Alan and Derrill, ably assisted by chief Co-ALE-ition ale tasters Steve and Joy Lawson, visited the Mash brewery in East Stratton (Hampshire) on Saturday. East Stratton is a very small picturesque village of 47 thatched cottages and the Mash brewery is situated in a barn on a farm and the only interruption to total peace… Read More

The Fleet Lions Beer Festival will be the first ever occasion when five different Co-ALE-ition ales will be available all at the very same time. The Fleet Lions Beer Festival is by far the best Beer Festival in the Fleet area and is very popular especially with the locals. All the profits go to local… Read More

The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the official end of the beer duty escalator today together with a further reduction of 1p in beer duty. Howling put forward a very strong case to CAMRA and stated that freezing the beer duty was not enough, the campaign this year should go for an actual reduction in… Read More

The Watercress Line/Mid Hants Steam Railway is running two real ale trains (RATs) in August 2014 (2nd and 30th) both of which will have a different Co-ALE-ition ale on sale. This will be the first ever time a Co-ALE-ition ale has been served on a steam train and there will be 600+ real ale drinkers on… Read More

The official launch of HowlinGale will take place at the Wild Weather brewery in Silchester (Hampshire) on the evening of Thursday 3rd April 2014 at 7pm. After the brewery launch we will be going into Reading afterwards to celebrate further at up to three different multi award winning CAMRA real ale pubs who will have HowlinGale available… Read More

Howling has officially become the first ever political party leader to become a member of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and he is already actively campaigning and making a real (ale) difference. Howling has given his full support to the campaign to freeze beer duty in the budget later this month but has gone… Read More

This year is the 30th anniversary of ‘The Official Monster Raving Loony Party’ used as a name to stand in an election. Our first election was on the 24th February 1983 when Screaming Lord Sutch stood in Bermondsey and polled 97 votes. We celebrated by having a ‘meet the brewer‘ in the Pommelers Rest which… Read More

The Hampshire News & Mail newspapers have published a great story about our sixth Co-ALE-ition beer ‘HowlinGale’ read it here

Here is the final version of the pumpclip for the latest Co-ALE-ition ale which will be officially launched in March. Derrill Carr approached Wild Weather brewery in Silchester (Berkshire) early in February to see if they would be willing to re-brand their dark old ale called “Black Night” for the Loony Party. He had identified… Read More