Purity Brewery's 1^st Anniversary

The Purity Brewery recently celebrated its first anniversary by inviting representatives from its four local CAMRA branches, owners and landlords of local pubs, and members of the press to an evening at its premises. On offer was a talk from founder member Paul Halsey about the brewery, its founding, past year, and their plans for its future; a tour round the brewery with new head brewer Florian 'Flo' Vialan, plenty of their wonderful beers UBU and Pure Gold (plus a choice of organic ciders), and a heart-warming winter stew with crusty bread which to mop up the beer.

Purity has had a terrific first year and has won several awards including "Silver Medal Champion Beer of Warwickshire", and "Fastest Selling Beer" at the Harbury Beer Festival for Pure UBU, its distinctive 4.5% ABV premium amber coloured beer.

Watch out for the new bottled version of UBU which is officially being launched at the St Nicholas Night Street Market, Alcester on Wed 6^th Dec at 5.30 pm and will soon be available from quality outlets including a special deal with Harvey Nichols that had only been signed the day we visited!

In line with Purity's culture "to continually do better in everything they do" we were offered the first sampling of a "new improved recipe" version of Gold. Created by 'Flo'. It's a very pale and extremely hoppy beer; though it was still a little young, having come straight off the "press", it went down very well indeed and shows that Purity are not content to rest on their laurels.

Looking forwards to next year, Paul said to expect "More of the same, with us developing and fine tuning our ales, the launch of 'Pure Gold' in bottles, the creation of a dedicated Brewery Shop and continued work on developing support for local community events".

We all wished Paul and the team at Purity all the best of luck for next year and Paul promised to invite us back for an update on events next Summer.

Carl Wright   Photos: Gordon Clarke