The Mud has all gone!

So a week after Lattitude we have managed to get EVERYTHING back (a first!) and washed all the mud of the jackets, casks but the van suffered (new exhaust needed) and still needs a good wash but hey it look authentic!

Brewing wise a quiet week 1 brew of Mahseer and a Hektors Scarecrow for the Big Chill Festival, Leeds Festival & Reading Festival.

We have setup a couple of beer festivals this week one at the Caxton Club in Beccles, Suffolk and have supplied beer and cooling equipment for the cliff top gala in Gorleston for this weekend.

One of our ales ‘MAHSEER IPA 5.0%abv has been included in the Nicholson’s IPA Festival

So if your’e in one of there pubs look out for it.

Great weather for ducks!

So we all get used to the wonderful British summer we have been having and then – Rain! Well it wouldnt be a British summer without rain also with the Lattitude Festival starting today it had to rain lets just hope it clears for the weekend.

So what been happening here this week amongst the brewing vessels and telephones in the brewhouse? Well, a busy week with many pub orders, finalizing deliveries for Lattitude, getting the crew together to move the beer around the site over the course of the weekend and most importantly testing the Hektors Pure 3.8% abv & Hektors Scarecrow 5.0% abv to make sure its all ok.

Pleanty of cask washing and racking this week, Orange Wheat, Summer Dream and Friday is the return of the Mahseer I.P.A 5.0% Brewing of this beer has been held back as the small brewing plant is in the process of being fitted in the main brewhouse still but we decided to do a large brew of Mahseer and get this bottled aswell as in the casks.

New Hops have been ordered some great looking Aussie Hops that have never been in the u.k. before so watch this space, once the little brewery is up and running i’m sure we can see some great small brews of Artisan ales designed by Tim.

Green Jack Brewing Co T-shirts are now available on our online store

Progress on our next line of products is moving forward, test recipes of our sauces and marinades are being made as we speak and will be available soon via our online shop

We look forward to seeing you at Lattitude this weekend, DONT FORGET YA WELLIES!!

Shiny new casks nearly full!

So we had our deliveries of our new casks, painted our name on them and have now started the ardous task of filling and palletising them. The second Gyle of Hektors Pure 3.8 is about to be racked with the first gyle and the 2 gyles of Scarecrow 5.0% sitting in our new shiny casks. These will all get delivered to Lattitudefestival.co.uk next week. Then the pain staking task of setting up the bars will come.

Other than that a busy week this week with brewing all our other ales. The small brewery has now been completley moved into placed and is now being wired in so we can do small brews, test brews for one off ales and anything else Tim and Darren feel like trying.

Dont forget to vote for EDP’s Food & Drink Awards. Some great pubs in here that stock Green Jack Ales.

Also our ales are available in boxes for your summer parties, please visit www.greenjackshop.co.uk where you can buy real ale online

Last week we setup a Beer Festival at the Beehive in Norwich and our Summer Dream Elder Flower ale came second just behind our god friends in Chelmsford Crouch Vale Brewery with there ale Yakima winning the beer festival.

So if you are at Lattitude next week look out for our ales at Lattitude.

It’s July already!

Well July is here already how did that happen? It has been a very busy time around Green Jack with every tank full with different stages of beer. Friday saw the delivery of the first lot of our shiny new casks, which has kept everyone busy attaching barcodes and painting the Green Jack colours. We have the big order for Lattitudefestival.co.uk to do at the moment. Yesterday the first batch of Hektors Scarecrow 5.0% was racked and went into storage with the 2nd gyle being racked today or tomorrow.

We have had plenty of beer going out this week, heading to various different wholesalers and pubs. We have had lots of pubs ordereing there whole beer festival ale through us good luck to the Beehive Norwich @beehivenorwich with there beer festival this week.

We went over to the Beehive Tuesday and setup our new marquee and stillage and it looks really good! so if you are thinking of organising a beer festival let us know. and to the Chandlers Arms in Shewsbury with there’s as well. Plenty of our ale has gone out bright to a few weddings around the area today, so garden parties will be enjoying this weeekends sunshine and sumer dream

Summer Dream our 4.0% elderflower ale is selling very well and thankfully we picked plenty of elderflowers it will mean we can get at least another 2 45 barrels brews of this this summer, so that should see us through until September.

Our order came through for the Great British Beer Festival this week at London Earls Court 2nd – 6th August so if your there you will be able to sample our Summer Dream!

Remember our ale is available to your door via our online shop where you can buy real ale most of our ale is online it has yeast in so will last the duration of your get together.

New Bottled Ale
Finally another one of our ales will be available in a 500ml sterile filtered bottle: Mahseer I.P.A. 5.0% is being brewed next week so we can send of to be bottled.

The Mahseer IPA is 5.0% abv India Pale Ale as it was always intended to be strong bitter and very hoppy! Our IPA has been Brewed with English bittering hops and American aroma hops, a winning combination! Named after the legendary Golden Mahseer, which is most highly prized fish a freshwater angler can catch! Growing to over 120lb in weight the mahseer inhabits the rivers of northern India