A good start to the year with a number of our breweries picking up awards for their beers at Regional SIBA Beer competitions. The beers below are across all beer genres and types of packaging, demonstrating great versatility in brewing methods, but mostly just how to brew good beer. We also have a number of […]

https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2019/04/24/What-s-in-a-name-Understanding-the-re-categorisation-of-bitter?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=26-Apr-2019&c=IrE7%2FRVfEO83Z%2FvGi2xIo60duNAmwjBE&p2= Does it really matter what we call our beers? Once we had a bar full of ‘Bitters’ or ‘Best Bitters’ -even when a brewery didn’t have a second best Bitter! Now however we are faced with a a bar full of pseudo IPAs simply because brewers don’t want to be seen to be old […]

We were pleased to see so many of our breweries past and present do so well in this year’s Society of Independent Brewers National Beer competition, not only in cask categories but also in bottle, keg and can. Gloucester Brewery lifted the overall champion in the cask category with their stout, but the various winners […]

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Utopian Brewing Limited have contracted with Honiton based supplier, Vigo Limited, to supply and install their new 35 Hectolitre brewery. The chosen configuration is based on a 3 vessel brew house, with a unique design by Brewing Services Ltd based around a single Mash Tun/Lauter Tun and two Coppers to provide both flexibility and allow multiple brews […]

It’s always nice to see a project which we’ve been working on for over two years finally coming to fruition, and hopefully we will be brewing and selling beer within a few weeks. A former church has been transformed into a new pub and brewery in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket – reviving a brewing tradition on the street […]

Brewing Services Ltd assist Utopian Brewing to build their new Devon based brewery Utopian Brewing Limited have contracted with Honiton based supplier, Vigo Limited, to supply and install their new 35 Hectolitre brewery. The chosen configuration is based on a 3 vessel brew house, with a unique design by Brewing Services Ltd based around a single Mash […]

http:// https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2019/02/05/Why-pubs-should-brew-their-own-beer Is it time that we had a few more ‘venues’ brewing their own beer, and why just stick at pubs? At the turn of the last century there were over 12,000 small establishments brewing their own beer, these were not wholesale brewers but pubs, street corner beer kitchens, country houses or university colleges. […]

Desert Island Beers – David Smith, Brewing Consultant Welcome to the latest episode of Desert Island Beers which this week features David Smith of Brewing Services Ltd. David has been involved with brewing for over 40 years and since starting his consultancy in 1988 has assisted over 200 breweries with technical support & Quality Assurance […]

Another brewery install going well, and to plan, and starting to look the part now all the vessels are in. It will take three to four weeks to get the vessel services in and tested, then we’ll be ready for a big clean up and the first test brews. So ‘B’ rew day is getting ever […]

UTOPIAN BREWING SELECT HONITON-BASED COMPANY TO BUILD THEIR NEW DEVON BREWERY   See https://grow-media.co.uk/exeter-news/utopian-brewing-vigo-devon-brewery/ https://www.brewersjournal.info/utopian-brewing-calls-on-vigo-to-build-devon-brewery/   Utopian Brewing Limited are pleased to announce that they have signed contracts with Honiton based Vigo Limited for the supply and installation of their new 35 Hectolitre brewery. The chosen configuration is based on a 3 vessel brew house, with a unique […]

For centuries the beer has been an accompaniment to life rather than something separate, and lately somewhat edified. So it’s good to see that whilst indulging in a little light reading you can do so over a beer. Crime novels paired with IPA perhaps, or occult paired with dark Porter or Stout or Romantic novels […]

https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2018/12/11/Cask-heroes-why-licensees-need-to-keep-stocking-cask If everything we read about craft brewing is about greater choice, then that must also include how we want our preferred tipple to be served for our enjoyment. Cask beer, despite some decline in the volumes drunk,  is still very much favoured by a high proportion of the beer drinking public, and any brewer […]

The Fundamentals of Mini-Brewing, November 2018 The completion of yet another successful Fundamentals of Mini-Brewing course and a photo of the very happy smiling attendees says it all. This is four-day intensive brewing course was designed by brewers to help other brewers improve their understanding of the brewing process and hone their basic skills as […]

We couldn’t agree more.  Over the years we have seen many new brewers come along, always inspired by others and the desire to make good beer. Long may it continue; whether labelled craft or otherwise. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/how-to-make-craft-beer-ale-homebrewing-microbrewery-a8566601.html?amp    

Brewing Services recently attended the Charles Faram annual Hop Walk and Crop Report at Pridewood Farm in Herefordshire. We were relieved to hear that most of the UK crop has coped well with this year’s unusual weather, although the more traditional, heritage varieties have struggled. Goldings, for instance, is down by about 30%. Newer varieties, […]

Trends in beer consumption have always changed and will always do so. The move to paler, more highly hopped beers followed on from the development of new hop varieties some twenty years ago, and these beers are well established and here to stay for the foreseeable future. However, some brewers decided this wasn’t sufficient and […]

David reflects on the summer’s carbon dioxide shortage and suggests that breweries may revert to recapturing this by-product of fermentation, rather than relying on third party vendors, which would also be a bonus for the planet.   https://foodbusiness.reby.media/

Although we didn’t get an overall champ we’re pleased to have helped a number of award-winning breweries along the way. Barnsley Bitter from Acorn Brewery always does well, and this year won Bronze yet again in the Bitter category. Another ‘old timer’ is Red McGregor from Orkney which won the Gold in the same category. […]

We are delighted to announce Brew York’s latest plans. Brewing Services worked on the feasibility and brewery design during inception, installation and  helping to commission the first brews. The key to their success is their promotion of the beers and the Brew York brand. At Brewing Services Ltd we have long advocated that brewers these days […]

… it’s the way that you brew it. It came as a bit of a shock the other day to be told that, as I only deal with breweries that brew conventional beers, I didn’t understand craft brewing! The comment came from a brewer who felt that as they only produced ‘craft’ beers, these beers […]

Website Beauhurst, which monitors high growth companies, offers insight about craft beer breweries.   Craft beer investment – funding Britain’s hop-heads

Pleased to be featured in Food and Drink Matters this month, and looking forward to Beer X 2019.     http://foodanddrinkmatters.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/pdf-viewer-for-wordpress/web/viewer-shortcode.php?file=http://foodanddrinkmatters.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/138.pdf&download=true&print=false&fullscreen=true&share=true&zoom=true&open=true&logo=true&pagenav=true&find=true#locale=en-US&page=&zoom=auto

It’s been our pleasure to help Cold Bath establish their 2 Brl brewplant, (which came from the Leeds Brewery Tap and was extensively refurbished, including conversion from gas to electric, before being installed over the May bank holiday). The brewery is due to be commissioned and the first brews completed in the next few weeks. […]

Beer and bottles are now coming off the production line, after two years of planning at Scottish Borders Brewery in Jedburgh. We’re delighted to see this bottling project come to fruition, despite some problems during the set-up and a few hiccups at the commissioning stage. The bottling tanks were supplied and installed by Johnson Brewery […]

One of our newer clients, Utopian Brewing has currently crowdfunded half of its target of £350,000. Initial plans are for a 3,500 litre brewhouse with potential to expand to more than 15,000 L per annum. The brewery, which will tap an underserved market for craft lager will use use exclusively British ingredients, and vows to […]

We’d like to congratulate Reunion Ales for their gold medal success for their canned Porter, ‘Pia’ (4.4%) in the Small Pack Dark Beers category, and which will now go through to the National competition in March 2019. Reunion also got a bronze medal for their other canned beer, Jump-start session IPA (4.0% ) in the Small […]

Brewing Services is delighted to announce that client Chiltern Brewery in Aylesbury, came third overall in the competition  (Bronze) for small pack and got Gold in the Strong Beers category for Bodgers Barley wine. This beer goes through to the National finals next year. They also  received bronzes in the cask Best Bitter category for […]

Since Brewing Services helped to Saltaire Brewery in 2005 the brewery has gone from strength to strength, culminating in a move to its new brewhouse last year. Saltaire have been running their famous Friday night Beer Club events for almost as long (ticket only so get in quick as it nearly always sells out), but […]

Brewing Services are in the throws of designing the new Utopian Brewery and will shortly be involved in the installation, commissioning and trial brews ready for launching their new range of lagers and craft beers. We are also working hard on new recipe ideas for this uniquely British brewery.