Tag: Bristol Beer Factory

• March 23, 2011

  Bristol brewer feels squeeze as it prepares for new Budget beer price hike

  

  Wednesday 23 March is the day the budget is announced in the UK and I took a look at how the beer duty increase was set to affect Bristol brewers. By Joanna Papageorgiou, published on Bristol247.com Across the Floating Harbour from the tourist attraction, the ss Great Britain, are two pubs which sell locally produced […]
• May 13, 2010

  Bristol Beer Factory, Cheese Taste Off

  Apple bruised pigs and fromage baguettes, as the source of the phrase ‘cheesy’ music, were just a couple of the tales we were told at yesterday’s cheese tasting at the Grain Barge. For an event that promoted itself as cheese and alcohol based we got to hear a lot. This latest event was the third […]
• April 2, 2010

  Grain Barge, Chocolate and Ale

  A rainy, windy and, more than a little, chilly Thursday was the backdrop for this curiously mixed tasting. The day after was a holiday, however, and the location only a few hundred metres from home so a little discomfort wasn’t much of a sacrifice. My friends Kristine and Andy found out about the Chocolate and […]
• March 29, 2010

  Grain Barge, Beer and Chocolate

  The Bristol Beer Factory is celebrating Cask Ale Week from 30 March until 5 April and they want you to celebrate with them. The specials on offer are drink based: buy three Bristol Stout and get one free, and there’s a tasting. The tasting is of Beer and Chocolate, the price is £8 and the […]