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The man with responsibility for brewing the Adnams range is 34 year old dad-of-one Fergus Fitzgerald.Fergus trained at the Murphy brewery in Cork and at Fullers in London, before moving to Adnams as assistant brewer 2004.
My first job was in a dairy testing cheese that had been stored at 25C for a month. I decided fairly quickly that was not for me.
Now a fully qualified Master Brewer, he took over as Head Brewer in 2009..
The last few weeks have been very busy, brewing lots of beer in the run up to Christmas but also it occurred to me that a lot of my time is taking up by groups and organisations that you might not know about so I thought I’d introduce you to them. What follows will contain... Read more
With the turning back of the clocks signalling the arrival of darker evenings and colder weather, we welcome the return of our traditional winter warmer Old Ale. Using one of Adnams' oldest recipes, this is a mild ale style beer brewed with East Anglian pale ale and Crystal malted barley and Boadicea hops. It's dark... Read more
Warning! the latter part of this post will include repeated and unnecessary name dropping. I was invited to be a Judge at the Great American Beer festival this year, I was also invited last year but what makes this year different is I said yes. So, one Monday a few weeks ago, after a quick... Read more
From October this year there will be a reduced excise duty rate for all beers at 2.8% and under (there will also be an increased rate for beers over 7.5% but we’ll leave that for now). Camra recently did a survey which showed one in two people wanted a low strength beer option in ...
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