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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

Due to one of our Brewers leaving us in a few months, we have the following job opportunity available.

Position: Brewer or Brewery assistant.
Full time position Mon-Friday 8.30-4.30. Industry experience is desirable but not essential. On the job Training will be given. This role involves heavy manual work.

Depending on initial experience duties will include:
Brewing
Cask washing
Brewhouse upkeep
Filling of casks
Testing of beers
Preparation of brewday ingredients
Moving of stock
Accurate record keeping
Van loading
Using the brewery software
Monthly bar day prep
Recipe creation
Occasional brewery bar work and outside event work at festivals etc
Shared weekend duties will be required at a later date.

Benefits include:
28 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
Pension plan
Monthly beer allowance

Applicants must be over 18, keen to learn, reliable & trustworthy, punctual, able to use their own initiative and take instruction. A clean driving license would be an advantage in the case of any delivery duties you may be asked to cover but this is not essential and open to discussion. Forklift license would be beneficial but not essential. We are a food production company and a non-smoking environment. Personal hygiene and cleanliness is hugely important to us.

This role will be paid at National Living Wage with a view to increasing dependent on experience.
The start date for this role would be the end of Aug 2024, when you will begin shadowing our existing brewer for the first month.
We are a small team, making great beer in the heart of Keighley. If you would like to become a part of our brewery please email your CV and Covering Letter to emma@wishbonebrewery.co.uk Applications to be in no later than 12th July 2024.

Its that time where i pull my finger out and do a blog post about our May Bar day!

Get yourselves here on Saturday 25th May 12 til 7pm

We’ll have the beers, 6 on Handpull and 2-4 on keg, I’ve got the Lindr machines to clean so it’ll probably be 4x keg beers.

And its new-to-us-food this sesh too from Burger X Streetfood, so here’s what it’ll look like!

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

Brewery Bar Day Saturday 27th April – 12 til 7pm

We’ll have the usual complement of 6x Handpulled and 4x keg beers on the bar this saturday.

Blank Canvas will be here on food duty.

Hope to see you all here again, you lot did an epic job of it last month!