READ MORE Posted on 21/09/2026 Hop Harvest Party 2026 It’s been a good hop harvest this year, and the hops are plumper and juicier than any other year I’ve known. So that definitely ...
READ MORE Posted on 23/08/2026 Win a hamper of Belgian Beer! Celebrating Belgium Beer Week with Strangers to Friends Belgium Beer Week Belgium Beer Week takes place from 24 – 31 August 2026, with ven...
READ MORE Posted on 17/08/2026 Last of the Summer Beer 2026 We’re giving the summer the send off it deserves and have food and music for you on both the Friday and Saturday for the bank holiday ...
READ MORE Posted on 14/05/2026 Strangers’ Blonde – the sequel We’ve been at it again, getting busy with the other Norfolk brewers and our Belgian friends, and this time we have brewed a classic Be...
READ MORE Posted on 12/05/2026 Grain Events 2026 Although the Taproom is open every Friday and Saturday from 12 until 7, here is a list of the BIGGER STUFF that is going on in 2026. Keep an...
READ MORE Posted on 13/04/2026 Blessing of the Barley Queen 2026 Join us once again, on 25 April 2026, for the Blessing of the Barley Queen, celebrating the core ingredient of all great beer and following ...
READ MORE Posted on 30/05/2025 Grain Fest 2025 It’s that time of year and we’re all ready for a big summer party! Grain Fest will take place as ever on the last Saturday in Ju...
READ MORE Posted on 21/10/2024 Strangers Red Beer Launch The Norfolk X Flanders collaboration beer goes live this Friday 25 October at The Plough, and you are all invited! Join us from 6pm at The P...
READ MORE Posted on 30/09/2024 Hop Harvest Party 2024 The hops have been harvested, the beer has been brewed, so it’s that time again when we get together to celebrate the hop harvest at t...
READ MORE Posted on 11/04/2024 The Blessing of the Barley Queen ‘The Blessing of the Barley Queen’ is to be held on Saturday 27 April, following the blessing of the land, and will include drin...
READ MORE Posted on 11/04/2024 Champion Beer of Norfolk 2024 We were still celebrating our wins at BeerX in Liverpool when we told of the news that Lignum Vitae had just been declared Champion Cask Bee...
READ MORE Posted on 27/02/2024 Slate makes brewing history We made brewing history at the start of this year, by becoming the first UK brewer to win not just cask East of England Overall Champion, bu...
READ MORE Posted on 15/08/2023 Hop Harvest Party Come and help us celebrate the Hop Harvest and to say goodbye to the summer in this Taproom Extravaganza! I know we are called Grain, and gr...
READ MORE Posted on 05/07/2023 I’m not a robot We have a new Grain Storm beer launching next week and it’s an anti-AI beer called ‘I’m not a robot’. This is where ...
READ MORE Posted on 31/05/2023 GRAIN FEST 2023 You keep asking, so here are the details… Grain Fest 2023 will be on Saturday 24 June, from 2pm until 10pm, and we have an exci...
READ MORE Posted on 16/05/2023 Strangers No More An interesting name for a beer? A pleasant stroll around the old bits of Norwich might leave an observant person asking ‘why are there pla...
READ MORE Posted on 20/12/2022 24 hours in Leuven There’ll be plenty written about why us brewers went to Leuven in Belgium, so if you want to skip that bit, scroll straight down to th...
READ MORE Posted on 14/11/2022 The Taproom Bar in December We’ve been struggling to fit you all in at our Taproom and Tour Days so we’re opening up the bar more often in the run up to Chr...
READ MORE Posted on 01/08/2022 There’s a storm brewing GRAINSTORM: verb – to grainstorm To gather as a collective and discuss new ideas for Grain beers Every few weeks, us folks at the br...
READ MORE Posted on 07/02/2022 Those awkward teenage years “I remember when the word ‘craft’ belonged to crepe paper and wooden lolly sticks, and the idea of starting a brewery was greeted ...
READ MORE Posted on 15/10/2020 The Haunted Drive Thru We could certainly do with a bit more fun around here, although the summer gave us a bit of a breather and some good trading, the rain, the ...
READ MORE Posted on 23/09/2020 The ThreeOneSix Question – Cask Ale Week 2020 To celebrate Cask Ale Week 2020, run by the lovely people at Cask Marque, we thought we would run a little competition giving you the chance...
READ MORE Posted on 25/03/2020 Do we? don’t we? On Monday the UK went into lockdown with only essential shops allowed to remain open. This was sad, scary and right. On Wednesday they quali...
READ MORE Posted on 18/03/2020 Grain Brewery Drive-Thru Coming soon… We have a brewery full of beer but no pubs to sell it to, so we are turning the brewery into a Drive-Thru beer col...
READ MORE Posted on 14/11/2019 Beer to fill your stockings! So the brewery elves are busy brewing beer and putting it into mini kegs and beer boxes ready for all the grown-ups who have been good this ...
READ MORE Posted on 30/10/2019 Who doesn’t love a hedgehog?! You’ve got to have a heart of stone (or maybe some terrible spiky childhood encounter) not to love a hedgehog , and you probably didn&...
READ MORE Posted on 14/10/2019 Good King Henry lives on So Alan ‘officially’ retired from brewing and closed down Old Chimneys Brewery back in March, but we’ve been making plans ...
READ MORE Posted on 07/06/2019 Grain Fest 2019 – not long now The countdown is on for Grain Fest 2019, which takes place at the brewery on 29 June from 2 until 10pm. You’ll find a barn full of bee...
READ MORE Posted on 11/04/2019 The Locks, Geldeston Down a rutted and narrow Norfolk marshland track lies The Locks. A public house long famed for its relaxed atmosphere, incredible backdrop a...
READ MORE Posted on 12/03/2019 Hippies, Pagans, and Zythophiles The pub is the Geldeston Lock’s Inn. If you’re not familiar with ‘The Locks’, then you have so far missed out on experiencing one of...
READ MORE Posted on 05/02/2019 S.M.A.S.H. Unfortunately it has nothing to do with these funny little guys, but it would have been fun though wouldn’t it? This blog has come along p...
READ MORE Posted on 14/11/2018 Fill your Christmas stockings with beer So the brewery elves are busy brewing beer and putting it into mini kegs and beer boxes ready for all the grown-ups who have been good this ...
READ MORE Posted on 30/05/2018 Grain Fest 2018 – oh yes!! If you’ve had a great time at one of our monthly Open Days, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! On 30 June 2018, we wil be turning the brewery...
READ MORE Posted on 22/03/2018 Fem.Ale – is there really a point to be made here? I’m a woman, I like beer and I work for a brewery. I don’t think that’s weird, but I’ve been told that some people do. So, last week...
READ MORE Posted on 15/02/2018 ThreeOneSix – that’s a stupid name for a beer I won’t tell you what it means directly – you’ll have to guess, but I think you’ll figure it out by the end. But it is a stupid name...
READ MORE Posted on 31/01/2018 Elysian Winter Beer festival 2018 – a brewer’s perspective We generally do dark beers well in Norfolk, because of our hard water (which unfortunately makes brewing pale beers a lot harder), so there ...
READ MORE Posted on 06/10/2017 Diss Beer Festival 2017 – back in the Hall From 13 to 15 October, Grain is filling the Corn Hall with beer from near and far. Add to this a great selection of gins and rums, along wit...
READ MORE Posted on 29/06/2017 What’s Diss? Beer, Rum and Gin? Diss Summer Beer, Gin and Rum Festival will run from 5pm Friday 7 July until 11pm, then again on Saturday 8 July from midday u...
READ MORE Posted on 10/05/2017 Grain Fest is back for 2017 We will again be turning the brewery into a festival site for one day of the year. On Saturday 24 June, from 2pm until 10pm, we will be host...
READ MORE Posted on 16/03/2017 How to build a brewery in 5 minutes Watch our timelapse video we recorded while building our brewhouse
READ MORE Posted on 16/03/2017 We’re winning at keg Beer award wins for Grain Brewery at SIBA National Beer Competition 2017.
READ MORE Posted on 15/03/2017 The story of Grain Read the full story about how we set up and built Grain Brewery.
