Bollington Brewing News

Item: Champion Beer of Cheshire Presentation
Saturday 6th Feb - 4PM
Description: Brewery tour from 1:30pm - £10 including food and beer.
All welcome.
Location: The Vale Inn
Item: SIBA Award for Bollington
Two Silvers
Description: At the recent Society of Independant Brewers (SIBA) North Region awards Bollington took two more accolades for our old favousites Bollington Best and Oat Mill Stout. Both got Silver awards in their catagories of Best Bitters and Porters, Strong Milds, Old Ales & Stouts respectively.
The photo below shows a happy me (Lee) on the right, receiving one of the awards from Andrew Whalley who is head brewer at York Brewery and Chairman of our SIBA regional.
The awards were held at the Scaribrick Hotel in Southport and a great night was had by all!!
Click the link below to see the full results.
Location: Bollington Brewing Co.
Link: www.siba.co.uk
Item: FSB Brewery Tour
Federation of Small Businesses
Brewery Tour
Description: We recently ran a brewery tour for the Federation of Small Businesses. We had 63 people for the evening and after a couple of hours in the brewery drinking free beer and taking the tour they headed back to the pub for a two course meal by the fire.
If you would like more information about the FSB click the link below.
For more information about brewery tours ring us on 01625 575380 or email kirsten@bollingtonbrewing.co.uk.
Location: Bollington Brewing Company
Link: www.fsb.org.uk
Item: Award Winning Ales
Champion Beer of Cheshire and more ….
Bollington Best
Description: After 15 months in business we are proud to announce a bumper week of awards in the life of Bollington Brewing Company.
At the Champion Beer of Cheshire Competition held recently at the Nantwich Beer Festival not only did we win the top prize of ‘Champion Beer of Cheshire’ with Bollington Best, we also took second place with Oat Mill Stout.
Then a few days later we heard some more good news. At the Sheffield Steel City Beer Festival we won a Gold with White Nancy in the ‘Best Bitter’ category and Gold for Bollington Nights in the ‘Milds’ category. To add to that we also took joint Silver with White Nancy as the overall Champion of the Festival and Bronze with Bollington Nights.
Thanks to everyone for all your support over the last year.
Champion Beer of Cheshire
Gold - Bollington Best
Silver - Oat Mill Stout
Sheffield Steel City Beer Festival
Silver - White Nancy
Bronze - Bollington Nights
Location: Bollington Brewing Co.
Email: lee@bollingtonbrewing.co.uk
Item: Halloween Beer FestiVale
Friday 30th October to 1st November
Description: It’s FestiVale time again and this time there will be a Halloween theme including our very own spooky brew Fright Nights!!
A list of beer will appear here shortly and this time we will also be using our new cask cooling system to ensure all beers are kept at the perfect temperature and in the perfect condition.
More details to follow …….
Location: The Vale Inn
Email: lee@valeinn.co.uk
Item: Made in Cheshire
And proud of it!!
MIC
Description: We are delighted to be able to use the official Made in Cheshire logo on all our products.
Location: Cheshire
Item: CARLELSBERG
Congratulations
Carlelsberg
Description: On the 8th of August 2009 our friends Carl & Eleanor got married in Suffolk. They asked us to bring some beer and create a special pump clip for them. This was the result.
It was a fantastic day and the beer went down well.
Congratulations to them both.
Location: Suffolk
Item: Get our range of Bollington bottled beer
Limited edition and tasting great!!
Description: We now have four new beer bottles available;
Bollington Blonde : 4.1% - A pale summer beer, with sweetness and hops, very refreshing
Bollington Gold : 4.2% - A golden ale with plenty of hop flavour, also very refreshing
Mild Nights : 3.9% - Dark mysterious mild in a bottle
Chilli Nights : 3.9% - Our now legendary dark chilli beer, ideal for making an authentic mexican chilli-con-carne
3 bottle presentation packs £7.50
12 bottle case £25
Location: The Vale Inn
Item: Beer Naming Competition
And the winner is ……….
Description: As you can probably see from the pump clip the winning name is “Long Hop”. This is a cricketing term used to describe a short delivery which is not especially fast, making it easy for the batsman to hit because he has plenty of time to observe the speed and direction of the ball after the bounce and choose his shot accordingly.
We also liked the association with the beer, and the hops we use in this beer are Goldings and Cascade.
We had 204 entries to the competition and 12 people suggested Long Hop so we will draw two names out of the hat and both will get a voucher for a free 18 pint beer box.
Thank you so everyone who entered and we hope you’ll come down and try the beer. It will be on the bar this evening.
Location: The Vale Inn
Item: Bollington on its travels
Where in the world
Description: We have so far sent bottles to America and Ireland.
As well as that you can find our beer at various festivals and pubs round the country. Recent reports have been from the Camden Beer Festival, Reading Beer Festival and one we went to was the Kro2 Beer festival over Easter Weekend in Manchester.
Let us know where else you’ve had our beer.
Location: Everywhere
Email: lee@bollingtonbrewing.co.uk
Item: Bollington Best
4.2%
Description: Formerly First Brew this is our first ale and still the most popular.
A delightfully hoppy bitter. Clean & crisp with a very light golden colour and a refreshing bitter aftertaste.
Location: Bollington Brewing Co.
Item: Bollington Nights
3.9%
Nights
Description: A very dark beer, but not too heavy, just what we like at the Vale.
This is a smooth traditional dark ale with a light flavour and aroma, but a definite bitterness.
Location: Bollington Brewing Co.
Item: Dinner Ale
4.3%
Dinner Ale
Description: Deep copper coloured beer with a fresh slightly fruity nose, a traditional style bitter with a dry hoppy finish.
The name comes from a beer formerly brewed by Heaver Brothers the last brewery before us 80 years ago in Bollington.
Location: Bollington Brewing Co.
Item: FestivAle 2009
4.2%
Description: A special recipe brewed for the Bollington Festival.
A light refreshing summer drink. A pale colour but with plenty of body and good hoppiness.
Location: Bollington Brewing Co.
Item: Ginger Brew
4.0%
Ginger Brew
Description: A classic ginger bitter, dark golden hoppy bitter flavour, a smooth taste with fresh root ginger added at the end.
Item: Happy Valley
4.0%
Happy Valley
Description: A creamy golden fresh session bitter with a clean after taste and good body.
Happy Valley is the name Bollington is known by its residents.
Item: Oat Mill Stout
5.0%
Oat Mill
Description: An Oatmeal Stout with a twist. A hoppy bitter taste keeps the sweetness in check and allows for a great dark beer.
Bollington is know for it’s Mills and Oat Mill Stout has a great ring to it!
Item: White Nancy
4.1%
Description: Very pale light bitter with a good hoppiness and light body.
White Nancy is the famous folly on top of the Kerridge Ridge which overlooks Bollington.

Bollington Brewing Drinks


Current Ales
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A list of all the Bollington Brewing ales that are currently in production.
Name: Fright Nights
Percentage: 4.0%
Units: 2.3 per 568ml (Pint)
Description: A Halloween limited edition beer, at this time of year the streets a filled with ghosts, witches and other scary manifestations.
Our beer however is pure, with just a deep brown colour and good bitterness and as with all our beers great body.
Brewery: Bollington Brewing
Location: Bollington, Macclesfield, Cheshire