Twewers – twittering brewers
As some of you may already be aware, I am quite a fan of the stuff known as real ale. You know, beer with flavour in it. I am also quite a fan of twitter, for rapid little conversations on t’internet.
After talking about the Newcastle Beer Festival on this site and on twitter, I discovered that I had picked up a new twitter follower called @beermerchants. As they are importers of beer, and they are on twitter, I asked them the question: which breweries are on twitter?
They provided me with a list, but it has a very American slant, when I was specifically looking for UK based real ale brewers.
So I have decided that I will start my own list: if you know of any other twittering brewers of real ale based in the UK, let me know via the comments and I’ll add you to this list. Meanwhile, if any of the brewers would like to send me beer to ahem “review”, or invite me on brewery tours, do feel free to contact me!
Here they are:
Ale
| Brewer | Twitter account | First Tweet |
|---|---|---|
| Adnams | @Adnams | 18 Feb 2009 |
| Bazens Brewery | @BazensBrewery | 21 Jul 2009 |
| Black Isle Brewery | @Blackislebeer | 24 Mar 2009 |
| The Brew Company | @the_brew_co | 18 Mar 2008 |
| Dark Star Brewing Co | @DarkStarBrewCo | 14 Aug 2009 |
| Everards | @EverardsTiger | 27 Feb 2009 |
| Frodsham (formerly Station House) Brewery | @Frodsham Brewery | 21 Feb 2009 |
| Grain Brewery | @GrainBrewery | 7 Jun 2009 |
| Great Heck Brewery | @GreatHeckBrew | 10 Jun 2009 |
| Hillsborough & Sheffield Crown Brewery | @CrownBrewerStu | 10 Jun 2009 |
| Hogs Back Brewery | @HogsBackBrewery | 30 Apr 2009 |
| Humpty Dumpty Brewery | @hdbrewery | 6 Mar 2009 |
| Ramsgate Brewery | @RamsgateBrewery | 4 Jun 2009 |
| St. Austell Brewery | @Tribute_Ale | 10 Feb 2009 |
| Saints & Sinners Beer Co. | @saintsandsinner | 23 Dec 2008 |
| Sandstone Brewery | @SandstoneBrewer | 30 Jun 2009 |
| Three Tuns Brewery | @ThreeTunsBrewer | 23 Feb 2009 |
| Vale Brewery | @ValeBrewery | 29 Apr 2009 |
| Wadworth Brewery | @Wadworth | 6 Mar 2009 |
| WC Brewery | @WCBrewery | 18 Aug 2009 |
| Wells and Youngs | @Bombardier_Beer | 10 Feb 2009 |
Ciders
| Brewer | Twitter account | First Tweet |
|---|---|---|
| Brothers Cider | @BrothersCider | 3 Apr 2009 |
| The Oliver’s | @OliversCider | 17 Mar 2009 |
Current brewery count: 21 ale brewers, 2 cider brewers. Last update 23 September 2009.
Alexander Wright says:
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Vale Brewery (@ValeBrewery) are on twitter too.
John says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Also Humpty Dumpty @hdbrewery
RealAleNet says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Thanks – I’ve followed those that I didn’t have on Twitter (http://twitter.com/RealAleNet)
Anthony says:
May 6th, 2009 at 9:53 am
It’s a shame Black Isle don’t update more often.
Headed up that way in June, I’ll have to get stocked up…
Andy says:
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Got another one for you, Brothers Cider, Somerset – http://twitter.com/BrothersCider. OK, not real ale but cider – but you can sign up to get tokens for Brothers festival Strength Pear Cider at Glastonbury 09 (http://www.brotherscider.co.uk/goodies/).
Steve Whateley says:
June 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
What about a list of lager brewers? that stuff that you like tastes like gnat’s piss!
I’d like to know where they brew Beck’s beer, Heineken, Lowenbrau, Tuborg and Leffe.
You can keep your Old Peculiar thanks. For one thing it tastes old, and for another, it tastes peculiar!
JackP says:
June 9th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Ah well, I’m afraid I’m not a lagerboy: you’ll have to look elsewhere for that, although some might be on the beernews list
And — to be pedantic — it’s peculier.
Mr Matt says:
June 9th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Piss off lad, you are turning into an alcopop kid
Mark, Real-Ale-Reviews.com says:
November 6th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Nice one, added some of these I didn’t know about.
These guys are also on twitter:
@purityale
@saltairebrewery
@daasbeer
@baysbrewery
@williamsbrewery