Wishbone Brewery – Keighley, Yorkshire, UK

We brewed a beer which was our homage to Timmy Taylors Landlord which we called Mothy Lor’s, fermented with the WHC yeast ‘Bond‘, mostly Maris Otter malt base with a bit of Extra Pale to lighten the malt character of the Maris, with tiny amount of Crystal 150 and Black malt. Hopping came from East Kent Goldings and Savinjski Goldings.
We thought we could improve on this beer and it was suggested we rename it by one of our good customers to Keighley Bitter, so just like Manchester Bitter from Marble or Barnsley Bitter from Acorn its named after the place it’s brewed in.
We have tweaked the hopping and hop timings to reduce the slightly rough bitterness which comes from all the hops being high in Cohumulone, we find high cohumulone hops react best to being used at the end of boil and at 80-85c temperature, this allows all the flavour and aroma we want while limiting the harsh bitter character which can come across as a rough Citrus character. Bobek hops should add to the Savinjski and increase the good Citrus character as we want to increase the depth of flavour and longevity of flavour on the palate after a gob full 😉

We hope you will give our brew of Keighley Bitter 4.3% a go too as Mothy Lor’s sold well. Brewing today, should be available to order next week from 14th Oct. Cheers

We’ve been playing at brewing lately with our friends Raj at The Peacock Bar in Bingley and Darren at Bingley Brewery.

First up is Guji IPA, a session IPA based around a mash-up of Tiller Pin & Tiny Pixie, the smooth malt base of Tiller Pin coupled with the Hopping from Tiny Pixie, making for a good hopping session IPA. Available to order from Monday 14th Oct, though available to drink in the Peacock Bingley (In the wood), Peacock Bradford & Boar & Fable Bradford before that!

Second up is our experimental collab with using Coriander as a a precursor to extra Citrus flavour and aroma combined with Citra hops and the Verdant yeast. Available to order now and we’ll be taking kegs of this up to Keighley Worth Valley Railway Music & Beer Festival too. Find us at the Ingrow Station 18th-20th October.

Our next bar day is on Saturday 26th October 12 til 7pm, we’ll have a range of 6 Handpulled and 4 Kegged beers.

New food folks this month sorting us out after someone else dropped out due to staffing problems. You can check their Instagram out here. They are from just up the hill so nice and local.

Here’s a quick rundown of our latest new beers…

Stunt Double is a 3.8% Session Pale using a new experimental hop with the exciting name CF298! Proper sexy or what eh! Anyhow, it taste nicely fruity with a pineapple note. Clear & Fined.

Yardfest was brewed with the folks from Saltaire’s yardfest, if you recall our beer called Constructivist then this is the little sister of that, just slightly less hops and a lower abv which all make for a very nicely balanced hoppy session IPA / Pale thing! Unfined, Hazy cos of the Verdant yeast, Dry hopped and Vegan. *Soz! I forgot to put unfined on the pumpclip!*

Chocolate Velvet Gloss 5%, we gave our stout the real Chocolate treatment which means organic Cacao powder and a whole shed load of organic Cacao Nibs, this equates to £7 worth of Cacao being used for each 9 Gallon Cask of beer, its not sweet and slickly because we didn’t add any of those “Nature identical” Bullsh*t flavourings that the Pastry-boys love so much! Unfined & Vegan.

Calverts Pale is back around again, a yearly event with our friends at The Terminus in Conisbrough, celebrating the life and war-time achievements of Laurence Calvert. This year we used Citra, Motueka & Amarillo in this Fined/Clear 4% beer.

If you fancy any of the above give us a shout on info@wishbonebrewery.co.uk or 01535600412 for availability. Cheers

Brewery Tap Day 28th September 12 til 7pm

This month we will have local heroes The Peacock Roadshow from The Peacock Bar in Bingley doing the food.
We’ll have the usual 6x Handpulled and 4x Keg beers, we are family friendly and dog friendly, just keep dogs out of the brewring area and under control like your kids.
We have sloped / level access though our toilet facilities may not be fully suitable for those less able.

Cheers, hope to see you all again after an epic birthday bar last month.

Its our 9th Birthday bar this month, it would be super spiffing great if you could all come help us celebrate making it to 9 years in business. Your continued support is very much appreciated.

This month (Saturday 24th August 12 til 7pm-ish) we will have food from the excellent Philly’s Wood-fired Pizza, with it being our Birthday we’ll be putting our 6-tap keg bar on too so we’ll have a total of 8 keg beers and the usual 6 beers on Handpull.

All the usual things; Family-friendly, Dog-friendly, totally accepting to all.

Hope to see you all for beer ‘n slices! Cheers

Get yourselves here on Saturday 27th July 12 til 7pm

We’ll have the beers, 6 on Handpull and 4 keg beers.

Food will be from Burger X Streetfood, who are back again.

It would be great to see you all for a few pints an a bite to eat, Cheers

Hope to see you all on Saturday 29th June, we will have some new-to-us food from Northern Fire & Grill, have a look through the menu and pics below.

We are open from 12 til 7pm, we’ll have the usual 6x Handpulled and 4x kegged beers on the bar.

Cheers

We are delivering to the following areas w/c Monday 3rd June.

Tues 4th June Skipton and Yorkshire Dales
Wed 5th June West and South Yorkshire
Thurs 6th June East Lancashire and Greater Manchester

Future deliveries
Tues 11h June Skipton and Yorkshire Dales
Wed 12th June West and parts of North Yorkshire
Thurs 13th June East Lancashire and the Preston Area
Fri 14th June Harrogate, Knaresborough, York and Hull

Delivery areas and dates are subject to change.

Cheers

Seeing as we told you how bad things were here, then updated you again here, I think it’s only fair to keep telling you about the status of our business.

After a serious uptick in sales from our first announcement the ball kept rolling for a while, so big thanks to everyone that picked up the phone, shot us an email, or talked to us on the socials to buy beer.
We are now some 8 weeks down the line and the bank account is certainly in less of a dire state, we’ve never been a big cash business but we’ve managed for almost 9 years to keep balance.

All that said we look to be sliding back to lower sales volumes.

Honest results from some of the interactions we got from that first announcement:

• The brewery that wanted to buy wholesale – We showed them the beer list then they stopped talking to me, I made repeated attempts to ask why but no response, bit of a shame, I wish people would at least be honest in this industry as to why. I can only guess that at our scale we cannot achieve the required low-ass-price point.
• Customer Leads for new venues in new areas – North West delivery run didn’t happen due to no responses from leads, North East delivery run did happen but was very minimal, we appreciate that establishing new delivery routes can take time and it’s a work in progress that we’re still working on!
• We took onboard about you telling us our Website was shit, we’ve done what we can to update this in an FOC manner, it’s still a work in progress but it’s much more instant and up-to-date with a better layout and more information.
• We did a little bit of asking on the socials (Twitter / Instagram) to see if we can get Cities to be a bit less insular, asking folks to suggest Pubs to us that they think our beers would go down well in. Rest assured we will be working through your suggestions to see if we can squeeze an odd cask passed any brewery or wholesaler control of those venues.
• We’ve got a price for some small-scale canning from our friends up at Horsforth Brewery, we have yet to decide on which 3 beers to get brewed and packaged and design the Can labels, no one said that running your own business would mean that there was never enough time in a week. When we do it we will state ‘Brewed & Packaged @HorsforthBrewery’ on the cans for complete transparency.

Thanks very much for your continued support, the next Brewery Bar Day is Saturday 25th May 12 til 7pm, Cheers