Brewers’ Society Silver Medal for Lakeland Lager
6 February 2012
 Lakeland Lager won a silver medal in its first competition – the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) annual keg beer contest.
The competition, in its second year, was started because of the growing number of local breweries now making keg as well as cask beer.
Lakeland Lager (5% abv) is our only keg product. “We decided to offer a keg beer so that lager drinkers as well as real ale drinkers could have a local alternative,” said Managing Director Alex Brodie. “It has gone down well. We are delighted that the experts like it too, and judged it worthy of a silver medal, against some very accomplished competition.” |
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Our Newest Brew: Dry Stone Stout
10 January 2012
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 Dry Stone Stout, our latest beer, celebrates one of the defining features of the Lake District landscape - dry stone walls.
We have been actively involved in promoting traditional walling skills. In May 2011 we sponsored the building of a brand new dry stone wall along the River Kent opposite the brewery. It was built by 50 wallers as part of a competition organised by the Dry Stone Walling Association, which works with bodies like the National Trust and Friends of the Lake District to preserve and revive dry stone walling. Also the husband of our Sales Manager is an accomplished dry stone waller.
“Lakeland dry stone walls are solid, traditional, dependable and rely totally on the skill of the craftsman,” said Sales Manager, Anne Jones. “This new Stout is a traditional dry stout, an enduring and dependable beer style, and it’s as dark as Lakeland slate. We think the two things go together rather well” she said.
Dry Stone Stout (4.5% abv) is available at the brewery tap, The Beer Hall in Staveley and at various other outlets in the North West including Ulverston, Carlisle, Wigan, Manchester, Bury and Lytham St Annes. | |
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NZPA Now in Bottle
10 January 2012
 NZPA (New Zealand Pale Ale) 6% abv is now available in bottle as part of a limited edition bottling.
NZPA since it was first produced for cask has been incredibly popular, it’s bronze medal at the SIBA North beer competition in October highlighting it’s popularity. The beer style, highly hopped strong pale ale, is well suited to bottle so we responded to customer’s demands and hand bottled a select batch here at the brewery.
The bottle-conditioned beer (which was dry hopped in conditioning for added aroma) is available to purchase at The Beer Shop in 500ml bottles, priced at £4 each and limited to 6 per customer. |
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The Beer Shop - now full of NEW BRITISH - great beers, great prices.
8 December 2011We are continually sourcing new beers for The Beer Shop, located within The Beer Hall. Alongside our own bottled beers the shop boasts a great selection of British craft beers and classic Belgians.
The latest addition to the range is a limited edition bottling of our NZPA 6% abv. The 500ml bottles are priced at £4 and are limited to 6 per customer.
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Bath Ales Dark Side
Bath Ales Festivity
Bath Ales Gem
Bath Ales Ginger
Buxton Axe Edge
Buxton Black Rocks
Buxton SPA
Buxton Tsar
Cotswold Dark Lager
Cotswold Lager
Cotswold Wheat Beer
Dark Star Expresso Stout
Dark Star Sun Burst
Harviestoun Ola Dubh 12yo
Harviestoun Ola Dubh 18yo
Kernal NZ Cascade
Kernel Centennial Simcoe
Kernel Citra
Kernel Super Alpha Centennial
Kernel Super Alpha Pacif Jade
Mallinsons Simcoe |
Mallinsons Station Best
Marble Lagonda
Marble Tawny
Marble Weizen
St Austell Admirals Ale
St Austell Cornish Block
St Austell Smugglers Ale
St Austell Smugglers Grand Cru
Thornbridge Jaipur IPA
Thornbridge Kipling
Thornbridge Raven
Thornbridge Versa
Williams Bros Ginger
Williams Bros Joker
Magic Rock Human Canonball
Magic Rock Rapture
Magic Rock Dark Arts
Summer Wine Diablo
Summer Wine Pale Ale
Summer Wine Expresso Stout
Summer Wine Red Hop Ale |
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Flying Dog Imperial Porter
Little Creatures Pale Ale
Moosehead
Sierra Nevada
Steinlager
Zywiec
Achel Trappiste Blond
Cantillon Gueuze
Cantillon Rose De Gambrinus
Chimay Blue
Chimay Red
Chimay White
De Konnick
Delirium Blonde
Duvel
Erdinger Alcoholfrei
Erdinger Weiss
Floris Chocolate |
Floris Honey
Frank Book Gueuze
Jever Pils
Kuppers Kolsch
La Chouffe
Leffe Blonde
Orval
Rochefort 10
Rochefort 6
Rochefort 8
Rodenbach
Scaldis 12 Ambre
Timmermans Framboise
Timmermans Kreik
Timmermans Lambic
Timmermans Peche
Vedett Blond
Westmalle Tripel | |
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Cumbrian SIBA North Medallists on the bar Friday!
7 December 2011The Cumbrian SIBA North Medallist beers will be on draught at The Beer Hall from Friday 9th December.
SIBA's (The Society of Independent Brewers) North region beer competition was held in Manchester on Thursday 27th October. The North is the biggest of the 7 SIBA regions - 80 breweries entered a total of 254 beers into the competition, judging was by blind tasting and 8 beers from Cumbria were awarded medals in various categories.
The 8 award-winning beers are:
Coniston - Infinity 6%
Cumbrian Legendary Ales - Langdale 4%
Hardknott - Infra Red 6.2%
Hawkshead - Windermere Pale 3.5% and NZPA 6%
Stringers - IPA 5.5% and Mutiny 9.3%
Watermill - Collie Wobbles 3.7% |
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Hawkshead Brewery Wins 3 Golds
16 November 2011
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Three of our beers have been crowned Champion Beers of Cumbria 2011 by CAMRA (The Campaign for Real Ale).
Hawkshead’s Lakeland Gold won the Best Bitter category for the third year running, Brodie’s Prime the best Porter for the second year and Bitter won the Bitter category, in the annual awards for Cumbrian beers, announced at the Beer Lovers Dinner at the Castle Green Hotel, Kendal on Friday 11th November.
We won the top prize in 3 out of the 10 cask beer categories, voted on by CAMRA branches in the North West region. Windermere Pale was also shortlisted in the Bitter category but was beaten to the gold medal by Hawkshead Bitter.
These awards follow our recent success two weeks ago in Manchester where Windermere Pale was awarded Overall Champion at the SIBA North Beer Competition.
Our Sales Manager, Anne Jones said “Hawkshead Bitter is at the centre of everything we do so it’s always good to have our hard work recognised by CAMRA members”. |
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The Hop Wall
16 November 2011
| Stage one in the development of The Beer Hall is complete. The upstairs area now has a feature wall, showcasing one of our key raw ingredients in the brewing process – hops. Hops give our beer aroma, flavour and bitterness. Much of the character of a beer comes from hops so the varieties we select (of which some are named on the wall) define the flavour of the beer. |
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The original photos of the hops were taken by Tom Chown, Director of Digitom Ltd at Stocks Farm, Worcestershire where Hop Merchants Charles Faram & Co source many of their hops. Design and implementation by S.I.D Designs, Staveley. |
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Movember
15 November 2011
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It's Movember, the month formerly known as November and now dedicated to growing moustaches and raising awareness and funds for men's health; specifically prostate and testicular cancer. To show our support many of our male members of staff have shaved and are now nurturing their facial hair to produce a manly moustache.
Our Hawkshead Brewery Mo Bro’s are: Team Captain: Ben Ray (Sales), Kester (Head Chef), Mike W (Beer Hall) and from Brewing: Matt, Mark J, Martin, Dave & Robin.
1 in 9 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime and this year 37,000 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed. If you’d like to contribute to our fundraising efforts please log onto the Hawkshead Brewery Movember page to donate.
If you want to go old school you can write a cheque payable to 'Movember', reference ‘Hawkshead Brewery’ and Registration Number 1833998 and send it to: Movember Europe, PO Box 68600, London, EC1P 1EF.
If you'd like to find out more about the type of work you'd be helping to fund by supporting Movember, take a look at the Programmes We Fund section on the Movember website: http://uk.movember.com/about |
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BEST BEER IN THE NORTH
2 November 2011
Windermere Pale is OVERALL CHAMPION of the SIBA North beer competition.
It won DOUBLE GOLD - as champion in the biggest category, Standard Bitters & Pale Ales and as overall champion of the competition, which was contested by 80 northern breweries who entered 254 cask beers.
Judging was by blind tasting.
Windermere Pale now goes to the SIBA National competition, contested by the category winners from all 7 regions of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA.)
The North region is the largest region.
Windermere Pale at 3.5% abv is hoppy and refreshing, pale gold in colour with a long bitter finish with hints of grapefruit, the fruity hop flavours come from a medley of traditional and modern hops. Earlier this year it won a silver medal in the Brewing Industry International Awards.
Managing Director of Hawkshead Brewery, Alex Brodie says:
“Windermere Pale is a very popular beer, it has a lot of fans. It has become the best selling beer in The Beer Hall at the brewery. It is one of those beers that is winning converts to real ale. I’m so glad competition judges like it too.”
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The Beer Hall - One of Britain's 210 Great Pubs!
2 November 2011
The Beer Hall at Hawkshead Brewery has been included in the Campaign for Real Ale’s latest publication, CAMRA’s Great British Pubs. The book, published 1st November 2011, has taken on the ambitious task of celebrating everything great about the British pub! It is the definitive collection of the must-visit pubs that can be found from the tip of Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands.
Compiled by internationally-acclaimed beer writer Adrian Tierney-Jones (1001 Beers to Try Before You Die, Sunday Times Travel Magazine) the book's categorised reviews detail over 200 public houses of all shapes and sizes that represent the best of this British institution.
CAMRA's Great British Pubs (RRP £14.99) is available to buy from the CAMRA shop (click here), and major book retailers.
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