs 7pm – 9pm
We are real happy to host an ‘intimate’ evening with Mr Doug Odell, limited to 50 places. Tickets are on sale NOW.
/ Brewery info
Doug, Wynne and Corkie Odell started their brewing odyssey in 1989 in a converted 1915 grain elevator located on the outskirts of downtown Fort Collins. Odell’s was just the second microbrewery to open in Colorado. No one knew what “craft beer” was in those early days of the industry and we had to educate our first customers on what exactly it was we were trying to sell them. Not home brew, or worse, bathtub brew, but small batch, hand-crafted, commercially brewed distinctive beers. Our success was immediate.
Doug brought his passion for crafting great beer to our new brewery. Starting in his kitchen in Seattle, Doug had spent ten years refining recipes and playing with brewing processes until he settled on two perfect recipes, although not yet the names – 90 Shilling and Easy Street Wheat. After brewing and kegging his beer, Doug would deliver it, pick up empties, and make sales calls out of his old mustard-colored Datsun pickup. Corkie cleaned out the tanks and Wynne paid the bills.
Flash forward to 1994 and you’ll find us in our newly constructed brewery, a vast 8,000 square feet, working hard to brew 8,300 barrels of beer. Two short years later, we amended our draft-only focus, added a bottling line and started churning out six packs for the drink-at-home fans. Numerous small expansions ensued. By 2009, having outgrown every inch and aspect of our brewery, we doubled our plant size to 45,000 square feet and our beer sold to 45,000 barrels – one barrel per square foot!
Today we’re 60 co-workers strong and still dedicated to sharing our passion for delicious beer with our ever-growing family of fans. Experimentation with beer recipes, barrel aging and yeast cultivation coupled with our dedication to our customers and each other keep our creative juices flowing and our reputation for excellent, innovative beers growing.
– Meet The Brewer with Buxton Brewery / Monday 28th May 2012
Meet The Brewer with Buxton Brewery
Monday 28th May 2012
SOLD OUT
Doors 5.30pm / Event runs 6.15pm – 8pm
Buxton Brewery began brewing in 2010 and is based in the famous Spa town in Derbyshire’s Peak District, establishing itself as world-class craft brewery with a growing reputation for producing flavourful, aromatic and high quality craft beers.
The brewery produces batches of around 800 litres of beer at a time, and has a portfolio of seventeen distinct beers, with more being added regularly. The beers range from their tasty and aromatic 3.6% Pale Ale, ‘Moor Top’ all the way up to their sublime 9.5% Russian Imperial Stout ‘Tsar’. The brewers’ favourite style is India Pale Ale, of which they brew five variants.
Working at maximum capacity, the small group of committed beer lovers produce 30,000 pints of ale per month, and are enjoying rapid growth in sales close to home, nationally and internationally. An expansion project which will double the capacity of the brewery is nearing completion, with the final pieces of equipment due to be commissioned by the end of April. The brewery is regularly picking up awards and plaudits from beer drinkers all over the world and sends beer as far afield as the US and New Zealand.
– Photos / Meet The Brewer with Hardknott – Monday 30th April
I know we keep saying this, but our Meet The Brewer events seems to be getting better and better! MASSIVE thanks to all at Hardknott for providing a very entertaining evening.
We enjoyed beers including Cool Fusion, Continum, Code Black, Colonial and a very special 3 year Old Infra Red! Not forgetting the fabulous sausage and cheese from Melville Tyson butchers in Cumbria.
Thanks to all who attended and made it another sell out success. See you all at the next Meet The Brewer with Buxton brewery on Monday 30th May.
