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Breweries
The Durham Branch area includes 3 local breweries: The Durham Brewery, Hill Island and The Consett Aleworks. Each brewery has a Liason Officer who is reposnsible for communicating with the brewery and providing updates on the brewery to Branch Meetings and also to CAMRA Regional officers.
Brewery Liason Officers are elected by the Branch as vacancies arise.
The Durham Brewery
The 14-year-old Brewery continues to produce a varied range of well-hopped ales despite the difficult trading conditions caused by a swingeing rise in taxation and the soaring cost of raw materials. As well as their cask range, beers are available in bottles and 5 litre mini-casks and sold throughout the North East. For a list of outlets, visit the website at www.durham-brewery.co.uk
This is a ten barrel plant but with a 20 barrel Mash Tun for the stronger ales, four 10-barrel fermenters and three 10-barrel conditioning tanks for bottled beer with a warm room for bottle conditioning.
Current Brews:Durham Ruby Mild 3.7 Magus 3.8(p) Definitive 3.8(p) Bonny Lass 3.9(p)
White Gem 3.9 Black Velvet 4.0(p) White Gold 4.0(p) Spring Goddess 4.1
Amarillo 4.1(p) Citrus Pale Ale 4.2 White Velvet 4.2 Dark Secret 4.3
Spring Bunny 4.3 White Crystal 4.3 Flying Fox 4.4 White Bishop 4.8
Pink Panther 5.0 Evensong 5.0 Sanctuary 6.0
(p) Signifies brews permanently available
Hill Island
Michael Griffin, the ex-Cathedrals brewer is now in his second year brewing at Fowler's Yard, in the city, home of the first ever Durham Beer Festival. His first brew, Miner's Gala Bitter at 3.7%, is very similiar to the defunct Cathedrals Bitter, and is sometimes available at the Beamish Mary, No Place and the Ship Inn at Middlestone Village. Michaels beers should soon be available in the Fitzgerald chain of pubson a regular basis.
Consett Aleworks
Consett Aleworks is a 5 barrel plant started in 2006 at the rear of the Grey Horse Pub, weekly production is usually around 15 barrels.
more info can be found at http://www.thegreyhorse.co.uk/
White Hot and Red Dust will be appearing at this years Durham Beer Festival 28th-30th Aug, White Hot will also be at the GBBF this year.
Permanent brews are:
Red Dust 4.5% ABV
White Hot 4% ABV
Steel Town 3.8% ABV
Cast Iron 4.1% ABV
Durham Brewery: Contact: Steve Gibbs, 0191 3771991: Fax, 0191 3770768
www.durham-brewery.co.uk ::
gibbs@durham-brewery.co.uk
CAMRA Brewery Liason Officer; Eddie Turner 07970 803776;
edwardturner589@msn.com
Hill Island Brewery: Contact: Michael Griffin, 0191 3832096; 07740 932584
(mobile)
CAMRA Brewery Liason Officer; Neil Shaw; blo@nshaw.co.uk
Consett Aleworks (Pub Brewery):
www.thegreyhorse.co.uk ::
paul@thegreyhorse.co.uk
CAMRA Brewery Liason Officer ; Garth Trudgill; garthtrudgill@btinternet.com
Yard of Ale (Pub Brewery): Surtees Arms, Ferryhill
CAMRA Brewery Liason Officer ; Arthur Corner; c/o chair@camradurham.org.uk
The views expressed on this website are not necessarily those of the National CAMRA Ltd