Windermere Pale was awarded silver in the largest catagory at SIBA's Great Northern Beer Festival and Competition.

The Competition took place on Thursday the 28th of October, 282 different cask ales and 120 bottled beers were entered by SIBA North member breweries. These were then blind tasted and judged in thier various different catagories.

The competition was a great success, not just for Windermere Pale, but was recognised by all involved as being very well organised and run.

The SIBA Great Northern Beer Festival is taking place on October the 28th to the 30th in The Palace Hotel (Manchester).

With 300 different cask beers allserved in the Northern mannerthrough a hand pulland live music throughout Saturday it promises to be a very exciting event.

Beer will be provided by Siba North breweries and live music will be performed by:

In order of appearance.

The Curragh Sons -Irish band.

The Polkanauts -Polka rock from Colorado.

Dr Butlers Hatstand Medicine Band - Manchester 8 piece Blues/Ragtime/Jazz band.

The Baghdaddies - blistering brass, rousing 5 part vocal harmonies and a rhythm section that you can’t keep still to.

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Hawkshead Brewery won ‘Small Business of the Year’ at the Westmorland Gazette business awards on Friday the 24^th of November.

Hooray!

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Our Beer Hall team were charged with the task of delivering the perfect pint at the Westmorland Show this year and on the day they more than stepped up to the challenge.

The Beer Hall team lead by Katie Rome won the contract to run the bars for the Westmorland Show for the first time this year, providing freshly poured drinks from two large bars and bottled ale in the Food Court to compliment the local artisan food on offer.

The beer was served fresh and cellar cool having been stillaged in our mobile cellar on site for the whole week. Wine was served chilled and an array of spirits and soft drinks were on offer to cater to every taste.

Everyone involved recognised the running of the bars as an overwhelming success, with happy customers receiving their drinks almost immediately and no real queues to speak of!

The Beer Hall team will be there again next year and look forward to providing a swift refreshing drink to all comers; let’s just hope the weather is as reliable!

The Real Ale Bar at Kendal Calling 2010 was a big big success with Hawkshead Brewery's beers very much part of that. Lakeland Lager, Windermere Pale and Hawkshead Bitter all were on fine form, with Lakeland Lager the first cask of any brewery to run out on the Thursday night. Luckily we had plenty in reserve, but we still had to bring in more supplies on Saturday, only to completely run out on Sunday lunchtime!

“Lakeland Gold” won bronze and “Red” a silver in the largest bottled beer competition in Britain,  which attracted 500 entries from 31 countries.

Winners are entitled to use the instantly recognisable International Beer Challenge symbol of excellence. The competition organisers say their  purpose is to celebrate and recognise the exceptional craftsmanship of brewers from around the world.

“Lakeland Gold has won a lot of awards, but I am particularly glad that our “Red” is now getting recognition as well,” said Hawkshead Brewery’s Alex Brodie. “ pale beers continue to be the fashion, but we keep banging the drum for coloured beers, like “Red.”