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SPBW

The Society for The Preservation of Beers from the Wood

Page 1 – 2017 to July 2025

Photo Gallery

SPBW members are welcome to send us pictures to be included. Please send them to the webmaster.

These must be pictures that you own (normally ones that you have taken yourself). Before you post a recognizable picture of people online, think again. You usually need their consent. There are some exceptions to this. For example, if you take a picture of a large crowd at a public event, such as a beer festival, you don’t need the consent of every individual. We reserve the right to select and edit pictures before we include them.

Rob (our chairman) being instructed in the art of coopering
Wooden casks in the cellar of the Horse and Jockey
Woodfest 1 in 2017 Castleford – the Horse and Jockey cellar
Wooden casks using traditional stillaging
Woodfest 4 in 2023 – the United Services Club, Egham
Wooden Casks in Ye Olde Mitre Cellar
Ye Olde Mitre, Holborn
Casks made by Jensen’s Cooperage
Casks made by Jensen’s Cooperage

The Woodfest 1 picture above shows the casks on end and tapped for for vertical extraction. The Woodfest 4 picture shows casks on stillage and tapped in the traditional way. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages.

Woodfest 3 – Volunteer of the Festival
Woodfest Beer of Britain 2022 – Portobello Market Porter
Diamond Anniversary Rising Sun, Epsom December 2023
3rd Bill English DFEB (Double Full English Breakfast) Memorial Crawl in Derby July 2023
SPBW members, working at the April ’24 CAMRA IOM.beer Festival drinking some of the beers pictured above
This is the Innis & Gunn filled store, just outside Perth
Beer of the festival – Hook Norton for Haymaker. Taken on 29th September 2017 after the first woodfest in Castleford
We had a great day out in the nether regions of North East Northants with a select group of intrepid SPBWers.
Glyn Baker, David Aldridge & Peter Chutter at the CAMRA Thurrock BF on Friday 7th June
Bill English Memorial Day 2024 – Bath Hotel Sheffield

Mini Woodfest 2 – Ye Olde Mitre 3rd August 2024

Mini Woodfest 2 – Packaging barrels for return to the north

Campden Hill Branch celebrated Martinmas with a goose dinner at the Bohemia House restaurant in November 2024

The Tony Littler at The Gregorian, Rotherhithe – November 2024

Winning Team – Central London Branch
Wantz Branch
North Irish Sea Branch

61st Anniversary Gathering at the Rising Sun Epsom on 1st December 2024

Cobra-Cow Xmas Party 2024

Photographs from Greater Manchester Branch socials

Bridge Beers August 2024
Marble Arch January 2025
The Junction, Castleford with the Greater Manchester, West riding and York branches February 2025

Photos from the Gasworks brew bar in Manchester for the Greater Manchester branch social on the 29th March

Pictures from the Greater Manchester SPBW branch trip to Stubborn Mule brewery in Timperley 

Pictures from Woodfest V

Dave Laing on the Wurlitzer
Brent Wheatley (Auditor) & Peter Chutter (Treasurer) working admissions

5th Bill English DFEB Memorial Chester July 2025

Hydes Brewery Manchester have bought 10 wooden firkins

The Society for The Preservation of Beers from the Wood

EMAIL

John Rooth
(General Secretary)

email: secretary@spbw.beer

SPBW ON WIKIPEDIA

The Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood (SPBW), founded in 1963, is the oldest consumer-based group interested in stimulating the brewing of, increasing the awareness of, and encouraging the drinking of cask conditioned real ale.

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