ASPIRE

We’ve been promising a summer ale for a while, and we’ve also been approached to brew a festival special for Chesterfield Borough Council’s Market Festival Beer Festival at the end of October.  In the end we’ve decided to produce a single new beer to try and satisfy both requirements.

ASPIRE is a 3.7% pomegranate fruit beer.  Those of you with a little local knowledge will see the link immediately, for anyone else please allow me to enlighten you.  The official crest of Chesterfield Borough Council is beautifully ornate, and can be seen in all it’s colourful glory here:

http://www.youandyesterday.co.uk/articles/Chesterfield_Borough_Council_-_Its_Coat_of_Arms_Explained

The Cock and Pynot (magpie) stand either side of a shield depicting a pomegranate tree, sat upon a scroll reading the motto “ASPIRE”.  The ancient “Common Seal” of Chesterfield also shows a pomegranate tree in full fruit - and so the idea was borne to create a fruit beer, using pomegranate as the fruit.  Well that, and the fact that I absolutely love them (though the seeds can stick in your teeth).  Anyway we’ve tried and tested it ourselves, and next week it goes before the BBC membership to see what they think.  Any kind of success from that and it’ll be unleashed on the good folk of this wonderful Town.  The Borough Council have been kind enough to grant us permission to use the image of the ancient seal on the pump-clip.  In return I promise not to let too much of the beer stray north of the border into Yorkshire :o)

I KNOW,     I know,         I know………….

Just when I promise to be updating this web-site on a regular basis, I go and leave all you good people for almost 4 whole months with no interesting up-dates to read whilst you should be working.  The good news is that the lack of updates is down only to how busy we’ve all been recently down at the brewery.  The bad news is there’s a truck-load of stuff I should have been passing on to you all, but haven’t done.

But any way - better late than never and all that.  I hope you enjoy ‘catching up’, hope you’ll forgive me, and hope you don’t take too much time out of your working day in reading this!

Merchandise

We’ve also been busy recently adding to our range of Brampton Brewery merchandise.  In addition to the branded pint pot, we now also boast a traditional tulip half-pint as well as a stemmed half-pint glass.  The stemmed half is the same price as the pint at £2.50, whilst the tulip half is just £2.  Alternatively we’ll do you the full set for £6.

In addition to the glass-ware we now also have a bottle-opener key-ring.  This carries the curved “Brampton Brewery” logo that you see at the top of this web page, and these are also priced at £2.50.

We’ve finally been able to source a stock of affordable 4-pint plastic ‘carry kegs’ which we’ve had branded up.  They’re not ideal for storing beer in for any length of time, but are perfect for filling up at your local early on a Saturday night if you really can’t miss Casualty.  These re-useable stone-coloured kegs are just £5.

Finally the dark blue / light grey polo shirts that we’ve always had are still available at £16.

You can see images and details of all these items on a new “Merchandise” page on the web-site.

AND REMEMBER - BBC members continue to get 10% discount on the full range of merchandise.

Home (and latest news!)         Last updated 8th August ’08

BBC - It really is unmissable

The Brampton Brewery Club is now well under way with membership approaching 50.  Our inaugural trip on the “big green bus” was made about a month ago with a visit to the Derby Beer Festival, and a wonderful night was had by all who attended.  Two more events are lined up before the end of August, please see the dedicated BBC page for more details.

BRAMPTON BREWERY LTD.

Unit 5 - Chatsworth Business Park

Chatsworth Road

CHESTERFIELD

Derbyshire   S40 2AR

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Phone: 01246 221680

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E-mail: chris.radford@bramptonbrewery.co.uk

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