We launch in cask our two collaboration IPAs brewed with Elusive and Siren on our trip to Finchampstead.

We have two variations on a theme. Elusive Oswald 5.8% is a New England, while Siren Golden Eagle is a West Coast. Both build flavour with Mosaic hops hot-side, and feature an experimental hop variety called Anchovy. Grown in Washington State, they’re known for their unique character of watermelon sweets, raspberry, and pine, which plays perfectly into the styles.

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COLLABAGEDDON IS BACK!

We’re hugely excited to announce that Collabageddon is BACK for 2025. Grab your diary or calendar and circle FRIDAY 21ST NOVEMBER in red.

We have an amazing lineup of breweries this year, big and small, old and new, and will be bringing you 12 fantastic beers to enjoy. We have secured three of the beers in very limited cask options.

Tasting notes pdf

Brolly x Thornbridge – Perch – Burton Ale – 4.6% Cask

Bullhouse x Fierce – Meet Your Maker – Hazy Pale – 4.5%

Campervan x Wild Horse – North Shore – NZ Double IPA – 7.6%

Castle Rock x Elusive – Junimo – Nelson Sauvin & Juniper IPA – 6% Cask

Duration x Tap Social – Goatfell – Mountain IPA – 5.2%

Elusive x Brolly – Midnight Cruiser – Black IPA – 5.6% Cask

Fierce x Castle Rock – Knight and Rook – 80 Shilling Scottish Export – 4.7%

Hand x Duration – Noki – Schwarzbier – 4.8%

Origins (Fyne) x Bullhouse – Red Grenache Wine Chimera – 5.9% (mixed ferm oak aged sour with Cherry, Raspberry, Cranberry, Redcurrant, Rose, Cinnamon and Pink Peppercorns)

Tap Social x Campervan – Voyager – Czech-style Dark Lager – 4.2%

Thornbridge x Hand – Vega – Transatlantic IPA – 7%

Wild Horse x Origins (Fyne) – Wiwer – White Grenache Wine Chimera – 5.2% (clean fruited sour with Quince, Peach, Marigolds, Borage and Cubeb Pepper)

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We will have all four of our collaboration brews from our brewing tour of Yorkshire.

Read all about the tour here.

Brass Castle Morph Red 5%

North Riding Audacia HBC630 4.3% Pale

Rat CAMRAT 5% NEIPA

Turning Point Velvet Goldmine 4 8% NZ Pale

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It is that time again… Turning Point Disco Kingdom.

Four Disco Kingdom beers on the bar. The glitter ball will be spinning.

In cask:
Disco King – the O.G. Big, juicy, hazy.
Disco Frisco – a West Coast spin on the classic

In keykeg
Disco Zing – Fruity Sour
Double Disco 8% DIPA

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5th to 6th July is Oswestry Food and Drink Festival and we will have a Stonehouse Brewery Showcase. Four Stonehouse cask beers plus kegs.

Cask
Station Bitter
Flipside
Tarahake NZ pale
Leap of Faith hazy pale

Keg
Into the Wild Simcoe Pale
Powerhaus Hoppy Helles lager collab with Green Duck

Don’t forget that you can bring festival food into the pub, we can even give you some wooden cutlery.

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We have five milds lined up. Left Handed Giant Brewpub Dark Mild 3.4%, Settle Scaleber Mild 3.8%, Brass Castle Hazelnut Mild 4.2% and two products of collaborations between Turning Point and Five Points, Five Points 1995 Mild 3.3% and Turning Point 1895 Mild 5.5%

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The Shrewsbury and West Shropshire Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), the organisation which fights for traditional beer, cider and pubs, today announced the winners of the 2025 Pubs and Clubs of the Year Competition for Shrewsbury and West Shropshire. The overall big winner is The Bailey Head.

The West Shropshire area has 240 pubs and clubs selling real ale. In the first stage of the Pub of the Year competition, Branch members visit pubs and score the beer quality. Members then vote on the overall experience in these pubs to produce a shortlist of pubs – three in Shrewsbury, three in West Shropshire market towns and four from rural West Shropshire.

Shortlisted pubs are visited anonymously by experienced surveyors who mark the pub on beer quality and knowledge, cleanliness, commitment to the community and CAMRA, and service and overall experience using a nationally agreed scheme. This year’s competition was again finely balanced, with all the finalists within only a few marks of each other. The Branch overall winner goes on to compete with pubs across the country to win CAMRA’s Pub of the Year for the whole of the UK.

A parallel process takes place to find the Branch Cider Pub of The Year, and the Bailey Head also came out top in that competition.

Competition co-ordinator Norrie Porter said “The Bailey Head, which was declared CAMRA’s Regional Cider Pub of The Year and overall National Pub of The Year for 2024, really is an exceptional pub, offering great quality to a well-formed local community but also attracting many visitors to the town”.

Owners Grace Goodlad and Duncan Borrowman said “It is amazing to have won the Shrewsbury & West Shropshire Pub of the Year and Cider Pub of the Year awards again. It is an incredibly tough competition with almost 250 venues in an area with many superb pubs. I am incredibly grateful to our wonderful team, fabulous regulars and the people of Oswestry for their fantastic support”

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