This coming weekend marks the third anniversary of the reopening of The Dog on Lichfield Street. The pub won Burton & South Derbyshire CAMRA Pub of the Year in both 2017 and 2018 are holding a birthday beer festival which runs from Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 May, where drinkers can sample 35 real ales, […]
Beer is good for you!
Interesting early examples of Burton beer advertising, obviously from a very different time when beer was marketed as having a positive effect on you, note the use of the words “tonic” and “health”! Images taken from Martyn Cornell’s blog Zythophile. To read the original article please click here. Sorry again Martyn! So what IS the […]
CAMRA’s Ash Corbett-Collins in conversation
Ash Corbett-Collins will be a familiar face to anyone connected to the Burton branch of CAMRA and he is about to become known at a national level too after this election to the CAMRA National Executive at last month’s AGM. Ash is proudly Burtonian and aside for a few years at university he lived in […]
Burton Bridge Beer & Cider List
The beer and cider list have just been released for next weekend’s Beer Festival with Bangers that runs at Burton Bridge Inn from Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 May. Don’t forget that there will also be wooden barrel aged and dry-hopped Old Expensive and Stairway To Heaven on sale, but supplies are very limited! […]
Burton Bridge Damson Porter!
Burton Bridge Damson Porter is now available in bottles, loving the foil. Currently in stock at Brews Of The World. @Bridge_Brewer @BOTW_Burton
Fancy brewing at Marston’s?
I am safe in saying that that every reader of The Beertonian has drunk real ale; but have you ever gone as far as brewing it? Drinking beer is one thing, but to be involved in the actual production is altogether different. Without sounding dramatic, it is an almost spiritual experience; lugging the sacks of […]
Happy second birthday to The Last Heretic
This weekend marks the second anniversary since the opening of The Last Heretic on Station Street. They are celebrating in style with a beer festival which runs from Thursday to Monday. “We have a range of beers, strong to pale, to fruit beers,” explains landlord Pete Spittles. “If the weather stays good, we will […]
Bass from the dead
Famous brewer Michael Thomas Bass was resurrected for Staffordshire Day on 1 May, with a video shot at the National Brewery Centre. Acting as a quick introduction to the town and the excellent work of NBC, Bass looks pretty good for a man who has been dead for 109 years! Mind you it got The Beertonian thinking […]
Have a few beers on The Beertonian!
Welcome to the first subscriber only competition which will run until 31 May 2018. The winner will be picked at random and will be the lucky recipient of a £10 voucher to spend at Brews Of The World; Burton upon Trent’s premier bottle shop. You could spend it on some old favourites or perhaps be adventurous […]
Marston’s early advertising (part one)
Dating from July 1938, this is the first ever advertisement for Marston’s P Quality Best Pale Ale; P Quality would be renamed Pedigree in 1952. The origin of the name Pedigree is contested; some say it was named by then Head Brewer George Peard (his face appears on the recently rebranded label), others say that an […]