Beer - Town's new brewery has big ideas
From the East Anglian Daily Times
'The seven-vessel plant is the brainchild of Frank Walsh, a Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) member, science graduate Colleen Seymour and master brewer Andy Harvey. The original idea, which has been in the pipeline since December, was for the trio to produce enough beer for their own consumption at the 19th Century redundant building, owned by Mr Walsh. But with the closure of the Tolly Cobbold brewery after 279 years and with pubs crying out for locally-produced ales, they realised there was a gap in the market. “We have had quite a lot of interest in it so far”, Miss Seymour said. “We will brew our own recipe beers and the plan is to have a blueberry beer, which will be a fruitier beer. Because it will come out blue and will be the only blue beer in the town we are trying to get Ipswich Town Football Club interested.” The plant will be able to produce up to 125 barrels a week as well as the sale of bottles.
Named after St Jude, the patron saint of workers and one of the 12 apostles, the plan is for the brewery to produce six ales to start with followed by another six later in the year. They hope the first will be ready for the Ipswich Beer Festival at the end of September.'
'Miss Seymour explained her own interest in brewing comes from the fact that women were originally the first brewers, know as brewsters, as well as her knowledge of chemistry. “Females used to collect local ingredients from the land to brew ale at different strengths for the whole family,” she said. “The water wasn't safe enough to drink so everyone would have ale as their main source of nutrition. It is packed full of vitamins and fibre from the natural ingredients
used in the recipe.”'
'The seven-vessel plant is the brainchild of Frank Walsh, a Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) member, science graduate Colleen Seymour and master brewer Andy Harvey. The original idea, which has been in the pipeline since December, was for the trio to produce enough beer for their own consumption at the 19th Century redundant building, owned by Mr Walsh. But with the closure of the Tolly Cobbold brewery after 279 years and with pubs crying out for locally-produced ales, they realised there was a gap in the market. “We have had quite a lot of interest in it so far”, Miss Seymour said. “We will brew our own recipe beers and the plan is to have a blueberry beer, which will be a fruitier beer. Because it will come out blue and will be the only blue beer in the town we are trying to get Ipswich Town Football Club interested.” The plant will be able to produce up to 125 barrels a week as well as the sale of bottles.
Named after St Jude, the patron saint of workers and one of the 12 apostles, the plan is for the brewery to produce six ales to start with followed by another six later in the year. They hope the first will be ready for the Ipswich Beer Festival at the end of September.'
'Miss Seymour explained her own interest in brewing comes from the fact that women were originally the first brewers, know as brewsters, as well as her knowledge of chemistry. “Females used to collect local ingredients from the land to brew ale at different strengths for the whole family,” she said. “The water wasn't safe enough to drink so everyone would have ale as their main source of nutrition. It is packed full of vitamins and fibre from the natural ingredients
used in the recipe.”'
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If the new brewery is to produce six ales to start with followed by another six later in the year, that means the assistive techmology industry's world famous Mister Martin "Two Pints" Roberts will have to visit the brewery a grand total of six times in order to sample all of their wares.
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