Today Colin Gilham and I ran a tasting of @elusivebrewing.com x @unbarredbrewery.bsky.social x Lallemand Brewing Experiments in Yeast at Two Tails Taproom. Four beers brewed with the same base recipe, but each pitched with a different yeast. It was a great deal of fun, and very interesting.

Raising a glass to #CaskAleWeek 2025 in The Hope, Carshalton. Pint of @elusivebrewing.com Hustle followed by a cheeky half of @downlandsbrewery.bsky.social Best. Cheers!

It's red ale season. And @elusivebrewing.com are the kings of the style. Phenomenal stuff. #bskybeer

An absolute barnstormer from @elusivebrewing.com. A classic black IPA. Roasty malt and wonderful dank hoppy bitterness. The recipe’s been improved but generally why change what works.

An excellent pint of @elusivebrewing.com Nelsons Revenge in The Hand And Marigold, SE1.

For this Oktoberfest opening day, I'm not in Berlin as usual, so I'm having an @elusivebrewing.com beer: Shibuya (4.5%), hopped with Mosaic & Krush. It's very good!

How's this? (The cask Oregon Trail was excellent as always)

Cooking up a treat at @elusivebrewing.com today. Stay tuned for details! 💚🌳

How’s this for a beer festival venue?! We’re really looking forward to pouring at Gravity Beer Fest later this month - tickets are still available from tikt.link/Gravity25 if you’d like to join us!

Patrick E. McGovern, a celebrated biomolecular archaeologist who revealed the deep history of wine, beer and mead, has died at the age of 80. His forensic investigations into residues on pottery reshaped our understanding of alcohol’s role in civilisation.

If you already have a ticket for the #ISBFX Friday Evening Session, this talk will be fabulous - and highly recommended. Great beer people talking about great beer. @amitybrewco.bsky.social @elusivebrewing.com @runawaybrewery.bsky.social #ISBFX #BeerPeopleAreGoodPeople

StageCraft Brewery News! Joining Balance, Beak, Emperors and Glasshouse at StageCraft Festival 2026.... 🍻Double-Barrelled Brewery 🍻Elusive Brewing 🍻Siren Craft Brew Co 🍻Phantom Brew Co 🍻Dolphin Brewery Don't miss out, get booking for 24 & 25 April 2026 now at whatsonreading.com/stagecraft-2...

Laura Hadland (@morrighani.bsky.social) said some very kind things about us in her book Beer Festivals: A Great British Tradition. On the Friday evening session at #ISBFX, Laura is hosting a chat & tasting featuring three of this year's collab. beers, comparing and contrasting cask with keg.

Laura be joined by Russ Clarke (Amity Brew Co Farsley, Leeds), Andy Parker (Elusive Brewing, Finchampstead) & Mark Welsby (The Runaway Brewery, Stockport). There will be a small charge for the tasting session (£5), payable on the door on the Friday. And as always, all profits are donated to START.

#BIPAComeback 👀 www.elusivebrewing.com/bottled-prod...

The return of Oregon Trail from @elusivebrewing.com is always an event worthy of celebration. Not least because it heralds the arrival of other goodies from Finchampstead. 🍺 Oregon Trail - 5.8% 🍻 Neon - 4.8% 🍺 Refresh - 4.2% 🍻 Haem - 3.9% #GoGetEm #VivaStirchley #ShopIndependent

Making the most of the sunshine before autumn sets in? We’re open Friday and Saturday from 12pm - 8pm and would love to see you at the taproom!

ANOTHER NEW WESTY 🍺❤️ We've long owed @elusivebrewing.com a return collab. But on our brew day, our planned Hops? 404. Hops Not Found. Oops. The solution: all the Centennial! Resinous, Piney, Zesty, and definitely not missing bitterness. Pouring from TOMORROW at the brewery!

Meet the #WiBAwards25 Judges - Andy Parker Andy is the founder & owner of Elusive Brewing, a Berkshire based microbrewery best known for its love of everything West Coast and flagship beer Oregon Trail. A former British Guild of Beer Writers Brewer of the Year, Andy has authored two books for CAMRA

Part of my daughter’s 18th b’day celebrations - Sip and Paint Pottery. You bring your own booze (thankfully!). My skull was painted with support from @samueladamsbeer.bsky.social Only with Love @elusivebrewing.com, @thornbridge.bsky.social @trackbrewingco.bsky.social and Wayward Lane. Lovely beers!

Beer of the week in today’s @dailystar.co.uk? Why it’s this gorgeous little Neon-lit number from @elusivebrewing.com

Channelling a bit of Earth, Wind & Fire this morning to share our monthly mixed case… www.elusivebrewing.com/bottled-prod... #NeverWasACloudyDay

Our latest beer is inspired by the things we hold the dearest, so some of you might recognise the models on the can artwork…

Phenomenal pint of Level Up on cask by @elusivebrewing.com at the genius @thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social all scents of sticky malty goodness, floral and citrus top notes. Delicious bitterness.

Andy’s picked somewhere in Bermondsey for his pub choice for Cask Ale Week — check out the full pub list below:

I'm a simple man. See Oregon Trail, drink Oregon Trail @elusivebrewing.com in @curiousgnome.bsky.social

Black IPAs are pretty rare these days which is a shame. Thanks to @elusivebrewing.com for keeping the style alive! This is a fantastic example of one. #bskybeer

If your fridge has been looking a little empty since the bank holiday, we’ve got a brand new beer you might like to restock with! Shibuya really delivers on the fruity top notes, with blueberry and stone fruit from Mosaic paired with juicy newcomer Krush, leading to a clean, bitter finish.

Friday day is now SOLD OUT! If you’d like to come along to #ISBFX there are very limited tickets left for Friday night, or you can join us on Thursday or Saturday night instead: www.universe.com/events/independent-salford-beer-festival-isbfx-tickets-Y6KWQ4

#COLLABAGEDDON fans, it’s time to reveal who’s brewing with who this year:

@elusivebrewing.com Oregon Trail also voted the best IPA in the UK @camraofficial.bsky.social 2025

Birmingham friends – we’re really looking forward to joining @atticbrewco.bsky.social at Suds Fest on 27th September 👾 Tickets are available now from www.designmynight.com/birmingham/w...

First beer of the night is from @elusivebrewing.com and Steam Town Brew Co and it's a sterling effort. Glad it's the weekend. Have a good one folks #BskyBeer

If you’re one of those people who likes to seek out new beers, say hello to Neon! Brewed using a new malt called Caraglow, this West Coast-style pale leans into the pine and stone fruit of Simcoe, and pairs it with pink grapefruit notes from Talus hops. www.elusivebrewing.com/bottled-prod...

"Liquid Green – cutting through the myriad of new liquid hop aroma products" Just had new piece published in Brewers Journal on how we've used liquid hop products to drive up packaged yield. www.brewersjournal.info/liquid-green...

We’ve got some brilliant talks & tastings lined up for #ISBFX: • Friday Day – Tūn Brewing • Friday Night – Cask vs Keg, hosted by @morrighani.bsky.social with Russ (Amity), Andy (Elusive) & Mark (Runaway) • Saturday Day – Discussion on Indie Drinks Retail, led by @totalcurtis.bsky.social (Pellicle)

Bank holiday beers, you say? We’ll just leave this here: www.elusivebrewing.com/bottled-prod...

A great week to be a cask lover at the Shirker's... £4 Cask Weds beers include @elusivebrewing.com's Experiments in Yeast #2, a collab with @unbarredbrewery.bsky.social Plus a chance for an early taste of @burtonbridgebrew.bsky.social’s Mumford Mild, brewed to honour BB co-founder Geoff Mumford.

Really looking forward to heading up to Edinburgh next month for Gravity Beer Festival! If you’d like to join us, tickets are available from www.gravitybeerfestival.co.uk

Not enough American red ales around #ARAComeback @elusivebrewing.com?

We were going to do a "Steiner Maths" joke here, but only a handful of folks would get the reference... So instead here's some beer from Ten Tun Taphouse 🍻 Electric Red - 4.7% (w/ Electric Bear Brewing) 🍺 Slurpenstein - 5.5% (w/ @elusivebrewing.com) #ShopIndependent #VivaStirchley

Without further ado, the winners of our 9th birthday home brew comp are… 🥇 Richard Roseblade - Dark Mild 🥈 Rick Woolliss - Hazy Pale 🥉 Chris Beale - English Golden Ale With an honourable mention to James Krassowski for his Fruited Sour. Congratulations to Richard! Feedback will be avail next week.

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Guess what we’re packaging more of this week?

It's almost here again. All cask beer £4 - all day. This week our feature beer is the sensational Oregon Trail from @elusivebrewing.com. Don't just take our word for it, it won the National IPA category at the CAMRA Champion Beer of Britain awards. Last time we had it on, it went in hours!

Sneaking onto your Friday timeline to drop the list of #COLLABAGEDDON breweries for 2025 Stay tuned for more updates soon!

Congratulations to the other finalists, also impressive quality: @elusivebrewing.com Oregon Trail IPA 5.8%, @trackbrewingco.bsky.social Sonoma Pale Ale 3.8%, Butcombe Brewery Original Bitter 4%, Cairngorm Brewery Wildcat Premium Bitter 5.1% & their Black Gold Stout 4.4%.

Happy GBBF Trade day! You’ll find Andy on the Learn & Discover Bar today talking about Experiments in Yeast, a collaboration with @unbarredbrewery.bsky.social using four different yeast strains to see how differently they impact the same base beer. greatbritishbeerfestival.co.uk/discover/dis...

Our latest beer is an unashamed ode to Mosaic, used in three different ways - whole cone in the kettle, followed by pellets, and a prototype liquid product in the fermentation vessel. You’ll find Fiction over on our webshop, or join Andy at the taproom this weekend (we’re open Fri & Sat 12-8pm).

New in the fridge, a “seasonal” belter from @elusivebrewing.com And also on the “Pouring Soon” board, @peckhamtownfc.bsky.social! #themenace