Blue Bell in Daily Telegraph

On Saturday 28th June 2008 the Blue Bell was featured by the Daily Telegraph in its Pint to Pint column, which appears regularly on the back page of the Weekend section of the newspaper.  We were quite unaware that we had been “visited” until we received a telephone call on Monday 23rd from the paper to check our address details.  You can read the article on the Telegraph’s website at:

www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml?xml=/wine/2008/06/27/edpint127.xml

CAMRA Potteries Pub of the Year Awards

We are pleased to announce that yet again we have received a Pub of the Year Merit Award, which was presented to us at the 2009 Stoke Beer Festival.

 

Whilst not wishing to show off, (!!) we couldn’t resist totting up the number of CAMRA awards we have won since 1999.  The list includes Potteries Pub of the Year outright winners 4 times, second place twice, and 4 Merit Awards;  also Staffordshire Pub of the Year outright winners 3 times, as well as a Silver and a Bronze award in the county category.

Open for Dogs

The Blue Bell is supporting the Kennel Club’s “Open for Dogs” campaign, which aims to highlight those business premises where dogs are welcomed.  The campaign’s web site gives lots of helpful information, and you can search for dog-friendly premises in different areas of the country.  The site can be found at http://www.openfordogs.org.uk.

 

May is Mild Month

Our final total of milds actually sold in the month of May was 13, this is the same number as last year, although as before we are carrying on with them into the early part of June so we may well equal or even exceed last year’s grand total of 15 milds.  The actual list was as follows:

Rudgate Ruby Mild

Marston Moor Matchlock Mild

Wentworth Black Diamond

Acorn Darkness

Foxfield Tim’s Brown Ale

Spitting Feathers Dark Velvet

Acorn Lightness (a rare light mild)

Howard Town Mill Town Mild

Holden’s Mild

Whim Magic Mushroom

Church End Gravedigger’s

Vale Black Swan

Oldershaw Grantham Dark