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Books by the Beach Beer Naming Competition

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Books by the Beach Beer Naming Competition

“I do like to be beside the seaside” - book festival beer naming competition We are partnering with Books by the Beach again for the annual festival beer naming competition. This year’s book festival dates are Friday 7 -Sunday 9 June and the full programme is available to view www.booksbythebeach.co.uk.All authors are appearing in-person with book signings at each event. Tickets are on sale at the YMCA box office, St Thomas St, Scarborough or online http://ymcatheatre.uk/books’. The festival is attracting great headliners including bestselling novelist David Nicholls (author of Netflix hit ‘One Day’), comedian Helen Lederer, BBC’s security correspondent Frank...

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Hello Velo!

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Hello Velo!

As Hello Velo is this month's special edition beer, and we’re hosting the Sundown 60 again at the end of this month, we thought it might be nice to focus on our interest in cycling this month!  Hello Velo was our first official cycling themed beer, launched back in 2014 when the Tour de France Grand Depart came to Yorkshire. As avid cyclists and cycling enthusiasts, this was an opportunity not to be missed. One, to show our support for the region and two, to showcase and promote our beer to a new audience.  As a family we have always...

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Have you tried Rip Curl yet?

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Have you tried Rip Curl yet?

If you haven't tried our latest barrel-aged beer yet, you're in for a treat!  Rip Curl, alc 8.5% vol, has been created by ageing Marmalade Porter in whisky casks for 15 months. It is a deliciously smooth beer with complex fruity flavours from the dark, roasted, chocolate, and coffee flavours of the beer combined with the light, fruity, vanilla notes of Filey Bay. Rip Curl is the fourth in our Ebb & Flow series of beers, a collaboration between sister company Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery and us. It costs £4.56 for 330 ml and is available online here and from selected independent retailers....

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Directors' Diary - Brew 4000

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Directors' Diary - Brew 4000

Here's the latest Directors' Diary from the newsletter.  It seems to have flown by but we’ve reached a great milestone in the brewery these last weeks - our 4000th brew! Each batch of beer we produce is given a batch number (often referred to as a gyle number in the brewing industry) which is used to trace, track and monitor the beer as it passes through the brewhouse and out to trade. As a celebration, our brewers decided it would be nice to brew a special beer for this momentous occasion and so Mild Stone was born! As the name...

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Don't miss this opportunity to see the Cloughton Rat Pack and raise funds for St Catherine's Hospice!

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Don't miss this opportunity to see the Cloughton Rat Pack and raise funds for St Catherine's Hospice!

Popular Scarborough swing bands Cloughton Rat Pack and King Willy’s Big Band will perform here on 27th April. “The fabulous and ever-popular Cloughton Rat Pack and King Willy's Big Band are swinging their way to the Brewery for what promises to be an immense night of live music, dancing, great beer, and fundraising for Saint Catherine's Hospice. Tickets are selling fast, so we’re encouraging people not to delay booking,” said Michelle Savage from our events team. Tickets for the evening of live music, which starts at 7pm on Saturday, 27th April, cost £15 per person and include a pint or a...

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