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Howling to open Ale Festival at Hartley Wintney nest Friday (18th July)

The 5th Annual Ale Festival, and the best so far, takes place at Hartley Wintney Football Club on Green Lane, Hartley Wintney RG27 8DL, from Friday 18th July to Sunday 20th July. A donation from the proceeds of this Ale Festival will be made to the Testicular Cancer Charity. There are 20 real ales available… Read More

Presentation to The Waggon and Horses pub in Hartley Wintney

The first ever Co-ALE-ition signed and framed certificate (designed by Chinners) was presented to Niall Scott (Landlord of the Waggon and Horses pub in Hartley Wintney) on Saturday 5th July 2014. This presentation was originally scheduled to take place on Thursday 3rd July when we went to the Waggon and Horses as part of the… Read More

Monsters In The Dark, launched across three different counties

Monsters In The Dark 5% Exile Stout is the 8th different Co-ALE-ition ale to be officially launched by the OMRLP and was brewed by Chris Gill of the Ascot Ales brewery located in Camberley (Surrey). Monsters In The Dark is a rebranded version of the multi award winning ” Anastasias Exile Stout ” which is a superb… Read More

Rochester Castle, The Crosse Keys & The Pommelers Rest

After the wonderful reception at the House of Parliament, we knew we had our day cut out. Arrangements had been made with Chris Gill one our Co-ALE-ition brewers and Derrill Carr, the brains exraordinaire behind the whole project, to visit three J. D.Wetherspoon outlets in London. The first being ‘The Rochester Castle’ in Stoke Newington,… Read More

Parliament and the Coalition Govt endorse Winning Co-ALE-ition

Howling and a few of his loyal supporters plus Knigel ” Big Fibber ” Knapp and Lisa Robins representing the Longdog brewery were invited to the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday 25 June to officially launch Longdog’s Winning Co-ALE-ition in The Strangers Bar. The party arrived at the Houses of Parliament around midday and were… Read More

Co-ALE-ition is no stranger to MPs

Five casks of Longdog’s Winning Co-ALE-ition (pumpclip attached above)were delivered to the wholesaler last week and will be delivered by them to The Strangers Bar this week, complete with the Co-ALE-ition pumpclips. Here is the provisional itinerary for this very special day (Wed 25th June 2014):- The Strangers Bar at The Houses of Parliament – we… Read More

Official launch of Monsters In The Dark

Co-ALE-ition ” Monsters In The Dark Exile Stout ”  to be officially launched in Surrey and Hampshire on Thursday 3rd July 2014. These are the provisional arrangements so far for what is likely to be our final Co-ALE-ition ale launch this year. I can also confirm there are no World Cup games scheduled on Thursday 3rd July…. Read More

Hope & Glory is now a World Cup ale

Ascot Ales Co-ALE-ition Hope & Glory has now been adopted by Howling’s local pub, The Prince Arthur in Fleet, as their World Cup ale offering. This ale will be available at the Prince Arthur for the next month and sales should go through the roof at all the England games if our ” Land of Hope… Read More

“Monsters In the Dark” brewed by Ascot Ales

This is our latest Co-ALE-tion ale (No 8 and still counting) and is an Exile Stout with a 5% abv. Monsters In The Dark is a Co-ALE-ition rebranded version of Anastasias Exile Stout which as well as being a multi award winning ale was also the 2013/14 Gold award winner in the stout category for the whole of… Read More

HowlinGale – the winning mild

Howling hosted a special Mild Month of May night at the Prince Arthur in Fleet yesterday (Wednesday). Six Milds from all over the UK were available on the night including our own Co-ALE-ition Mild — HowlinGale from the Wild Weather brewery. A competition was arranged to enable customers to vote for the best Mild on the… Read More