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 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 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 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 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 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 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 14/10/2019 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 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 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 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 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...
