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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Robinsons
DESCRIPTION:How do you take nearly 200 years of brewing history and get it ready for the next 200? Robinsons has just had a pretty good go at answering that. After 187 years of brewing in the heart of Stockport\, this much-loved family brewery has made one of the biggest moves in its history – literally – moving brewing from its historic Hillgate home into a fantastic new £8.4 million brewhouse at Bredbury. It’s a bold new chapter for a brewery that began life at the Unicorn Inn in 1838 and is now in its sixth generation of family ownership\, with around 250 pubs across the North West and North Wales. \nFor beer drinkers\, the really exciting bit is what’s happening inside. The new brewery brings brewing and packaging together under one roof\, with brilliant new technology sitting alongside generations of brewing know-how. It’s more efficient\, more sustainable and built for the future – and cask is very much part of that future. In fact\, cask makes up an impressive 28% of beer sold in Robinsons pubs\, around five times the on-trade average\, and its cask volumes grew by around 5% in the latest reported year. Earlier this year\, Cask Marque founder Paul Nunny and the Cask Marque board went for a look behind the scenes and came away seriously impressed\, with Paul describing the scale of the investment and innovation as “genuinely impressive”. We suspect there may have been a few envious brewers peering at the new kit too. \nAnd that’s why we’re so excited to make Robinsons our Brewery of the Day. Moving a brewery with this much history could have been all about protecting the past. Instead\, Robinsons has made it about what comes next. There’s new kit\, new possibilities and a whole new chapter being written – while the family\, the pubs and that commitment to a properly kept pint of cask remain firmly at the heart of it. Nearly two centuries in\, Robinsons isn’t slowing down. It’s just fired up a brand-new brewery. Now that really is something worth raising a pint to. \nDiscover more: Visit the Robinsons Brewery website and take a look at Paul Nunny and Cask Marque’s visit to the new brewery on LinkedIn.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/robinsons/
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Wadworth
DESCRIPTION:If you’ve been drinking cask for a while\, there’s a good chance Wadworth already means something to you – a familiar pump clip\, a favourite pub or perhaps a pint of 6X that brings back a few memories. And if it doesn’t? Well\, that’s what Cask Ale Week is for. Wadworth has been brewing in Devizes since 1875\, is still independent and family-run five generations later\, and has built the sort of following that includes one particularly dedicated fan who reckoned he’d enjoyed around 45\,000 pints of 6X by his 50th birthday. That’s not a typo. 45\,000. \nBut the really exciting thing is that new drinkers are joining the party. Fresh figures reported this month put 6X among Britain’s three fastest-growing major cask brands by value\, with Wadworth saying it’s seeing younger drinkers increasingly attracted to beers with real history and provenance. Meanwhile\, at its Folly Road Brewhouse\, the brewers have the freedom to play with new styles and flavours alongside the beers generations of drinkers grew up with. \nAnd that’s rather the point of Cask Ale Week. You don’t need to have been drinking a beer for 30 years to enjoy one with 150 years of stories behind it. So if you spot a Wadworth pump clip this week\, give it a go. You might discover an old favourite – even if it’s completely new to you. And if you do love it\, you’ve only got another 44\,999 pints to go. \nDiscover more: Visit Wadworth and read The Morning Advertiser’s feature on younger drinkers and heritage beers driving the growth of cask.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/wadworth/
CATEGORIES:brewery
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Okell's
DESCRIPTION:There are breweries with traditions – and then there’s Okell’s\, which helped get the rules for good beer written into Manx law. Founded on the Isle of Man by Dr William Okell in 1850\, the brewery’s story took a wonderfully beer-geek turn in 1874 when its founder championed the Manx Pure Beer Act\, restricting Manx beer to proper brewing ingredients and keeping artificial additives and substitutes out. More than 175 years after Okell’s began brewing\, that commitment to pure beer is still going strong. Frankly\, we rather like an island that takes its pint seriously enough to legislate for it. \nAnd drinkers have plenty of reasons to take notice right now. Okell’s has just had a cracking few weeks on the awards circuit\, picking up Gold at the 2026 World Beer Awards for its Nectar New World IPA\, alongside recognition for its Smoked Porter\, followed by two more medals at the International Beer Challenge. Back home\, its cask ales remain a familiar sight across the Isle of Man’s pubs\, while seasonal and limited-edition brews give the brewers plenty of room to have some fun alongside the classics. \nSo\, if Okell’s is already an old friend\, raise a glass to 175+ years of proudly Manx brewing. And if you’ve never tried an Okell’s beer? Consider this your invitation. A pint brewed on a tiny island in the Irish Sea\, with generations of history behind it and its own purity law to boot – that’s exactly the sort of beer story we think is worth seeking out during Cask Ale Week. \nDiscover more: Visit Okell’s and read about its latest success at the 2026 World Beer Awards.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/okells/
CATEGORIES:brewery
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Wye Valley
DESCRIPTION:If you like your pint with a real sense of where it comes from\, Wye Valley Brewery is one to look out for. It started life in 1985 when former Guinness brewer Peter Amor set up a tiny brewery behind a Herefordshire pub. Forty-one years later\, it’s still independent and family-owned\, but those humble beginnings have grown into more than 15 million pints enjoyed each year and beers pouring in over 1\,200 pubs and bars. Not bad for something that started behind the bar. \nAnd Wye Valley really does taste of its home turf. The brewery sits right in the heart of Herefordshire hop country and more than half of its hops are grown within just 10 miles – so when you’re drinking a pint of Wye Valley cask\, there’s a good chance the hops haven’t travelled very far at all. Even some of the brewery’s original casks from 1985 are apparently still doing the rounds. We’d love to know how many good nights out those have witnessed. \nThat combination of local roots and a loyal following is exactly why we’re celebrating Wye Valley during Cask Ale Week. Whether you already know their pump clips well or you’re about to order one for the first time\, this is proper independent brewing with Herefordshire running right through it. So if you spot Wye Valley on the bar this week\, you know what to do. Find a pint\, find some friends and give it a try. Cheers! \nDiscover more: Visit Wye Valley Brewery and read about the latest chapter in this independent family brewery’s story.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/wye-valley/
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Ossett
DESCRIPTION:Fresh\, hoppy and with a definite independent streak\, Ossett Brewery has been doing things its own way since Bob Lawson started brewing in the back of a West Yorkshire pub in 1998. What began as a tiny operation has grown into a brewery producing more than nine million pints a year\, with a fantastic collection of pubs and a loyal following of drinkers who know exactly what they like. And if there’s one thing Ossett proves brilliantly\, it’s just how exciting modern cask can be. \nWhite Rat is perhaps the perfect example. First brewed in 2011 in the basement of Huddersfield’s Rat & Ratchet\, it quickly became a firm favourite with drinkers and has gone on to develop a huge following – today around five million pints are brewed each year. But Ossett’s brewers haven’t stopped playing. New hops\, new styles\, cask-only releases and collaborations keep appearing alongside the favourites\, making this the sort of brewery where it’s always worth having a look along the handpulls to see what’s new. \nAnd this summer Ossett doubled down on quality by becoming a member of Cask Marque\, with all of its own pubs already Cask Marque accredited. We love that combination: make brilliant cask\, keep experimenting\, but make absolutely sure it reaches the drinker tasting as good as it should. So if an Ossett pump clip catches your eye this Cask Ale Week – particularly one with a rat on it – we suggest you follow it. There could be a very good pint waiting on the other side. \nDiscover more: Visit Ossett Brewery and read about its latest commitment to great cask through Cask Marque.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/ossett/
CATEGORIES:brewery
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Belhaven
DESCRIPTION:Sitting among the barley fields of East Lothian\, just outside Dunbar\, Scotland’s oldest working brewery has been doing its thing since 1719. More than 300 years later\, the beer is still brewed right there using local water\, malted barley and Belhaven’s own yeast. There are even ancient cellars on the site linked to the Benedictine monks who brewed in Dunbar centuries ago. That’s a fair bit of brewing history beneath your feet before you’ve even ordered a pint. \nAnd what we love about Belhaven is that its beers are so unmistakably Scottish. This is the land of 80 Shilling – or “80 bob” if you prefer – alongside stouts\, IPAs and the hugely popular Belhaven Best. There’s a brilliant sense of place about it all: a brewery on the Scottish coast\, surrounded by some of the country’s finest barley-growing land\, still producing beers with the malty\, characterful flavours generations of Scottish drinkers have enjoyed. Yet there’s plenty for a new generation to discover too. \nBetter still\, Belhaven is getting properly stuck into Cask Ale Week\, with participating pubs offering CAMRA members 25% off cask during the promotion. So whether you already know your 80/- from your Wee Heavy or the world of Scottish ale is completely new territory\, this seems a very good week to investigate. Find a handpull\, order yourself a pint and raise a glass to more than three centuries of Scottish brewing. Slàinte! \nDiscover more: Visit Belhaven Brewery and explore the story of Scotland’s oldest working brewery.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/belhaven/
CATEGORIES:brewery
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Thwaites
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Thwaites. The family has been brewing in Lancashire since 1807 and\, six generations later\, they’re still at it – although these days the beer comes from a smaller\, modern brewery at Mellor Brook in the beautiful Ribble Valley. \nAnd small really is part of the appeal. Thwaites made a conscious move away from big industrial brewing and back towards doing things on a more human scale. The brewers describe using their senses to guide every brew from grist to cask\, producing the bitters and ales drinkers know and love alongside a rolling line-up of seasonal and small-batch cask beers. In other words\, there’s usually a very good reason to have a look along the handpulls and see what they’ve been up to. \nThat feels like a pretty good way to round off our Brewery of the Day celebrations. More than 200 years of family brewing\, proper Lancashire pubs\, a modern little brewery making cask with plenty of character – and four enormous horses keeping an eye on proceedings. If you spot Thwaites on the bar this Cask Ale Week\, give it a try. You may just find a new favourite. And yes\, we think all breweries should come with Shire horses too. \nDiscover more: Visit Thwaites and explore the story of more than two centuries of Lancashire brewing.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/thwaites/
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