Not everybody is taking part in the Government promoted Dry January.
There was a good turn out on the first Tuesday of the month for the tour of the Loose Cannon Brewery in Abingdon.
Up to 150 people can take part in the tour. They taste the beers, enjoy sausage and chips delivered from Salamis on Ock Street, and learn all about brewing.
Beer is made from four ingredients: Barley, water, hops and yeast. The basic idea is to extract the sugars from grains (usually barley) so that the yeast can turn it into alcohol and CO2, creating beer.
Different flavoured malts, and hops are added to create different beers.
From these ingredients, and some clever know-how, many different beers are produced.
Abingdon Bridge XB is a copper coloured beer brewed from Cascade and Amarillo hops, and mostly served at the Nags Head Inn on Abingdon Bridge.
Every Month Loose Cannon creates a new beer, and in January the brew is ‘English DARK’, devised by the brewery’s own Drayman after listening to pubs where he delivers.
To find out more about the Abingdon Brewery visit Loose Cannon.
Have been on one those.Good tour,good company and good selection of brews.Most local pubs seem to carry at least one Loose Cannon ale.
Fully agreed – if you haven’t been on one of the tours and like beer then i’d encourage you to go – really good fun and very informative
Also been on one of these visits in December. Will, Chris and all the staff made sure everyone was well informed and had a good time.
back in the day you always had a certain smell on the day morlands were doing something in particular to do with brewing – how come you never smell these guys? – too small scale?
Great brewery, great tours and it’s been lovely to see how quickly and widely their beers have spread.
Very much enjoyed my barrel of Christmas Cannon III over the hols.
Oooh, yes! The smell of the malting. Delish!
It’s great to see a local business doing well. Even more so that it’s a brewery, as Abingdon was famous for good beer before!
You don’t get the smell as they have fitted a filter on the outlet because the brewery is in a residential area.
Keep up the good work Loose Cannon 🙂