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Richard Fletcher

Brew Star brewery official opening gives locals the perfect choice

CHOOSE. Choose ale, choose lager, choose stout, pale ale or bitter. Choose a chalice of mass-produced fizz in an achingly cool bar. Those hip young gunslingers have chosen not to choose.Read

Beer cocktail craze comes to Northumberland - VIDEO

A NEW pub has brought the latest drink craze to the North East - beer cocktails.Read

CAMRA meeting causes a storm with local breweries

AMID the smoke, chaos and confusion of battle, it is sometimes difficult to work out what is going on.Read

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Brewdog Newcastle pub good news for North East beer?

LAST week I headed to a pub that’s part of a national chain. The achingly cool interior looks similar to other pubs in the chain to fit in with the brand and the kegged beers, none of which are local.Read

Bacchus beer festival launches this Easter

HEAD to the Bacchus beer festival this Easter Sunday and you’ll be faced with a Man v Hops adventure.Read

The Gateshead Beer Festival 2011

Gateshead Beer Festival goes from strength to strength

IT seemed like an odd question to ask. But luckily Derek Kell knew where I was coming from. “Why do we have beer festivals? What’s their point?”Read

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Is anyone battling to protect our breweries?

EVEN when you’re prepared for it, expecting it, bad news is still hard to take. And the alcohol duty rise in this week’s Budget was more bitter to swallow than an unbalanced American IPA.Read

Playwrights Trevor Wood and Ed Waugh. The Geltsdale Brewery in Brampton, Cumbria, has launched a new beer to celebrate the world premiere of their sitcom, It's Grim Up North.

Cheers to playwrights’ new Geltsdale Brewery Drizzlewort bitter

FOR Fiona Deal, it was the perfect partnership; a good chance for a small-scale brewery to get involved with its community. But it was also a project that neatly reintroduced both sides to their past.Read

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Newcastle BrewDog pub to open in April

BREWDOG. What does the name mean to you? For some, it’s the phenomenal success story the beer world needed: in five years the company has gone from selling bottles on fair stalls to creating contemporary bars in some of the UK’s major cities, winning awards along the way.Read

Examples of Brian Hodgson's bread

Beer and bread - the perfect match

TALKING me through the transformation, miming the actions of kneading and forming the dough, it is clear that Brian Hodgson is as passionate as when he baked his first loaf 30 years ago.Read

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Ouseburn Valley Brewery honours Victoria Tunnel with new beer

HUDDLED together on low seats, leaning against the damp walls in the half-light, the war had come home for North East families.Read

MD Ian Linsley of the Alnwick Rum company who has agrred a deal with Tesco to sell his Alnwick India Pale Ale IPA

Son brings old Alnwick ale recipes back to life

IT WAS only when he died that they found them: sitting among his papers, untouched because of the intense memories they held. But not forgotten.Read

NUFC players give language class at Newcastle School for Boys

PUPILS got language lessons from two unusual teachers yesterday, Newcastle United stars Jonas Gutierrez and Sylvain Marveaux.Read

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Pubs are ‘the heart of England’

SAMUEL Pepys described pubs as the heart of England. It’s difficult to argue with him ... and not just because he’s dead.Read

First phase of project to save rare buildings

THE first phase of a half-a-million pound project to save some of the North East’s rarest buildings is finished.Read

A pint of beer and some pie

Pie and pints of ale make the perfect partnership

WHEN is a pie not a pie? Answer: when it’s a casserole with a pastry lid. A couple of weekends ago I headed to Corbridge in Northumberland for a walk.Read

North East Mums new website offers friendship and support

MUMS in the North East are set to build their own local community online with the launch of a new website offering friendship and support.Read

Aurora Borealis sweeps the North East skies

A SPECTACULAR light show swept across the North East sky - and there could be another chance to see it again.Read

Tyne Valley pubs fall victim to bookings scam

PUB bosses in Northumberland have sent out a warning to other businesses after they fell victim to a bookings scam.Read

Heaton designer starts bespoke homeware company Metamorf

A DESIGNER has launched his own business turning old fashioned or damaged furniture into bespoke new homeware.Read

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Richard Fletcher is a reporter at The Journal, Chronicle and Sunday Sun. Richard mainly works on the Northumberland websites. He loves nothing more than a cheeky bit of community news.

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