Wishbone Brewery – Keighley, Yorkshire, UK

*These folks didn’t stick around, decided to leave about 3pm – had bad feels when they first rocked up lacking tables*

Yeah, yeah, we made you a wait a while for another Brewery bar day cos of outside events and staff holidays.
But we’re back on Saturday 10th June, so get it in your Diary / Calendar / written on your arm or Tattooed on your forehead! No prizes for stupid tattoos! We’ll just roll our eyes!

We’ll have Eat Art Kitchen here on food duty and doesn’t it look flippin’ tasty!

FLATBREADS – £8.00

All Served with Rocket Salad, Sweetcorn Salsa, Pickled Red Cabbage, Tomato Chutney, Crispy Onions, Pickled Chilli, Sour Cream & Spicy Sauce

BBQ Pulled Pork
Cajun Spiced Chicken Thigh
Pulled BBQ Jackfruit (v)(ve)

The usual 6 hand pulled beers and at least 4 keg beers, there may be a bit of a barrel-aged theme going on including our 3-year old Brett blend barrel aged British pale for some funky refreshing Saison-like notes and some lovely barrel funk.

The usual deal, families welcome keep those kids under control, Dog-friendly but keep them out of our brewing area please, ask us if you need a water bowl for your furry friends.

Cheers 🙂

I think Drew from the Fox & Goose in Hebden Bridge first started talking to us about a Low ABV beer way back at the end of lockdown in 2020, we were initially talking 0.5% beers but sensibly we need to approach that ABV with a bit more knowledge behind us.

So this year we had a good old chinwag with Drew & Andrew from the Fox and came up with a recipe that showcases some of the newer varieties of British hops along with a bit of American Citra to round off everything.

We came up with ‘Riding the Fox’ 2.8% with a simple Barley & Wheat malt base, a hot mash at 76c and an Original Gravity of 1039 which is enough to brew at least a 4.2% beer if we’d Mashed in in a more regular temperatures. We use Jester, Olicana & Godiva hops which are all British grown and a bit of American Citra. Again the level of hopping is more that of a 4%+ beer.

The beer will be delivered this week to the Fox & Goose and should be on the bar for the weekend Sat 22nd / Sun 23rd, the beer is well-bodied with plenty of flavour, let us know what you think of it.

It will go on general sale w/c Monday 24th and be available in Firkin, Pin & Keykeg.

Its Dry Hopped, Unfined and Vegan.

*Just spotted I forgot to add the usual ‘Gluten’ word to the list of Allergens on the Pumpclip, it should read ‘Allergens: Gluten Barley Wheat’* All Invoices and Cask labels come out with Allergens: Gluten Barley Wheat for the benefit of Publicans if anyone asks.

Cheers

I tell ya, there’s no time for updating the website lately, not to mention its blooming boring doing it!

So here are a few of the recently brewed and released beers, you can shoot us an email on info@wishbonebrewery.co.uk TXT or WhatsApp us to order 07867419445 to order or do it the old-fashioned way and give us a call on 01535600412

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Look out for our sales emails as we have a special offer running on Blonde 3.6% which we hope helps a little in these expensive times. If you want to receive our sales emails you can sign up here Cheers

We’ll have the beer and Just München will be doing the German Sausage Sat 25th March.

Come see us from 12 til 7pm.

Kids and Dogs welcome, please keep both under control. (No dogs around the brewing equipment)

We hope to see you all for our next Brewery bar day on Saturday 25th Feb, we will have ‘End of Line’ doing the food and its looking pretty tasty, expect dirty Burgers and a really tasty sounding home made Vegan Burger too.

Beers will, of course, be tasty and all made on site by us, and there will be a starting line-up of 6 Casks from the following beers:

Bird Song Pale 3.8%
Blonde 3.6%
Black Porter 6.0%
Controlling the Bass Pale 3.8%
Drover Session Bitter 3.9%
Greenflute GF Pale 5.0%
Patchwork 4.2%
TP2 6.2%
Two Lapels Pale 4.0%

Then at least 2 Keg beers, maybe 4, to include one of our Lagers and something else… probably our exceptional Barley Wine ‘Wood B Good 2 Me’ 10.6%

The usual deal, open from 12.00 and last orders at 19.00

Dogs and Children welcome, keep them both under control.

Cheers

The Brewery bar will be open on Saturday 28th from 12 til 7pm with the folks from The Peacock doing Indian Street Food.

I’ll be ordering cask beers from the following lovely folks:

Ridgeside Brewery

Thirst Class Ales

Torrside Brewery

HQ Brews (New brewery from the guys at The Harlequin in Sheffield.

Along with at least 4 of our own beers being served too.

The brewery bar will be open from 12 til 8pmon Saturday 17th December.

We’ll have food from Hullabaloo in Shipley – “Dutty fires with curried goat, jerk chicken or chickpea callaloo and guava”.

Mid afternoon there will be some fun from Haworth Ukulele Group.

6 handpulled Cask beers

8 taps of Keg beer

Minikegs for sale or pre-order via email info@wishbonebrewery.co.uk and collect

Along with cans of Black Imp imperial stout and a couple of offers on Strauss Lager & Black Porter cans.

We’ll have some excellent food from Caribbean Cafe at the Brewery on the 26th Nov.

Open from 12 til 7-ish here at the Brewery, off Dalton Lane, Chesham Street, in Keighley

Next bar day – Sat 29th Oct

Niko’s Comfort Kitchen will be with us doing the food

Once in a while a customer will tell us that a Keykeg will serve too foamy, this is maybe once every 6-12 months, I thought I would write a blog post about this so I can add some details and also try and gain some feedback from our Keykeg customers.

We want our beer to be right and consistent, so please if you do serve our kegs then feel free to get in touch in any of the usual ways and tell us about your experiences.

It would be wrong of us to react to a single customer mentioning something and change whole batches of kegged beer when no one else has said anything.

I’m going to go through as many variables as I can from storage temperature of kegs to how you pour a pint, and nearly all bar setups have differences and its impossible for a brewer to react to each and every different setup…

• What Temperature is the beer stored at? – Please aim for 11-13c as a minimum for keg beer, more ideal would be 4-8c, beer stored at ambient temperature can cause problems on some bar setups.
• Flow Controllers – These should be set to allow a smooth non-fobbing pour, they can be on-tap types or under-bar types and they can be quite fine to adjust. The size of beer line can also effect things, a thin 3/16″ beer line of about 2 meters long can slow the beer flow and make it hard to get a head on your pour, this would help should you think a beer is too lively.
• Chiller Temperature – I would guess that most chillers are a fixed temperature (4-8c), though the Lindr Keg machines that we have have a dial to set the cooling, for a Lindr machine I would set the dial at 5 or more for a good consistent pour through the flow-control-taps.
• Speed of Pour – Never rush a pour, a good pour can be the difference between letting a split second of beer hit the drip tray before catching in the glass or catching everything from turning the tap on. That initial bit of tap-fob can ruin an otherwise perfect pint. Always open a beer tap fully when pouring, no messing with it half open! The same goes for topping up a glass, be sure to waste that little bit of tap fob before catching in the glass.
• Serving Pressure – Ensure your Gas or Compressor pressure is sufficient for your kegs and bar setup, 40psi should be sufficient for most beers, check the limits of the kegs you serve so you know the Maximum. Pressure keeps the bubbles in the beer, too low pressure will allow the bubbles to escape and cause problems.
• Different beers – Different styles of beer can serve differently, work with the beer you are pouring. Variables like; Angled Glass, Glass pushed close and almost horizontal with tap nozzle, nozzle in beer, nozzle above beer, catch that tap-fob for more head, vary height of pour for either more or less head.
• Newly Connected Kegs – Freshly hooked up kegs can be more lively until you have poured a few pints, you can slow down the Flow rate for new kegs and gradually speed it up the more pints you’ve served until you have an adequate flow rate.
• Clean Glassware – and you don’t need those annoying head-keeper patterns on the inside of the glass. Renovate Glasses when necessary.
• Some bar setup are better than others – Everything matters.

So please do give us feedback on carbonation levels.