BEERWOLF - Wolverhampton Campaign for Real Ale

MORTON
May started out as a busy month juggling
production around two bank holiday
weekends. We provided ten ales, racking and
other equipment for a beer festival held at
the Royal Oak, Church Eaton. An event that
went very well with all of the beer selling out
by Sunday lunchtime. There may be another
festival sometime in October.
Our beers have appeared at many other
festivals during June, the main ones being
Wolverhampton, Rugby, and Keswick.
Also in June and led by Angela, we entered
a team into the Beacon Radio ‘Walk of the
Black Country’ event, raising funds for the
Promise Dreams charity. The team managed
to raise funds of £300 by way of a raffl e for a
case of bottled ales.
July was probably our busiest month of the
quarter, starting with our Mini Festival held
at the brewery. This turned out to be very
successful and will be repeated next year. We
also organized a ‘Real Ale Canal Ramble’
which was attended by 12 – 15 people joining
the walk at various stages. The total walk was
about 14 miles long ending up at the Duke
of Cambridge, Short Heath where, to end a
perfect day, a cask of Jelly Roll was just going
on to quench our thirst. Ales were also on at
Bishops Wood Beer Festival and Stafford Beer
Festival where Angela sat on the tasting panel
for judgment of the bottled conditioned ale of
the West Midlands competition.
Looking ahead, the seasonal Gregory’s Gold
(4.4%abv) will be available after being brewed
at the end of August.
We will be running the mobile real ale and
cider bar at the Codfest music festival on
Saturday 3rd September at Codsall Wood
Stables, and will be providing the beers for
the fi rst Calf Heath Marina Beer Festival
on Friday 30th September and Saturday 1st
October. Come along and visit us!
Finally, our web site has been updated with
the addition of an online shopping facility, a
Facebook “Like” button, and details of our
upcoming events, the main one being Coven
Beer Festival which runs on Friday 25th and
Saturday 26th November at the Memorial
Hall, Coven.
BROUGH’S
At present, Andy Brough is not brewing whilst
he concentrates on getting his own premises,
having applied for planning permission to use
part of the old Springfi eld Brewery site which
have been derelict for a number of years. He
is hoping to use part of the right hand end of
the Cambridge Street frontage (Cannock Road
end). The original Butler’s Visitor Centre was
located here, which Andy hopes to bring back
into use, with the brewery installed next door.
It was expected that the planning application
would be be decided in September but happily,
permission was granted in mid August.
Since then, Andy has been busy clearing
the premises and decorating ready for the
installation of the brewing equipment which
he hopes to complete by the end of August.
Brewing returns to the historic
Springfi eld site
Finally, Andy would like to thank his
customers for their patience and support
following his son’s accident.
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