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Delivery is effected by either a 35 cwt truck or a 10 tonne Dodge lorry with sleeper cab and the luxury of a tail lift. Outlets within a 30 mile radius including Nottingham, Leicester, Stoke, Birmingham and the Black Country are visited on a weekly basis. Every week there is a two-day trip to one of eight different areas, in rotation, including Yorkshire, Kent, Bristol and Norfolk. During these trips, other independent brewers are visited to deliver and collect beer locally to Burton by Burton Bridge Brewery. The other brewers beers are delivered.
Picture: Geoff of Burton Bridge Brewery infront of a Burton Bridge Lorry.
Predictably, there have been many ups and downs during the last ten years. The cellar was found to be 3 feet deep in water one morning, one of the partners spent a few hours of Christmas Eve in a police cell due to an argument over money owed to the brewery. These bad times were contrasted by coverage on the BBC Food & Drink programme, having a beer voted Camra Bitter of the Year 1983 and being voted 1990 Brew Pub of the Year by the Good Pub Guide.
After six and a half years of running the pub and brewery it was decided to get a tenant to run the pub. The second floor was converted into a pleasant two-bedroomed flat, the old bathroom made into a kitchen and later came a skittle alley on the first floor.
For more information on Burton Bridge Brewery please visit
www.burtonbridgebrewery.com.
