Wishbone Brewery – Keighley, Yorkshire, UK

Our lovely roasty toasty Blacksmith Porter with its hint of German beechwood smoke is heading into cask and Keykeg today, lots of Pins being filled cos everyone needs a Dark beer, even in summer. this tastes epic on Keg, and gets even better with a bit of age 😉

The recipe goes a bit like this… Maris Otter, Brown Malt, Wheat Malt, Rauch Malt, Pale Chocolate Malt and Black Malt with just a simple hit of American Bravo hops for balancing bitterness. Unfined and Vegan.

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SPBW aka the Society for the Preservation of Beer in the Wood (York Branch) have been talking to brewers ahead of Yorkshire Day 1st August. For our part we are teaming up with or friends at The Boathouse in Skipton for a mini Tap TakeOver.

Velvet Gloss Stout 5% Smooth drinking and roasty. Unfined and Vegan

Beat Herder 3.9% Sesh IPA brewed with and for the team at Beat Herder Festival, hopped with Mosaic. Hallertau Blanc and Cascade. Unfined, Hazy and Vegan

Chinook Blonde 3.4% single hopped with American Chinook, very refreshing for that Canal-side sunshine. Fined and Clear.

Indigo Warbler 3.7% Session Bitter with a Maris Otter malt base and hopped with British Challenger hops. Fined and Clear.

Other pubs in Skipton are also serving some beers from the wood, so be sure to check out The Beer Engine, The Yorkshireman, The Speakeasy, Hustle and Swadford Tap who will also have beer in the wood.

Sounds like a pretty sweet day for some seriously traditional cask beer serving/drinking. Cheers

Our wooden Casks were made by Euan Findlay up at the Theakstons Brewery, a top lad that really knows his craft. The wood used comes from American Bourbon barrels which are repurposed and reshaped to make Pub-size casks, just like Theakstons sell their Old Perculier in, with new Oak wood ends.

The thing with wood is you have to treat it with lots of TLC, no chemicals are used to clean only hot water and sometimes a hot salt soak, the beer can age and takes on a little of the character of the wood though mostly you’ll recognise the beers just like you would like any others served from a regular metal or plastic beer cask.

Tradition meets the Modern

Set the Date, Friday 1st August 2025

*If anyone else in our delivery areas fancies a 4x Cask Wood TTO please email info@wishbonebrewery.co.uk you would have to keep our casks safe so they don’t get stolen and adhere to our care sheet.

Cheers

Today we are brewing our homage to the excellent Coniston Bluebird, our 3.7% Indigo Warbler is hopped with British Challenger hops on a malty base of traditional Maris Otter malt.

This lovely balanced bitter is simple and very satisfying.

If you want 10 or 20L boxes of this beer please shout now via email and we’ll fill them next week when the beer is ready.

Firkins and Pins will be ready in approx 1 week, order in all the usual ways, cheers

We have been putting our lovely little Session Blonde in cask today, Pins and Firkins available. Tasting great for the summer sunshine with American Chinook hops featuring, just a hint of German Magnum hops at the start for bittering.

Get this in the Wooden Cask from The Boathouse in Skipton on Yorkshire Day.

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We’ll be pouring pints at the Middleton Railway ‘Taste of Yorkshire’ event on 2nd & 3rd of August. Grab your tickets here and check their facebook out here for more info.

We will have the following beers to start with and will be swapping to more beers over the weekend.

Cask Beers, both Fined & Clear:

• Tiller Pin 4.2% – Best selling American Pale Ale with Citra, Chinook & Cascade hops
• Keighley Bitter 4.3% – Bitter hopped with Savinjski Goldings, Bobek and East kent Goldings on a malty Maris otter base
  
  Keg beers, all Unfined and Vegan:
• Loco Choco Lime 4% – Lime and Chocolate Pale ale, zesty and refreshing.
• Chocolate velvet Gloss Stout 5% – Cacao Nibs and Powder used in this smooth drinking dark
• Dassler Helles Lager 4.3% – refreshing lager brewed with Motueka hops from New Zealand
• Rubix Cube 4.5% – Tropical flavours in this dry hopped pale from Sabro and Motueka hops

Swaps in and out will probably be Orange Cats IPA 5% and Constructivist Session IPA 4% but we’ll confirm nearer the time.

Hope to see you all there, last year’s event had loads of great food and stalls along with Beer and Cider flowing to keep the steaming wheels lubricated. And lets not forget the unmistakable smell of the steam trains in action all weekend.

Gaggle Lager 4.6% was first brewed for the Fox & Goose in Hebden bridge, the malt bill consists of Extra Pale, Vienna, German Carahell & just a hint Acidmalt, hopping starts with Magnum followed by Lubelski and Bobek, fermented with Saflager S-23 for a fruitier character.

This will be naturally carbonated via spunding in tank and go into 30L Keykegs in about 2 weeks. Available to order after that.

Cheers

Today we are brewing our single hopped Chinook Blonde 3.4%, topping stock up as this one has proved popular, available now in Firkins and next week in Pins too.

Light straw in colour with the right amount of Chinook hops to make for a refreshing session Blonde.

If anyone wants 10 or 20 litre boxes please give us a shout now so we can fill next week straight from tank.

What hops would you like to see us use in future 3.4% Blondes??

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Today we are brewing our lightly smoked Blacksmith Porter 5%, it’s got a blend of Maris Otter, Brown Malt, Wheat Malt, German Rauch Malt, Pale Chocolate Malt and Black Malt, and just a bittering addition of American Bravo hops.

Smooth drinking with lots of roast and a hint of Beechwood smoke, Unfined and Vegan, available in Cask (Firkins and Pins) from next week and 30L Keykegs about a week after that once it’s naturally carbonated.

If you fancy 10 or 20L Boxes of this please shoot us an email now and we’ll be sure to fill to order.

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Our second in a series Hey Ernie 3.9% Pale ale, this one should have had British Jester hops in it but we seem to have had a stock malfunction and it wasn’t in the coldstore. So Hey Ernie has First Gold hops in it instead, tasting great with an orange like marmalade-i-ness. A great reminder to brew with more a First Gold Hops in the future.

Order in all the usual ways, email, phone, WhatsApp etc, details at the top of the page.

For our July Bar Day on Saturday 26th July 12 til 7pm we’ll have our usual 6x handpulls and 4x Keg beers flowing and Jay’s Pizza Project on the food.

All the usual things apply, 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 keep both under control.

Hope to see you all here, Cheers