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Star debut! A FORMER school teacher is aiming to be top of the class – in the brewery business. And ambitious Tara Mallinson has already been awarded a gold star by some of Huddersfield’s most discerning real ale drinkers after her debut brew quickly sold out at The Star Inn, Folly Hall. Tara set up Mallinson Brewing Company at Plover Road, Lindley, just a month ago after leaving her job as a primary teacher at Mount Pleasant School in Lockwood. She attended courses on beer-making and received expert tuition at her Plover Road premises before embarking on brewing her first beer, called At Long Last. The beer, described as “golden in colour with a light, hoppy nose and a bitter taste with a dry finish”, has been enjoyed by regulars at The Star and several other pubs, including the town centre Station Tavern, The Grove at Springwood and The Swan at Crimble, Slaithwaite. Tara said: “The response has been quite pleasing, because it is a bit worrying when you are making your first brew. “I have been interested in real ale as a consumer for about 25 years and I suppose I’ve spent the past 15 years thinking about starting a brewery. It was a case of finally deciding ‘If I don’t do it now, I never will’. That’s why my first beer was called At long Last!” S a m Wat t , l i c e n s e e o f t h e award-winning The Star Inn, said: “We’ve known Tara for quite a long time and we have chatted about her idea of setting up a brewery. “We said if she wanted to start brewing, we would support her. It is nice to see someone opening a brewery, particularly a female.” Sam said: “The first brew went down very well. It is brilliant for a first attempt. It’s like baking a cake
■ PERFECT PINT: Tara Mallinson (left), owner of the Mallinson Brewing Company, with Sam Watt, owner and licensee of The Star pub, Folly Hall, and the new beer
for the first time, you never know how it will turn out. It is a clear beer with a crisp taste.” Tara, who lives at Gledholt, said she was already planning to widen the range at her six-barrel brewing
plant. A one-off beer called Wild Card is being planned in time for Wimbledon while others in the pipeline include Castle Hill Premium, Station Best Bitter, Stadium Bitter and Emley Moor Mild.
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Flagship scheme ‘must be flexible’ TRAINING chiefs in Yorkshire have called for urgent changes to a flagship Government programme designed to boost workers’ skills. The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils, which represents 89% of UK businesses, is calling for more flexibility from the Government’s Train to Gain programme to help it better meet the needs of firms in the Yorkshire region. Train to Gain provides impartial, independent advice on training to employers. It gives firms access to a skills broker who carries out a training needs analysis and points companies to a range of employee development schemes. But the alliance said that while
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