High House Farm is a microbrewery and working farm in rural Northumberland. Ted Bruning went there.
Steve Urwin never really planned to become a brewer. He was quite happy running the 200-acre family farm at Matfen on Hadrian’s Wall, which he was just taking over from his dad, Geoff, and where he grew wheat and barley and ran a small beef herd and a flock of sheep.
But in 2001 foot and mouth dise...
By Ted Bruning
from Issue 18 published on 19/06/2008
Ted Bruning visits Brasserie Coreff, a microbrwery making waves in Brittany
It’s an unexpected treat to be offered a pint of well-kept ale in a hotel bar. It’s doubly unexpected if the hotel in question happens to be in France. But head for Carhaix in the middle of western Brittany, and book yourself into the Hotel Noz Vad (it’s Breton for “goodnight”) right next to the chu...
By Ted Bruning
from Issue 17 published on 30/04/2008
