Cloudwater – ‘We don’t have a message. We have human beings’
It would have to be meditative, the music playing over the sound system at the Cloudwater Brewery in Manchester. Even the doorbell sounds like a jazz clarinet, but the ambience inside the brewing facility on the Piccadilly Trading Estate is made harmonious and mellow by the choice of tunes leaking softly from the PA system. […]
Highland no more – Swannay Brewery launch
Name, logo, visuals. All are important when forming a company – it becomes your identity much more than whatever aspirations you hold when starting out. People can’t associate with the finer points of your ethos unless you are able to talk to each customer individually, so instead you have the natural extension that is your […]
Pumpkin beer – it’s not the fault of the pumpkin
Ahh, Autumn. You can tell it’s here when several things appear at once. Russet-coloured leaves. Advent calendars in M&S. The latest viewing-figure crisis for X-Factor. Yet, just as the latter always fails to finish off the bloated, pus-riddled Cowell cash cow, another Autumnal Arrival also returns, year after year, unfailingly. I am talking, of course, […]
Mills River: Sierra Nevada’s Wonka-esque playground
I’ve been pretty lucky over the years, when I think about it – having been able to visit breweries of all shapes and sizes, and speak to the people who work there, making beer of every description. From one end of the scale, beermakers producing their wares in campervans or from one-barrel kits in distillery […]
