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New beer ready in Cask and keykeg, Centennial and Enigma hops in a big dank and bitter IPA with a good whack of bitterness.

Amazing the beer names you come up with after you’ve given a Sabro & Motueka beer a name already!

Meet ‘Rubix Cube’ 4.5% Dry Hopped Pale ale with American Sabro and New Zealand motueka hops, its very tropical, pineapple, coconut, Lilt ™, lime.

We are setting the dates! We always have vegan beers on the bar but we might just make more of the Vegan for this event.
Remember all our Keg beers are always Unfined & Vegan, so we will make sure you can drink plenty of Vegan Cask too.

Friday 15th April 4.30 til 10pm
Saturday 16th April 12.00 til 7 or 8pm

We are still working on brewery modifications to install, though we realise that nothing is going to happen on time or quickly, hence us setting bar dates, it it will be really nice to have the folks from Wrapture doing the food. Check out our Events calendar for which beer fests you can find our bar at in the coming months too.

We had our good friend Chris from Second Sight Brew Co over on Thursday and we brewed the Fairlight Session Pale, 3.8% Simcoe & Citra, this time fermenting it with a low attenuating London Ale yeast, adding more malt and a hint more Dry hopping to the recipe. This should add some more body and sweetness and help display the hops.

We willed casks of this beer on Friday, please form an orderly queue and Grab a Firkin or Pin, thanks

Its 5% and we are targeting smooth roast flavours with Carafa Special 2 and Low Colour Chocolate malt along with a blend of 3 types pf Crystal malts. Hopping comes from British Challenger which is simply a large hit of low alpha hops at the start of boil. Its available in Pin & Firkin Casks now, it won’t last long so get your orders in if you fancy some this week.

A quick note about brewery Bar Days, January 2022 is Friday & Saturday the 28th & 29th, we’ll have our friends from Bingley Brewery bringing their bar along for #TryAnuary and Wood-fired Pizza from Palomino Pizza on both days. Bar prices will also be started at £3 which is a more sensible price and puts us in a less conflicted price structure to the likes of Goose Eye in their Brewery Tap. There is a chance that our brewery bar days will have to cease as we need to extend our coldstore and put the cold liquor tank we’ve got to use in early 2022, yeah sure I’ve got a brewery bar plan in my head but its all a bit messy so I honestly don’t have any guarantees that after January we’ll have a brewery bar or not…. so we hope to see you all and lets make our TryAnuary Bar day a good one!

Doors open Friday from 16.30

Doors open Saturday from 12.00

Hello there…..
Our brewery bar will be open on:

Friday 17th December 4.30 til 10pm – Food The Peacock Bar
Saturday 18th December 12.00 til 8.00pm – Food The Peacock Bar

We think it wise to try and create bar days where people can come to feel comfortable & Safe, and we do love seeing you all.

With this in mind we will have the following:

• Track & Trace QR Code Posters for you to Scan on Entry, please do so.
• Sanitiser available for you to use.
• Please wear a Mask when not seated, its appreciated.
• No lingering at the bar, please find a seat with your drinks.
• Toilets are spread out so as to avoid close queueing.
• Our doors will be open for ventilation, you may need to bring your big coat.
• Contactless Payment accepted alongside cash.

We don’t think any of this is much of a distraction from drinking our beer or eating Peacock Bar food.

Merry Christmas

“The Conflict within” sounds like something off Metallica’s Black Album!

2022, as some of you will have seen on our social media posts, will see some completely unavoidable Trade Price increases. Some of these increases come from artificially holding beers back in price during the last 2-3 years and the headlines from the media about Energy price rises are now kicking in from suppliers, our business rates are as high as they have ever been, our staff need paying the fairest amount we can afford, prices from all suppliers everywhere are going up, Fuel prices have gone up and our Brewery & Van insurances have gone up. Everyone of our suppliers that employ people on Minimum wage have started paying them more and there are further Minimum Wage rises coming in 2022.

So, in short, our prices to the Pub Trade will be changing, some beers will be staying the same, others will see a slight balancing, and some others will see a strict uplift because of being held back previously, expect to see an increase between £0 –> £6 Per Firkin (40L) / Keykeg (30L).
*Edit* – I’ve just realised you can boil this down to, “Prices will go up while we take a cut in profit margin!”

We have also been thinking about our Canned beer prices to Trade and Direct to consumer, we made a point of shouting about how we were keeping our Direct to consumer prices at Bottleshop & Pub prices so as to ensure that during Lockdown we didn’t screw over or piss off small bottle shops and bars. We hope this did some good.
Looking around at how different breweries are pricing their direct sales to consumers we feel that we are pricing ourselves out of the Can sales market somewhat, we would really like to Can more beers but we need the turnover of stock to be a little faster so we can brew more as efficiently as possible with a portion of it going for canning.

What this means to trade is that you will be seeing our cases of cans becoming about £2 cheaper and we will also be looking at our Direct to Consumer prices too for Web-Shop sales so we can set a price that encourages more turnover of can stock and allows us to bring more new beers to can. Our Can prices have always been a work in progress and for us at least, at this time, we think they could work better.

I hope you can see the conflict in our minds, wanting to support small businesses, wanting to provide a good product at a fairly costed price, and also wanting to develop our business to be as sustainable as possible.

A quick note about brewery Bar Days, January 2022 is Friday & Saturday the 28th & 29th, we’ll have our friends from Bingley Brewery bringing their bar along for #TryAnuary and Wood-fired Pizza from Palomino Pizza on both days. Bar prices will also be started at £3 which is a more sensible price and puts us in a less conflicted price structure to the likes of Goose Eye in their Brewery Tap. There is a chance that our brewery bar days will have to cease as we need to extend our coldstore and put the cold liquor tank we’ve got to use in early 2022, yeah sure I’ve got a brewery bar plan in my head but its all a bit messy so I honestly don’t have any guarantees that after January we’ll have a brewery bar or not…. so we hope to see you all and lets make our TryAnuary Bar day a good one!

Any questions please email the brewery.

We hope to see you all on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th in the brewery this week, the bar is open from 4.30pm on Friday and then from 12 noon on Saturday. Pablo from The Lemon Tree will be on food duty on Saturday but you are welcome to order your own Take away in on the Friday evening.

I’m honestly a bit sad that I won’t be able to get to the Record Cafe for a a couple of pints on Saturday because of having to run our brewery bar – Go check them out here. Be sure to swing by on your way to us or Pop on for a beer after.