Ben Bradshaw MP (left) pours a pint of Pride of Dartmoor with Black Tor Brewery directors Vivienne and Jonathon Crump
Black Tor Brewery, of Christow, in Dartmoor National Park, raised a glass of its popular Pride of Dartmoor at the seat of government when Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw sponsored it as the week’s guest ale in the Strangers’ Bar in the House of Commons.
The beer, an easy drinking 4% ABV amber ale, was enjoyed by the many MPs and other Parliamentarians for whom the Strangers’ Bar is effectively their local. Head brewer and director, Jonathon Crump, and his co-director mother Vivienne Crump made the journey up to London to share a pint with Mr Bradshaw.
The MP said: “I’m always keen to support our excellent local ales and ciders. My experience is they go down particularly well with my Parliamentary colleagues and that has certainly been the case with Pride of Dartmoor.”
Jonathon said: “We were delighted that Pride of Dartmoor was selected for the Strangers’ Bar and grateful to Ben Bradshaw and the team at the bar for making it happen. We’re very proud of our beers and this was a great opportunity to spread the word about them and our family-run brewery.
“We’d love to think that a pint of our beer may have inspired some of our politicians to dream up ground-breaking new policies, but we are nonetheless delighted that so many MPs enjoyed drinking it.”
Pride of Dartmoor was made available in the Strangers’ Bar as part of a scheme run by the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group and the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), of which Black Tor Brewery is a member.
