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
Wessex Regionalist’s and the Wild Weather Brewery
It’s nice to hear that our old friend Colin Bex has been re-elected as the leader of Wessex Regionalist Party. Colin and the Loony’s are great friends and always up for it when we meet at by-elections. He takes keen interest in our Co-ALE-ition beers and has attended every launch so far. It looks like… Read More
Last Thursday’s By-Election, Runnymead, Chertsey Meads
Well done Crazy Conservative hold Mark NUTI (The Conservative Party Candidate) 489 (42.2%) David BELL (Labour Party Candidate) 329 (28.4%) Grahame LEON-SMITH (UK Independence Party (UKIP) 327 (28.2%) Crazy CRAB (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party) 15 (1.3%)
Introduction to Wild Weather and Mike Tempest, our latest Co-ALE-ition brewery partner
Official launch of HowlinGale our 6th Co-ALE-ition ale
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
CAMRA never lies down
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