Unit 3, Low Mill Business Park
Ulverston
LA12 9EE
tel: 01229 581387
info@stringersbeer.co.uk @stringersbeer on twitter
We're proud to be a small, independent, award-winning brewer of lovely beer. Or, if you like, a Craft Brewer. We live in the Furness area in Cumbria (or N. Lancs if you'd rather)
All our beers are based on choice Maris Otter malt, whole flower hops (it's worth it!), and beautiful Lakeland water (of course!).
Unconditionally Guaranteed Honest, Non-Evil, and Hype-Free! Not only Greener, Better!
Three lucky winners will receive one of our AWESOME posters. Designed by our Head Brewer / Drayman / Bottle washer (me) and carefully printed on lovely 200gsm paper, one of these A2 beauties is sure to brighten up your home or business.
See here
Get your entry in before the end of January 2012.
In addition to the beers that we make all year round, we generally have available a couple of alternatives. At the moment we're also selling:
We produce two ranges of bottled beers: A set which we have bottled for us by Cumbrian Contract Bottling in Cockermouth, and a more experimental family of bottle-conditioned beers which we package in-house.
Here's the bottled version of our Best Bitter. Copper-coloured with a sweet, soft aroma and a solid bitter finish.
We use a blend of Pale, Munich, Crystal and wheat malt, with a touch of Chocolate malt for colour. And then come the hops: Challenger, Northern Brewer and Bobek.
After maturing in the brewery, it's simply filtered and bottled for your drinking pleasure.
Alc. 4.2% vol. 500ml
Our IPA is a robust and flavourful beer, with an emphasis on drinkability, in the classic style. There are citric, spicy, fruity and lightly resinous notes, then bitter-sweet marmalade and a definite cleansing bitterness.
A hefty dose of Amarillo hop is deployed over a base of Pale and Crystal malts.
After a lengthy period of careful maturation, it's simply filtered and bottled for your delectation.
Alc. 5.5% vol. 500ml
When our "No. 2" stout was declared Champion Stout of Cumbria, we knew we had to do a bottled version. And here it is!
It's a little stronger than the cask beer, a feat we achieved by putting even more of the good stuff: Pale, Black, Chocolate and Smoked malts - Roast and Flaked barley - Northern Brewer hops.
Once it leaves the fermenting vessel it passes a restful time maturing in the brewery. Only then do we let it go for bottling.
Alc. 4.5% vol. 500ml
Small-batch, hand-finished, bottle-conditioned beers.
"Furness Abbey" alc. 7% vol. What would the monks at Furness Abbey be brewing nowadays? Something like this? A belgo-influenced strong ale? With hints of spice? Why not?
"Damson" alc. 6% vol. Fruit beers are sweet aren't they? Not this one. Refermented with the wild flora from the raw damsons, left to sit for months, this is noticeably sharp and dry. Sold out for this year, but another (small) batch is in the works.
"Mutiny" alc. 9.3% vol. It's a strong stout. Winey, and wafting dark fruit at you. And drinkable. But sip it.
"Delta" alc. 6.5% vol. It's a strong pale ale, but not an IPA. There's a definite Low Countries thing going on (hence the name).
We're a small family-run outfit. Serious about giving our customers the service they need, but small enough so that we can concentrate on quality rather than quantity.
We've had a number of people ask us about the renewably powered thing. "Have you got a windmill then?" Well, no, we haven't, but by working with our supplier "Good Energy", we can assure our customers that all the power used in our brewery is 100% renewable electricity, from wind, wave, small scale hydro and solar power. This will have generated zero grams of CO2 and zero grams of high-level radio-active waste.
"And what about your van? Does that run on veggie oil?" Sadly, no. But we are looking into an offsetting package with a view to making our transport pretty much carbon-neutral. We'll let you know how that goes.
Our Environmental Policy
We recognise our responsibility to manage the environmental impacts of our activities, products and services. We have assessed our activities and identified that our significant environmental aspects/impacts include water and electricity usage and waste production.
In order to promote good environmental practices, our Policy with regard to the environment is as follows:-
1. To identify the significant environmental impacts of our activities.
2. To develop suitable objectives, targets and management programmes, applying appropriate operational procedures to minimise our significant environmental impacts.
3. To comply with relevant legislation, regulation and other requirements relating to our significant environmental impacts.
4. To prevent pollution, minimise our inputs of utilities and resources and the outputs of emissions to the atmosphere, effluents to waters/sewers and wastes to disposal facilities; endeavouring to re-use, recover or recycle materials where practicable.
5. To ensure that environmental responsibilities are defined, communicated and understood at all levels within our organisation and provide appropriate training where needed.
6. To communicate, co-operate and respond to the views of interested parties, customers and the general public, on environmental issues, where this is practicable and likely to result in an overall improved environmental performance.
7. To strive for continual improvement in overall environmental performance.
Rebecca Stringer and Jonathan Kyme 01/12/2010
Grains to pigs
"Spent" grains waiting to go off to the piggies. Lucky piggies.
After we've extracted most of the starch and sugars, there's still
some goodness left - protein and roughage... The pigs love it.
Pleased to be a member of the Society of Independent Brewers.
Our brewery is powered by Good Energy.
Please use this contact form to send us a message.
Or, use the regular post:
Unit 3, Low Mill Business Park
Ulverston
LA12 9EE
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SIBA North 2011 - Bottled Bitters (over 5%) -
Silver
"IPA" -
SIBA North 2011 - Bottled
Porters, Milds, Old Ales & Stouts - Silver
"Mutiny" -
Lancashire Cup 2011 - Runner-up -Strong.
"Victoria" -
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Macclesfield BF
2010 - 1st in Strong Ale category.
"Paint it Black"This was our "Black IPA". Everybody & his dog seem to be doing them nowadays, so we've given it a rest. -
Champion Beer of Cumbria 2009 - Champion
Stout.
"No.2 Stout" - More to come...
- Beer Emporium, Sandbach
- Glenridding Mini Market
- Open All Hours, Keswick
- Red Pepper, Cartmel
- Ship in a Bottle, Whitechapel, Liverpool
- Source Deli, Ormskirk
- Taste @ Rheged
Of course, this isn't a complete list of all the places we deliver beer to. We're always working to make our beer easier to get. You can help - by asking your friendly neighbourhood licensee to get some in!
Nearest to our house, we're regularly on the bar at
In Ulverston you can frequently find our beers at such excellent establishments as:
To the west you might want to try:
To the north:
In the heart of the lakes:
To the east:
Local Beer Festivals:
- Boot Beer Festival Thursday 14th June - Sunday 17th June 2012
- Ulverston Beer Festival Thursday 1st - Saturday 3rd September 2011
- The Broughton Festival of Beer Friday 7th - Sunday 9th October 2011
Trade customers are able to get our beer direct from the brewery - just give us a call. We make regular deliveries in Cumbria and North Lancs.
Further afield? Our cask beers are available from these wholesalers:
Three lucky winners will receive one of our AWESOME posters. Designed by our Head Brewer / Drayman / Bottle washer (me) and carefully printed on lovely 200gsm paper, one of these A2 beauties is sure to brighten up your home or business.
See here
Get your entry in before the end of January 2012.
Suitable for vegans?
This doodad is intended to be a guide for our customers, and indicates that we use no animal products in the beers we label this way.
What's in the beer.
Most of our beers are brewed using nothing except malt, hops, yeast, water, and (sometimes) sugar. There's some unmalted barley in the stout, and we've been known to throw carefully infuse some lovely black treacle into some of our irregular beers. Our yeast is non-GM, and as far as we know, our suppliers haven't figured out a way of getting animal products into the hops and malt. Even the sugar we use is free from animal products, non-GM, and would be suitable for vegan, vegetarian, Kosher and Halaal diets. Although, obviously, since our beers are alcoholic beverages, you might want to check with your local zealots before ruining your chances of paradise by drinking some of our delicious frothy ale.
We do have some flaked maize in the malt store, but we haven't used it in anything yet. If we do, we'll tell you.
Since all our cask output is "real ale" it will contain live yeast, which can cause a visible haze in beer and may contribute interesting tastes and aromas in the finished product.
Animal products in beer.
Many pale beers will have been processed using fish derived "isinglass" finings, to produce a "clear" product by promoting a rapid and stable settlement of yeast. Brewers typically add isinglass as the beer is transferred to cask, and while pretty much all of this will remain in the cask as sediment, it does mean that beers fined this way cannot be enjoyed by vegetarians / vegans. Brewers may use isinglass in their dark beers.
It's not just beer - wine producers might use any, or all, of: isinglass, gelatin, egg albumen, modified casein (from milk), chitin (derived from the shells of crabs or lobsters) or ox blood.
Some brewers manage to avoid the use of isinglass by relying on a highly flocculent yeast or by sending beer out with rather low levels of residual yeast. We've found that neither of these approaches will give us beer that reliably conditions in cask and suits normal cellar operations. Personally, I don't mind hazy beer as long as it's clean, and I find that small amounts of suspended yeast help, rather than spoil, the taste of beer. However, we've found it pretty near impossible to sell unfined pale beers, so we do normally use isinglass in them.*
In filtered, bottled beers, finings are used to "extend the filter run". In practice this means reduced consumption of filter materials, and / or reduced beer losses. Losses for unfined beers can be as much as 10%, so there are significant extra costs involved in cutting out the finings.
We're currently investigating the use of inorganic finings in the production of our filtered beers, with a view to removing the piscine element.
Not needed in dark beer.
On the other hand, our dark beers work pretty well without finings, so we don't, as a rule, put any in, making them suitable for everyone, including vegetarians and vegans. Yay!
Any utensils or containers that may have been in contact with isinglass will, as a matter of course, be cleaned thoroughly after such use, and before being used for anything else.
If you have a specific query about any of our beers, please get in touch and we'll do our best to answer to your satisfaction.
Stringers first ever competition giveaway!
Three lucky winners will receive one of these AWESOME posters. Designed by our Head Brewer / Drayman / Bottle washer (me) and carefully printed on lovely 200gsm paper, one of these A2 beauties is sure to brighten up your home or business.
All you have to do is sign-up (for our newsletter) here. We'll pick 3 email addresses out of the hat and send you a poster (rolled up, unframed).
Get your entry in before the end of January 2012.
Good luck!
So, where do we stand on keg beer?
We're big fans of well-done cask conditioned beer. But we can see why good beer in keg will be a good choice for some of our customers.
Can you buy Stringers lovely beer in keg? Of course you can, and welcome. Currently we're only kegging in small quantities and to order only, but please get in touch with your requirements.