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Brewtopias: The Most Important Cities in Beer History
Imagine a place where the rivers run amber with sweet, sweet craft lager. A place where we’re paid in pints of our favourite brews. A place where research and development amounts to pushing the boundaries of beer understanding, flavour and style, where stouts, porters, IPAs and pale ales stand side-by-side as brothers in beer…
Revitalising Ricky – Pedestrianisation of the High Street
Even before the unprecedented times we now live in as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic many of us had very serious concerns about the future of Rickmansworth as a vibrant and inviting town centre…
New Beer, Have No Fear
This week, just like all others before it, we have scoured the UK on a mission to bring you the best beer from all the best breweries. And worry not, as with all the weeks before it we have succeeded once again…
Firebrand Brewing
Firebrand Brewing Co is an award-winning brewery based in the north-eastern area of Cornwall, and is the ‘younger sister’ to Penpont Brewery. If you’re based near the south-west of England, you might be familiar with Penpont…
The Quest for the Best… Scratching The Surface
Our Quest for the Best at Wishful drives us to hunt out and discover the very very best beers without prejudgment or preconception. Since we opened in April last year we have taken beers from around 120 different brewers but we are really just scratching the surface…
Something a Little Different at Wishful
One of the best, we think, of the current up and coming brewers are the brilliant Black Iris from Nottingham. Appropriately located on Shipstone St (where the legendary Shippos Nottingham ale of my student days was brewed)…
A Brief History of Tankards
One winter day in 2007, in a field in near Newport, Wales, a local man was searching the ground with a metal detector. Among his findings that day were two bronze bowls and a bronze wine strainer dating to the Iron Age, which were pronounced treasure…
Filled to the Brim With New Beer
Not stopping at an exclusive beer from Tring we have lined the shelves with so many new beers you won’t know where to start. So to help you out we have detailed a few of our faves below…
IP Eh? Five Unusual Facts About IPA
Here are five facts you might not know about the ever-popular IPA in honour of national IPA day on the 2nd of August 2018 with the occasional terrible pun thrown into the mix…
Wishful and Tring Brewery – A Legendary Beer Launch!!
One of our great joys at Wishful is working with a core group of local brewers who are continually striving to innovate and to introduce new, fragrant and fresh beers for us all to savour and enjoy…
New Batches, Brews & Breweries
This week is the perfect time to try some new beer. With so many new beers in stock its worth joining us this week…
Wishful and Untappd Join Forces
You may have noticed (if your eyesight is good enough from your table in the bar) that we have a brand spanking new, fabulous and funky beer menu on the TV screen behind the bar…
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