Northampton County Beer Festival is taking place on the 1st to 3rd June 2018, writes Elisha Dexter.
The beer festival showcases the finest drinks from the county’s best independent producers. It is the largest beer festival in Northamptonshire and has...
In an array of baking creations of which Prue and Paul would have been proud, two of the county’s finest cake-makers are now celebrating after being named joint winners of the ‘Royal Showstopper of the Year’ category in the...
Alaric Neville of the modern Phipps brewery tells the story of the last head brewer of the old Phipps brewery and his determination to keep beer real...
In the 1950s and ‘60s, many of Britain’s traditional regional Breweries were taken...
Steve and Caroline Ward bring you choice fromages...
The 1970s: the decade of bad taste. Terrible clothes, bad haircuts, dodgy racist TV sit-coms and the demise of real British cheese.
No cheese suffered the curse of the seventies like Red Leicester,...
If you're going to shell out for a giant chocolate egg you want to make sure it ends up in the right hands.
That's why Steve and Caroline at St Giles Cheese decided to raffle it to raise money for...
Silverstone’s Blackpit Brewery is celebrating its first anniversary with a birthday party, writes Elisha Dexter.
Over the past year the brewery has produced over 85,000 pints and a range of ales, including Sky Rocket, Loosehead, Cloud Nine, Goshawk and Blackout...
On the eve of the competition’s launch for 2018/19, it’s been announced that the Carlsberg UK Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards has another slice of sponsorship, writes Anna Murby.
It comes in the form of Northampton wholefood retailer Daily Bread,...
Steve and Caroline Ward bring you choice fromages...
Love is in the air once again here at cheese towers. I mean, why would you buy your betrothed flowers when they could have Cheese?
In the greens hills of Normandy sits the...
The rising number of food banks around the country has been a constant theme of the current period of ‘austerity’ but a scheme from the Northampton Hope Centre offers a new way of tackling food poverty.
The Hope Food Club...
One of the county’s oldest microbreweries has been rescued from croaking thanks to a vital boost in funding, writes Anna Murby.
Frog Island Brewery, which began producing beer in Northampton in 1994, has received a £2k grant from FEAST (Food...
Following England Rugby's recent defeat by South Africa, discussions around the 'English identity' in rugby have intensified. Critiques suggest England's current style is overly focused on brute strength rather than creativity. In contrast, Northampton Saints exemplify a successful approach grounded in basic skills and inclusivity, potentially signalling a need for a shift in England's rugby philosophy.
