Unlucky Start

Having left school at 14, his first job was with FedEx, sorting parcels on the overnight flight from the UK to the US. Within the first year the cargo plane went down and everyone, except Curly, was killed. He spent the next 5 years on an uninhabited island with nothing except 2 items he saved from the crash, a parcel and a copy of the Guardian newspaper. He had plenty of water but it wasn't fresh, so he was forced to brew it into beer. Over those 5 years he became an expert brewer and vowed to himself that when rescued he'd personally deliver the parcel, start up his own brewery and never read the Guardian again.

Overview

In 1998 Curly, the head brewer, offered Mansfield Brewery £110,000 for their flagship pub, the Speedwell Inn. The Mansfield board laughed at the offer, so Curly offered them a merger deal and they laughed again, only louder. Within a few days he owned the whole group and the board laughed no more. Within a few months, in 1999, he asset stripped the whole group, with Wolverhampton & Dudley picking up everything but the Speedwell Inn. He sold everything for £85,000 less then he paid for it and then remortgaged the Speedwell for £110,000. This totally ruthless man is a legend in the City.

Sensible Drinking Policy

Unlike supermarkets, who use cheap alcoholic drinks to entice customers into their store and then claim to subscribe to a sensible drinking policy, we don't wish to insult the intelligence of our customers... having brewed the beer in the first place, our aim is to sell as much of the stuff as possible and to any idiot who will buy it.

That said, we don't let our patrons quaff copious amounts of beer and not be capable of getting home. Our policy is to put them up for the night in the Brewer's bachelor pad above the Speedwell Inn, where they encounter The Brewers Friends (see below in the Dashboard). It's actually a far more effective deterrent to binge drinking than any thieving fiddling politician has ever come up with.

Overview

There are 3 brews in constant production, the renowned Staveley Cross Best Bitter, Speedwell Bitter and the celebrated Pynot Porter. Many CAMRA members consider Pynot to be the best porter ever brewed.

THE ORIGINAL HOME OF GARAGE BEER
Garage beer is a term used to describe beer that anyone can brew in their own garage. Pioneered back in the early 1990's by Chesterfield born Alan “Curly” Wood, it differs from homebrew beer only by its smell. Which is why it always ended up in the garage.

Overview

Who is this man Burgin who spends all his time running from pub to pub. He's actually a cripple who qualifies for a free car, being one of that group who the Tories keep suggesting are the biggest drain on our society. This Beer Run exposes him as the fraudster he is and it's totally unfair that he gets Disability Living Allowance whilst Neil & Glenys Kinnock have to buy their own food at weekends. Most of the pubs used on the Beer Run have served Townes beers at some time but that's not why they're chosen. They really are Burgin's favourite pubs and no commercial transactions have taken place. If your maths are good you'll have noticed that there's only 18 pubs when there should be 20. That's because he can't make his mind up on the last 3 and any suggestions are welcome.