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Hole In One

Posted by Dartmoor Brewery in Jun 2014

Any budding or keen golfers out there will appreciate the Dartmoor Brewery 'oasis' we set up at the St Austell Devon Golf Day earlier this week.� We were pleased to sponsor a hole at the golf tournament held at Woodbury Park near Exeter.� We were even more pleased when two of our directors came runners up in the team event winning bottles of champagne!� Thanks go to St Austell Brewery for a terrific event.

Jail Ale on the run

Posted by Dartmoor Brewery in Jun 2014

Our famous beer brand, Jail Ale, went on the run over the moors earlier this month. As part of this year's Dartmoor Firkin Challenge, plucky pairs of runners took to the moorland carrying an empty cask of Jail Ale to run 6 miles from the Royal Oak pub in Meavy to the top of Sheepstor � and back again to refresh and celebrate this time with a full cask of Jail Ale! The event was started 3 years ago by Royal Oak landlord, Stephen Earp and has grown to be a very popular local event raising money for the Meavy Village...

Bumper harvest of Dartmoor barley

Posted by Dartmoor Brewery in Jun 2014

Here at Dartmoor Brewery we like to keep things local. In 2013, we commissioned local Dartmoor farmer, Tim Cox, to grow barley for our Dartmoor IPA beer � the first successful partnership of its kind on the moor. Tim's barley crop is still serving us well and with the milder spring weather of showers and sunshine, this year's yield is already doing superbly well. Were now hoping for plenty of good summer weather to ripen the grain! Tim is a very successful Dartmoor cereal farmer who has been growing wheat for Hovis and is now producing the majority of our malting barley....

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Hole In One

Jail Ale on the run

Bumper harvest of Dartmoor barley

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