Mystery Beer?

Mark's away and I've got absolutely no idea if you drank all of the Nelson's Revenge last week?

But we'll be open from 8pm tonight with something lovely to sup I have no doubt!

See you later.

Revenge is sweet!

I'm very frustrated that on the one week that I am away,

we have one of my favorite beers on the bar!

I will give you a clue:

Adge and Trevor will get this - as they are our WrenSocial Quiz Champions,

so it you are struggling:

1. Ask them

2. Get some new glasses!

Open as usual on Thursday & Friday from 8pm, but don't drink it all!!!

This week we're supping for The Norfolk Wildlife Trust

This weeks beer is Woodforde's Once Bittern, and sales of this relatively new Norfolk ale have already raised over £3000 for The Norfolk Wildlife Trust to invest in the protection of wildlife habitats across the county.

Woodforde’s brewery, based in Woodbastwick, teamed up with the Norfolk Wildlife Trust in 2011 to produce ‘Once Bittern’, a quintessentially Norfolk ale made from Maris Otter malted barley grown within the county. The beer went on sale in February 2011 and for every pint sold Woodforde’s pledged to make a donation to the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Over a quarter of a million pints later, Woodforde’s have been able to make a donation of £2,700 to the Trust to help support species such as the beer’s namesake, the endangered Bittern.

Brendan Joyce, Chief Executive of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, said: “Both Norfolk Wildlife Trust and Woodforde’s champion the abundant natural wealth of Norfolk and we are thrilled to see the success of Once Bittern. This money will go towards projects to help the Bittern and the county’s other wildlife at habitats in Norfolk, in particular at the Wissey Valley Living Landscape”.

Dennis Nudd, Director of Woodforde’s said: “We’re delighted that the partnership has proved so fruitful for the Norfolk Wildlife Trust and also the protection of the unique Norfolk environment. We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has enjoyed the beer over the past 11 months - it’s down to them that we’ve been able to make this donation to the Trust.

“Since Once Bittern has been so warmly received we’ve made it one of our permanent beers. It will therefore continue to be widely available in pubs throughout East Anglia and for each pint sold a donation will continue to be made to this worthy Norfolk cause”.

As well as becoming a permanent brew for Woodforde’s, Once Bittern was awarded GOLD for Best Bitter at the SIBA East of England beer competition in 2011.

Once Bittern (4%) is a copper-coloured ale is made from a special blend of high quality Norfolk ingredients and has a distinctive aroma of sweet malt, rich spice and citrus fruit with a dry finish. Once Bittern is also now available in bottles.

Once Bittern can be ordered online in 18/ 36 pint Beerboxes and cases of 12 bottles by clicking here > 
and it's also available from Woodforde's Brewery Shop & at WrenSocial this Thursday & Friday from 8pm.

So come and have a few pints and do your bit for charity!

The Beach Volleyball gave me a sign

It's all getting very exciting with all these TEAM GB gold medals, but please remember that this week is your last chance to Special Olympics ale:

GREENE KING - TOLLY COBBALD PERSONAL BEST.

It's a really lovely refreshing golden beer has a subtle fruit aroma and a slight citrus taste.

We're open from 8pm on Thursday for our weekly BEER NIGHT

and again from 8pm on Friday night.

We hope to see you.

Golden days!

So the first Golds are in the hat - with many more to come we hope. 

Congratulations to Great Britain's gold medal-winning rowers Heather Stanning and Helen Glover & to the utterly amazing cyclist Bradley Wiggins - he's even faster than Baz!

It would be completely appropriate to celebrate these and other achievements by our Olympians (any excuse) with a few pints of something rather special.

We were so impressed with the GREENE KING - TOLLY COBBALD PERSONAL BEST that we had last week, that we have ordered another barrel!! It was brewed to celebrate the Olympics and is a refreshing golden beer has a subtle fruit aroma and a slight citrus taste. It's really lovely.

We're open from 8pm on Thursday for our weekly BEER NIGHT

and from 6.30pm on Friday night for our monthly FAMILY FUN NIGHT.

We hope to see you.