The Bailey Head, Oswestry, has celebrated being a CAMRA national pub of the year finalist by brewing three collaboration beers with different brewers.
Collaboration brew day at Castle Rock Brewery
All three will be on the bar when the pub team are presented with their finalist certificate on 23rd November.
The past two weeks has seen pub licensees Duncan Borrowman and Grace Goodlad travel to Riverhead (Ossett) Brewery in Yorkshire to brew Wild Flower, a 4.2% ABV hazy pale.
They have also visited Castle Rock Brewery. in Nottingham, to brew Super Creeps, a 4.5% ABV sister beer to Scary Monsters, which they brewed with Castle Rock two years ago. At the time they were the first collaboration brewers on Castle Rock’s Pilot Project.
The latest of the three, One Day, is a 4.7% ABV West Coast IPA brewed with local Oswestry brewery Stonehouse, and the pub bar team went along to take part in the brew day.
“We have been brewing many more collaboration beers,” said Grace. “This will make it eight in the past 12 months.
“It helps to keep us in touch with brewers we work with and every brew day teaches us something new, which adds to our understanding of the beer we are selling. I am really looking forward to everyone trying the three beers from 23rd November.”
Duncan said: “I really want to thank everyone at the breweries involved in these brew days: the brewers who did the recipe development with us and brewed with us on the brew days, the back room staff who made them happen, and the designers who worked on the naming and badges with us.”
