Huge thank you to everyone who signed up and attended our Brew Day Experience on Saturday!😊
If you want to brew your very own beer alongside qualified brewers, you can sign up through our website.🍺
📅Next Date: Saturday, 23rd May.
https://brewlab.co.uk/product/brew-day-experience/
Sometimes I don’t think think I know what I’m doing and then I pour an absolutely beautiful pint that I made myself and remember why I love my hobby.
10 samples of beer of differing colours on a table in the pub.
That was a good way to spend a Sunday: @bombgirl.bsky.social’s charity bottle share at @central-bar.bsky.social
Failed to make it to the club. Full credit to Elder Beer for being too good to leave
It's 10 years since a group of people with learning disabilities saw their vision of a cultural space for everyone become reality as we took on Gosforth Civic Hall and got to work creating a place we can all enjoy.
We can’t wait to celebrate 10 years with you, and to shape the next 10 together 💛🧡❤️💙
GOOD MORNING! Here's our latest round up of news, nuggets and longreads, with notes on the Cumbrian beer scene, on a pub in a shopping centre beneath a flyover, and on how licensing laws were historically exploited to exclude women from brewing and pubs. 🍻🍺
boakandbailey.com/2026/04/news...
For our Start Up Brewing students' last day, we brought them downstairs in our brewery for a demonstration brew.
We wish Stuart, Chris, Tom, Helen and James the best of luck with their brewing journey.
Thank you for choosing Brewlab as your first step!😊
Yesterday at the Newcastle Beer & Cider Festival
#BskyBeer
Update... The beer was alright 😁
Another great meet up last and some fantastic beers on offer, looking forward to the next one. #homebrew #beeroclock #Newcastle #beer
Cherry blossom
Japanese shizz
A giant rubber duck
A giant apple 🍏
Enjoyed a visit to Alnwick Garden yesterday. Cherry blossom looking good 🌸🌸🌸
#PhotoHour #StormHour #EastCoastKin
We've had some Meta issues and the Facebook Page for ISBF "disappeared". It had 2k+ followers.
So we created a new one.
If you're on FB please give it a follow. And please Share this post. Share the #ISBFLove
www.facebook.com/share/14ZTcN...
We have re-brewed our Koji rice lager. "Donmai" collaboration with Minoh beer in Osaka, with some tweaks to the koji process below. It is rice, malt and noble hops, but tastes like tinned peaches and cream. I don't think ive ever been so excited for one of our beers. More as it develops x
Panko coated king prawns, fire grilled steak, skinny fries, apple slaw, salad. Topped with lime and persillade dressing, and a can of Donzoko West Coast Pale on the side.
Lunch! Absolutely wonderful take on Surf n Turf at Smoke and Sear, just up the road from me. Flame cooked steak and panko coated king prawns, delicious apple slaw - and a raspingly bitter West Coast Pale from local being superstars Donzoko. That's blown away the cobwebs 😋
I write a lot about pubs and speak to tons of publicans, many of whom are critical of MPs but I don't know any who would behave like this.
Boasting about spying on his phone is really something.
Visiting 52 new pubs
15/52
Gibraltar Rock - Tynemouth
- Large coastal boozer
- The bar man was friendly but they had no ale and he recommended Hawkstone
- Nice pint of Hawkstone 8)
- the beer garden has views of the Priory
- it's a good spot to watch the world go by
#52NewPubs
#Tynemouth
#Newcastle
I’m not usually a great fan of tap rooms. Fortunately, I’m only 5 mins from the Donzoko one. The giant red curtain does a good job of deadening the sound. Horrible sound is what puts me off most taprooms.
Two girls practising Juvenile Jazz band skills, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1974, photo by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.
“Pubs and beer will never receive the coverage they deserve in the national press because they are seen as lesser, until they elevate themselves to the point of being better than a mere public house.”
Good morning. Next week is our first guided walk of the year, covering a loop of the Quayside and its underbelly of industry, death and spirituality.
There’s one ticket left, but you’re welcome to drop me a message if you wanna come as a twosome!
Donnies at Aperture Alehouse. Beautiful stuff.
Bacchus Kriek 🍒 at the Seven Stars
Loch Lomond x Abbeydale Rubus Black at the Seven Stars
Low Quay Driftin' at LQ
Some highlights from an afternoon sesh in #NorthShields yesterday
#BskyBeer
We’ve just received some cans of Full Circle's Brigid’s Cauldron, the beer our Managing Director, Alison, helped brew alongside many other women in the brewing/beverage industry.
A percentage of this beer’s profits will be donated to Newcastle Women’s Aid.
We love a good smiting!
Indie Beer Week starts today and runs until Sunday 19th April.
Launched by Indie Beer UK last year, it’s part of a drive by SIBA to make it easier for people to know which beers are brewed by genuinely independent breweries instead of global beer giants.
siba.co.uk/2026/01/16/i...
As some of you may know, we have a large bookshelf in our training room filled with books that our students can use during their self-study time.📚
Here are just a few of the books we have on the shelf...
Wrote this as a presentation for Brewers’ Congress last September. Delilghted to be abe to adapt the powerpoint into an article for @teamdb.bsky.social
Our new What’s On Guide is out, heralding 10 years of GCT, no less!
Available from our cafe or select venues around the region
'Analysis: The lager renaissance' | @katiematherkm.bsky.social for Drinks Retailing:
drinksretailingnews.co.uk/analysis-the...
Bags upon Bags of papers and pamphlets
Spent my morning rifling through 50 years worth of local CAMRA mags and What's Brewing. How do you spend your days off?
The Tiny Toad/Heaton Tap is reopening as a cafe bar - called The Red Step.
I heard that it was going to be a cafe in January , it will be interesting to see how viable it is because the rent on the very small unit has gone up by 30%
