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December news

With Christmas just around the corner it’s all systems go at Springhead! Our festive specials Fallen Angel and Rudolph’s Ruin have been going down a storm, and with our new range of beer to take home (available to Springhead Supporters with a 10% discount!) people have been stocking up on their favourite Springhead beers for Christmas. Things have been manic at our brewery tap Meg’s Bar, with brewery tours and parties as well as extended opening hours over Christmas due to popular demand from our local fanbase - contact us now to reserve a date with us for your Christmas party!

Springhead in the news

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In November’s issue of Morning Advertiser, beer writer Ben McFarland featured Roaring Meg as one of the top 50 microbrews in the country, and one of only four selected from the midlands! See above for his review, or see our website for the full article.

Springhead specials this month

Keep an eye out for our Festive specials this month - Fallen Angel – 4.5% ABV - a refreshing, fruity, golden beer with a dry finish with a hint of cinnamon, and Rudolph’s Ruin - 4.2% ABV - a caramel coloured malty beer, with festive flavours of dates and figs.

Buy your loved one a Christmas present to remember!

If you’re stuck trying to think of a present for your beer loving friends this Christmas, why not get them something they’ll really love, such as our new range of Springhead clothing, gift packs, brewery tours and tutored tastings, or even their own mini keg to take home and enjoy! Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to order your gifts now.

Springhead clothing range

Tee shirts £9.50 + P&P

Polo shirts £14.50 + P&P (shown below left)

Fleeces £19.00 + P&P (shown below right)

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Bottles and gift packs

Gift packs - £7.50 + P&P (shown above)

Cases of 8 bottles of Roaring Meg - £12.25 + P&P

Cases of 8 bottles of The Leveller - £12.00 + P&P

Please note the last posting date for Christmas is the 20^th of December.

Brewery tours and tutored tastings

For a gift experience to remember, why not book a brewery tour for your nearest and dearest this Christmas! Book with us now, and we will send you a card for them to open on Christmas day detailing the tour awaiting them. We can customise our tours to suit you – see below for full details of brewery tours available, or book one of our Christmas packages:

Family ticket for an afternoon brewery tour with tutored tasting in Meg’s bar for adults afterwards, including three half pints of our beers per adult - £17.50

Afternoon brewery tour for four or more adults with tutored tasting in Meg’s bar afterwards, including three half pints of our beers per adult - £7.50 per person

Springhead beer to take home

Kick start your holidays with a barrel of your favourite beer to take home over the festive season! Sign up for a Springhead Supporter’s card to receive a 10% discount on all of the prices in the table below!

	8.8 pints (5 litre can)	17 pint polypin	35 pint polypin	9 gallon cask
Drop O’ The Black Stuff	£17.62	£29.68	£56.00	£88.90
Robin Hood Bitter	£17.62	£29.68	£56.00	£88.90
Fallen Angel	£18.00	£30.48	£57.50	£94.79
The Leveller	£18.13	£30.74	£58.00	£98.33
Roaring Meg	£18.45	£31.35	£59.50	£106.58

Payment to be made either by card upon ordering, or by cash/card on collection. All prices above include VAT and are for collection from our brewery. Delivery charges for up to 35 pints are £9.00 for England and Wales or £14.00 for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Please allow 2-3 working days for delivery from placing your order.

For 9 gallon casks, delivery is included for the local area – please contact us for charges for specific areas, or to arrange hire of taps etc.

Meg’s Bar

Christmas parties

We still have a few dates available for Christmas parties with us between Monday and Wednesday each week, so if you’re looking for somewhere different for to celebrate the season this year, contact us now to reserve a date for free at our cosy brewery tap!

December events at Meg’s Bar

Friday 9^th December - Brass Band Christmas Concert - come along and join in singing all of your favourite carols!

Saturday 10^th December - an evening of jazz & swing with the fabulous “Decent Chaps” - not to be missed! Free entry to all.

Saturday 31^st December - New Year’s Eve - 70’s & 80’s party night

Opening hours at Meg’s Bar over Christmas

Thursday 22 Dec - 4pm-11pm

Friday 23 Dec - 4pm-11pm

Christmas Eve - 11am-12pm

Christmas Day - 12noon-2pm

Boxing Day - 12noon-8pm

Tuesday 27 Dec - 4pm-11pm

Wednesday 28 Dec - 4pm-11pm

Thursday 29 Dec - 4pm-11pm

Friday 30 Dec - 4pm-11pm

New Year’s Eve - 11am-1am

New Year’s Day - 12noon-8pm

Brewery Tours

There are several different types of brewery tour which are available, running either in the afternoon (minimum of four people), or any evening (minimum 10 people).

Standard brewery tours are charged at £7.50 for adults and £2.00 each for any under 18’s, with a family ticket available at just £17.50. This consists of a tour of the brewery, and a tutored tasting which includes three half pints of our beer.

We also offer brewery tours with a variety of options for food during the evenings (minimum of 10 people). The first option is priced at £15 per adult, which in addition to the tour of the brewery includes a tutored tasting in Meg’s bar with all beer included over a two and a half hour period, and a select ion of food including fine cheeses and biscuits, pâté, fresh cut breads, olives, pickles and fruit, or with a hot pie and peas supper (vegetarian option available) for £17.50.

Payment for brewery tours is required seven days before the event. Parties, stag and hen nights, and all manner of celebrations are welcome! Please telephone Andy on 07531 028 715 or at Meg's Bar during its opening hours on 01777 228090, or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to arrange a date.

The Bramley Apple Inn

Lot of news from the Bramley this month, which now has the old 'Apple' restored and mounted on the front of the pub! The apple was previously up for around 20 years before being sold by auction for charity to the previous landlord of the Saracens Head Hpotel, so the locals of Southwell are over the moon to see it back in it’s rightful place!

As well as gracing the bar of the Bramley, Roaring Meg can also be found in their Steak and Ale Pie, which has fast become one of their most popular dishes definitely recommended for any Springhead fans out there! Their lovely landlady Annette has also won first prize at the Bramley Festival in the Apple Pie baking competition, which is also a firm favourite on the dessert menu, regularly selling out.

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On New Years Eve, the Bramley will be launching a campaign to raise £5,000 to buy a guide dog – which will of course be called 'Bramley'! Watch this space for more information on the campaign and how you can help.

Race-day packages are also currently on offer, including dinner, bed and breakfast at a special discounted rate when booked direct through the Bramley – call Phil or Annette on 01636 813675 for further details.

Sahara Trek

Springhead are sponsoring local man Stuart Murray on a six day trek across the Sahara desert to help raise money for Beaumond House Community Hospice in Newark, which provides palliative and respite care to the local comunity. In order to raise money, Springhead will be working with Stuart to organise an event at our brewery tap Meg's Bar on Saturday 14th January 2012, and offers tickets holders the chance to tour the brewery, try our beers and enjoy a bite to eat, as well as partaking in a fundraising auction and raffle with great prizes! See www.springhead.co.uk/news/sahara-trek for more information, or contact Stuart on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 07515 487 613.

Me and my Meg competition

Keep sending in your pictures of you and your pint or bottle – all pictures will be featured in the new photo gallery on our website which will be up and running this week, and the most inventive and amusing picture or the picture taken in the best location will win a case of free Springhead beer!

Finally, but definitely most importantly, a very merry Christmas to you from all of the Springhead team!

November News

November is shaping up to be an extremely busy month for us at Springhead, with some delicious new festive brews on their way, brewery tours galore (get in touch to book yours!), and last weekend our fabulous Bonfire night, which attracted over 300 thirsty Springhead fans to watch the fireworks and enjoy our ale! Thanks to everyone who made it such a great night – anyone with pics please send them in and we’ll put them up in our gallery.

Springhead beers to take home and outside bars

We have now launched a take home range of beers from Meg’s Bar, and a local delivery service – ideal for a festive get together or all year round parties. Roaring Meg, the flagship brew, and The Leveller are available in bottles but Springhead can now also supply 5 litre mini-kegs, and 17 and 34 pint Beer In a Box for Roaring Meg, The Leveller, Maid Marian, Robin Hood, Drop O’ the Black Stuff, Bramley Bitter and Fallen Angel over the Christmas period.

If you have an event coming up that requires an outside bar then Springhead could also be your answer. The Springhead crew have years of expertise in providing professional and quality outside bars so just call Phil Owen, sales manager extraordinaire, on 07901 006165 and he will be happy to chat through your requirements.

Exclusive pre-release evening at Meg’s Bar!

On the 16^th of November, we will be holding the first of our pre-release tasting evenings, which are exclusively available to Springhead Supporter’s card holders and their guests! You can join up online by completing the Springhead Supporter's club form on the Support us tab, which also entitles you to discounts on our beers and other great offers. The first pre-release tasting evening will be held at our brewery tap Meg’s Bar in Laneham between 6 and 11pm, and will showcase our two Christmas brews Fallen Angel and Rudolph’s Ruin. Entry is free and food will be provided, and normal cardholder’s bar prices will apply – which at Meg’s Bar is only £2.20 per pint! If you would like to attend, please confirm by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it asap to reserve your places.

The beers:

Fallen Angel – 4.5% ABV - a refreshing, fruity, golden beer with a dry finish with a hint of cinnamon.

Rudolph’s Ruin - 4.2% ABV - a caramel coloured malty beer, with festive flavours of dates and figs.

10% off beer in a box and casks for Springhead Supporters to take home!

With the cold nights drawing in, we’ve decided it’s time for a special offer just for our Springhead Supporters to help you enjoy your favourite Springhead beers at home! Sign up for a Supporter's card to become eligible for 10% off all our boxes of beer, which come in sizes of 5 litres, 17.5 pints and 35 pint to take home, as well as our 9 gallon casks for the more seasoned Springhead supper. For further details and prices, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Book Meg’s bar for your Christmas party

We have decided to offer out exclusive use of Meg’s Bar to Springhead Supporters for Christmas parties from Monday to Wednesday each week – if you would like to have your festive bash in our cosy brewery tap, where the beer is never-ending and the booking charges non-existent, please let us know as soon as possible as the diary is filling up quickly!

And finally…

Congratulations to John Newcombe who was our October prize draw winner, and has won a night at the lovely Bramley Apple in Southwell, including dinner, bed and breakfast for two.

Keep sending in your photos of you and your Springhead pint – the most imaginative and entertaining will be our next lucky prize winner and will be receiving a case of free Springhead beer!

Also, check out our facebook or twitter pages for our latest news and brews. Every hundreth follower receives a free case of Springhead beer! Aren’t we kind?

Nottingham Beer Festival

Meg is a sell out!!

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What a great time we had at the Nottingham beer festival. Roaring Meg proved a hit yet again and apologies to any disappointed fans who found we had run out by 2pm Saturday afternoon.

We launched our Springhead supporters card with fantastic results and look forward to welcoming our new friends at Meg's Bar, Laneham, The Bramley Apple Inn, Southwell or The Vine, Newark. Click on the link at the top of the site for more info. or to get a card for yourself.

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Sherwood Forest on the move?!

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Bob Baume, our Northern sales manager, joined forces recently with Clough House, a public house near his home, to raise money for the Laura Crane Cancer Trust, whose patron is the comedienne Catherine Tate.

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A team from Clough House took part in the Crumball Rally where they started out Friday 16^th September in Antwerp and arrived in Southern Germany on the evening of Sunday 18^th September to sample the delights of the Munich Beer festival. The rules state that the car has to cost less than £200 so the Clough House Crumballer’s bought a V reg. left hand drive Volvo V40 estate and decorated it to look like Sherwood Forest! To celebrate their send off a leaving party was held with Springhead’s Robin Hood Bitter and Maid Marion Blonde on the pumps. A hearty night was had by all!

Aug/ Sept News

The summer is traditionally a "tad" quiet for breweries so we were delighted to have an excellent August and September is looking even busier. This has enabled us to take on more help in the brewery over the Summer (Ryan, who is doing an excellent job) and Tom, a friend of Keir's who came for a week and is now on about week 10. Sad, but he is returning to his teaching job in the next week or so, so he will be missed.

Bramley Bitter has now been revamped and has a fantastically enhanced flavour about it, with additional mouth-feel. Please let us know your thoughts on it. Keir and Tricky are keen to take stock of public opinion. We have dropped the word "Apple" and hope the public won't be thinking they are buying a cider in future!! Bramley Bitter is selling like hotcakes into Waverley TBS and Carlsberg, so should be widely available in freehouses.

Last month's Special was Oliver's Army which has also had a makeover. You probably didn't get a chance to sample much of it because it sold out in the first 10 days of the month! If we have enough demand, no doubt you can persuade Tricky or Keir to brew some more!

September's beer is Newark Castle Brown, with a strong Geordie accent. Sampled last week for the first time in a year, we are proud of this one and think you will like it too. This will be going into the freetrade and into one or two pubcos, so you should see it around. However, we only do one brew of each "Special" so grab a glass while you can, or wait another year!!

We are just thinking about Christmas, and all at the brewery are thinking a monthly Beer Festival might be a fun idea, beginning in December. The plan is to use the cask washing area over a long weekend and to decorate it for the Christmas festivities. We always have a wide range of exchanged beers from across the country, so would focus on these as well as our own beers. Volunteers to run the bar with Andy?

The visit from Rattlejag Morris Dancers was a great success - see photos - and we are planning to hold more events like that. Again, positive ideas appreciated. If you know anyone who would like to perform at the brewery, we have a full licence for music and performance, so please let Andy have your ideas.