Thanks so much to everyone who turned out last night for the launch of our new beer, this time, collaborated not with a brewery, but with a boat, and brewed by our very own Cuckoo brewer Ben.

We were very happy to welcome a selection of the Brixham sailing community to the bar to try our brand new ‘Pilgrim IPA’. Brewed using the English hop, Pilgrim, and to a very traditional recipe, we were really glad to offer Pilgrim’s very own skipper, Brendan and his crew a pint or three of his boat’s namesake beer!

‘Pilgrim IPA’ will be on the bar all weekend for you all to enjoy, with 50p a pint going to help maintain the beautiful boat itself.

Should you wish to take a trip on the Pilgrim herself, contact the crew here.. http://pilgrimofbrixham.co.uk/

We are incredibly excited today for our collaborative beer launch with the guys from The Pilgrim of Brixham.

They invited us out for a spot of sailing not so long ago, and we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! Once we realised that there was in fact an English aroma & bittering hop called Pilgrim – well the recipe wrote itself!

Join us for the maiden voyage of our very British and Boaty IPA…

Back in stock at The Brewery, our 2 liter Growlers. At £25 a pop, they hold just under four pints of delicious fresh craft beer – meaning you can take your beer home with you, or out to enjoy at your leisure!

The perfect Father’s Day gift we think!

Last week, we were very lucky to be invited aboard ‘The Pilgrim of Brixham’, built in 1895 by J W & A Uphams, one of Brixham’s most famous yards. PILGRIM was one of six similar vessels built at the yard during that year. She is one of a Handful of Surviving red sailed, wood built Brixham Sailing Trawlers.

We gathered the gang from the brewery together, and set sail under the command of our Skipper Brendon. We were guided through the bay with the experienced and steady hand of John at the helm, and with the wile Elliye scaring us half to death with her rigging climbing and deck hand skills. (Sam’s superior coffee and biscuit game was also well on point.)

Off we sailed, out of Brixham harbor, no rest for the wicked, however, we were put straight to work…

We had an absolutely fantastic time on board The Pilgrim, and would wholeheartedly recommend the trip to anyone. By the end of our journey, we had some very weary, salty and smiley brewers and bartenders…

Thanks so much to the guys from The Pilgrim, we certainly left with some fantastic memories, and maybe just a bit of a piratey glint in our eyes..  (I mean, come on, she looks like The Black Pearl right?!)

If you would like to head out on The Pilgrim yourself, she is available for hire http://pilgrimofbrixham.co.uk/

We introduced our first collaboration beer recently!

Sanctuary was a beer brewed with Fred from Moonchild Brewing who are located up in the beautiful North Devon village of Petrockstowe. This brew was mashed in here in Totnes on our brewkit, with all the beer going in to sugar primed eco-kegs to condition.

We have already been up to Petrockstowe for our second collaboration, which is a Vanilla & Coffee Imperial Stout. This second brew will all be bottled, and should be perfect to drink in the Autumn…

Ale was so important in England in 1215 that it was included in one of the most significant legal documents in history.  And in 2016 beer is still vital – not just to the British economy but to the social health of the nation.

The intention of Beer Day Britain is:

• To encourage people to drink beer whether that is at the pub, a barbeque, party, picnic, or brewery tap room.
• To raise the profile of beer as Britain’s national drink.
• To make people proud of Britain’s beer and pubs today and of Britain’s heritage as the brewing powerhouse and its role in spreading beer around the world.
• To have a fantastic time drinking and enthusing about our favourite drink.

At 7pm on June 15th we are planning a nationwide communal cheers to beer, when everyone is encouraged to go to the pub to raise a pint of real ale as part of the national ‘cheers’. Will you join in and encourage your friends and colleagues to do the same? The aim is to trend on Twitter using the hashtag #CheerstoBeers.”

You may have caught our recent blog, explaining how we went to visit the lovely pigs that feast on our spent brewers grain. We felt so connected and inspired by our visit and newfound friendship, we decided that ‘Davey Brown’, the boar, needed to be memorialized in some way. So in true Totnes Brewing Co. fashion, we made him a beer!