Ritchies have announced the release of a special edition Christmas Ale to add to the Samsons range of beer kits. "Bah Humbug" is a 40 pint Christmas Stout made with 1kg of sugar. Only 500 of these kits are being produced and we are only likely to have a limited allocation when we put in our next order

Munton's have started to phase in new packaging for the Woodforde's range of 2 can beer kits. The new packaging is designed to produce a much more consistent "branding" across the whole of the range

As the Scottish Export beer has now been withdrawn from the Samson beer kit range, we have taken on the Brewmaker Scottish Heavy kit to replace it. While writing up the description for the website, we noticed that it had 80/- on the label. We have seen this before in the recipe for Caledonian 80/- that is in Graham Wheeler's book and knew that it had something to do with an ancient tax system, but seeing it again to day encouraged us to look it up to see exacly what it was.

We received our latest batch of St Peter's Golden Ale this afternoon and have put one on to ferment. In view of the warm weather at the moment, I expect it to be ready to barrel by the beginning of next week and be ready for drinking

We have now returned from our short break to York and Leeds and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Having booked the Travelodge rooms in mid February we are able to take advantage of several of their £19.00 per night offers and use them as an excuse to have a short break. Rather than try and park in York,

The first stock of the St Peter's Golden Ale is now in stock. It is a two can, 36 pint homebrewing kit that is formulated to produce "a highly distinctive light golden ale" of approximately 4.7% ABV, according to Muntons.

Ritchies recently advised us that they had a small number of 6 bottle kits of several of the Selection International Series wine kits available. We have managed to obtain 1 box each of the Spanish Rioja, Australian Chardonnay,

With so many Bank Holidays coming up in the next few weeks, we have decided to close for Easter and remain open on most of the others. Sam and I are taking the girls to York to visit the Jorvik Centre, the Minster and the National Railway Museum and then on to Leeds to visit the National Mining Museum near Wakefield. We will be closed from Friday 22nd April until Tuesday 26th April.

Great news. We have just been advised that Muntons have announced the imminent release of a new addition to the St Peter's range of homebrew beer kits.

Many of you will be aware of the Still Spirit range of Air Stills, Yeasts and Top Shelf Spirit and Liqueur Essences that are used to produce quality spirits at home. We are please to announce that we are currently in discussions with Richard from their UK distribution arm and hope to be stocking much of their range in the near future.