25/07/2008 by admin.

sad news today the very gorgeous katie  bradshaw for those  who  dont know  who im talking about  its  the blonde (no brunette  now ) on the welcome page is leaving in a month to take up a trainee  hotel manager position in the lakes she is the last of Andrews old staff  to leave  i fell like general george  custer at the little big horn ,

all the best babes it is a sad day for all your friends at the cartford old days and new

regards your adopted dad……smithy    25/7/08

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02/07/2008 by admin.

we have just received our order for the great british beer festival this year its ICE MAIDEN nothing strange about that i here you say as its our best beer ,but 5 x 18 gallon casks of it ,my b.l.o alan doggart and dave stez will be on hand to represent the brewery ,regards smithy 4/7/08

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26/06/2008 by admin.

well here it is again the summer beer out this week (think i should have brewed the winter warmer looking out the window) when you look at the pump clip i here you say  (WERE ARE  THE BIRDS)

seagulls ………am i missing for my native fleetwood ? no its formby beach one of catlins favorite places .

the beer is light golden with that grapefruit citrus flavor that seems to be popular these days

smithy    28/6/08

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07/06/2008 by admin.

just a line to all going to this years festival if like last year when the afternoon session ends you are looking for somewhere to go please head for one of our flag ship pubs the ship and royal were lee/ Claire and staff will have a range of our beers on plus they will have a great range from wold top brewery beers(i also have been bullied into supplying hart brewery/ship and royal polo shirts for the occasion ) p.s lee i don’t want to see them on eBay. have a great time at both venues i will see you at both ,regards john

WE HAVE A LIMITED SUPPLY OF FESTIVAL POLO SHIRTS BEING MADE WHICH HAVE  BOTH LOGOS ON

please phone or email the brewery to place your order in time for the festival    .
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07/06/2008 by admin.

the most common question i get asked is were can i get your beers in Preston ,well we have a new regular customer at the water front on navigation way they have ordered squirrels hoard every week for the last month so please show your support and help keep us in there.

we delivered our beer to the angel in lune street on friday my old mate Dan did not disappoint 2 hart beers on.

also same day big Stan old black bull 2 harts and a bar full of our guest beers.

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09/04/2008 by admin.

i would just like to let the people know  who drank so much of my beer over the years in the cartford that Gordon and Janet from the farmers arms has taken an ice maiden and squirrels hoard,they took the ice on Friday and first call on Monday was for a squirrel,after meeting Gordon for the first time it looks good for my customers who when the cartford changed hands were walking around great eccleston lost looking for a pub to down the odd few pints of harts finest ales

thanks for your custom ………….john    9/4/08

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02/02/2008 by admin.

Well what do you make of this? some big southern Jessie on his web site
http://stonch.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-not-to-market-your-beer-case-study.html
has had a go at us calling my site a porn site and me a sado

those who know me and my 4 core beers will know the story behind the clips (even had a go at the squirrel in her baby doll nightie )which have been drawn by a professional artist and are works of art designed to attract customers to my work of art lying in the landlords cellar.

As for the Latin warbler (as he calls him) all i can say is its a good job Eric Clapton did not have the same attitude when he wrote his masterpiece (Layla)to show his love for George Harrison’s wife patty Boyd he wants to think himself lucky i did not  pick that song as its 7.02 Min’s long if he is not in tears after 7 Min’s plus of Layla he has never been in love

regards puppy dog smithy

p.s thanks though had 50 hits yesterday on the site can you find anything else to improve my popularity i also would like to thank those people from all over England that have praised my beers on his site .

11/2/08

well we have had another comment on the (stonch blog) about the music saying it makes him sick i bet his wife is in for a nice  sexy romantic evening on valentines night he said that the captain might like my beer but not my taste in music the captain  knows I’m romantic and i have informed him there  should be a comment from the captain soon

regards  big soft puppy dog smith

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28/01/2008 by admin.

The annual Fleetwood Beer Festival takes place this year over Valentine’s weekend, 14th, 15th and 16th February.  Programme notes for the Hart Brewery, as they will appear in the festival programme, are printed below:

THE HART BREWERY

                        Next year this busy and successful brewery will be celebrating its 15^th anniversary. Opened in 1994 in Preston it moved the following year to its current home in the stable block behind the historic Cartford Inn at Great Eccleston. Brewer, John Smith, with his immense enthusiasm, great sense of humour, but, above all, enormous talent as a brewer, is turning out beers that simply get better and better. Having a great local reputation, the beers are available in a dozen or so local pubs and clubs, but I find, on my travels around the country, his beers are very popular nationally as they become available through his system of arranging “swops” with other quality breweries. Fifteen years of working hard to fine tune and improve his regular beers has resulted in the brewery having a portfolio of top class, quality beers.

                        Most locals know of the unique way the brewery came into being, but the story bears repeating. Before 1994 John was an enthusiastic home brewer and the more his friends and neighbours tasted the beer the more popular became and gained a reputation. John needed to know whether his beer really was so good or was it just a case of people drinking it because it was free. By way of an experiment, he set up a small bar in his Preston garage and began to sell his beer, demand was so great that he needed to brew more and more of the stuff. Inevitably HM Customs and Excise heard about the venture and demanded their share in taxes. It led to John having to pay a huge fine and that seemed to be the end of his little enterprise. But there’s a twist in the tale, the Customs Officer prosecuting the case considered John’s beer to be so good that he sat down with him and came up with plans that would let the brewery continue on a “legitimate and properly commercial” basis and John could live his dream of becoming a professional brewer. It just so happened that the Customs Officer was a friend of Andrew Mellodew, legendary proprietor and landlord of the Cartford Hotel in Little Eccleston, beside the River Wyre. Andrew too had an ambition, which was to have a small micro-brewery on the grounds of his iconic pub that could service his pub and sell the surplus to the free-trade. An agreement over a beer and we had a happy ending, John was a brewer and Andrew had his brewery. That successful partnership continued until last year when Andrew decided to take a rest from the business and sold the business to Julie and Patrick Beaume, wisely and thankfully they have continued to support Hart brewery; it must be a terrific asset to the business to have an in-house brewery as an attraction. Speaking of Andrew Mellodew, I doubt if he’s finished with the real ale business, watch this space!

                        A number of Hart beers will be available at this festival, their beers are classy and of an unusually high quality. Try the award winning Ice Maiden, see why it was named “Lancashire’s Champion Beer.” Hart beers can often be found in local pubs including the branch “Pub of the Season” the Thatched House in Poulton-le-Fylde. To learn more about the brewery and to order the beers (incidentally they are now available in “take-home packs” from the brewery checkout the new web-site: www.hartbreweryltd.co.uk .

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02/01/2008 by admin.

The media has recently been full of warnings about global warming, carbon footprints and our changing world. One of the “in” things is bio-fuel we are being told how this will save the planet and is the answer to our fuel problems. That may or may not be true, but what it’s doing is seriously increasing the price of your pint. A year ago the price of barley, the grain used to make the malt which helps turn water into ber, was $400 a ton, the price today is $1020 a ton. Why? Because a large part of the barley crop has been sold to the manufacturers of bio-fuels (who receive huge grants form their governments to buy the stuff) the surplus barley is being fought over by brewers who are being forced to buy a limited quantity at a very high price. This is inevitably going to increase the price of your pint.

On New Years Eve I was speaking to the head brewer of one of Cumbria’s major breweries, he told me that they couldn’t possibly pass on the full increase in the cost of brewing to the public, it would become more expensive than drinkers would be prepared to pay. They are going to have to cut the amount of profit they make on their beer to keep those prices down. It isn’t only malt, hops have doubled, and more, in price and we all know about the petrol and deisel price increases. There has been much talk about 2008 being the year of the £4 pint, don’t think it couldn’t happen!

 So, how do you ensure that your favourite beer remains at a price you can afford? Buy locally, assuming you live in Lancashire keep supporting brewers like John Smith at Hart. The fact that his beers are top-notch almost goes without saying, but you don’t win titles like “Ice Maiden - Champion Beer of Lancashire” (judged in a blind tasting by CAMRA members against beers from every brewery within Lancashire’s historic boundaries and that includes Manchester and Liverpool). It is a local beer, John has pledged to absorb as much of the increse in costs as his business can stand, his increase to landlords should only put two to three pence on a pint of his beers. Because they are a local brewery there is very little in transport costs to be added. Even cheaper, contact the brewery to buy the polypins of beautiful, fresh, cask-conditioned beer.

More ramblings very soon.

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31/12/2007 by admin.

Welcome to Diamond Geeza’s blog.

I’ll be giving you all the latest info on what’s happening at the brewery and what new ales are about to be unleashed along with anything else I think you might like to know.

Please feel free to leave a comment on what you think of our Ales, the new site or anything else you might like to share….

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