Monthly Archives: August 2008

Places to visit: St Peter’s Brewery

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Residents or people staying in Brockdish may be interested to visit St Peter’s Brewery which is one of the local treasures.  

The beers – The range and quality of St Peter’s beers is impressive.  From gluten free to honey beer they have something for everyone.  It is well worth paying a visit to the onsite beer shop where you can buy a “PYO” case from their full selection.  We also found that we could buy some cases of our favourites at knock off prices because they had label damage!  From talking to the lady in the shop it seems some of the national retailers won’t tolerate any imperfections in the labels – the beer inside the bottle was, I found on my extensive research, unaffected!

The hall – St Peter’s hall is seeped in history and although we only popped in for a drink to have a look around we did notice an impressive dining room (opulent with oak panelling).  Do stick a comment on this article if you’ve been to eat and let us know what the food is like.

Tours – The lady in the shop told us they had had to stop the tours of the brewery because of “health and safety” which is a real shame as several people we’ve spoken to remarked on how much fun they were.  They do however still do guided tastings which we’ve not tried but plan to soon.

More information from http://www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk.

If you’ve made any good day trips from Brockdish do please let us know.

Red Lion in Needham

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We cycled over to Needham this afternoon to check out the new playground facilities which have been built there.  Henry (our 17 month old son) seemed to be reasonable impressed although there we thought there was not much there.  We cycled back towards Brockdish and stopped on the way at the Red Lion which is under new ownership.  

Under the previous owners we had stopped there for a look at the menu one night and a pint and been scowled at!  Tonight we stopped for a pint and sat outside and browsed the menu which looks reassuringly short and sounded tasty.  We will give it a try and let you know what we think.

Edit: Just read the comment in their guest book – not sure now, anyone else tried it?

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Anglian Buses agree to take action

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Anglian Buses have agreed to take action to ensure their buses are traveling through Brockdish at or below the speed limit.

Residents have become increasingly alarmed at the speed of the buses particularly as they enter and leave the village. Although the buses need to keep to their schedules there is concern that there could be a fatality if care is not taken. Andrew, from Anglian Buses agreed and said “We will do some monitoring of our buses through Brockdish, and take action as required”.

If you have concerns about the speed of the Anglian buses travelling through the village you can contact them on 01502 711109 or via email on office@angliancoaches.co.uk.