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Whether you would like to come and collect your online orders or would prefer to browse in person, do drop in to our Brewery Shop on East Street, Braintree.  Open 6 days a week from 9am - 4.30pm.  See below our opening hours over the festive period.

And cut off for online orders is midnight Sunday 17th December for guaranteed delivery before Christmas.

Bishop Nick brewery took residence in Braintree 10yrs ago this month and to mark this milestone and show a commitment to the next ten years of trading (at least!!) we have given our celebrated range of core beers an exciting new facelift.

We have always had fantastic feedback about our branding, and we felt that, ten years on, our core range of beers – all of which have garnered top industry awards – now deserved a more customised look to celebrate their individuality.

Bishop Nick beer to be reviewed as part of new prime-time Channel 5 show celebrating the very best of the British harvest.

Ex-Strictly Come Dancing contestant Helen Skelton and Escape to the Country’s Jules Hudson will be live from Barleylands Farm in Essex TONIGHT from 8pm.

Hello beer drinkers and happy new year.  Now Christmas has passed and things have quietened down, it’s always a good time of year to reflect and plan for the coming months.

Things haven’t been easy with the cost of living crisis following several years of COVID disruption - inevitably it has influenced drinking habits.

Alex Ratter answers the question "What is an IPA?" and shares his views on how the term has been used 'and abused' in recent times...

Head Brewer Alex Ratter on recent brews, his new home brewery, his new assistant and his toe...

Hello again.  I can’t remember the last time I put pen to paper – it’s been a long time I know.  The last 18 months have been tumultuous for brewing beer (amongst other things) and all my time has been spent on the brewery floor with precious little time actually sitting down to cogitate over the merits of bottles versus cans, or the meaning of the term craft beer.