Loony Party pub crawl in Reading Town Centre on Thursday 3rd April
Mike Tempest (Owner and Head Brewer of the Wild Weather brewery) organised a Loony Party pub crawl straight after the official HowlinGale launch event at the Wild Weather brewery. Other people unable to come to the launch at the brewery joined us on the Pub Crawl. We started off at The Alehouse, which had been… Read More
HowlinGale official launch event at the Wild Weather brewery (Silchester)
The launch of the OMRLP’s 6th Co-ALE-ition ale took place last Thursday (3rd April) night at the Wild Weather brewery in Silchester (Hants). The event was brilliantly hosted by Mike Tempest (Owner and Head brewer of Wild Weather) and his wife Karen (in charge of Sales and Accounts at Wild Weather). There were around 20 people at… Read More
East Stratton Ale Festival – 3/4/5 May 2014
Derrill and Alan met Jon Coward, the Landlord of the Northbrook Arms last Saturday afternoon. Jon invited Alan to attend his Ale Festival in early May (3/4/5 May) as a VIP guest and gave us the opportunity to sell Co-ALE-ition ales over the three days to raise funds for the OMRLP for their 2015 General… Read More
HowlinGale official launch – Thursday 3rd April 2014
7pm – Official launch of HowlinGale at the Wild Weather brewery in Silchester (Unit 19, Easter Park, Benyon Road, Silchester RG7 2PQ). 8pm – Leave Wild Weather brewery for Reading Town Centre 8.30pm (latest) – Arrive at The Alehouse (2, Broad Street, Reading RG1 2BH). 9.15pm (latest) – Arrive at the Greyfriar (53, Greyfriars Road,… Read More
Monster Mash
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
Government: It’s All So Very Up In The Air
David Cameron was out for the afternoon in a hot air baloon,intent of having a look at the flooding situation, when he realized he was……….lost. He spotted a woman below him, he descended a bit, then a bit more, and shouted, “Excuse me,can you help? I promised a friend I would meet him a hour… Read More
Fleet Lions Ale Festival – Sat 9th August
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
Howling calls it right in today’s Budget
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
Co-ALE-ition on the Watercress Line, Mid Hants railway, ‘Real Ale Train’.
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