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Father’s Day – Sunday 18 June!
This Sunday is father’s day so why not treat your Dad to a gift pack of six of our bottled beers for £11.95? Alternatively, we sell £5 gift vouchers which can be redeemed against any of our products including future brewery tours. Both are available in the brewery shop. Other News: Food availability over the […]
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Proud Shane receives the awards!
The following photos show Shane receiving our three awards at the recent annual Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) Wales & West Region competition at Ludlow Spring Festival. This is Shane receiving our award for Off The Rails bottles – third overall in the competition! The gold award for Off The Rails bottles in […]
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Winning Beers!!
We had some great news on Friday 12 May as our beers won prizes in the annual Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) Wales & West Region competition at Ludlow Spring Festival. The awards we received were: Off The Rails in bottles won the GOLD award in its specific category and got BRONZE for bottles in […]
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Easter Opening Hours
We are open until 7pm as usual this Good Friday and until 5pm on Saturday. Amber will be popping down with her van and providing her delicious Wood Fired Pizzas from 12pm on both Good Friday & Saturday. The brewery will also be open for drinks and beer purchases on Easter Monday until 5pm.
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Tree Sale @ Stonehouse Brewery – 31 March 2017
Did you know Oswestry has its own apple? To celebrate our local heritage there will be a sale of rare fruit trees at Stonehouse Brewery on Friday 31st March from 2pm until 7pm. For the last ten years, local Orchardist and nurseryman, Tom Adams, has been travelling the borderlands in search of rare varieties on […]
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10th Anniversary = Tekau!!
Hello All, To celebrate our fast approaching 10th anniversary we’re introducing a new beer called Tekau! Tekau means 10 in Maori so the beer has been named to reflect the 10 years of Stonehouse being in business and Shane’s heritage. It is a pale, easy drinking beer and at 4.3 abv is not too strong. […]
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Spanish evening Friday 20th January
Happy New Year!! Our best wishes for 2017. A very short January update for you: 1. This winter has been so mild (so far) and as a result the first batch of our 2016 cider is ready and on sale in the bar. On this occasion we have tried to make enough to last 12 […]
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Coming soon to a pub near you…
Ballast, our first ever porter will be popping up around the county this week. We have only done a short run of just 30 casks – Ballast is a 4.4% porter with hints of coffee and vanilla. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
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Happy Christmas!!
Sorry we haven’t been in touch much recently but we’ve been incredibly busy here at the brewery. Here’s a quick update on what’s been happening and what’s coming up! What’s been happening? – As you are all probably aware our 2015 batch of cider sold out within three months of its launch on 12 March […]
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Sweeney Mountain Cider Production Has Started!
Hello All, A quick update to let you know that our cider production is now in full swing! We’ll have pressed 8 tonnes of apples this week and have another two stints of this over the coming weeks. This year we are planning on making a twelve month supply – to avoid the “where has […]
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All change at Stonehouse Brewery!
Stonehouse is approaching its 10th anniversary and we have launched a full re-brand in celebration. The core beer range, including favourites such as Station Bitter and Cambrian Gold, will still be brewed using the same tried and tested recipes, but will now appear in your local pub with contemporary new pump clips. The newly designed […]
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Live Ale Session #3 – August Newsletter
Thanks to all who came along to our Live Ale Session on Saturday 23 July and our paella evening on 5th August. A couple more dates while the summer is still with us: Our third Live Ale Session will take place on Saturday 20th August featuring Mark Morgan and other guests. The bar will have […]
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Live Ale Sessions #2 – July Newsletter
Keep Saturday 23 July free! Hello! Last weekend (9th and 10th July) saw the return of Oswestry Food & Drink Festival. We had a really fun weekend and would like to thank everyone who came to see us at our stall and the organisers. The weather managed to stay dry for the majority of it, […]
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Stonehouse Brewery ‘Live Ale Sessions’
Stonehouse Brewery ‘Live Ale Sessions’ A huge thank you to all our customers who came along to our first ‘Live Ale Session’ of 2016 on Saturday 11th of June. It was a very successful event with everybody enjoying the music (thanks to the Vera van Heeringen trio), the food (thanks to Ambers Wood Fired […]
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Stonehouse May Newsletter
Hello!! This summer we plan to have monthly ‘Live Ale Sessions’ involving music, food and, of course, drink! The first of these will take place down here at the Brewery on Saturday 11 June and will feature music by the Vera van Heeringen trio (check them out here http://www.veravanheeringen.com/_/Home.html ) with the music starting at […]
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Stonehouse Brewery Cider Launch
Thank you to all our customers who came along to the 2016 Stonehouse Brewery Sweeney Mountain Cider launch!! We had a fantastic turn out with more than 200 people visiting during the day to enjoy the Sweeney Mountain medium and dry ciders, our beers and, of course, Amber’s pizzas. We also showed the England […]
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Sweeney Mountain Cider Official Launch Party, Saturday 12th March
Stonehouse Brewery presents the official launch of their 2016 Sweeney Mountain Cider. Come and celebrate with us on Saturday 12th March for an afternoon of Beer, Pizza, Jazz, Rugby and, of course… Cider!! Amber’s Wood Fired Kitchen will be joining us to fill your bellies with Oswestry’s finest wood fired pizzas. Amber’s pizzas are […]
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Train station at Stonehouse Brewery
2018 is set to be the grand opening of the old Cambrian Railway line from Oswestry to Weston Wharf (Stonehouse Brewery). Although we still have a couple of years to wait, this could be some exciting news for us and our Oswestry drinkers. http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2016/01/03/shropshire-heritage-railway-to-start-on-extension/
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‘To Good ‘Elf’
Now taking polypin orders in time for Christmas This year we’ve drafted in some little helpers from Lapland to help with the Christmas rush. Keep an eye out for our team of elves delivering to pubs, making beer and serving customers throughout the Christmas period. Team Elf
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Hard at work making our delicious Sweeney Mountain Cider
October was the month of apple chopping, apple pressing and apple bobbing. Down at Stonehouse HQ we were busy converting 6 tonnes of apples into our Sweeney Mountain Cider. With the additional help of the neighbours, Bruce Parr, Euan & Finnley Parr and a conveyor belt we were able to press twice as much as […]
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Thank you for making the past 2 years a great success
2 years ago we moved into our new brew house and out of the old chicken shed. We would like to thank all of our customers for making the bar and the new brewery such a success over these past years. We look forward to holding more events in the future and continue to brew […]
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Oswestry Cricket Club Beer Festival
After a slow start on online ticket sales, this years beer festival turned out to be a great success. With nearly 200 people buying tickets on the door the event helped to raise money for the junior and disability cricket sections of the club. Organisers look forward to delivering another successful event next year.
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Silver Success at the SIBA Wales & West comp
At last weeks SIBA Wales & West competition we had great success with our Wheeltappers getting a silver award in the specialty beers category. Late last year we slightly amended the recipe of our wheat beer, changing the yeast to a classic Belgium strain which emitted great results. Wheeltappers is a cloudy […]
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First Buds Beginning To Grow
First buds on the apple trees growing for next years cider. Kingston Black – A vintage cider apple which originated in Taunton, England during the 19th century.
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The perfect gift this Christmas for the real ale lover in your life!
Gift packs, available with 3 or 6 bottles are flying off the shelves this Christmas. So come down, grab a gift pack and treat yourself to a pint whilst you’re here. Merry Christmas from all @ Stonehouse Brewery
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Local company We Are Promotional Products supply printed garden parasols!
Local Stonehouse regular, Joshua Weaver of We Are Promotional Products recently supplied us with 100 printed garden parasols, printed to a very high standard with our company logo. We will look forward to seeing the parasols in beer gardens across the neighbouring counties. Company Profile; We Are Promotional Products are a printing company based […]
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Stonehouse Cider
Early this week we had a cider press delivered, later in the week we are expecting a 3 ton delivery of apples. Cider will be ready by next March/April
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‘The Month of the Chicken’
This September is the ‘Month of the Chicken’. We have chickens, and beer! So come down and raise a glass to the humble Chicken with a refreshing pint of Stonehouse and one of their glorious pickled eggs!
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Take a Trip to Tripadvisor… and review our business!
We have now registered on tripadvisor. Feel free to write a review and rate http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-d6778441
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Great Success at a Lively Live Ale!
We were amazed at the success of Live Ale 2014. We managed to raise £2,610 for The British Heart Foundation. A huge thank you to all who came, helped out, donated prizes and musicians that played. This would not have been achievable without your help. Until next time, thanks.
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Live Ale
Tickets are selling fast for our Live Ale event this weekend, we only have 50 to go! Here are the set times for Saturday… Set Times Tom Parker – 3:30 Kai Killick – 4:10 Ed Crowley – 4:50 Lloyd Davies – 5:30 Alan Mckim – 6:10 Raffle and Auction – 6:50 The Street Band – […]