Rooster’s Brewing Co. marks milestone anniversary with pub-focussed magazine

Harrogate-based Rooster’s Brewing Co. is celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2023 and has published Thirty Years, a 56-page magazine to mark the occasion.

The publication dives into the brewery’s history, as well as allowing readers to get to know the team behind the beer. Designed for pubgoers and craft beer enthusiasts to pick up and thumb through over a pint or two, 4,000 copies have been printed and are being distributed to independent pubs, bars and beer shops across the north of England.

Renowned beer writers Emma Inch and Matthew Curtis have contributed feature articles that explore the ground-breaking, familyowned brewery’s past, as well as looking ahead as Rooster’s enters its fourth decade of brewing under owners Ian Fozard and his twin sons Tom and Oliver.

The brewery originally blazed a trail in the early 90’s when it began creating pale beers with new and exciting hops from the USA that ultimately lead the way for what later developed into a seismic shift in British brewing culture around 20 years later.

Rooster’s moved back to its original hometown of Harrogate following an £850,000 investment in a new, state-of-the-art brewery and on-site taproom in the summer of 2019 and brews over 1.5 million pints of its highly acclaimed beers each year.

The magazine is also available to order via Rooster’s website and includes a guide to some of the outlets the brewery delivers its beers directly to on a regular basis, as well as shining a spotlight on other independent businesses.

Features include recipes from Paradise, a Mexican-inspired street food and craft beer venue local to the brewery and Skosh, one of York’s most highly rated restaurants, designed to try at home with along with suggested Rooster’s beer pairing. A beer and cheese pairing in collaboration with The Cheeseboard, Harrogate’s iconic cheesemongers, is also included.

To further commemorate its milestone year, Rooster’s will also be releasing a number of limited release beers brewed with friends from other breweries in the UK, Sweden and the USA as part of a 30th Anniversary Collaboration Project. Breweries involved are profiled in the magazine and include Odell Brewing Co. the 20th largest brewery in the USA, Crooked Stave from Denver and Elusive Brewing, based in Finchampstead.

For more go to www.roosters.co.uk

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Following on from our 150th-anniversary celebrations last year, we look forward to further expanding our team in 2023 and completing the much anticipated move to our new ‘very cool’ premises - more about this shortly.

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