Daisy Alys Turnell

@daisyturnell.bsky.social

Craft beer’s resident gigantor ✿ Founder @craftbeerncl.bsky.social ✿ Co-owner @tipplemarketing.bsky.social linktr.ee/daisyturnell 📍 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Unfortunately, I'm unable to make the trip to London for the Brewers Congress this week. I was really looking forward to catching up with everyone, but I'm having to take more time to recover following a head injury earlier in the summer.

Photo from the Brewers Congress last year: a panel of 4 speakers sitting at a high table on stage at Big Penny Social with a panel host (Paul Davies) to their right, facing an audience seated at wooden benches.

For those of you who remember Jarrow Brewery (and their pubs including The Maltings, Magnesia Bank & The Isis), Jess McConnell has died. 📷: via Shields Gazette (we’ve not shared the link to save you from all of their really annoying pop-up ads)

A photo of Jess McConnell behind the pumps in a Jarrow Brewery pub.

Text underneath reads: Jess McConnell, whose death was confirmed in a Facebook post by his daughter, shook up the local industry after buying the then derelict Robin Hood boozer in Jarrow.

I'm not really announcing this where family read it yet, but we are moving to Edinburgh. I'm looking for part-time wine or beer work in the city or thereabouts (happy to travel a little bit for the right thing), so please keep me in mind if you see anything come up!

I love the fact that we are now seeing non-alcoholic beer as a category that offers not just choice for moderation but choice for renavigating life. Driving, medication, personal issues…our choices to drink or not are our own business. And the category has supported that with great tasting 0% beer.

Daisy Alys Turnell@daisyturnell.bsky.social · last mo.

It was great to speak to @drinksmaven.bsky.social to share my thoughts on accessibility and alcohol-free beer; something I’ve been exploring more of as a concussion left me unable to drink alcohol this summer.

Today's adventure is going to be a run around every brewery (And some brewery adjacent sites) in Leeds before finishing at #Horsforth Brewery for the Brewed in Leeds Festival, where they've invited every brewery in Leeds, or with an LS postcode, to provide a beer. It's going to be a fun day 🍻