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The less said about the last year and a bit, the better. We’ve all struggled, we’ve all had to face new problems and some recurring problems under a different guise. We’ve all realised as to how much we took our little freedoms for granted. Here at the brewery, we’ve continued working in a reduced fashion all through the various lockdowns and it’s to you specifically, that we’d like to thank. Without your continued support then I wouldn’t be here writing this while waiting for the mash to finish its stand. Whether you used the online shop that we eventually got...

Let me tell you a story. A few years ago, at one of the SIBA gatherings that we should totally go to more but can't as we have to work to survive; a Managing Director of a (fairly) local brewery stood up to talk to the assembled brewers. This brewery had recently passed the benchmark where they no longer qualified for Small Brewers Relief. He told the audience that Small Brewers Relief was inherently unfair and that it should be scrapped so that every brewery would be on an equal footing.I did note that he'd passed the threshold so they...

After much faffing, quarantining, procrastination, head-scratching, swearing, researching and general skullduggery, we have finally reopened our webpage with the additional option of buying your beer online from us! Not that there's much to choose from at the moment as we were completely wiped out during the lockdown but we hope to be back to a decent capacity before very long. We're still getting used to the ins and outs of it but, rest assured, we'll get to grips with it before long. So if you do encounter any problems, then please drop us an email (or call us as we're...

We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and, hopefully, a very Happy New Year for 2020! We apologise for not updating this webpage quite as often as we'd have liked to but we do have some great things planned! No spoilers but stay tuned to the page as we're hoping to implement the first of our changes by Easter!

National Hero is out for the Grand National. It's in many Southport pubs NOW! Brewed in memory of that champion Red Rum.