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Ideal Gifts for Christmas

Ideal Gifts for Christmas

Only 2 months to Christmas so now is the time to order some of these beer coasters, featuring a choice of over 250 historic beer labels. Ideal gift for the beer lovers in your life and all proceeds go to the #nationalbreweryheritagetrust. Order here:...

It’s Harvest Time

It’s Harvest Time

It's harvest, time to bring in the barley. Malted barley gives beer its colour, malty sweet flavour, dextrin to give the beer body, protein to form a good head, and perhaps most important, the natural sugars needed for fermentation.   Find out more:...

Great new web site on H & G Simonds

Great new web site on H & G Simonds

If you're interested in old Brewing Companies then there is a great new web site for you. It has been set up to encourage further research, archiving and accessibility to the history of the H&G Simonds Ltd Brewery of Reading, its business at home and abroad, its...

Celebrations?

Celebrations?

GCSE results day - hopefully a cause for celebration for many. Here are a few celebration ales that have been brewed over the years. Find more special brews and labels in the National Brewery Centre Archives at http://nbcarchives.co.uk #NationalBreweryHeritageTrust...

Protective Canopy for Vehicles

Protective Canopy for Vehicles

Transport played an important part in the evolution of the brewing industry. From horse-drawn drays through to more modern-day vehicles. The National Brewery Centre houses a fine collection of vehicles, that includes delivery wagons, fire trucks, a double-decker bus...

Digitisation of Archive Material

Digitisation of Archive Material

Information and images from a unique collection of historic items from Britain's brewing and pub companies are now accessible on line for the first time via The National Brewery Centre Archives: https://www.nbcarchives.co.uk/ Creation of the online National Brewery...

Need a light ale?

This weather calls for a light ale! There are dozens to choose from on the National Brewery Centre Archives. See labels from M&B, Devenish, Arkell's, Toby, Worthington's, Bateman's, Whitbread, Tolly Cobbold and many more at: https://www.nbcarchives.co.uk/  ...

Celebrity spotting is not new!

Celebrity spotting is not new!

Celebrity spotting isn’t new. This lot were snapped at the opening of the Royal Small Arms Hotel, Enfield Lock. Front row left to right: John Pedder, William Waters Butler, Mrs Winston Churchill & Lord D'Abernon. For more see : https://www.nbcarchives.co.uk/...

**** LIVE TODAY ****

**** LIVE TODAY ****

Information and images from a unique collection of historic items covering 250 years of pubs & brewing in Britain can be accessed on line for the first time today via The National Brewery Centre Archives: https://www.nbcarchives.co.uk/  Thanks to all those who...

1 Day to go

1 Day to go

Interested in beer and pub heritage including advertising, farming, transport, famous brewers, pub companies & beer brands, historic pub & brewery pics or social and family history? See the National Brewery Centre Archives. Launching 27 July. 1 day to go....