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The Assize of Ale is an annual event in the city where people in medieval costume take part in a pub crawl to raise money for local charities. It has its origins in the 13th century, when an Assize of Bread and Ale was used to regulate the quality of goods. The current version was resurrected in 1990/91 by the then Sheriff of York, Peter Brown ...
In 2013, York Blonde took home a 1st place in the 'Beers under 4%' category in the York CAMRA LocALE awards. [ 15 ] The brewery's 'Centurion's Ghost Ale' was named champion in the Brewing Industry International Awards 2002 and won the 'Best Strong Bitter' Gold Medal at the Great British Beer Festival in 2006 and 2007.
Hook Norton Brewery is one of the last surviving Victorian breweries in the UK. (April 2006). The Marble Arch Inn, home of the Marble Brewery in Manchester Kelham Island Brewery in Sheffield Firkins outside the Castle Rock microbrewery in Nottingham A 19th-century poster for Phipps India Pale Ale (IPA) showing the Northampton Brewery on Bridge Street, now the site of Carlsberg UK Skinner's ...
First edition in 1974. The content of the Guide is decided upon by volunteers in CAMRA's local branches. [2] Throughout the preceding year, CAMRA members anonymously rate the quality of the cellarmanship of beer in venues using CAMRA's National Beer Scoring System (NBSS) through either WhatPub or the Good Beer Guide app. [3] These scores are then reviewed by local volunteers in the spring, who ...
A year later CAMRA announced that 'Micropubs leading the way for better beer as new research shows 70% of pubs now serve real ale'. There being 53,444 pubs in the UK, of which 37,356 serve real ale. [12] Much of the growth in microbreweries can be put down to reductions in Excise Duty, an idea which began in 2002. Currently, a single producer ...
I lived in NYC for three years and visited many of the spots featured in "Home Alone 2." Scenes from the 1992 movie look similar to NYC today. Some places, though, closed or never existed.
1899 map showing number of public houses in a district of central London. Ale was a native British drink before the arrival of the Roman Empire in the first century, but it was with the construction of the Roman road network that the first pubs, called tabernae (the origin of modern English "tavern"), began to appear.
Brian, 3.9% – a pale ale; Riggwelter, 5.7%; Golden Sheep, 4.7% – originally produced specially for Tesco, as part of their "Finest" range; Yorkshire Square Ale, 5.0% – named after a particular fermentation system originated over 200 years ago using double decked vessels called "squares" made of slate or stone.