We had our good friend Chris from Second Sight Brew Co over on Thursday and we brewed the Fairlight Session Pale, 3.8% Simcoe & Citra, this time fermenting it with a low attenuating London Ale yeast, adding more malt and a hint more Dry hopping to the recipe. This should add some more body and sweetness and help display the hops.
We willed casks of this beer on Friday, please form an orderly queue and Grab a Firkin or Pin, thanks
Its 5% and we are targeting smooth roast flavours with Carafa Special 2 and Low Colour Chocolate malt along with a blend of 3 types pf Crystal malts. Hopping comes from British Challenger which is simply a large hit of low alpha hops at the start of boil. Its available in Pin & Firkin Casks now, it won’t last long so get your orders in if you fancy some this week.
A quick note about brewery Bar Days, January 2022 is Friday & Saturday the 28th & 29th, we’ll have our friends from Bingley Brewery bringing their bar along for #TryAnuary and Wood-fired Pizza from Palomino Pizza on both days. Bar prices will also be started at £3 which is a more sensible price and puts us in a less conflicted price structure to the likes of Goose Eye in their Brewery Tap. There is a chance that our brewery bar days will have to cease as we need to extend our coldstore and put the cold liquor tank we’ve got to use in early 2022, yeah sure I’ve got a brewery bar plan in my head but its all a bit messy so I honestly don’t have any guarantees that after January we’ll have a brewery bar or not…. so we hope to see you all and lets make our TryAnuary Bar day a good one!
Doors open Friday from 16.30
Doors open Saturday from 12.00
Hello there…..
Our brewery bar will be open on:
Friday 17th December 4.30 til 10pm – Food The Peacock Bar
Saturday 18th December 12.00 til 8.00pm – Food The Peacock Bar
We think it wise to try and create bar days where people can come to feel comfortable & Safe, and we do love seeing you all.
With this in mind we will have the following:
We don’t think any of this is much of a distraction from drinking our beer or eating Peacock Bar food.
Merry Christmas
“The Conflict within” sounds like something off Metallica’s Black Album!
2022, as some of you will have seen on our social media posts, will see some completely unavoidable Trade Price increases. Some of these increases come from artificially holding beers back in price during the last 2-3 years and the headlines from the media about Energy price rises are now kicking in from suppliers, our business rates are as high as they have ever been, our staff need paying the fairest amount we can afford, prices from all suppliers everywhere are going up, Fuel prices have gone up and our Brewery & Van insurances have gone up. Everyone of our suppliers that employ people on Minimum wage have started paying them more and there are further Minimum Wage rises coming in 2022.
So, in short, our prices to the Pub Trade will be changing, some beers will be staying the same, others will see a slight balancing, and some others will see a strict uplift because of being held back previously, expect to see an increase between £0 –> £6 Per Firkin (40L) / Keykeg (30L).
*Edit* – I’ve just realised you can boil this down to, “Prices will go up while we take a cut in profit margin!”
We have also been thinking about our Canned beer prices to Trade and Direct to consumer, we made a point of shouting about how we were keeping our Direct to consumer prices at Bottleshop & Pub prices so as to ensure that during Lockdown we didn’t screw over or piss off small bottle shops and bars. We hope this did some good.
Looking around at how different breweries are pricing their direct sales to consumers we feel that we are pricing ourselves out of the Can sales market somewhat, we would really like to Can more beers but we need the turnover of stock to be a little faster so we can brew more as efficiently as possible with a portion of it going for canning.
What this means to trade is that you will be seeing our cases of cans becoming about £2 cheaper and we will also be looking at our Direct to Consumer prices too for Web-Shop sales so we can set a price that encourages more turnover of can stock and allows us to bring more new beers to can. Our Can prices have always been a work in progress and for us at least, at this time, we think they could work better.
I hope you can see the conflict in our minds, wanting to support small businesses, wanting to provide a good product at a fairly costed price, and also wanting to develop our business to be as sustainable as possible.
A quick note about brewery Bar Days, January 2022 is Friday & Saturday the 28th & 29th, we’ll have our friends from Bingley Brewery bringing their bar along for #TryAnuary and Wood-fired Pizza from Palomino Pizza on both days. Bar prices will also be started at £3 which is a more sensible price and puts us in a less conflicted price structure to the likes of Goose Eye in their Brewery Tap. There is a chance that our brewery bar days will have to cease as we need to extend our coldstore and put the cold liquor tank we’ve got to use in early 2022, yeah sure I’ve got a brewery bar plan in my head but its all a bit messy so I honestly don’t have any guarantees that after January we’ll have a brewery bar or not…. so we hope to see you all and lets make our TryAnuary Bar day a good one!
Any questions please email the brewery.
We hope to see you all on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th in the brewery this week, the bar is open from 4.30pm on Friday and then from 12 noon on Saturday. Pablo from The Lemon Tree will be on food duty on Saturday but you are welcome to order your own Take away in on the Friday evening.
I’m honestly a bit sad that I won’t be able to get to the Record Cafe for a a couple of pints on Saturday because of having to run our brewery bar – Go check them out here. Be sure to swing by on your way to us or Pop on for a beer after.
We are just waiting for ‘Strauss’ Lager and our new IPA ‘Little chance to dance’ to carbonate up in can, these ones are can-conditioned.
Look out too cos we’ll be getting our last barrel aged Imperial Stout brew canned in time for Christmas orders!
Get in touch on 01535600412 or email us on info@wishbonebrewery.co.uk if you fancy a Tiny Pixie on your bar.
We are planning on having more seating extended out into our Loading Bay, and in an effort to ensure everyone feels comfortable and safe it will be a Seated Only Event, you can come to the bar to order but there will be No Standing at the bar, there will be NHS QR code check-in posters and we encourage you to use them, we have Hand sanitiser so please feel free to use that. We will have Portable toilets and a hand-wash station in our Loading bay too so we can spread the points of queuing apart. We know you’ll be lovely to each-other and our staff so just keep doing what you do best, its going to be great to see you all again.
DO NOT COME IF YOU HAVE SYMPTOMS OF COVID OR ARE UNSURE ABOUT SIMILAR SYMPTOMS, PLEASE RESPECT THOSE PEOPLE AROUND YOU AND OUR STAFF. CURRENT GOVERNMENT BUSINESS GUIDANCE STATES WE MAY HAVE TO ASK YOU TO LEAVE IF WE SUSPECT COVID AS WE HAVE A DUTY OF CARE TO PEOPLE ENTERING OUR BUSINESS.
Our bar will be open on:
Friday 17th September 4.30 til 10pm
Saturday 18th September 12.00 til 7 or 8.00pm
Food will be available both days from guys at The Peacock Bar, there will be Vegie / Vegan options.
October:
Please come and see us at the Keighley Worth Valley Beer & Music Festival, we’ll be at the Ingrow Station and entry is free.
November:
Friday 19th November 4.30 til 10pm – Order Your fav Take-Away in while you’re drinking our beer.
Saturday 20th November 12.00 til 7pm – The Lemon Tree are back, Come see Pablo he’s on Food Duty 🙂
December:
Friday 17th December 4.30 til 10pm – Food The Peacock Bar
Saturday 18th December 12.00 til 8.00pm – Food The Peacock Bar
