Festivals / Bristol
Bristol Beer birthday bash
Bristol Beer Factory are celebrating their tenth birthday today with a party at the Grain Barge.
The day will also see the launch of anniversary beer Ten, an English IPA which uses a blend of Challenger, UK grown Cascade and Bramling Cross hops which the Southville brewery team say gives earthy, herbal and woody flavours.
From midday to 9pm, there will be a craft beer bar with the full Bristol Beer Factory range on offer accompanied by live bands.
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Food from Stoked will include plenty of burgers, and Copoazu Ices will be serving a rich chocolate and Milk Stout ice cream and a pale ale sorbet especially for the occasion.
The Bristol Beer Factory story began in 2003 when George Ferguson bought the defunct Ashton Gate Brewery. Production started the following year in the basement of the former fermenting block.
A few standard cask conditioned ales has now developed into more than eight different regular bottled ales, seven regular cask ales and up to five specials throughout the year.
At the 2014 Society of Independent Brewers national awards, Milk Stout won Gold in the Stouts and Porters category, and Independence won Gold in the bitters up to 4.9% and Gold overall, making it officially the best bottled beer in the UK.
The brewery is quickly running out of room to match their ambition, and expansion of their current site seems like the logical next step.
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