Bowland Brewery earns mark of excellence

Bowland Brewery has become one of ten Cask Marque Centres of Excellence, and will host training courses related to handling cask ales.

The Clitheroe brewery, within Holmes Mill, will host four courses for the British Institute of Innkeeping Award in Beer and Cellar Quality qualification in 2019.

Attendees will learn about best cellar practice, how to handle cask ale correctly and managing keg dispense systems. They will also be given the opportunity to tour the brewery and sample its range of beers.

Cask Marque provides Cellar Management training courses in the UK and delivered more than 200 training courses in 2018.

Delegates attending an ABCQ course are trained how to handle both cask and keg beers to improve quality, reduce wastage and increase yields. All learning is tested with a 30 question exam.

Bowland Brewery joins nine other Centres of Excellence in the UK strategically placed to cover the whole of the UK. Other Centres include Brains, Arkell’s, T&R Theakston, Fuller’s, Robinsons, Marston’s, and Palmer’s.

Paul Nunny, Cask Marque director, said: "The facilities offered by the brewery, and the Beer Hall at Holmes Mill, are amongst the best in the country and this venue is a welcome addition, joining our other Centres Of Excellence throughout Britain."

Andrew Warburton, director at Bowland Brewery said: "Bowland are totally committed to the highest quality levels of brewing and cellar management and so to be able to combine both these aims within our facility in Clitheroe is a source of great pride. "Cask Marque have revolutionised consumer perceptions of cask beer and are instrumental in the resurgent interest across the UK in great tasting cask ale. We are very pleased to be associated with them in this excellent initiative”