Dorothy's Blissful Beer

A new year and a new beer for Dorothy Goodbody!

Following on from the success of Dorothy Goodbody’s Christmas Cracker in 2011, Wye Valley Brewery has just launched a brand new beer for 2012, Dorothy Goodbody’s Blissful Brown Ale.

Dorothy describes this 4.6% abv beer as having a deeply fruity aroma, leading to a rich, full flavour with raisin and malt sweetness. Available in bottle conditioned format only, it will be on sale in off licenses across the region.

Vernon Amor, Wye Valley Brewery managing director comments ‘Right now it feels like we are awash with very pale extremely bitter beers brewed with imported hops. We thought it was time to brew a dark fruity beer made with locally grown hops to highlight the classic British ale style.’

Brewed exclusively with local hops, Target, Fuggles, Challenger & Goldings this makes for a truly blissful beer.

Herefordshire brewer resists pub closure trend

Wye Valley Brewery is delighted to announce it has purchased the Old Pelican in Gloucester.

With an average of 16 pubs closing every week, this spells good news for discerning beer drinkers in Gloucester. The Old Pelican is a traditional city centre pub, with an enclosed garden, ideally located just off Cathedral Close.

The pub will be closed for a short time whilst some refurbishment is carried out. When it opens, it will sell the full range of Wye Valley Brewery beers, with popular brands such as HPA, Butty Bach and the Dorothy Goodbody range.

Said Vernon Amor Managing Director of Wye Valley Brewery ‘At Wye Valley Brewery we are passionate about pubs, we believe they play an important role in our communities as they are the outlet for our national drink, cask conditioned beer. We are excited by the prospect of reviving the fortunes one of Gloucester’s historic pubs’

Herefordshire Pubs of the Year 2011

Congratulations to the Sun Inn at Leintwardine which was recently voted Herefordshire CAMRA's Pub of the Year.

We are delighted that The Barrels has been awarded Herefordshire CAMRA Runner-Up and Town Pub of the Year 2011. The Barrels is a veteran of this competition, having won five times. The Barrels is one of the last traditional multi-roomed pubs left in Hereford, and it sells the full range of Wye Valley beers.

Wye Valley Brewery is CourtLaughing

Wye Valley Brewery is pleased to announce that it is to sponsor CourtLaughing, Hereford's first comedy festival, which will be held at The Courtyard theatre.

There will be three headlines acts and lots more 'warm up' gigs to be confirmed. First headline act to be announced is Jon Richardson, the new host of Channel 4's Stand Up For The Week, team captain on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and best-selling author will be taking his show, Funny Magnet across the UK.

The Festival will take place from 25th to 27th May 2012 at The Courtyard Theatre, in Hereford. For more information about What's on visit www.courtyard.org.uk

Wye Valley wins trio of awards

Wye Valley Brewery scooped a trio of awards at the West Midlands CAMRA Beer of the Year Awards.

Ever popular Butty Bach won bronze in the Strong Bitters category, Dorothy Goodbody's Wholesome Stout won Gold in the Dark Real Ale in a Bottle category, and Dorothy Goodbody's Golden Ale won bronze in the Light Real Ale in a Bottle category.

Look out for new beer mats

Look out for our new beer mats, which arrived at the brewery yesterday. They are making their way in to pubs as we write! They have QR scanable codes on them, which enable you to enter a monthly prize draw to win a case of beer.

Keep a look out in your local, and get scanning! Even better, if you don't have the correct technology you can just visit the website to register.

Herefordshire pub wins Best Local at National Awards

‘Just the sort of local beer champion we need!’ said judges.

The Bell Inn, Leominster was crowned Best SIBA (Society of Independent Brewers) Local at the recent Business Awards, held at the Crowne Plaza, London on 14th November.

The SIBA Business Awards, rewards brewing members for their achievements in areas of their business, such as marketing, customer service, pack design and community support.

The Business Awards was established in 2006, and in 2011 for the first time, pub members were recognised. Mike Hall, landlord of The Bell Inn, was delighted to be the first to win Best SIBA Local. The judges said Mike and his pub are ‘…just the sort of local beer champions we need!’

Mike was praised by the judges, they said ‘he is proud to be a custodian of real ale, and ensures his staff are fully inducted, trained and encouraged to share his passion and communicate it to the pub’s customers’.

There was success also for Wye Valley Brewery, who picked up Highly Commended in the Best Marketing category, for their new advertising campaign celebrating the social context of “real people enjoying a real beer together”. The campaign gives well-known proverbs an amusing twist, examples include ‘All work and no HPA makes Jack a dull boy’ and ‘Pint of Butty at night, Drinker’s Delight’.

Pictured left to right, Mike Hall, landlord of The Bell Inn with daughter Emily, and Vernon Amor Managing Director of Wye Valley Brewery.