About Us
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A Little Bit Of History Buntingford Brewery was formed way back
in July 2001, in a small industrial unit in the small North Hertfordshire
market town of Buntingford. A wise choice of location given the brewery
name, but not so wise for the production of beer as it turned out. So, skipping a
year of gloom as murky as some of the early output, production moved for a
while to Leicestershire (2003-2005), whilst better
premises/skills/equipment/footwear etc were sourced, learnt and scrounged (albeit
it not necessarily in that order...)
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Who Are The People Who Are, err, The People? |
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T'Catherine T'Pet |
The head honcho, numero uno. And Former Draypersonage, now sometime brewperson number 2 and a half. Catherine is from Lancashire, and is therefore instantly recognisable with her soot-stained flat cap, pet pigeon and whippet. Her main interests are crochet, welding, all-in tag team scrabble, & tape measure collecting. An injury in her early teens prevented Catherine from following her chosen career in the sport of extreme crochet, and has therefore focused herself on the target of being the first woman to be taken seriously in the world of Bonsai Sheep Tuning. |
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Dave |
Dave joined us in May 2008, ostensibly as a salesman, but has since proved to be a good all-rounder, and now represents us on the international committee of the Association of Brewery Reps Working For Breweries Based On Farms Near Therfield Heath (or HELP for short). His interests include his collection of beards, and reading the collected works of the Dalek Poets of Skaro. |
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Steve The Likely To Get
A Slap Any Minute |
Steve is our Brewer, except on every third Tuesday when he is appointed Head Brewer for the day (but only if he is good). His goal in life is to find the stone he is told he crawled out from underneath of. It is a little known fact that Steve is a world-renowned expert on the ability of Woodpeckers to create jigsaws, and the methods used by Sparrows to haul freight over long distances. |
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Graham Was Two-Days But Is Now 4 Days Because He Is Coming In Handy |
Drayman, cask fettler, & trainee useful person, Graham joins us from an industry who made full use of his skills with two empty baked bean cans and a piece of string. A man who knows far too much about SMS messaging to send a text about it, Graham has for many years been a CAMRA member (it doesn't show - his beard is fully cloaked, as are his sandals). When not magically arranging for beer to appear on bars across the area, he can be found in one of his several sheds listening to hardcore death techno music, or running very long distances on a bike through deep water for no obvious reason. |
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Occasional Alan |
Hailing all the way from somewhere called Norfolk, Alan crosses international, regional and genetic boundaries to come and help us out one day a week. He used to have his own brewery, until he realised it would be cheaper and less stressful to be a slave in someone else's. So, now, when he is not working for Napoleon as a guillotine operator, he comes round here to fill his wellingtons full of water. He is very handy, as his brewing past has adapted him well to hard work, moist legs and negative pay. His other hobbies include dealing with gravity-defying bar tops and the collecting of 17th century poems about Fakenham Gas Works. |
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Student Ben The Student |
Any micro-brewery worth talking about has to have a student. And Ben is ours (in a non-ownership sort of way, obviously). He spends one day a week learning about the brewing process (ie he is mostly cask washing), and the rest of the week learning something called 'Applied Science' (which we think might be like normal science but more sticky). Ben is currently a black belt zen master at not having a cuppa during the day, thus making him far more efficient than the rest of us*. This means he is often eyed with suspicion - mostly from within the warm office whilst we have a cuppa and watch him carry on working. He'll learn. *2011 update. Ben is learning, damn his eyes, and cleverly sussed our cunning ways - either that or has read this website. |
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Andrew |
One of the two founding fathers of Buntingford Brewery, Andrew is something of
a legend the world of rain fettling, and can apparently avoid getting wet
in a storm with nothing more than an umbrella and a wetsuit. He has
a day job, as his children are still too young to go out to work -
especially since the Bishops Stortford collieries closed down way back in
2008. |