The brewery will be closed for take home sales for one afternoon only on Wednesday 27th April 2022 for stocktaking and essential maintenance. We are open as normal this Wednesday, both Saturday’s 23rd and 30th April and the following Wednesday (4th May) onwards. We will only be able to take cash payments on Saturday 30th April as there will be no card machine available.
We’re looking forwards to having a our stall out on Bedford Square this coming Saturday, 16th April, 9am to 1 pm. We’ll have plenty of gift boxes with us – perfect presents for those who aren’t so keen on Easter eggs, or for taking to family and friends. And the first of this years brews of Collytown Blonde is ready, light and refreshing, only gently hopped with a long honeyed after taste, and at 4%Alc, it makes a great accompaniment to an Easter Sunday roast, or enjoying on a warm spring evening. Suitable for vegans, it’s also one of our Ales that are popular with those who “Don’t Like Beer” !
N.B The brewery will be closed for take home sales for one day only on Wednesday 27th April for our annual stock take.
We’ve been having fun! In our busy brewing schedule of 6 OriginAles and 6 SeasonAles we decided to make some time to create a new, one off ExperimentAle brew each year. To enjoy the buzz from playing with the endless choice of characterful malts and yeasts, and our gorgeous hops, then brewing it all up to see what we get!
And so for 2022, it’s a blonde Saison. Light biscuity malts combined with the deep fruitiness of a saison yeast, all balanced together with a light hoppy background. And we are really pleased with it (even though we say so ourselves!). Now we just need those light bright spring evenings to sit and toast the sunset with a bottle or two!
We’ll have it along with us at Tavistock Farmers Market on Saturday 26th March 9am to 1pm. Hope to see lots of familiar faces there – come and have a chat – be great to see you, it’s been a long winter!
We’ll be in Butchers Hall from 9am to 4pm, and also open as usual back at the Brewery from 3 to 5pm. looking forwards to seeing lots of people for a safe but jolly festive day. And after all of that we’ll be in need of a beer!
We will be unable to rake card payments at Butchers Hall in the afternoon, so PLEASE BRING CASH! We still very much prefer cash payments, as the card machine is so slow and doesn’t always get connected. This makes card payments very much less safe than cash transactions, as it increases the risks of Covid transmission from standing waiting in queues close to others, whereas any negligible risk from handling cash can be entirely avoided by using hand gel.
Lots of lovely Cotts Winter Ale still available, as well as lighter refreshing beers to balance those heavier festive meals. Come and say hello!
We’ll be back on Bedford square with Tavistock Farmers Market this Saturday 11th Dec, 9 am to 1pm and then in Tavistock again on Saturday 18th Dec in Butchers Hall, 9am to 4pm.
And at the brewery;
Saturday 11th Dec 3 to 5pm
Wednesday 15th Dec 4.30 to 6pm
Saturday 18th Dec 3 to 5pm
Wednesday 22nd Dec 4.30 to 6pm
The brewery is closed from 6pm Wenesday 22nd Dec until 3pm Saturday 8th January 2022
Saturday 8th Jan 3 to 5pm
Wednesday 12th Jan 4.30 to 6pm
and so on………! Hoping very much to see you at one of those times!
and last but not least, a HUGE and HEARTFELT THANKYOU to all of you who have continued to support the brewery throughout 2021, and especially with take home sales this autumn – we really wouldn’t still be here without you!
Meanwhile, take care and stay safe, and we wish you a very happy Christmas and New Year
Buffy, Jeremy and Fred (aka the Formerly Ferocious Feral, since promoted to Brewery Cat)
Well it’s going to be wild and windy tomorrow but DRY and SUNNY hurrah, so we’ll be on Bedford Square as planned tomorrow, but trading from our unmissable orange van as it’s too windy to put the market gazebos up.
We’ll have Cotts Winter Ale along with us as well as 9 other beers to choose from and plenty of gift boxes, perfect for Christmas presents.
Come and say hello and keep us jolly while the wind does it’s best!
And it will be on sale at the brewery from this Saturday, 13th November at our usual times. For anyone who hasn’t tried our festive season brew before, it’s a rich deep coppper ale with dried fruit and spice flavours from the malts, beautifully balanced by the Goldings hops. We do two brews of it, but invariably it sells out by early January, so don’t leave it too late if you do want to try some.
We’ll have it with us at Butchers Hall on Thursday 18th Nov and Friday 19th Nov 10am to 4pm both days, and at Tavistock Farmers Market on Saturday 27th Nov 9am to 1pm
Our Saturday afternoon opening time at the brewery which we introduced at the start of the pandemic has been really popular, especially with customers who find it hard to get here in time after work on Wednesdays. So we have decided to keep the Saturday 3 to 5pm opening long term, but close an hour earlier on wintertime Wednesdays when it’s dark and frequently cold and wet.
So, on any Wednesday between November 1st and March 1st, our opening hours for take home sales will be 4.30 to 6pm.
From the beginning of March 2022 to the end of October we’ll be back to closing at 7pm on Wednesdays again.
Take care all and stay safe.
The brewery will be closed for take home sales for 1 Wednesday afternoon only, on 21st April 2021. We are open again as usual on the following Saturday, 24th April 3pm to 5pm.
Following several recent enquiries, we would like to clarify that our regular weekly Wednesday and Saturday opening hours are for Take Home Sales only.
We are unable to offer On Sales/drinking here during those times as it is a conditon of our Premises Licence. Apologies!
Meanwhile – our first brew this year of Collytown Blonde is going down well – now all we need is a bit of warmth for these lovely dry sunny evenings!
First a big thankyou to all who have made it out to the brewery since Christmas, braving the cold and wet for beer for some cheer at home. As ever, we are very grateful for the support to help keep the brewery going while time continue to be hard for all. Fingers crossed for the better times ahead!
Apologies to those who were hoping to catch us at the Farmers Market on March 13th or on the square on April 3rd – due to some family ‘things’ we won’t now be able to make either of those, but are looking forwards instead to the Farmers Market on Saturday 22nd May.
Meanwhile, we’ve been so pleased to have the recent dry spell, the hops are now weeded and fed ready for the season ahead, and are staring to shoot. The first of this year’s SeasonAles, Collytown Blonde, is conditioning away in it’s bottles and will be on sale in time for Easter.
And as essential supplies, we are still open for take home sales at the same times, every Saturday afternoon 3 to 5pm and every Wednesday afternoon 4.30 to 7pm. And while you’re here, you are welcome to wander down to the hops and around the orchard – not long before the apple blossom will be out – and soak up the peace and the birdsong!
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