Wishbone Brewery – Keighley, Yorkshire, UK

This week we are doing a bit of brewery TLC, we’ve given the Hot Liquor Tank (HLT) and Copper / transfer pipework and Heat Exchanger an Acid clean, its something we do about every 6 month to remove scale from the HLT heating elements and keep the tanks in tip top condition. Its also time to replace our 5 micron water filter and the Carbon filter that feed our Cold Liquor Tank.

Beers coming out of tank this week are Blonde 3.6% and Tiller Pin 4.2%, both available to order now.

We will have 8-Pint Pouches available to take-away on Saturday 20th Dec between 12 and 8pm while stocks last, at the time of writing this we have the following avasilable:

Black bauble Stout 4.5%
Guji Session IPA 4%
Knock Back Bitter 4%
Orange Cats IPA 5%
Tiller Pin Session Pale 4.2%

And we hope to see you all on Saturday for our Christmas Bar Day

After this week our last 2 delivery days before Christmas are Monday 22nd (Yorkshire) & Tuesday 23rd (Lancashire), if you are very local to Keighley or we have contected you directly we could deliver Sunday 28th or Monday 29th for beer emmergencies email info@wishbonebrewery.co.uk but in general we want our holiday downtime and a blooming big rest!

Cheers

Going into cask today is Everyday Carry 3.9% a session pale ale with Mosaic, Cascade and Hallertau Blanc, it’s tasting might fine too.

We’ll be putting Tiller Pin 4.2% into cask at the end of the week and also brewing it along with Blonde 3.6% on Weds-Thurs, these are our last brews of 2025.

Don’t forget it’s our Christmas Bar Day on Saturday 20th with extra beers and food from Kangs Punjabi Box.

Get in touch if you need beer this or next week, then our last two delivery days will be 22nd & 23rd.

Brewed yesterday was more Tiller Pin, you can never have enough can you! We’ll brew it again next week too!

And today we are brewing Everyday Carry Session Pale 3.9% which uses Mosaic, Cascade and Hallertau Blanc hops. This will be going into cask on Monday or Tuesday and ‘should’ be available to order from then 😉

Order in all the usual ways, cheers

8 Pint Pouches are now available, the following beers will be available and here are the ratial prices.

• Tiller Pin Session Pale 4.2% – £29
• Guji Session IPA 4% – £31
• Knock Back Bitter 4% – £29
• Black Bauble Stout 4.5% – £31
• Orange Cats IPA 5% – £33 (Available from Monday 8th)

If you fancy some beer for Christmas email info@wishbonebrewery.co.uk or shoot us a Whatsapp or TXT MSG – Trade Customers can contact us in the usual ways for Trade Prices.

Collections from us are Monday to Thursday 8.30 to 4.30, Friday 8.30 to 3.30 or at our Christmas Bar Day on Saturday 20th 12.00 to 8.00

Its that time of year again, Santa is loading the sleigh, the Reindeer have been fed, the beers are ready and we’d love to see you all here on Saturday 20th December 12 til 8pm, we’ll have Kangs Punjabi Box here doing the food, we’ll be getting a festive visit from Haworth Ukulele Group around 2.30pm too!

We’ll be firing up the 6-Tap keg bar for even more beer choice too!

All the usual stuff applies, we have sloped and level access but our toilet facilities may not be suitable for those less able. We are family and dog friendly, please be sure to keep both under control, ask us if those dogs need water and we’ll bring you a bowl over. We stock some lovely wines from Martinez Wines, Coke, Lemonade and some juice boxes. Cheers

8 Pint Pouches of beer will be available to collect on this Saturday too, details here.

We are open tomorrow, 12 til 7pm Saturday 29th November.

We’ve got Loaf & Loaded on the tasty food with their Christmas Menu

Her is the beer range, some changes may happen but we’re going to try and Keg of Imperial Stout and our new Stout Black Bauble will be on the bar.

All the usual stuff applies, we have sloped and level access but our toilet facilities may not be suitable for those less able. We are family and dog friendly, please be sure to keep both under control, ask us if those dogs need water and we’ll bring you a bowl over. We stock some lovely wines from Martinez Wines, Coke, Lemonade and some juice boxes. Cheers

We brewed our Orange Cats 5% IPA yesterday, mostly American Mosaic hops, just a hint of Waimea for the start of boil addition, and a hint of Citra to balance and round off the dry hopping.

This will be available in Cask and Keykeg in a couple of weeks.

We have Tiller Pin 4.2% in tank which will go into cask on Monday. Teuton Lager 4% is also nearly ready to keg once the Keykeg delivery arrives.

Cheers

Just a quick post to say its been quite a while since we had Bingley Brewery down at our place, it was 2022 in fact! It will be the usual opening times though guess we’ll stretch out shouting last orders a be little later 😉

Bingley will be bringing their bar and beers down to us ready for Saturday February 28th, they will be serving 5 or 6 Handpulled beers alongside our own 6 Handpulled and 4 keg beers.

Food will be from Loaf & Loaded.

Yes we know this clashes with Bradford Beer Festival but we figure there is enough diversity of customers that we’ll all make a good day of it.

As we edge closer to Christmas and the end of another year we are just putting the final touches to our food traders for 2026, here’s the dates:

And these are the food traders:

Jan 31st – Palomino Pizza
Feb 28th – Loaf N Loaded
Mar 28th – Peacock Roadshow
Apr 25th – Scho’s Doughs
May 30th – Fries the limit aka Jimmy
Jun 27th – Rita’s Indian Kitchen
Jul 25th – Fries the limit aka Jimmy
Aug 29th – Jay’s Pizza Project
Sep 26th – Peacock Roadshow
Oct 31st – Scho’s Doughs
Nov 28th – Loaf N Loaded
Dec 19th – Fries the limit aka Jimmy

All these food traders will have Vegan options on their Menu’s

We are excited to see our advert in the new CAMRA Tyke Taverner magazine, and we’ve just read the 12 Stouts of Christmas article, so what follows is the tweak we would have done to that peice.

We live a stones throw from some great breweries and the slightly wider area encompasses even more variety and choice of dark beers. We’ll do our best to give everyone a mention but do let us know if we’ve missed any gems. So, in no particular order….

• Craven Brew Co – BAP Black Angus Porter 4.5% / VIP Victorian Imperial Porter 6.5%
• Bridgehouse Brewery – Cherry Choc Stout 6% / Porter 4.5%
• Goose Eye Brewery – Black Moor Mild 3.9% / Over and Stout 5.2%
• Timothy Taylors – Landlord Dark 4.3% / Poulter’s Porter 4.8%
• Copper Dragon – Black Gold 4%
• Saltaire Brewery – Triple Chocolate Stout 4.8%
• Salt Brewing / Ossett Brewery – Chocolate Caramel Brownie Stout 7.2% / Barghest Stout 4.3%
• Ilkley Brewery – Stout Mary 4.5% / Nowt Mary 0%
• Wharfedale Brewery – Wharfedale Porter 5%
• Vocation Brewery – Naughty & Nice Chocolate Stout 5.9 / Red Wine Barrel Aged Plum Stout 10.7%
• Dark Horse Brewery – Night Jar Dark Ale 4.2%
• Bingley Brewery – Yippee Ki-Yay Choc Orange Stout 4.8% / Moo Moo Milk Stout 4.9%
• Nightjar Brew Co – Cosmonaut Milk Stout 4.4% / Sasquatch Dark Session 3.8%
• Wishbone Brewery – Abyss Stout 4.3% / Black Porter 6% / Blacksmith Porter 5% / T’Pol Stout 4% / Wood Aged Black Imp 10% / Barrel Aged Black Imp 10.2% / Black Bauble Stout 4.5%
• Harrogate Brew Co – Harrogate Porter 4.8% / Kursaal Imperial Stout 8.4%

So thats 15/16 brewers of fantastic Stouts and Porters, a range of dark beers that is properly amazing and very local. The list could be even bigger so we should give further mentions to Bini Brew Co, Amity Brew Co, Quirky Ales, Roosters Brewery, Kirkstall Brewery, Northern Monk, Pig Love, Horsforth Brewery, Meanwood Brewery, Anthology Brewery, Wilde Child Brewery, Settle Brewing Co, Unbound Brewery, Little Valley Brewery who all turn out some great dark beers brewed in and around our area. Did we forget anyone? Let us know who and which beers we should add, ideally current beers in stock and available in Cask or Keg.

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*We will note that finding cask and keg beer range on brewery websites and even social media isn’t always that compelling for pub customers with lots focusing on the retail market for Cans & Bottles first and formost and sometimes no mention of Cask or Keg beer.