Cask Ale Week kicks off today! To celebrate we’re inviting you to enjoy a free pint* during the week, which runs 'til Sunday. Try classic Spitfire Amber Ale (4.2%) or maybe autumnal favourite Late Red (4.5%)? Sign up here: forms.airship.co.uk/forms/768/ca... (Ts & Cs apply) #caskaleweek

If those nice people at @shepherdneame.bsky.social want to offer me a free pint, well rude not to. Cask Beer week, none of their new Creekside PA on unfortunately. @ The Crown in Blackheath.

Our new manager at The George Hotel, Cranbrook in Kent, Duncan Moore, brings with him 30 years experience in the hospitality industry! He plans to put customer service at the heart of what he & his team do. More here: snea.me/duncan-georg... 👏

Today we reopened The White Horse & Bower, a landmark pub minutes from Westminster Abbey & the Houses of Parliament, following a 3-month £950,000 refurbishment, combining its rich heritage with a stylish new look & contemporary comfort. More here: snea.me/white-horse-... #pubs #Londonpubs

Our latest limited edition, Fresh Drop, packs a punch as it's the first in our history to be crafted with fruit. Tapping into the growing demand for fruit-flavoured beers, Fresh Drop (3.4%) is a crisp lager cut with apricot & raspberry. More here: snea.me/fresh-drop-f... 🍻

What a weekend! Thousands headed to the Faversham Hop Festival in our home town at the weekend to enjoy live music, entertainment & celebrate hops. We were proud to be principal sponsor for another year, and our 9 pubs were buzzing with music and merriment. Thanks to everyone who made it happen!🍻

Faversham Hop Festival is back this weekend & we are proud to once again be principal sponsor. There'll be live music, entertainment and beer with five stages & venues including our nine pubs...

Our beers have won more medals! In the World Beer Awards, 1698 & Whitstable Pale Ale won gold, Singha silver & India Pale Ale bronze. And in the International Beer Challenge (IBC) it was Silver for 1698 & Bishops Finger & Bronze for Whitstable Bay Pale Ale & India Pale Ale 👏👏

Well, Woodpigeons can be added to the lyrics about mad dogs & Englishman in the midday sun. We repeated the @shepherdneame.bsky.social White Horse Inn pub walk at Boughton-under-Blean. Woodpigeons were most numerous birds seen, 4 Green Woodpeckers heard. 3 separate Jersey Tigers seen in each village

The White Horse and Bower, minutes from Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, will re-open on 10th September, Shepherd Neame has announced beertoday.co.uk/2025/08/15/w... #pub #pusnews #historicpub @shepherdneame.bsky.social

Yeah, lovely ale. And ale is great word. Ale #Ale @shepherdneame.bsky.social

A man who was, until recently, ‘one of the locals’ has taken over running Shepherd Neame pub The Deal Hoy, in Deal, Kent beertoday.co.uk/2025/08/20/d... #pub #pubnews @shepherdneame.bsky.social

Broadstairs Folk Week is back on Friday with Shepherd Neame proud to be among the sponsors for another year. The line-up at our pubs, the Royal Albion Hotel, Neptunes Hall & The Wrotham Arms is here: shepherdneame.co.uk/events/broad... Plus our award-winning beers will be at the Festival Bar 🍻

We are delighted to let you know 5 of our beers won at the national drinks industry awards from the British Bottlers’ Institute (BBI) - 1698 & Spitfire Amber Ale received gold; India Pale Ale silver & Singha & Whitstable Bay Pale Ale received Diplomas. An amazing achievement👏👏

Shepherd Neame have launched their first cold IPA, a beer that has been fermented at a colder temperature than usual beertoday.co.uk/2025/08/01/c... #beer #beernews #ipa @shepherdneame.bsky.social

Completed the @shepherdneame.bsky.social Horse & Groom, Wilmington walk this morning. Ornithologically quiet but pleased for find Butcher’s-broom, an ancient wood indicator, at Pax Wood. A few Gatekeepers & Speckled Woods about. An interesting Carder spotted, Brown-banded, Common or Moss?

Our Visitor Centre and Brewery Tour has won one of the highest accolades on Tripadvisor, after being recognised in the Travelers’ Choice® Awards for 2025 as one of the top 10% of listings around the world according to Tripadvisor’s reviews. It also won the accolade last year 🎉🎉

Walked the @shepherdneame.bsky.social Kings Head, Wye pub walk this morning. The highlight were at least 6 Yellowhammers calling around Wye, Bilting & Boughton Aluph area. Few other birds seen or heard. Gatekeepers were the most numerous butterflies. Banded Demoiselle at the Great Stour & a Darter.

We staged our third year of Shakespeare with Sheps live theatre in collaboration with The Changeling Theatre last week as Shakespeare’s romantic romp Twelfth Night came to The Old Brewery Store inside our Brewery in Faversham. The tour runs until August 17 🍻🎭

Marauders, buccaneers & landlubbers mingled on the banks of Faversham Creek at the weekend as the Faversham Pirate Festival took over town.⁠ Shepherd Neame was proud to be among the sponsors for the event, organised by Faversham Town Council, which was back after a successful first year last year 🏴‍☠️

Ahoy there mateys! It’s the Faversham Pirate Festival today, and Shepherd Neame is proud to be among the sponsors. Enjoy pirate displays, sea shanties, nautical games, food, drink and plenty more, all between 10am to 6pm. More info here: favershamtowncouncil.gov.uk/.../faversha.... Tally ho!

We are proud to be the official supplier for the 153rd The Open this summer, which starts on Sunday (July 13) and runs until July 20. The original Thai beer, Singha, which we brew under licence at our Faversham Brewery, is the Official Beer for the event ⛳

Deal Pride will be held this Saturday (July 12) and Shepherd Neame is proud to be among the sponsors this year. The event will see a parade leaving Alfred Square from 11am, followed by a party atmosphere on Walmer Green from 12 noon with music, food & a market 🎉

@shepherdneame.bsky.social The Bishop’s Finger in #Canterbury near #Whitstable where the #PeoplePersonnel #Novel is set! #HR #CatLady #SerialKiller #Comedy #Thriller set in #Whitstable #BookSky #BookTok #BookNote #Bookstagra & at: amzn.to/3FTbuDs

The Spirit of Tenterden Festival is back from today 'til Sunday & Shepherd Neame is proud to be among the sponsors. Offering live music, street food & family entertainment, head to the recreation ground to find out more. And if you're in town, pop in to our pub, The Vine, for some refreshment!

Shepherd Neame is among the line-up of brewers at City Beerfest in London’s Guildhall Yard today. One of London’s most anticipated summer events, it offers live music, street food & over 40 different beers - with all profits from the event going to The Lord Mayor’s Appeal🍻

We're teaming up with MAD Fest London the UK’s biggest, buzziest & boldest marketing festival, which runs from today 'til Thursday for the first time. Our refreshing Session IPA First Drop (4.3%) & our new stout, Iron Wharf (4%) will be available along with Bear Island Triple Hopped Lager. Cheers🍻

Faversham Open Gardens is back this Sunday with 27 gardens opening their gates & offering a warm welcome - and Shepherd Neame is proud to support it once again. All gardens are within walking distance. Access is by ticket/handbook. More here: ngs.org.uk/gardens/fave... #opengardens

We are delighted to let you know that Shepherd Neame picked up the Hospitality, Hotel & Leisure Family Business of the Year award at the Family Business of the Year Awards last week. We were also shortlisted in two other categories 🎉🎉

This week we’re raising a glass to wonderful wine as it’s English Wine Week… At Shepherd Neame, we are committed to working with local, family-owned & independent growers. With more great weather coming it’s the perfect time to try some English wines. Cheers! #EnglishWineWeek 🥂

We’ve introduced a refreshing new cask ale to our permanent range – Creekside Juicy IPA(4%) which takes its name from Faversham Creek which runs through the heart of our home town. A pale golden Juicy IPA, it is made with a combination of 4 different hops. More here: snea.me/creekside-ne... #cask

Ensconced with a ginger beer in a very nice village @shepherdneame.bsky.social pub in Kent, ahead of Kitchener descendant meet-up in Sandwich this week Shepherd Neame were kind enough to agree to a blue plaque to commemorate the rescue at the Bell Hotel in Sandwich, organised @theajruk.bsky.social

Looking for a pub garden to soak up the sun in, with a cold beer in hand? We’ve rounded up 10 of our best which also have sea views to savour. See our round-up here: www.shepherdneame.co.uk/10-pubs-besi... 🏖️ #beergardens

With Visit Kent Leaders today, touring @shepherdneame.bsky.social Brewery & discussing business. We fed back to @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social on tax burden (e.g. Employer NI) & statutory legislation inhibiting investment in visitor experiences & staff. LOVED the light fitting made out of beer bottles!

A big thank to @shepherdneame.bsky.social for the latest addition to the #KPBA goody bags. Everyone attending the Kent Press & Broadcast Awards ceremony will receive a bottle of beer or lager and a pair of sunglasses - perfect for this weather! 😎 🍺

In hot sunny weather we’ve just completed the @shepherdneame.bsky.social East Peckham to Yalding circular 6 (ish) mile pub walk. 27 sp. of bird recorded, 4 sp of butterflies, excluding whites that didn’t settle. Lifers in Blue Shieldbug & Emperor Moth (caterpillar), year tick White-legged Damselfly

Our pubs The Restoration & The Bucks Head raised £15,000 for our Charity of the Year, @airambulancekss.bsky.social, from a golf day. Here's Will & James from the pubs presenting Alex Redwood, Head of Corporate Development at KSS, with a cheque for the funds. Cheers! 🍻👏 #partnerships #golf #Sevenoaks

We’re proud to be sponsoring the Kent Press & Broadcast Awards again, organised by Maxim PR. Good luck to the finalists in our category, Kent Feature Journalist of the Year (Broadcast), & everyone shortlisted. See you Spitfire Ground next week! Now to dig out something for those goodie bags… #KPBA

The morning we did the 4 mile @shepherdneame.bsky.social Bell Inn walk around the Sandwich area. Great walk with 4+ Sand Martin (year tick) over a stream full of water lily being the highlight. Lizard & Pyramidal Orchids seen along with 1 possibly 2 Broomrape sp. Plenty of photos to go through!

We’re delighted to announce a delicious new partnership with Kent Crisps. Kent Crisps are now available in selected Shepherd Neame pubs & hotels across our estate. Kent Crisps’ Owner Laura Bounds said: “This is a true Kent partnership.”⁠ More here: snea.me/kent-crisps-... 🎉 #Kent

As proud sponsors of Kent Cricket we are delighted to unveil the new T20 kit, which gets its first public airing tonight! The bold design is unashamedly ‘cherry & blue’ & the Spitfires will wear it in the Vitality Blast T20 competition, kicking off away to Gloucestershire🏏🙌

NEW VIDEO! This week we meet the archivist at @shepherdneame.bsky.social to be told the brewery is EVEN OLDER than 1698 – then get a tour of the big and little brewhouses, and dig into their PGI status beers. youtu.be/7GXRs580bEw

This week the re-enactment of the Little Ships voyage began in #Ramsgate Royal Harbour, marking the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo. Our Chief Executive Jonathan Neame was among those attending, in his capacity as High Sheriff of Kent, hosting HRH Prince Michael of Kent GCVO

We were proud to hold our annual Shepherd Neame Pub Awards on Wednesday, celebrating exceptional achievement in the teams across our estate. A total of 15 awards were presented, with The Crown, Blackheath named Pub of the Year.⁠ See the full list of winners here: snea.me/SNPUBAWARDS25 🥂🍻🎉

The winners of our 2025 photographic competition have been revealed - the winner was of a kingfisher taken on the banks of the River Stour in Canterbury. Plus there were 4 runners-up. Thanks to all who entered! Full story here: snea.me/photo-comp-w... 👏👏

This morning we did the @shepherdneame.bsky.social Mermaid Inn, Bishopsbourne 6.5m walk. Ornithological 34 species recorded including a Yellowhammer & Firecrest. Highlights were a Hornet Moth& a hedgerow full of Spindle Ermine caterpillars (both lifers). Found a gorgeous Froghopper.

The inaugural Sheps Spirit Cup was held recently at Knole Park Golf Club after 2 of our pubs - The Restoration & The Bucks Head – joined forces to stage it in aid of our Charity of the Year, Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) - and ended up raising almost £12K! 🎉👏

Completed the @shepherdneame.bsky.social Minnis Bay pub walk in lovely sunny but windy weather. Highlights were seeing 2 Brown Hare well, a lifer in a longhorn beetle & a cracking male Stonechat by the seawall. Whitethroat & Blackcap constantly calling. A few butterflies & dragonflies in the wing.

Team members and customers in pubs across our estate have been marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day today. Here's a small snapshot of some of the celebrations. Cheers! 🍻

We officially reopened our traditional community pub, The Orange Tree, in Wilmington last week, after a £200K refurb, and with new licensees at the helm. Locals joined the celebration and long-term regular JJ pulled the first pint. More here: snea.me/orange-tree-... Cheers!