Crouch Vale Brewery

We are joined today by our friends Dani and Tom from the White Horse Edwardstone, for the brewing of Loveleys Fair (a straw-coloured 4% beer) using Tom's own organic barley malt. Don't worry, Tom agreed to leave all of his wild yeasts at home! @edwardstonewh

@CompaniesHouse Your new annual confirmation online filing system linked to gov.uk One is an absolute shambles and an unreasonable burden on businesses, plus you have the cheek to charge £50 for the privilege.

Speaking of old friends . . . . but not quite as fierce as we remember it of old. Still top-notch, though!

@CAMRA_Official @CAMRA_Official The issue of forthcoming increases in business rates has achieved little publicity, but deperately needs to be highlighted. Pub businesses *will* fail as a result of this change in April 2026.

❌ The Budget should have supported the pub & beer trade, instead Government have thrown the industry into oblivion. ✍️ We have written to the Chancellor to ask her to reconsider her Budget which risks closing more pubs than it will help with the changes to business rates.

@CAMRA_Official @BBCMorningLive @ChequersRoxwell Excellent story. Power to their collective elbow! @ChequersRoxwell

🏆 @BBCMorningLive chatted to our Pub Saving Award 2024 runner-up, @ChequersRoxwell! 🤝 After closing in January 2020, facing the fate of another unscrupulous housing developer, the pub lovers of Roxwell rescued it as a community pub. 🎥 Watch in full: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

@WBOnline_ This demonstrates without doubt that the government has no idea of the cost pressures than are weighing hospitality down. This is a useless initiative for most.

Government fast track longer pub hours orlo.uk/MBACo

An old friend returns, welcome back. Cask available now and bottle-conditioned coming soon.

Another award! This time for Amarillo, but you wouldn't know from the rosette. @CAMRA_Official

@jonestheblock No, no. It's a new beer.

@crouchvale For Brewers Gold?

It's new beer brew day and our faces lit up when we opened up these hops. The beer will be a few weeks in the making but well worth waiting for, we think.

@tomrayni You can go off people, you knoiw . . .

@crouchvale When are the cans coming out?

Which do you prefer? Left is filtered and carbonated, right is bottle-conditioned. We know where we stand on this!

@tomrayni Never in doubt, of course . . .

@crouchvale Bottle conditioned, please 👍

@PiersBaker @RachelReevesMP Absolutely this. Employers' NI is the largest incentive for employers to not employ people and should, quite simply, be abolished. Do you want burdens on or contributors to the coffers?

This Labour Government will always act in the national interest. We are taking action to save British steel production and protect British jobs. We are securing Britain's future.

@CAMRA_Official @JonnyGarrett That's incorrect. A tapped cask of correctly-brewed beer which has had nothing drawn off it can last for weeks or even months, without deteriorating. It is once the contents start to be dispensed which signals the start of the deterioration, not the tapping.

⏱️ Did you know, once a cask #beer is tapped, it only has a few days before it goes off? 🍺 @JonnyGarrett explains in his video on our #Youtube channel what support cask beer needs & what we as beer drinkers can do about it. 🎞️ Watch Jonny’s video here: orlo.uk/st60K

We don't mind if we do!

@CAMRA_Official April 1st, 2025 is likely to prove a very dark day for many small retail businesses including pubs. The huge reduction in business rates relief for those businesses will be the straw that breaks many a camel's back.

🍺 Unless we see meaningful action from all governments across the UK, the future of our locals will forever remain at risk.

💰 Rising National Insurance contributions this week and an increase in the cost of already grossly unfair business rates threatens to kill off many pubs who are already struggling to stay afloat. 👉 Here's what our Chairman Ash Corbett-Collins had to say: orlo.uk/4dxTc

We last brewed this in 2016, apparently - the super-duper Summit hops from the US are not always available! Arriving in draught form at discerning local outlets from next week onwards.

I guess we shouldn't brag, but what the hell . .

@garysagar1 @PeteBrownBeer @NatWest_Help Yes, but the mail service isn't secure but banks have been using it for decades. Also, some banks have disabled their secure messaging services (looking at you @santanderuk ) so you can only 'phone them or use their useless AI chatbots.

@PeteBrownBeer @NatWest_Help It’s standard security, emails aren’t secure, whereas if you log into your app or account they can be sure only an authenticated person is reading the contents