16TH NOVEMBER 2011
'All Black' Award
All Gates 'All Black' wins silver at the SIBA Great Northern Beer Competition!
The awards just keep on coming! All Gates Brewery is delighted to announce that we had success at the recent SIBA Great Northern Beer Competition with All Black (silver in the Mild category) – thanks to all who supported us!
The whole competition was contested by 80 northern breweries entering 254 cask beers. Judging was by blind tasting.
11TH NOVEMBER 2011
Labour MP’s Lisa Nandy and Yvonne Fovargue at The Anvil, Wigan.
Wigan’s MP’s support their local pubs
On Friday 4th November Wigan and Makerfield’s Labour MP’s Lisa Nandy and Yvonne Fovargue dropped in on All Gates’s, The Anvil in Dorning Street, Wigan to offer their support to landlord Ian Thorpe and the pub industry as a whole.
The visit was part of the House of Commons ‘MP’s In Pubs’ initiative, which saw Lisa & Yvonne working on the bar to experience life as a publican and to allow customers to have their pint pulled by their local party representative.
Ian told them about the challenges facing the industry, including over regulation, alcohol tax hikes and the effect cheap booze sold by the off licence trade has on the pub.
Ms Fovargue said: “Well-run pubs are the bedrock of community life. They deserve support and government needs to back pubs and reform the beer tie to deliver a fairer deal for consumers.”
Whilst Wigan MP Ms Nandy said: ”the town was lucky to boast some top class pubs which provide a vital social and leisure service to the town and need to be supported.” And as a fan of real ale she was delighted to be able to serve and sample some of the brews on offer at the Anvil.
