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Brought to you by Leeds Beer Tours founder Mike Hampshire. Well known for wearing shorts in all weather, but do not be fooled, this is no fashion update. Welcome to your regular Leeds Beer Shorts newsletter!
Issue 78
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I begin today’s newsletter with two pieces of sobering news. It was announced at the end of last week that Jesus Moreno, co-owner of Piglove Brewing, had been reported as missing to West Yorkshire Police, with a public appeal launched to help locate him. Jesus has not been seen since Monday 1st August, with CCTV footage placing him last in the Harewood Bridge area of Leeds. A picture of Jesus is below and if any of my subscribers are able to help with enquiries, please contact West Yorkshire Police on 101. If you would like to help spread the word, please share the posts from Piglove’s Twitter, Facebook and/or Instagram pages. You can read more about Jesus’ disappearance on the Yorkshire Evening Post website. |
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It’s also with great sadness I advise that Frisky Bear Brewing in Morley has ceased trading. I mentioned a few weeks ago that the brew kit was for sale and, more recently, the brewery has been doing a fire sale of stock. Although I have not heard from the owner directly, many other people have confirmed that the doors of the brewery have closed. The social media accounts have also been removed. I can’t stress enough the pressure that small, independent breweries are under, please lend them your support. |
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In this week’s issue of Leeds Beer Shorts, Horsforth get experimentally bitter, Quirky drop Doodlebug, Wilde Child’s award triple and much more. |
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Save Our Pubs & BreweriesA campaign launched by Leeds CAMRA. Our industry is in crisis, help us lobby our MPs by signing the petition. | |
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| Beer Name of the Month July 2022 | |
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Brewery Shorts |
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Welcome to new subscribers! This section is a news digest of happenings at Leeds-based breweries in the last 7 days. The newsletter is prepared on a Thursday, so any news that breweries release between the final draft and the email arriving in your inbox on a Friday, will be included in the next newsletter. If you want to find out more about a particular piece of news, click the word that is underlined and coloured blue. Finally, if you have seen some news online this week and it isn’t mentioned below, it means I have covered it in a previous issue, or there is not enough information for it to feature yet. If you would like to access a directory of Leeds-based breweries, there’s a link at the bottom of this newsletter. |
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| Coming soon from Chevin is a yet-to-be-named Belgian-style Dubbel, made using dates. |
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| There’s a new blog about North Brewing’s Field Recordings project which explores the influences behind the idea and what to expect in the future. |
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| In new beer news, Horsforth have released a test batch to trade, of their new session bitter. For the moment, the beer is called Experimental Session Bitter and is a 3.9% ABV ale hopped with traditional British hop, Fuggles. This news came from Horsforth’s trade mailer. |
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| Popular North beer Lost Cosmonauts is now available on keg for the first time. This one is a 6% ABV double dry hopped IPA, featuring Mosaic (yum yum!) Ekuanot and Columbus hops. |
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| Just the one new ‘un from Northern Monk this week. It is the next in Amy Hastings’ tarot card Patrons Project. 34.02 The Sun is a 6.5% ABV India Pale Ale and hopped with Citra, El Dorado and Amarillo. |
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| New from Quirky this week and pouring at their brewery taproom now is Doodlebug, a 5.8% ABV hop bomb pale, hopped with Cascade, Rakau and Fuggles. |
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| So excited I was, two weeks ago, at the thought of an Ewar Woowar beer, I missed a second release from Truth Hurts. Mango #5 is a 6% ABV mango and pineapple fruited India pale ale. |
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| And, finally. A big congratulations go to Wilde Child who bagged three awards at the World Beer Awards. Instant Hobo 9% ABV Bourbon Imperial Stout won Gold and overall UK winner for the Imperial Stouts category. Brownie Huntress 7.4% ABV Chocolate Fudge Brownie Stout won Silver in the Flavoured (Coffee and Chocolate) category. Righteous Indignation 7.4% ABV New England IPA won Bronze in the Milkshake and New England category. |
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| Leeds Brewery DirectoryFind out the names, websites & social links for all 30+ Leeds-based breweries! | |
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Thank you for reading this week’s edition of Leeds Beer Shorts. If you have any feedback on the newsletter, please get in touch via email (hello@leedsbeertours.co.uk), or message me on my social media accounts. Cheers and take care!
Mike
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