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© Keystone Brewery
2006 News Archive
July August September October November December
December
Keystone Brewery sponsored a successful evening of singing in aid of the 2007 Fonthill Awards Festival.
Our best selling Large One best bitter, is now available in bottles. The 4.2%ABV beer is bottled in 500ml bottles and is available at local outlets or direct from the brewery. Now Keystone fans can enjoy a Large One at home!
Alasdair is now using the large 10 barrel fermenting vessels to keep up with demand.
See us as the Discworld festival 8th-10th December at the Memorial Hall in Wincanton.
Printed rugby (£25) and polo (£15) shirts are now available from the brewery.
November
Our beers have now featured in over 100 pubs with new pubs taking our beer all the time. We are also now available at the North Dorset Rugby Club.
Large One will be in a bottle from the 8th of December and available in many of our local farm shops, delis and specialist licensed shops.
Our 150 new steel casks have now arrived, to complement our green, red and brown casks.
The Wincanton Young Farmers visit to the brewery last month was a great success.
Keystone Beer is now available at the North Dorset Rugby Club.
October
Our beers are now available in over 70 pubs in Wiltshire, Dorset, Avon, Somerset and Hampshire.
Huge demand for Cornerstone has kept Alasdair busy brewing over the last month.
The Salisbury Beer Festival was a great success, our Bedrock Bitter was the first of seven beers to sell a full cask. This month we shall be at the Dorset Food Week event at Buckhorn Western on Sunday 14th October.
Our 150 new steel casks should be here soon to complement our colourful brown, red and green plastic casks. Bottling plans are also underway, so keep an eye out for Large One in a bottle!
In line with our ethos of Local and Sustainable, we will be undertaking a solar panel trail with local firm Soltrac Limited.
Our brewery has also been featured in an article "Brewing in the Community" by Martin Shalcross and published in "Focus" (Tisbury Local Parish Magazine).
September
We currently have over fifty pubs stocking our beers, with new pubs coming on line and existing customers re-ordering time and again. Demand has been so high Alasdair has been brewing through the weekends to keep up the supply of Large One, which sold out this month. We have a new formulation for Gold Standard that includes the addition of the Boadicea hop - a cross with our native hedgerow variety - making this beer even more flavoursome.
The Fonthill estate will soon be drilling our own Keystone Barley, which will be harvested and then malted in Warminster. This barley will then be used in the production of beer that will be available next summer.
Our beers were also available at the following events:
Orchard Park Farm Shop opening
Lifeboat Fund Raiser
Salisbury Fine Food Festival
Lanford Beer Festival
Tisbury Carnival
Devizes Food Festival
Finally, this months five best selling pubs were:
The Royal Oak at Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire.
The Beckford Arms near Tisbury, Wiltshire.
The Bell, Wilton, Wiltshire.
The Ship at Upavon, Wiltshire.
The Fox and Hounds at East Knoyle, Dorset
August
This month saw beers available at the Dinton Beer Festival, Tisbury Carnival, Salisbury Food and Drink Festival and Shaftesbury Local Food Festival.
The brewery featured in a full page article published in the Blackmore Vale Magazine.
July
The Keystone Launch Party was held amidst glorious weather and fine company.
Supported throughout the evening by the talented local folk trio Heelstone, 400 guests from as far afield as Yorkshire and Sunderland were treated to the full range of Keystones regular beers.
During this month, all the first brews sold out and. Alasdair increased the volume in his 10 Brewers Barrel plant (about 1600ltrs) to meet demand.