WHAT'S HAPPENING AT GOOD CHEMISTRY?

GOOD CHEMISTRY BREWING CAN SHOP

Our can shop is open for take-away sales during the week. We say 10am till 4pm but if you’re passing and see the roller shutter up/A-frame outside/our white van parked on the curb, then come on in and ring the bell on the counter.

Our Brewery Taproom hasn’t re-opened for 2023 (except for East Bristol Brewery Trail, see below and our blog) so the Can Shop is your only chance to buy direct from the source – thank you if you’ve made it down for a pint at the Tap over the last few years, and we look forward to seeing you for take-away cans and at the pub this year instead.

Check out our blog and shop for the latest, and of course keep an eye on our social media (facebook, twitter, instagram) for up-to-date info on what’s happening at the brewery.

Thanks as ever for your support. 

KINGS HEAD – GOOD CHEMISTRY BREWING’S NEXT PUB!

Our second pub, the historic and beautiful Kings Head, opened in Central Bristol in November 2022!  

You can read a bit about it on our blog here, plus here’s how Bristol 24/7 announced it to the world, and then followed up once we opened! We also enjoyed coverage from Bristol Post (before and after opening) and Bristol World (before and after), which is brilliant. We’re open seven days a week in the capable hands of our team and under the watchful eye of Colin, with our own beers plus local and national guest beers. Pop over to our webpage here and the pub’s social media for more info, and we look forward to sharing a pint with you on Victoria Street soon!

The Kings Head: twitter, instagram, facebook

Cheers! 

THE GOOD MEASURE – GOOD CHEMISTRY BREWING’S FIRST PUB!

As you may have seen, we are VERY excited to have opened our first pub, The Good Measure, in Redland in December 2018.

You can read a bit about it on our blog here, plus here’s how Bristol 24/7 announced it to the world! We also enjoyed coverage from Crumbs magazine, Bristol Bites and the Evening Post, which is brilliant. We’re open seven days a week in the capable hands of our manager, with all our own beers available first, plus local and national guest beers and ciders. Pop over to our webpage here and the pub’s social media for more info, including upcoming events, and we look forward to sharing a pint with you up on Chandos Road soon!

The Good Measure: twitter, instagram, facebook

Cheers! 

SHE DRINKS BEER

Are you a woman* who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women who work in the beer and brewing industries?

Join us on the first (or sometimes second!) Tuesday every month for our regular evening at the pub for women who enjoy beer, aiming to disrupt the traditionally male pub space.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way we’d love to see you! This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out – I’d love to see you!

Read more here.

Cheers, Kelly (GCB & TGM co-owner) & Lorin (GCB Operations Manager), & usually Janey behind the bar

Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on International Women’s Day edition here.

(* everyone is always welcome at SDB, The Good Measure and the Kings Head, we are inclusive of all including non-binary, transgender, gender non-conforming)

TAP TAKEOVER & MEET THE BREWER EVENTS AT THE GOOD MEASURE

In January, February & March, May, June & July, and September, October & November our pub The Good Measure hosts some of the best breweries from across the country taking over the taps! We started these events back in 2019, welcoming everyone from Pressure Drop, Affinity and The Kernel to DEYA, Burning Sky and Track, and are delighted to re-start them post-pandemic.

Thanks for joining us this year for our nine great events, from Pomona Island, Burning Sky, North, Attic, Squawk, The Kernel, and Utopian, Fyne Ales and Elusive! And hopefully we’ll see you again in 2024 as we welcome our next guests to BS6.

You’ll not only have the opportunity to try a huge range of each brewery’s beers (across keg AND cask wherever possible), but also quiz the owner/brewer/sales manager! We usually take our visiting brewers round the room with a beer for you to sample, so you don’t even need to pluck up the courage to approach – we’ll come to you.

Look out for more info on The Good Measure’s social media and we look forward to seeing you there – cheers!

COLLABAGEDDON!

Now in it’s 6th year of happening Collabageddon is an amazing initiative run by our friends at Elusive Brewing in Berkshire. Twelve brilliant breweries are paired together to create 12 delicious beers which will pour in around 30 venues across the country – including The Good Measure and the Kings Head!

This year’s event takes place on Friday November 17th, make sure the date is in your diary and check out Elusive’s blogpost here if you’re not in Bristol but want to try the beers, and here’s who’s involved and what everyone’s brewed:

Good Chemistry x Utopian – Smoke Signals 5% Smokey Brown Ale
Abbeydale x Good Chemistry – King Pina 5% Dry Hopped Pineapple Pale
Baker’s Dozen x Merakai – This Time Next Year 6% Millionaire’s Shortbread Stout
Elusive x Baker’s Dozen – Portents of Doom 6% New Zealand Black IPA
Glasshouse x Red Willow – Nonetheless 4.5% Session IPA
Merakai x Glasshouse – Positivity Juice 7.2% Oatcream IPA
Moonwake x Tartarus – 5% Black Lager
Polly’s Brew Co x Elusive – Llanberis Trail 3.8% West Coast Session Pale
Red Willow x Sureshot – Boo-Boo Less 5.7% American Brown
Sureshot x Moonwake – 6.5% New Zealand NEIPA
Tartarus x Polly’s Brew Co – Pwyll 6.5% Passionfruit & Coconut IPA
Utopian x Abbeydale – 5.2% Single Hopped Nelson Pilsner

THINK WHILE YOU DRINK: A Q&A ABOUT DESI PUBS WITH DAVID JESUDASON AND BOAK & BAILEY

On Wed 1st Nov we’re excited to welcome award-winning British-Asian journalist and beer writer David Jesudason to The Good Measure for an evening chatting about desi pubs.

As Bristol celebrates 60 years since the Bus Boycott ended the colour bar in place at the local bus company (an episode discussed in the book), we’d love you to join us for a chat between David Jesudason and Ray Bailey of local beer writing duo Boak & Bailey. David’s acclaimed new book ‘Desi Pubs’ takes you on a journey to parts of Britain that are seldom visited – this is a celebration of 2023 Britain and the forgotten people who created our modern multicultural country. 

Come and hear David talk about his exploration of desi pubs and take the opportunity to ask questions, buy the book and head about this modern-day celebration of multiculturalism.

We’ll be kicking off at 6:30pm and finishing up around 8:30pm. Boak & Bailey’s books will also be available to buy on the night. This is a free entry event.

If you have any questions please email cheers@thegoodmeasure.co.uk

We very much look forward to seeing you.

Please note The Good Measure will be closed to the public for the duration of this event, and re-opening afterwards.

REDCLIFFE BEER FESTIVAL

EAST BRISTOL BREWERY TRAIL #12

TAP TAKEOVER & MEET THE BREWER EVENTS AT THE GOOD MEASURE

In January, February & March, May, June & July, and September, October & November our pub The Good Measure hosts some of the best breweries from across the country taking over the taps! We started these events back in 2019, welcoming everyone from Pressure Drop, Affinity and The Kernel to DEYA, Burning Sky and Track, and are delighted to be re-starting them post-pandemic.

Join us this summer for the best from Birmingham, Manchester and London as we welcome our next guests to BS6.

You’ll not only have the opportunity to try a huge range of each brewery’s beers (across keg AND cask wherever possible), but also quiz the owner/brewer/sales manager! We usually take our visiting brewers round the room with a beer for you to sample, so you don’t even need to pluck up the courage to approach – we’ll come to you!

Look forward to seeing you there – cheers!

BRISTOL CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL 2023

GCB CASK SHOWCASE

SHE DRINKS BEER AS PART OF WOMEN ON TAP FESTIVAL

Do you believe women belong in beer? Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women who work in the beer and brewing industries?

Join us for this very special Wednesday edition of She Drinks Beer at our new pub the Kings Head in central Bristol, as part of the brilliant Women On Tap Festival.

We’ll be showcasing beer from breweries owned/run by women (like us!) and breweries with women brewers.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way we’d love to see you! The pub opens at 4pm and I’ll be there around 6pm.

Look forward to seeing you (any questions do drop us a line).

Cheers, Kelly (GCB & TGM co-owner)

EAST BRISTOL BREWERY TRAIL #11

SHE DRINKS BEER – FIRST ANNIVERSARY!

A year ago we set up our ‘evening at the pub for women who enjoy beer’, and we’re so pleased at its success! Join us (Kelly, Lorin and Ruth from GCB, and Hannah behind the bar at The Good Measure) on Tuesday 1st November to celebrate a year of women getting together to drink beer with other women – and to launch our anniversary beer, All Welcome!

Brewed with over 40 women from across Bristol, our brand new beer will be exclusively launched at SDB before heading out across the city, including to some of the best women-led venues.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way we’d love to see you!

Read more on our blog here.

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on March’s International Women’s Day edition here.

SHE DRINKS BEER

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 4th October for another evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way the first instalments since November have been brilliant and we’d love to see you at the next one!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it, we’re running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates (Tues 1st November – for our special one year anniversary!).

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on March’s International Women’s Day edition here.

BREWERY TAP CLOSING PARTY

From 15th April our brewery taproom has been open every Friday (5pm – 9pm) and Saturday (12pm – 8pm), however Fri 30th Sept and Sat 1st Oct marks our last weekend for this summer.

Join us with our best and freshest beer, alongside Basement 17 Tacos and Private Britton, for a big send-off, and a big thank you to everyone who made it down for a pint over the warmer months. 

We look forward to seeing you at some cosy indoor events over Winter (especially at The Good Measure) and welcoming you back again to William Street next Spring.

Check out our blog and shop for the latest, and of course keep an eye on our social media (facebook, twitter, instagram) for up-to-date info on what’s happening at the brewery.

Thanks as ever for your support – cheers!

CHANDOS ROAD FESTIVAL

Join us up at The Good Measure for our second Chandos Road Festival. Our first in 2019 was brilliant, and we can’t wait to see you all again. With live music down the road and stalls and food to keep you entertained and fed, up at TGM we’ll have some of our taproom record-spinners al fresco alongside our best and freshest beers, all with plenty of seating so you can hang out and stay awhile.

Keep an eye on the facebook event HERE for more in the lead-up.

SHE DRINKS BEER – TAPROOM EDITION!

While we love running She Drinks Beer up at The Good Measure, we of course want it to be as accessible as possible and understand that sometimes, for some of you, Tuesdays in Redland aren’t the best for getting in the diary. So while the brewery taproom’s been open we’ve run monthly SDB down in awesome East Bristol. The first was in June, and this is your last chance at the tap before we close for winter – so don’t miss out!

Join me (Kelly) at the brewery in St Philips on Friday 23rd September for a great evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way we’d love to see you!

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the tap with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come and check it out!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on March’s International Women’s Day edition here.

SHE DRINKS BEER

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 6th September for another evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way the first instalments since November have been brilliant and we’d love to see you at the next one!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it, we’re running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates (Tues 4th October).

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on March’s International Women’s Day edition here.

EAST BRISTOL BREWERY TRAIL #10

YES IT’S BACK!

Facebook event here

#EastBrisBrewTrail

Cheers!

SHE DRINKS BEER

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 2nd August for another evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way the first instalments since November have been brilliant and we’d love to see you at the next one!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it, we’re running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates (Tues 6th September).

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on March’s International Women’s Day edition here.

SHE DRINKS BEER – TAPROOM EDITION!

While we love running She Drinks Beer up at The Good Measure, we of course want it to be as accessible as possible and understand that sometimes, for some of you, Tuesdays in Redland aren’t the best for getting in the diary. So while the brewery taproom is open we thought it’d be great to get a SDB down in awesome East Bristol. The first in June was great, so here’s no2!

Join me (Kelly) at the brewery in St Philips on Friday 22nd July for a great evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way we’d love to see you!

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the tap with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come and check it out!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on March’s International Women’s Day edition here.

SHE DRINKS BEER

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 5th July for another evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way the first instalments since November have been brilliant and we’d love to see you at the next one!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it, we’re running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates (Tues 2th August).

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on March’s International Women’s Day edition here.

SHE DRINKS BEER – TAPROOM EDITION!

While we love running She Drinks Beer up at The Good Measure, we of course want it to be as accessible as possible and understand that sometimes, for some of you, Tuesdays in Redland aren’t the best for getting in the diary. So while the brewery taproom is open we thought it’d be great to get a SDB down in awesome East Bristol.

Join me (Kelly) at the brewery in St Philips on Friday 24th June for a great evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way we’d love to see you!

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the tap with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come and check it out!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on March’s International Women’s Day edition here.

SHE DRINKS BEER

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 7th June for another evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way the first instalments since November have been brilliant and we’d love to see you at the next one!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it, we’re running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates (Tues 5th July).

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on March’s International Women’s Day edition here.

SHE DRINKS BEER

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 10th May for another evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way the first instalments since November have been brilliant and we’d love to see you at the next one!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it, we’re running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates (Tues 7th June, Tues 5th July).

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on March’s International Women’s Day edition here.

EAST BRISTOL BREWERY TRAIL #9

YES IT’S BACK!

Facebook event here

#EastBrisBrewTrail

Cheers!

SHE DRINKS BEER

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 5th April for another evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun.

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way the first instalments since November have been brilliant and we’d love to see you at the next one!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it, we’re running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates.

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here, and our blog on March’s International Women’s Day edition here.

SHE DRINKS BEER – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY SPECIAL!

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 8th March for another evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun, this time for International Women’s Day! We’re looking at mixing things up a little

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way the first instalments since November have been brilliant and we’d love to see you at the next one!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it in March, we’re running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates.

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here.

SHE DRINKS BEER – A NIGHT AT THE PUB FOR WOMEN WHO ENJOY BEER

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 8th February for another evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun!

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way the first instalments in Nov, Dec and Jan have been brilliant and we’d love to see you at the next one!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it in February, we’ll be running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates. March’s date falls on International Women’s Day so we’ll be doing something a bit more special then!

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here. Bristol 24/7 write-up here.

SHE DRINKS BEER – A NIGHT AT THE PUB FOR WOMEN WHO ENJOY BEER

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 11th January for another evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun!

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way the first two instalments in Nov and Dec have been brilliant and we’d love to see you at the next one!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it in January, we’ll be running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates.

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out first – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here.

SHE DRINKS BEER – A NIGHT AT THE PUB FOR WOMEN WHO ENJOY BEER

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 7th December for an evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun!

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way we’d love to see you!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it on the 7th, we’ll be running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates.

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out first – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here.

KOKOMO WEEKEND KEG LAUNCH

Your favourite tropical IPA is back!

Join us at The Good Measure for totally tropical vibes, the best yacht rock playlist and all our brilliant Kokomo props!

Don your finest Hawaiian shit, we’ll turn up the heating and pretend we’re on a Carribean beach rather than drizzly grey old Bristol!

Cheers!

Facebook event here.

SHE DRINKS BEER – A NIGHT AT THE PUB FOR WOMEN WHO ENJOY BEER

Are you a woman who enjoys drinking beer? Would you like to drink beer with other women interested in beer? And with women in the beer and brewing industries?

Join me (Kelly) at The Good Measure on Tuesday 9th November for an evening of beer drinking, chat, hanging out and fun!

Come with friends, come on your own and meet new people, come on your own and hang out on your own – any which way we’d love to see you!

And don’t worry if you can’t make it on the 9th, we’ll be running these every month, so I hope to see you on future dates.

Cheers!

(This isn’t an organisation, it’s not political or asking you join anything – it’s just a night at the pub with other women and people identifying as women – if you’re not sure it’s for you come on up and check it out first – I’d love to see you!)

Facebook event here.

BEER & TACOS (& TUNES!) AT THE TAP!

Bristol Craft Beer Festival might have been postponed till the end of July, but that’s no reason not to have a great beer-filled time in our fair city this weekend.

Join us in awesome East Bristol on Saturday for Basement 17 Tacos’ first outing to this neck of the woods – you’ll recognise Carlos from cooking up a storm on our Masa + Mezcal partner events 🌮😋

And it wouldn’t be a GCHQ party without Archdeacon Of Pop, who’ll be joined this time round by our good mate Lonely Tourist, both spinning top tunes for your ears🎧

We’ll be pouring some special beers, and of course providing a covid-secure environment in line with current guidance. That means space is limited – get here early to avoid disappointment!

And if we can’t fit you in, we’ll have cans and tacos available for you to take away.

We can’t WAIT to see you – cheers!🍻

Facebook event here

BREWERY TAP OPENING PARTY – EASTER WEEKEND!

Spring is finally here! And with it comes the rolling up of that shutter as we welcome you all back to our corner of St Philips.

We’re throwing a big Easter weekend party to celebrate the re-opening of our brewery tap!

We’re really excited to be partnering with Masa + Mezcal once again, following two brilliant takeovers last summer. Think amazing tacos, frozen margaritas and what can only be blue skies over William Street for our opening weekend!

So come down and celebrate the start of summer with us – from 10th April we’ll be open every Friday (5-9) and Saturday (12-8).

—-IMPORTANT INFO—
This summer Good Chemistry’s brewery tap is going cashless.
And obviously we will be following government advice regarding Coronavirus.

Facebook event here

To celebrate International Women’s Day this March I’d be delighted if you’d join me at The Good Measure in Redland. Once again we’ll be showcasing beers brewed by women and from breweries owned and run by women, and I hope it’ll give us all a chance to properly meet each other, socialise and share our experiences of being involved in beer.

So whether you work in a brewery, volunteer at a beer fest, homebrew, work behind a bar, or are just interested in beer it would be great to see you.

We’re showing the 6 Nations rugby at the pub so that will be on, but there’ll be plenty of space for us to drink, chat and mingle! I look forward to welcoming you.

Cheers!

Kelly
(Co-founder of Good Chemistry Brewing and co-owner of The Good Measure!)

Facebook event here

Where has that year gone?! Thank you so much for your support of our first pub, The Good Measure, in 2019 – it’s been an amazing twelve months. So to celebrate a year of being in business we’re welcoming back all the breweries we’ve hosted tap takeovers with this year, to each take over one tap!

Featuring Track Brewing Co. (Manchester), The Kernel Brewery (London), Stroud Brewery, DEYA Brewing Co (Cheltenham), Howling Hops (London), Burning Sky Brewery (Sussex), Affinity Brew Co (London) and Pressure Drop Brewing (London) and, of course, Good Chemistry Brewing!

We’re sure you’ll agree – that is quite some line-up!

So see you on 12th December for some great beers and great company – cheers!

Facebook event here

The Famous Royal Navy Volunteer has been a strong supporter of ours since we first started Good Chemistry four years ago. Taking over their gazillion taps is a bit of a rite of passage, and we waited until we felt a bit established before feeling confident we could do it justice! So let’s get Christmas started with a big party on King Street at the end of November!

We’re excited about the number and range of beers we’re going to have pouring, and think it really points towards our aims of being accessible and approachable to all. The full beer list will be revealed over the next few weeks on facebook, but we’re bringing everything from our trad bitter to hoppy juice bombs to German-style wheat beers to the dark stuff. Might even be a barrel aged special or two in there if you’re lucky! We’re heading down for the night – we really look forward to seeing you there!

Facebook event here – where the beer list will be posted in the run-up

Cheers!

We’re heading to South Bristol for a Halloween spooktacular with our friends at the Tobacco Factory. 

They’ll have a whole load of our beers on across cask and keg, including old favourites and some brand new ones brewed for this winter. We’re obviously bringing Archdeacon of Pop to spin some spooky tunes, and there’ll also be:

> Pumpkins
> Apple Bobbing
> Fancy Dress
> Spooky live art with David J McMillan & Ed Cheverton!

Plus we’ll be celebrating not one but TWO Good Chemistry team members’ birthdays! We do hope you can join us.

Cheers!

Facebook event here

After a brilliant summer where we’re loved rolling up that shutter and welcoming you all to our corner of awesome East Bristol, we’re sorry to say our brewery tap here at GCHQ will be open for the last time on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th October.

We are sending the summer off with a bang, though, as we welcome back our friends from Season & Taste on the Saturday. They will once again be taking over the brewery with their amazing tacos, music, and of course frozen margaritas! As in July they’re fundraising for Sara’s and Tallulah’s trek across the Rift Valley in Jordan next February, so come join for a big party with a good cause!

If you want to know more about the charity, track Sara and Tallulah’s progress or donate to their challenge, click here

And a huge thank you to everyone who visited the brewery tap this summer, whether once, for a special event, or many times since the end of April. Do join us for cosy indoor winter Good Chemistry beers at our pub The Good Measure, and we look forward to welcoming you back again to William Street next Spring.

Cheers,

Bob, Kelly, Dan, Jayde, Sam and Fergus

Facebook event here

We’re very excited to be joined in the brewery by East London based The French Workwear Company, providing high quality vintage workwear garments for women and men. Think chore jackets, trousers, dungarees, jumpsuits in varying styles and colours, all either preloved or deadstock, from the 1950s to the present day.

“We sell mainly online and through pop-ups in unusual venues, providing a relaxed shopping experience. This is our first Bristol visit, and only our second pop up outside London, so we are very excited to be collaborating with the good people at Good Chemistry Brewing.”

With a dedication to responsible fashion and sustainability, The French Workwear Company pay homage to the style and quality giving these timeless garments a new lease of life.

If that wasn’t reason enough to get to GCHQ, the brewery will also be open as usual serving a large range of beer brewed onsite. We’ll be hosting street food pop-up MooStoo serving up a range of extra special stews to keep you going while you browse.

Facebook event here

Following the success of our two previous Women In Beer events, we’re excited to run our next one as part of Bristol Beer Week.

So please join me in Redland in September for another evening of great beers brewed by women and from breweries owned and run by women! We look forward to welcoming women in beer in Bristol to our pub to socialise, properly meet each other and share our experiences of being involved in beer.

Whether you work in a brewery, volunteer at a beer fest, homebrew, work behind a bar, or are just interested in beer and hanging out with other women it would be great to see you.

I’ll be there from 5pm, and look forward to welcoming you through the evening. And of course, everyone is welcome, not just women.

Cheers!

Kelly
(Co-founder of Good Chemistry Brewing and co-owner of The Good Measure!)

Facebook event here

We’re really excited to have our pub, The Good Measure, involved in its first Bristol Beer Week this September. As well as events at the brewery, we’re putting on a few evenings of fun up in Redland, and finishing BBW with a bang too! We do hope you’ll join us for as many events as you can – cheers!

Mon 16th – The Good Measure Pub Quiz! Every Monday the pub hosts a quiz, but this week it’s going BIG! Expect rounds on Bristol, beer and the knock-out round, where you have to answer all the questions correctly or score no points at all! Entry is just £1 per person, the winners bag a round of drinks, and the losing team chose next week’s specialist round. It kicks off at 8pm, but get there early to bag your favourite table! Facebook event here

Tues 17th – Celebrating Women In Beer. Our third evening this year showcasing beers brewed by women and from breweries owned and run by women – see event below

Thur 19th – Howling Hops Tap Takeover and Meet The Brewer! Not only did our very own barman Martyn used to run The Cock Tavern, the pub Howling Hops started off in, but we’ve also visited their Tank Bar in Hackney a couple of times and really loved it! We’re super-excited to be bringing such a great brewery to Bristol Beer Week, and look forward to sharing a few pints with you and Head Brewer Tim! Facebook event here

Sun 22nd – Chandos Road Street Party, closing out Bristol Beer Week! Join us for a bit of a party in Redland, to celebrate the end of another successful Bristol Beer Week. We’ll have DJs, food and of course great beer. Facebook event here

Cheers!

After last year’s success, 2019’s Bristol Beer Week once again kicks off with loads of Bristol’s breweries opening their doors to the public for the day. We’ve loved welcoming you to our brewery tap this summer, and hope you’ll support this event as well. Dan and Jayde will be behind the bar as usual to pour you our delicious beers, have a chat, and generally offer the big smiles and great service you’ve come to expect! 

We’re delighted to be joined by the marvellous Dom from cheese & beer specialists Two Belly too, bringing toasties and cheese boards, so do not miss out on that – beer and cheese is after all the perfect combo!

PLUS as if any event at GCHQ would be complete without our usual awesome in-warehouse man-playing-records, Archdeacon of Pop!

Facebook event here

Cheers!

Wow! The first official ride of the Good Chemistry Cycling Club in July was awesome! Thanks to everyone who joined us. The next one is at the start of September: meeting at GCHQ in St Philips from 10am, we’ll fuel up with coffee and Hart’s Bakery croissants before heading along the Bristol-Bath cycle path to Bath Ales in Warmley.

Here we’ll be able to enjoy a beer before an exclusive tour of the brewery just for us, then we’ll cycle back to Bristol to the Good Chemistry brewery tap, open from 2pm. We have the delicious Koocha Mezze Bar, (cooking on Friday night too!) serving hot and filling kebabs for hungry riders!

This event is not a race, and is open to all riding abilities. Feel free to take it at a leisurely pace with brewery co-founder Kelly. Or, if you’re after more of a challenge, join Dave from our pub The Good Measure, who’ll be leading a longer ride on the way back to earn those pints at GCHQ.

And if you live at the Bath end of the ride, you’re very welcome to join us for the return leg (and those pints at GCHQ!).

The special one-off Bath Ales brewery tour for our group costs just £7.50, payable in advance at our brewery tap or on the day if there are still spaces. Please message us if you would like to book a space or have any questions.

Cheers!

Facebook event here – keep an eye on here for updates, or contact us for more details

Our May East Bristol Brewery Trail this year was fantastic, so we’re excited to unveil the second installment for 2019!

The big change for this Trail is that Arbor are NOT opening the bar in their yard for this edition only as they’re undergoing some expansion works at the brewery this summer. They will instead be popping up at neighbours Dawkins Ales, just across the road from the Arbor brewery, so you can get two of the East Bristol breweries for the price of one this August! You will also find some of their cans at each of the other breweries.

The rest of the Trail is unaffected, and all the breweries look forward to welcoming you to awesome East Bristol! With just a short walk between each of the five breweries, it’s a chance to meet the brewers, explore the area and sample some great local beers. The Brewery Trail is centred around the start of the Bristol & Bath cycle path, near Lawrence Hill station and only ten minutes from Temple Meads.

We’ll have Gopal’s Curry Shack back with the good stuff, a huge range of beers on cask and keg, great music from Archdeacon of Pop and of course our comfy sofas.

We take cards at GCHQ, so save your cash for the non-card venues.

Facebook event here

#EastBrisBrewTrail

Cheers!

After four great years at Bristol Craft Beer Festival we’re really excited to be heading up to the big smoke this August to tout our wares to the capital. With over eighty breweries from the UK and around the world pouring hundreds of beers, the unique ‘all in’ ticket works really well, allowing you to sample as many beers as you like. We’re taking our best-seller, Kokomo Weekday, plus a few special guests, so do come and find our bar if you’ve going!

Tickets for London Craft Beer Festival are here

Facebook event here

Cheers!

What a four years we’ve had! In 2015 Bob and I (Kelly) got the keys for our big warehouse in awesome East Bristol, and we haven’t looked back! We’re incredibly thankful for all the support you’ve shown us in that time, and can’t believe how our small business has grown into this big adventure. As you know, we love rolling up the shutters to welcome everyone to our brewery and we’re looking forward to sharing Saturday 3rd August with you for a little celebration.

We’re excited to welcome Grano Kitchen from nearby Old Market, bringing the finest Italian pizza slices and foccacia this side of Turin. Archdeacon of Pop will be here spinning his usual selection of brilliant vinyl, breaking out the ‘guilty pleasures’ of the team at GCHQ!

And if you’re lucky we’ll be pouring a couple of special beers 😉

Facebook event here

We very much look forward to seeing you.

Cheers,
Kelly & Bob (and Sam, Dan, Fergus & Jayde)

Back in March, to celebrate International Women’s Day, The Good Measure showcased beers brewed by women and from women-owned breweries. It was such a success I’d be delighted if you’d join me again in Redland at the start of August for another evening giving us all a chance to properly meet each other, socialise and share our experiences of being involved in beer.

Whether you work in a brewery, volunteer at a beer fest, homebrew, work behind a bar, or are just interested in beer it would be great to see you.

I’ll be there from 5pm, and look forward to welcoming you after work through the evening.

Cheers!

Kelly
(Co-founder of Good Chemistry Brewing and co-owner of The Good Measure!)

Facebook event here

Season & Taste, the great minds that bring you Masa + Mezcal, Bravas, Bakers & Co, Gambas and Cargo Cantina, are teaming up with Good Chemistry Brewing again in a BREWERY TAKEOVER! Expect incredible Mexican inspired tacos, alongside a tasty selection of our beers & great music to go with that summer weather.

We were proud to be asked to brew Masa+Mezcal’s house beer MASA, a 4% zesty pale ale made with maize, just like their tacos. It has been incredibly popular and we’ve had to rebrew multiple times since the opening in March this year – cheers!

Last year S&T co-founder Kieran challenged himself on a trek in Nepal in support of Action Against Hunger. Incredibly his team, a mix of faces from across the Bristol hospitality sector, raised over £100,000. After that success, next year S&T will be represented by the one and only Sara! As Project Manager you may recognise her from any of the awesome S&T venues across Bristol. This event will be an opportunity to raise money for Sara’s challenge – a six day endurance trek across the Rift Valley in Jordan next February.

Come down have an awesome time, eat some lush food and support a great cause!

If you want to know more about the charity, track Sara’s progress or donate to her challenge, click here

Facebook event here

Glast is back! After a fallow year in 2018 to let the fields recover, the greatest show on earth returns to Pilton at the end of June. But whether you tried for tickets and weren’t successful, or couldn’t take the whole weekend off work (like us!), we’re not going to Glastonbury are we?

So, why not come over to ours and we’ll celebrate the festival at GCHQ instead. With the telly set up and all our best beers on the bar, you can even wear your wellies if you want! But we’ll have no mud, no camping and no rain – hooray!

We’re really excited to welcome Gloucester Road’s Koocha to the brewery to keep the hunger at bay too, with the best vegan kebabs!

Cheers!

Facebook event here

Join the first official ride of the Good Chemistry Cycling Club this July! Meeting at GCHQ in St Philips from 10am, we’ll fuel up with coffee and croissants before heading along the Bristol-Bath cycle path to Electric Bear Brewing on the edge of Bath.

Here we’ll enjoy a few beers before cycling back to Bristol to the Good Chemistry brewery tap, open from 2pm, where we’ll be showing the grand depart of the Tour De France!

The TravelWest/Better By Bike Bike Doctor will be here, on hand to do basic bike checks and repairs.

AND we have the amazing Two Belly bringing raclette to the party – yum!

This event is not a race, and is open to all riding abilities. Feel free to take it at a leisurely pace with Good Chemistry co-founder Kelly, or join the breakaway group with brewery tap manager Dan and Dave from The Good Measure!

Santé!

Facebook event here – keep an eye on here for updates, or contact us for more details

As part of Bristol Food Connections, Kelly will be speaking on a panel about marketing in food and drinks businesses. After Duchess Media take you through coming up with mouthwatering social media posts, selling out events or working with the press and influencers, Kelly and the rest of the panel (including Imogen Waite from our collaborators Season & Taste, the group behind Masa + Mezcal) will be discussing how they successfully market their food and drinks businesses themselves, and when it can be right to take on outside help.

This is part of a whole day event at Colston Hall covering such topics as Bristol as a food tourism destination, scaling a sustainable food business, funding and investment and food instagram. This should be a really interesting, though-provoking, helpful day, so check out the link below, and get yourself a ticket!

Event link here

After two great years at Motion, last September’s third BCBF was a huge success at its new location on Bristol’s iconic harbourside. This year the festival moves to mid-summer, with three great sessions over Friday evening and Saturday. The unique ‘all in’ ticket works really well, allowing you to sample as many beers as you like. And you need that freedom, with over 200 beers being poured by more than forty breweries – from Bristol and the south-west, the rest of the UK and further afield!

Bristol Craft Beer Festival: https://bristolcraftbeerfestival.co.uk/brewers/

*THE BREWERY TAP WILL BE CLOSED THIS WEEKEND – COME JOIN US FOR A DRINK AT BCBF INSTEAD!*

Facebook event here

Cheers!

Join us at the Brewery Tap in St Philips and The Good Measure in Redland to launch our 200th brew: POCKET CALCULATOR!

The first recipe our new brewer Fergus has put together, our 5% German-style wheat beer offers a striking beer experience. Amber in colour, and made using wheat and a unique yeast strain to give it its distinctive flavour, this refreshing and highly carbonated beer showcases yeast-driven fruit and spice. Our brew is a traditional German style using modern German hops – Hallertau Blanc.
Fergus says this style of beer was what got him into beer – drinking Weihenstephaner Vitus (one of the best beers he’s ever had) at the Carpenter’s Arms in London. It’s a great summer beer, and a style that beer fans and those new to beer will love.

The name is of course a reference to the 1981 song by pioneering German electronic band Kraftwerk. At the brewery tap we’re really excited to have our in-warehouse DJ Archdeacon of Pop playing Kraftwerk vinyl all Friday night to get the beer properly flowing. And at The Good Measure there’ll be a special Krautrock playlist for the launch!

Prost!

Facebook event here

With the launch of our Bristol Craft Beer Festival collaboration this Friday we thought it would be a good opportunity to line up our two other current Bristol collabs on the taps! We’re really proud to work with Honest Burgers to make their house brew, HONEST DROP, a 4.5% hoppy pale ale perfect for burgers, and with Masa + Mezcal brewing their MASA, a light refreshing 4% beer made to complement those Mexican flavours!

The BCBF collab was brewed just round the corner from GCHQ at Left Handed Giant, and alongside Wiper + True and New Bristol Brewery. It’s a sour IPA with loads of mangos, passionfruit and gooseberries – perfect for summer!

You can also try the BCBF beer at The Good Measure from 5pm on Friday too.

Facebook event here

Cheers!

We love a bit of Eurovision glitz and glamour here at Good Chemistry Brewing! Come join us in St Philips for the camp, the costumes and the key changes all the way from Tel Aviv in Israel, as we make GCHQ into party central!

There’ll be glitter, sparkle, excellent beer of course, and games to keep us glued to the screen (as if the backing dancers, awkward links between presenters and political intrigue isn’t enough).

We take cards behind the bar at GCHQ, so no need to raid the piggy bank before you come.

And although the official Eurovis fun doesn’t kick off on telly until 8pm, the brewery tap will be open as usual from 2pm and we have a specially-commissioned quiz running from 5:30pm, so come down and get in the mood with the pre-party!

Facebook event here

Cheers!

Number seven – who can believe it! Our May bank holiday East Bristol Brewery Trail last year was amazing! Such sunshine! Great beers! Delicious food! Loads of lovely people! And now it’s nearly time to do it all again, as five of Bristol’s best breweries roll up the shutters to welcome you all to our ‘hood.

We’ll have Gopal’s Curry Shack back with the good stuff, a huge range of beers, great music from Archdeacon of Pop and of course our comfy sofas.

With just a short walk between each of the five breweries, it’s a chance to meet the brewers, explore the area and sample some great local beers. The Brewery Trail is centred around the start of the Bristol & Bath cycle path, near Lawrence Hill station and only ten minutes from Temple Meads.

Pick up a map at your first brewery, and if you visit all five you’re in with a chance to win some great prizes including a selection of East Bristol breweries beers, tickets to the Bristol Craft Beer Festival, and the BCBF collaboration beer that we brewed with LHG in April!

We take cards at GCHQ, so save your cash for the non-card venues.

Facebook event here

#EastBrisBrewTrail

Cheers!

To celebrate International Women’s Day this March I’d be delighted if you’d join me at The Good Measure in Redland. We’ll be showcasing beers brewed by women, and hope it’ll give us all a chance to properly meet each other, socialise and share our experiences of being involved in beer.

So whether you work in a brewery, volunteer at a beer fest, homebrew, work behind a bar, or are just interested in beer it would be great to see you.

I’ll be there from 4pm, and look forward to welcoming you after work through the evening.

Cheers!

Kelly
(Co-founder of Good Chemistry Brewing and co-owner of The Good Measure!)

Facebook event here

We’re taking over the taps at The Pursuit of Hoppiness down in Exeter at the start of March with three cask and four keg beers on, including the first chance to try our newest collaboration, MASA.

Facebook event here – where the beers will be posted in the run-up

Cheers!

At the end of January we brewed a collaboration with our friends at Stroud Brewery in Gloucestershire – the resulting beer, DUBBEL BOND, launches tonight at The Good Measure! This noble hopped organic Belgian-style Dubbel is the combination of Bob’s and Rich’s brewing expertise and our love of Belgian beers.You can read about how the collab came about on our blog here.

Come and meet Rich, Kris and Harriet from Stroud Brewery as we share a takeover of the taps at our pub in Redland. Brewer Rich will also be doing a guided tasting of three of Stroud’s beers. Tickets for this are just £6 and available from the pub. Email cheers@thegoodmeasure.co.uk if you’d like to reserve one. We all look forward to seeing you there!

Facebook event here – where the beer list will be posted in the run-up

Cheers!

Join brewster Chloe from Stroud Brewery and our very own co-founder Kelly for a tutored tasting at The Three Crowns in Chippenham, as part of the pub’s three day beer festival celebrating women in brewing. This will be the first time DUBBEL BOND, our collaboration with Stroud, will be pouring, and Kelly and Chloe will be talking about beer styles and the differences between beers from can, bottle, cask and keg, along with anything else you’d be interesting in knowing about!

Across the weekend there will be a wide range of delicious beers brewed by women, some free and some ticketed (paid for) events, all interspersed with Six Nations Rugby, of course!

Tickets for the tasting are £10 per person and must be purchased from The Three Crowns in advance.

Facebook event here

Cheers!

Our first tap takeover of 2019 sees us heading up the M5 to Birmingham. Brand new bar and bottle shop Hop & Scotch opened in December so we’re their FIRST event of this kind – better make it a good one! We’re putting on ten of our bestest beers, and will be there to chat about what goes into making a Good Chemistry brew – we look forward to seeing you!

Facebook event here – where the beers will be posted in the run-up

Cheers!

The Famous Royal Navy Volunteer (to give it its full glorious name!) has been a strong supporter of ours since we first started Good Chemistry three years ago. Taking over their gazillion taps is a bit of a rite of passage, and we waited until this time last year to be confident we could do it justice! So let’s get Christmas started with a big party on King Street at the end of November!

We’re excited about the number and range of beers we’re going to have pouring, and think it really points towards our aims of being accessible and approachable to all. The full beer list will be revealed over the next few weeks on facebook, but we’re bringing everything from our trad bitter to hoppy juice bombs to Belgian-style beers to the dark stuff. Might even be a barrel aged special in there if you’re lucky! We’re heading down for the night – we really look forward to seeing you there!

Facebook event here – where the beer list will be posted in the run-up

Cheers!

It’s new pop-up kitchen time at the Robin Hood once again, and this November they’re welcoming Hoba Kebab to St Michael’s Hill…hang on…anyone else getting deja vu?!

Yep, we took over the taps last time Hoba Kebab launched their residency at the Robin Hood, and it was such a great night they’ve asked for us to partner with them again!

As lovely landlord Ben says “Wow, remember how great those kebabs were? And that Good Chemistry tap takeover was INSANE!!! Back with a vengeance, we’re putting the old band back together, this time it’s personal, return of the kebab – Part 2!”

If you didn’t make it last time, here’s what you need to know…

“Inspired by the Berlin kebab and the huge lack of real kebabs in the UK, we decided to put our own spin on them. We make ours with only the very best ingredients and big flavours. Say goodbye to elephant legs of ‘meat’, polystyrene boxes and fluorescent lighting… We use fresh locally sourced produce, chargrilled and packed into our bespoke Turkish bread with tahini, herbs and pickles.”

Sounds pretty amazing! And we’ll have ten beers across cask and keg (beer list on fcbk), including some of our new winter brews.

Come down to say hi, drink beer and stuff your face – sounds like a great Friday!

Facebook event here

Cheers!

At the end of October we’re taking over Corner 77, bringing six of our finest brews down to Stokes Croft. As it’s also National Curry Week, we can’t wait to pair our food with Corner 77 kitchen pop-up regular, Bojan. We all love Indian food here at Good Chemistry, so we’re really excited to work with Geeta to get some tasty food flavours going on alongside our beers!

Obviously no GCB event is complete without Archdeacon of Pop on the decks, so expect him spinning some extra soul and funk vinyl amongst his usual eclectic tunes.

Facebook event here – where the beer list will be posted in the run-up

Cheers!

It’s our second annual knees-up at one of the best pubs in Bristol – the Hillgrove in Kingsdown! Once again we’ll be filling their fourteen handpulls – with casks ranging from our usual line-up (Time Lapse, Natural Selection, Solar Impulse) to specially-casked one-off versions of our keg beers like Wits End, and others. We’ll also be bringing a few kegs so you can try these alongside their cask versions.

Join us to get the weekend started early – we’ll all be there, along with our regular in-warehouse DJ, most recently heard at our birthday celebrations and the East Bristol Brewery Trail, spinning his usual top quality vinyl. We can’t wait to see you and share a pint or three – cheers!

To read a bit more about why we’re so excited to do this tap takeover again, check out the blog post we wrote about it last year here.

Facebook event here – where the beer list will be posted in the run-up

 Cheers!

Sam has been going to the Cheltenham Motor Club for years. It’s one of the oldest active motor clubs in the country, and one of the few to own its own clubhouse, which is run by Neil. We all visited last August and were welcomed by him with open arms, soon chatting to his interested locals. For his Wheel Ale Festival this September, we’re running a Good Chemistry keg bar with a range of our brews available all day.

Beers pouring: Kokomo Weekday, Wits End, Disco Fizz Pineapple, Causal Thinking

CGBW website here

Cheers!

After two great years at Motion, just around the corner from GCHQ, BCBF is branching out onto Bristol’s iconic harbourside. For four sessions over Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday, the unique ‘all in’ ticket works really well, allowing you to sample as many beers as you like. And you need that freedom, with over 200 beers being poured by more than thirty-five breweries – from Bristol and the south-west, the rest of the UK and further afield!

Grab a ticket before they sell out – we have them on sale at our brewery tap for the bargain price of £35 (cash only please) so pop down and pick yours up this weekend!

Bristol Craft Beer Festival: https://bristolcraftbeerfestival.co.uk/brewers/

Facebook event here

Cheers!

This year’s Bristol Beer Week kicks off with all TWELVE of Bristol’s breweries opening their doors to the public for the day! We’ve loved welcoming you to our brewery tap this summer, and hope you’ll support this event as well. Dan will be behind the bar as usual to pour you our delicious beers, have a chat, and generally offer his big smile and great service! 

Facebook event here

Cheers!

Our May bank holiday East Bristol Brewery Trail was amazing! Such sunshine! Great beers! Delicious food! Loads of lovely people! And now it’s nearly time to do it all again, as five of Bristol’s best breweries roll up the shutters to welcome you all to our ‘hood.

We’ll have Gopal’s Curry Shack back with the good stuff, a huge range of beers including some exclusives, great music and of course our comfy sofas.

With just a short walk between each of the five breweries, it’s a chance to meet the brewers, explore the area and sample some great local beers. The Brewery Trail is centred around the start of the Bristol & Bath cycle path, near Lawrence Hill station and only ten minutes from Temple Meads.

Pick up a map at your first brewery, and if you visit all five you’re in with a chance to win a selection of East Bristol breweries beers!

We take cards at GCHQ, so save your cash for the non-card venues.

As you know we were all absolutely thrilled when Bristol24/7 named the brewery trail one of the top five food & drink events of 2017, and we’re also a finalist in the Crumbs Awards for best event – so let’s show ’em how we do it!

Facebook event here

#EastBrisBrewTrail

Cheers!

<- our birthday cake from last year, made by Bob’s Mum Brenda with our beer – yum!

Bob and I (Kelly) are so thankful for your support over the last few years. We can’t believe how our small business has grown into this big adventure, and how many new friends we’ve made on our way here. We’re now a team of five, having been joined by Sam in early 2017 and, more recently, Tom and Dan. As you know, we love rolling up the shutters to welcome everyone to our brewery and we’re looking forward to something a bit special for our third birthday party!

We’re really pleased to be welcoming Honest Burgers and their Land Rover field kitchen back to William Street, they’ll be flipping their best burgers for you all again!

Of course the Archdeacon of Pop will be here spinning his usual selection of brilliant vinyl to keep your heads nodding and toes tapping.

We’ll also be unveiling the exciting and eclectic beer list slowly but surely over on the Facebook event (here), so keep your eyes on the prize there – there’s going to be some interesting ones!

UPDATE: beer list has been announced, the breweries are there <- and here’s our blog on what we’re pouring and why.

We very much look forward to seeing you.

Cheers,
Kelly & Bob

We think you’d agree that beer, dinosaurs and pirates are three of the best things ever. Staggeringly Good Brewery think so, and last year they put together a shanty-filled beer fest on board HMS Warrior at the naval yard in their home town of Portsmouth. This year it’s back, bigger and better than ever – and we’re incredibly excited to be curating one of the bars!

Across Friday and Saturday night, join us at the Brunel Bar where we’ll be pouring a selection of Bristol’s best beers – and explore the rest of the ship for great beers from breweries such as Cloudwater, Deya and Warpigs amongst many others.

There’ll also be food, and live music to keep you entertained as you wander around the ship. The very last few tickets for Friday are available here, so get in there! Bob, Kelly and Sam will all be around across the weekend, so do say hello if you see us.

Facebook event here

We brewed our sweet smoky stout, Black Prince, with Staggeringly Good back in January and the whiskey barrel aged version of that beer will be pouring at WarriorFest. Dan will also have it pouring at the brewery tap this weekend, so if you’re not heading to Portsmouth you won’t miss out. The details of that event on Facebook are here.

Cheers!

To celebrate our first birthday in August 2016 Bob brewed a tiny batch kettle sour, made using blackcurrants from our garden. It was such a huge success that last summer we launched Disco Fizz as a fruited sour saison, splitting the beer four ways with Blackcurrant again, Gooseberry, Blueberry and Pineapple & Mango. This year we’ve taken it up a notch again. Introducing Disco Fizz 2018 v2!  Come down to GCHQ on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st where we’ll be pouring this year’s next iteration. It’s a thoroughly modern refreshing fruity sour wheat beer, inspired by the Florida-Weiss beers from America.

Facebook event here

Cheers!

To celebrate our first birthday in August 2016 Bob brewed a tiny batch kettle sour, made using blackcurrants from our garden up near The Drapers. It was such a huge success that last summer we launched Disco Fizz as a fruited sour saison. This year we’ve taken it up a notch again. Introducing Disco Fizz 2018! 

Come down to GCHQ on Friday 6th where we’ll be pouring this year’s first iteration. It’s a thoroughly modern refreshing fruity sour wheat beer, inspired by the Florida-Weiss beers from America.

Cheers!

This time last year we launched HOLY ROAR (the beer) with an intimate Meet The Brewers and guided tasting at Ghost Whale in Brixton, and a raucous three-band gig and tap takeover at Crofters Rights. This year, we’re going BIG! Our second collaboration, ROAR POWER, is a summer smasher, and we’ve got serious with our launch events.

Join two of Holy Roar’s best bands, Pijn and Slow Crush, on tour for the Holy Roar side of things. And alongside these gigs we’re taking over the taps at some of those same cities’ best beer venues.

The Bristol launch will be on Saturday 30th June at the brewery tap before the gig at Mother’s Ruin. We’ll have ROAR POWER pouring at both venues, as well as a range of other beers of course. Holy Roar will be here with the bands, and loads of records, cds, merch etc for sale. 

And if that’s not enough, we’ll be co-hosting with HRR an end-of-tour party at the Black Heart in Camden. Phew!

Check out our blog for more details of why this collaboration is so important to us, and why we love working with the Holy Roar Records guys and gal.

Facebook events here (Bristol), Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester (gig) (tap takeover), and London

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At the beginning of July, Honest Burgers are throwing open the doors to their brand new Bristol restaurant, on Clare Street just off the centre. Ahead of that Good Chemistry are excited to have them at our brewery tap on Friday 22^nd June – and we’ll be pouring the very first keg of our collaboration beer, HONEST DROP!

A modern fruity 4.5% pale ale, HONEST DROP is full-bodied but light, crisp and refreshing, with tropical notes from the American hops.

And to say thank you for coming down, Honest will throw in a free beer with the first fifty burgers – so get down early!

Our usual awesome in-warehouse DJ will be here, we’ll be pouring a load of our other beers as well of course, and we’re staying open later than usual to make the most of midsummer. We can’t wait to share a beer and a burger with you here at GCHQ in St Philips, and properly welcome Honest to Bristol!

Facebook event here!

Cheers!

As part of Bristol Food Connections, we’re teaming up again with our friends at the Tobacco Factory in Southville, for the next installment of their Friday night BEATS events. We’ll have a range of our brews on the main inside bar on cask and keg, plus more on the outside bar.

Fabulous foodie collective Bristol Eats will be serving delicious food out in the courtyard and the Tobacco Factory’s new pizza oven will be hot! Come down and celebrate the start of the weekend from 5pm.

Facebook event here

Cheers!

We at Good Chemistry love a bit of science. Following on from our Think While You Drink talks as part of Bristol Beer Week in 2016 we were excited to be one of the hosts for last year’s Bristol chapter of Pint of Science festival – and it went so well they’re coming back in 2018! Pint of Science have lined up a programme of talks from a range of academics, and we’re really looking forward to hearing what they have to say.

This is a ticketed event – tickets are available (we think from 9th April) at the Pint of Science website: https://pintofscience.co.uk/

The bar will be open from 6pm, and seats are unreserved. Come early to secure your favourite sofa and get a pint in before the talks kick off at 7:15pm.

On Monday 14th May:

• If I Could Talk To The Animals

The ever expanding population of planet earth means we are living more closely with wildlife than ever before. Can we co-exist? And in an acoustic environment, how does the noise we produce impact on wildlife? Join Andy Radford, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, and wildlife biologist and BBC presenter Lizzie Daly to find out.

On Tuesday 15th May:

• Carnivorous Beasts and Where to Find Them

Tonight we discover the “Sea-dragon”: a mythical-sounding Jurassic beast-from-the-deep with a fascinating evolutionary history. But not all carnivores are sharp-toothed giants. Some plants too have developed a taste for meat, but how on earth have they evolved to do that? Research Fellow Ulrike Bauer and Ben Moor, Vertebrate Palaeobiologist, will be exploring insects, pitcher plants and Ichthyosaurs in the 21st Century.

On Wednesday 16th May:

• From The Air We Breathe To The Waste We Leave…

Pollution and waste management are significant problems faced by global society. How can we, as citizens, help improve the air quality in our city? And with the help of electro-active microbes, can we turn waste from a burden into a valuable resource? Senior Research Fellow Tim Chatterton and PhD researcher Iwona Gajda explore these ideas.

Lots more specific information on the individual talks can be found on the Pint of Science website, and the Facebook event is here

We love science at GCHQ (and are a host for Pint of Science the week after this event) but we also love a bit of Eurovision glitz and glamour! Come join us in St Philips for the camp, the costumes and the key changes all the way from Portugal, as we make GCHQ into party central!

There’ll be glitter, sparkle, excellent beer of course, and games to keep us glued to the screen (as if the backing dancers, awkward links between presenters and political intrigue isn’t enough).

We take cards behind the bar at GCHQ, so no need to raid the piggy bank before you come.

And although the official Eurovis fun doesn’t kick off on telly until 8pm, the brewery tap will be open as usual from 2pm and we have a specially-commissioned quiz running from 5:30pm, so come down and get in the mood with the pre-party!

Facebook event here

Saude!

You know it must be nearly Spring when the first East Bristol Brewery Trail is announced! Once again five of Bristol’s best breweries roll up the shutters to welcome you all to our ‘hood.

Here at Good Chemistry we had such an amazing time at the last one in August, with just the right amount of great beer across cask and keg (Disco Fizz!!!), delicious food from Gopal’s Curry Shack, top tunes from our DJ, beautiful sunshine – and all of you lot! We were absolutely thrilled when Bristol24/7 named the trail one of the top five food & drink events of 2017!

And now we’re gearing up to do it all over again! We’ll have Gopal’s back with the good stuff, a huge range of beers including some exclusives, great music and of course our comfy sofas.

With just a short walk between each of the five breweries, it’s a chance to meet the brewers, explore the area and sample some great local beers. The Brewery Trail is centred around the start of the Bristol & Bath cycle path, near Lawrence Hill station and only ten minutes from Temple Meads.

Pick up a map at your first brewery, and if you visit all five you’re in with a chance to win a selection of East Bristol breweries beers!

We take cards at GCHQ, so save your cash for the non-card venues.

Facebook event here

#EastBrisBrewTrail

Cheers!

On Tuesday 1st May FOUR big breweries from TWO of the UK’s BEST beer cities are coming together to bring you ONE very exciting line up…

As fate would have it, both we and Left Handed Giant descended upon Manchester on the very same day at the end of March, joining forces with Blackjack Beers and Track Brew Co respectively to collaborate and create some new beers which bind the North to the South.

One month on, the beers are ready and we’re bringing them back to Bristol for an evening at our & LHG’s local the Barley Mow. We’ll be showcasing both new collabs along with some of each breweries finest beers. Brewers will of course be on hand to share a beer and have a chat.

Full beer list TBC. Watch this space and see you there!

Facebook event here

Cheers!

We love working with small, independent, local businesses who care as much about as their community, ingredients and partnerships as we do. That’s why we’ve enjoyed spending time at West Street Kitchen in Old Market since they opened in August, and getting to know Nathan and Millie (also, they’re bad-ass in the kitchen and on the coffee machine).

We’re really excited to have been invited to be part of their next STEAK NIGHT!

Join West Street Kitchen and Good Chemistry on Sat 14th April for a steak + beer feast! We’ll be taking our portable keg machine down and pouring Natural Selection, plus there’ll be Hurly Burly and Redstart Rye bottles in the fridge as usual.

For more details, and to book, drop WSK an email on weststreetkitchen@gmail.com.

Facebook event here

Cheers!

It’s new pop-up kitchen time at the Robin Hood on St Michael’s Hill, and this April they’re welcoming Hoba Kebab to the Hood.

WARNING: THESE KEBABS ARE LIKE NO KEBABS YOU’VE EATEN BEFORE!

Hoba say: “Inspired by the Berlin kebab and the huge lack of real kebabs in the UK, we decided to put our own spin on them. We make ours with only the very best ingredients and big flavours. Say goodbye to elephant legs of ‘meat’, polystyrene boxes and fluorescent lighting… We use fresh locally sourced produce, chargrilled and packed into our bespoke Turkish bread with tahini, herbs and pickles.”

Sounds pretty amazing! And luckily the guys at the Robin Hood realised that the best thing to go with kebabs is: beer!

So we’re taking over the taps, with ELEVEN beers across cask and keg (beer list on fcbk), and as Ben from the pub so rightly puts it: “brewers Bob & Kelly will be coming along to chat beer (while Sam will most likely be eating kebabs and playing on the arcade machine)”!!

Come down to say hi, drink beer and stuff your face – sounds like a great Friday!

Facebook event here

Cheers!

Last July Bob and Sam took our beer down to, and then had a very good time at, Staggeringly Good Brewery‘s first WarriorFest, a dinosaur-and-pirate-themed beer festival on a historic naval ship in Portsmouth. How could you not enjoy yourself at that?!

This year, it’s expanding over two days, and we’re excited to be curating a bar of Bristolian brews for it. In anticipation of the festival, at the end of January we invited Staggeringly Good up to GCHQ to brew a beer with us. Some of it has gone into barrel, and the rest is being unveiled on keg at this joint tap takeover. We’ll also have the very last tickets available to this year’s sold out WarriorFest!

Come down to Colston Street in your best dinosaur/pirate fancy dress to sup some Good Chemistry beers alongside those from our South Coast guests, and get the first taste of our collaboration smoked stout BLACK PRINCE!

Check out the fest here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jeRKJYeLws
(video by Abi Knee)

Details of the beers pouring coming soon!

Cheers me hearties!

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One of the best pubs in Bristol’s ‘Beer-muda Triangle’, The Volley has been a strong supporter of ours since we first started Good Chemistry. Taking over their gazillion taps is a bit of a rite of passage, and we’ve waited until now to really do it justice! So let’s get Christmas started with not one but TWO tap takeovers – we’ll also have a dozen beers on up at the Nettle, The Volley’s Clifton Village sister pub, at the end of November as well!

We’re excited about the number and range of beers we’re going to have pouring, and think it really points towards our aims of being accessible and approachable to all. The full beer list will be revealed over the next few weeks on facebook, but we’re bringing everything from our trad bitter to hoppy juice bombs to Belgian-style beers to the dark stuff. Might even be a secret sour in there if you’re lucky! We’re heading down for the night, and of course we’ll be joined by our fantastic in-warehouse dj – we really look forward to seeing you there.

Cheers!

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Johnny and Dave, the affable hosts at Bristol’s third micropub Snuffy Jack’s in Fishponds, have invited us over for a Saturday night in November. We’ll have five of our best cask beers on the stillage and a beer/food deal will be available! We can’t wait to come and hang out – there’s even a bus from our local, the Draper’s Arms on Gloucester Road, right to Snuffy’s door!

Beers on the bar: Time Lapse, Natural Selection, Steady State, Redstart Rye, Becoming North

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This one is going to be a night to remember: think moonshine and mafia, tommy-guns and trading, corruption and cut-throat competitors!

Hosted by us at GCHQ and designed by our good friends at Chance & Counters, we’re turning our brewery tap into an underground speakeasy where over the course of two hours you’ll find out hidden identities, buy your equipment, and get ready for the danger that awaits you at the end of the game!

With a prohibition dresscode (go gangsters, molls and film noir – but dress warmly as the speakeasy is a hidden warehouse at the end of October) our beers will be flowing all night long – just try to stay out of reach of the Don and his henchmen, and the undercover cops!

Tickets are available from Wriggle at £22 each here, and there are two evenings to choose from – your Halloween is sorted!

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THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT – thanks to everyone who bought tickets!

We’ve teamed up with two of Bristol’s finest coffee shops for this event for Bristol Beer Week. Full Court Press and Little Victories have both put their coffee knowledge and skill to work to create two unique coffee beers with us.

Mat, from Full Court Press, has paired our rustic saison Field Work with espresso made using a naturally processed coffee from Ethiopia. While John, of Little Victories, has chosen a Kenyan coffee to pair with our light and hoppy pale ale Natural Selection.

Come down to Little Victories on Wapping Wharf for an evening of coffee and beer, as we take you through the coffees, the beers, and the resulting coffee beers. Mat from FCP, John from Little Victories and our very own head brewer Bob will be talking you through the processes that went into putting these brews together. Tickets (£12.50) include a third of each coffee beer, a third each of Field Work and Natural Selection, and tasters of both coffees.

Tickets available here

Check out Bristol Beer Week’s kind words about us here

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We really enjoyed last year’s Think While You Drink, so we’re excited to bring our talks back to Bristol Beer Week this year. This time we’ve not only lined up an evening of research from leading academics delving into the world of beer and brewing, but we’ve also got two of the most respected brewers in the country to share some secrets.

Join us at The Eldon House off Jacobs Wells Road where we will have a range of our beers available plus something special from Harbour and Mills Brewing.

The pub will be open from noon each day, so come down early for a drink and a bite to eat before the first talks kick off at 6:30pm. After our speakers finish at 8:30pm we’ll be staying around for a pint or two more to carry on the chat.

On Tuesday 17^th October:

• Craft Brewing: What’s it really like to work in a brewery?

Craft brewers are usually inundated with applications when they try to recruit new members of staff. Some come from people who think they are qualified because they like to drink beer; some come from people who are curious about the culture of craft brewing; and some applications arrive in the post with a sample of homebrew. But what’s it really like to work in a craft brewery? Is it all about creativity, tasting, and pride? Or is it more about the finances, cleaning out the tanks, and driving a van? Join Dr Neil Sutherland from UWE and his colleague Dr Scott Taylor from the University of Birmingham as they present some surprising data from a current research project, that Bob and Kelly have been involved in, to shed light on what craft brewing is like for those who labour behind the barrels.

• Empire State of Mind: Craft Beer & Britishness.

Dr Sam Goodman, Lecturer in English & Communication at Bournemouth University but living near GCHQ in Easton, has carried out extensive research into national identity, with particular focus on how beer and drinking culture influence ideas of Britishness. This talk will explore the strange afterlife of the British Empire in craft beer labelling to ask whether such imagery and iconography is merely an innocuous tug on the nation’s patriotic heartstrings or representative of a wider shift in cultural and political consciousness towards a peculiarly British taste for nostalgia.

On Wednesday 18^th October:

• Brewers Talks: Two very different approaches to brewing

This evening we’ll hear two very different perspectives on brewing from two leading brewers, Jonny Mills and Stuart Howe. After completing a degree in brewing at Heriot Watt, Jonny Mills worked his way up to senior brewer at Bristol Beer Factory. Jonny left in December 2016 and set up Mills Brewing with his partner Gen Kaye, in the Gloucestershire countryside. Here they specialise in spontaneous fermentation and barrel aged beers fermented with wild yeasts. His approach to brewing at Mills Brewing is to create the right conditions in the wort and then leave the yeast and bacteria to it, blending barrels to balance flavours at the end. Jonny will be explaining his methods, and what that all means for the beers he produces, and telling us about his fascination for brewing this way.

Following Jonny we’re very pleased to bring this year’s Think While You Drink to a close with one of this country’s most notable brewers. Stuart Howe is best known for creating one of the UK’s favourite beers – Doom Bar. He currently heads up the brewing team at Harbour Brewing, down in Cornwall, but he has also worked at Butcombe, Sharp’s and Bristol’s own Lost & Grounded to name but three. Stuart’s approach to brewing is technically focussed, with repeatability, control of processes and continual improvement being key.

Check out Bristol Beer Week’s kind words about us here

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Come and celebrate the end of the month with us at one of our favourite pubs in Bristol – the Hillgrove in Kingsdown. We’ll be filling their fourteen casks taps – with casks ranging from our usual line-up (Time Lapse, Natural Selection, Solar Impulse) to specially-casked one-off versions of our keg beers like Wild Forest and Kokomo Weekend, plus our hugely popular recent fruited sour saison, Disco Fizz. As well as this we’ll be bringing a few keg beers to bump up the numbers!

Join us to kick-start the weekend with food from Kansai Kitchen and SEVENTEEN Good Chemistry beers. We’ll all be there, along with our regular in-warehouse DJ, most recently seen at our birthday celebrations and the East Bristol Brewery Trail, spinning his usual top quality vinyl. We can’t wait to see you!

To read a bit more about why we’re so excited to do this tap takeover, head to our blog page here.

Facebook event here

Cheers!

What a great time we had as part of the first Bristol Craft Beer Festival last September! We’re so pleased to have been invited back, and look forward to sharing our beer with you as well as tasting everyone else’s!

Running for four sessions over Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday at Motion just around the corner from GCHQ, the unique ‘all in’ ticket works really well, allowing you to sample as many beers as you like. And you need that freedom, with over 200 beers being poured by more than twenty-five breweries – from Bristol and the south-west, the rest of the UK and even further afield!

This year the festival is running into the Marble Factory next door too, and creating an outdoor yard space for you to enjoy the food vendors. Grab a ticket before they sell out!

Facebook event here

Cheers!

Kelly joins beer writer Melissa Cole and brewster Jaega Wise to give her side of the story – what it’s like being a woman in a male-dominated industry, how she got into this crazy business, and where the new wave of beer and brewing might be heading. Abergavenny Food Festival has been called the Cannes of food festivals, so it’s pretty cool to have been invited to take part in this event.

There’s also loads of other interesting stuff happening, so if you like the look of this check out the rest of their programme.

Festival website here

Cheers!

As we reach the end of summer five of Bristol’s best breweries roll up the shutters once again to welcome you all to our ‘hood!

With just a short walk between each brewery, it’s a chance to meet the brewers, explore the area and sample some great local beers. The Brewery Trail is centred around the start of the Bristol & Bath cycle path, near Lawrence Hill station and only ten minutes from Temple Meads.

Pick up a map at your first brewery, and if you visit all five you’re in with a chance to win a selection of East Bristol breweries beers!

Some of the breweries take cards, and there are cash machines on Old Market and Easton Road. This is a FREE event, the only charge is of course for the beer and food – sofas & music from our in-warehouse DJ & sunshine (we hope!) is all yours!

Last time we ran this event we had far more visitors than we anticipated – a huge thank you to everyone who came along. As a collective we have put measures in place this time round to reduce queuing time at the bar and toilets, and increase our food provision. We very much look forward to seeing you for a hopefully much-improved event.

Facebook event here

#EastBrisBrewTrail

Cheers!

Wow – how much has happened in the last two years! Our big adventure just keeps on going, and we’re so loving sharing it all with you.

To celebrate this next milestone, we’ll be rolling up the shutters yet again and asking you to join us for a bit of a party in St Philips. Alongside our usual comfy sofas, tunes from our dj and of course freshly poured Good Chemistry beers, we have the delicious Underdogs bringing their tasty hotdogs. There will also be one of our new series of fruited sour saisons on tap in addition to your favourite brews – our birthday blackcurrant sour was a huge hit last year!

We very much look forward to seeing you.

Cheers,
Kelly & Bob

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We’re delighted to have been invited up to Wild Beer’s first bar, Jessop House in Cheltenham. We’ve been selling our beers into the pubs and bottle shops of our neighbour up the M5 since March, so it’ll be a great to come up for a chance to meet everyone who’s been drinking the beer!

There will be SEVEN beers available, list coming soon, and we really look forward to seeing you there.

Facebook event here

Cheers!

We think you’d agree that beer, dinosaurs and pirates are three of the best things ever. Staggeringly Good Brewery think so, so have put together a shanty-filled beer fest on board HMS Warrior at the naval yard in their home town of Portsmouth. We’re incredibly excited to have been invited along!

There’ll be beer from loads of other great breweries, food, and live music to keep you entertained as you wander around the ship. Tickets for this event are sold out though (sorry!) so join the waiting list over at the facebook page.

Bob and Sam will be amongst the landlubbers joining the party, so do say hello if you see them.

Facebook event here

Cheers!

Two days after our intimate beer launch and meet the brewers event at Ghost Whale in Brixton, we break out our Holy Roar collaboration brew in our hometown!

Kelly saw Holy Roar‘s first signing, Rolo Tomassi, at the Croft in about 2007, and has followed their progress since, even getting her elderflower stall a shout out from the band on stage at ArcTanGent festival! Working with the Holy Roar guys and gal on this big hoppy 6.66% stout has been a true collaboration – they know a lot about beer, and got really involved. They’re bringing three bands down to the Crofters Rights for this beer launch gig – exciting stuff!  

This is a free gig with the bands out the back and beers in the bar. Come along to try the beer and check out We Never Learned To Live, Conjurer and Helpless playing live.

Facebook event here

Cheers!

We are super-excited to unleash this beast of a beer on the nation’s capital!

We’ve been watching and listening to Holy Roar‘s bands since they started their record label over ten years ago, so when they asked if we fancied brewing a beer together, we couldn’t say yes quick enough! We’ve brewed a huge hoppy black stout, full of chocolate and black malts, and a satisfying 6.66% abv. Ahead of our Bristol launch gig at the Crofters Rights, we’re heading up to London to Holy Roar’s sister company, Ghost Whale Brixton, for a beer launch and meet the brewers event – we can’t wait!  

This event has now SOLD OUT. Please contact Ghost Whale for returns/waiting list.

Cheers!

It’s that time again: we had so much fun with you all last year that we wanted to get the festival vibe going on in our brewery once more!

Because whether you tried for tickets and weren’t successful, or couldn’t take the whole weekend off work (that’s us!), we’re not going to Glastonbury are we.

So, why not come over to ours at the weekend and we’ll celebrate the festival at GCHQ instead.

We’ll set the bar up, get the sofas out, put the coverage on a big screen – you can even wear your wellies if you want! But we’ll have no mud, no camping and no rain! Gopal’s Curry Shack bar snacks will be available on Friday and Sunday, and the amazing Eatchu are joining us on Saturday to cook up a storm of gyoza, their take on delicious Japanese style dumplings – yum!

Cheers, see you there!

Bob & Kelly

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Our friends at the Tobacco Factory are hosting a big weekend of beer, great food and their Sunday market. Fabulous foodie collective Bristol Eats will be lining up their best street food, and there’s live music and djs to keep us entertained.

We’re taking a couple of casks and a couple of kegs, including a rare outing for our Morello Theory! We’ll be hanging out there on Saturday 10th, so hope to see you there!

Beer, music, food. Some of the best things in life are the simplest.

Facebook event here

Cheers!

Following on from the work we’ve done with our Think While You Drink speaker Dr Scott Taylor, we’ve been invited to join his event at the University of Birmingham. This will celebrate the long tradition of making in the Midlands and beyond, focusing on businesses that make useful, beautiful objects from raw materials. The event will aim to explore the importance of making in key locations and celebrate the people, processes and skills involved in making things with care and pride. Kelly will be taking part in a panel discussion with other business owners who make things, and there will be a chance to ask all those burning questions about why we do what we do.

To attend this free event, register here

Event page here

Cheers!

We at Good Chemistry love a bit of science. Following on our from our Think While You Drink talks as part of Bristol Beer Week last year we’re really excited to be one of the hosts for this year’s Bristol chapter of Pint of Science festival. Pint of Science have lined up a programme of talks from a range of University of Bristol academics and alumni, and we’re really looking forward to hearing what they have to say.

This is a ticketed event – tickets are available at the Pint of Science website: https://pintofscience.co.uk/

The bar will be open from 6pm, and seats are unreserved. Come early to secure your favourite sofa and get a pint in before the talks kick off at 7:30pm.

On Monday 15th May:

• The Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing threats we face. Antibiotics are the bedrock of modern medicine, and an important defence against communicable disease, so the rise of resistant infections directly threatens human health. Join Matt Avison, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, as he explores what drives the selection of antibiotic resistance in farm animals, and whether there is any evidence of transmission of this resistance to pets and humans. He will challenge some of the myths that have appeared in the media and explain how his project might help reduce the threat of drug resistant infections.

On Tuesday 16th May:

• Ultrahaptics – Sound You Can Touch

Touch is a two-way communication tool. We use it to explore the world around us to get a rich tapestry of information about the objects in our lives, feeling for textures and dimensions. We also use touch to convey emotion, and trust. In a world where personal and collective communications are becoming digitalised, Ultrahaptics reintroduces the sense of touch to our experiences. By using ultrasound to project the sensation of touch directly onto the user’s hand, without the need for gloves or other wearables, touch can be added to virtual worlds and gesture recognition controls. Presented by company founder Tom Carter.

Follow Ultrahaptics on twitter: @ultrahaptics

On Wednesday 17th May:

• Designing The Brain and Robotic Intelligence

Come join us for a journey into the brain. Can it be adapted so we never have nightmares? How close are we to having robotic brains? Matt Jones and Helmut Hauser may just have the answers…

Laser-Guided Minds, presented by Matt Jones, Reader in Cognitive Neurophysiology: Fancy visiting your favourite place whenever you like, at the flick of a switch? Got any memories you’d like erasing or adjusting? How about fine-tuning your dreams? Step this way – you won’t feel a thing…

Clever Body = Clever Robot, presented by Helmut Hauser, Lecturer in Robotics: Although promised by roboticists for over 50 years we still don’t have sophisticated robots doing our chores. The reason is our world is very complex, dynamic and often unpredictable. On the other hand animals outperform state-of-the-art robots in almost any task. The reason is they not only have great brains, but they also have intelligent bodies. Therefore, to make better robots, we have to change the way we design them. We need robots that are not only intelligent in their head, but from head to toe.

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We’re teaming up again with our friends at the Tobacco Factory in Southville for our second annual tap takeover! We’ll have a huge range of our brews on the main inside bar on cask and keg, plus more on the outside bar, and of course we’ll be there too ready to chat all things beer.

Fabulous foodie collective BEATS will also be joining the party, serving delicious food out in the courtyard for the first of their series of Friday night events at the Tobacco Factory. Come down and celebrate the start of the weekend with us from 5pm!

Facebook event here

Cheers!

We are absolutely delighted to be involved in a special beer tasting event at The Wave Maiden in Southsea, for women by women.

There will be a panel discussion from three separate women in the beer industry – of which Kelly is one. She’ll be joined by Ali who runs The Wave Maiden and Catherine the brewster at Flowerpots Brewery in Hampshire. The idea is to create a safe, fun and unintimidating environment where women can learn more about the glorious beverage that is beer!

This is a ladies only event and tickets are £15 per person available from the bar for cash only or online by bank transfer. This includes three tasters of beers from each brewery and light snacks. Please email thewavemaiden@gmail.com for bank transfer information.

Kelly went to university in Portsmouth, so it’s really exciting for us to be heading down for the weekend to explore of some of the great pubs and breweries there, and take part in this event.

Facebook event here

Cheers!

Let’s get quizzical in Cardiff!

On the first Tuesday of every month the fabulous, historic City Arms, just across the road from Millennium(/Principality) Stadium, runs a pub quiz, and in May they’ve asked us to take over their taps during it!

We do love a good test of the old grey matter, so hopefully we won’t disgrace ourselves – come along and try TWELVE of our beers across cask and keg, and get your brain going!

We’ll be there from 6pm and the quiz starts at 8pm. It’s only £1 per person to enter, and prizes include BEER!

Beers pouring: Becoming North (on keg AND cask), Big Bang, Field Work, Hurly Burly, Kokomo Weekend, Natural Selection, Numbers Game, Redstart Rye (on keg AND cask), Solar Impulse and Wild Forest!

Looking forward to seeing you – cheers!

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We had so much fun last year we can’t wait to go again!

This May Bank Holiday weekend it’s time to kick off the summer season as five of Bristol’s best breweries roll up the shutters once more to welcome you all to our ‘hood!

With just a short walk between each brewery, it’s a chance to meet the brewers, explore the area and sample some great local beers. The Brewery Trail is centred around the start of the Bristol & Bath cycle path, near Lawrence Hill station and only ten minutes from Temple Meads.

Pick up a map at your first brewery, and if you visit all five you’re in with a chance to win a selection of East Bristol breweries beers!

More details, such as which beers we’ll have pouring and what food you can tuck into, announced nearer the time, but we guarantee our usual comfy sofas, awesome in-warehouse DJs and handsome bar staff!

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#EastBrisBrewTrail

Cheers!

Last month we were joined by the team from The Gallimaufry on Gloucester Road to brew an exclusive beer just for them. It’s a beautiful, light, fruity pale ale, served from cask, and will be pouring for the first time on Tuesday 18th April. There are also a limited number of seats available for our food and beer pairing menu in the restaurant, where some of our favourite bottled beers will be matched with delicious dishes from the Galli chef.

We (Bob and Kelly) have lived on and around the brilliant Gloucester Road for more years than we care to remember, and the independent, local, community nature of the area is hugely important to us. While The Gallimaufry recently celebrated its fifth birthday we know stories from when The Prom was first turned into a wine bar in the 1970s (not that we’ve lived there *that* long, you understand!), and are so excited to be working with such a well-known, well-loved venue.

Tickets (£30 per person) are available from the Galli or please contact us (cheers@goodchemistrybrewing.com). This includes a Galli beer on arrival, plus four courses matched with our four beers. The beer will also be on the downstairs bar, so feel free to come along for a pint out on the terrace, hopefully in the sunshine!

We’re really looking forward to this evening, and hope to see you there – cheers!

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Good Chemistry are kicking off 2017 with a tap takeover at one of our favourite neighbourhood pubs – The Greenbank in Easton.

Rescued from demolition and being rebuilt as flats by good old people power three years ago this awesome community hub is warm, welcoming and wonderful. We’re delighted to be taking over SEVEN of their taps across cask and keg for the first event of its kind here.

Come down to get the weekend started with us: hang out, have a chat and a beer, and maybe one of their delicious pizzas!

Check back here nearer the time to find out which beers we’ll be pouring.

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Cheers!

Join us on Saturday 10th December for our Christmas Brewers Market.

We’ve invited our friends from Bristol Beer Factory, Crane Beer, Lost and Grounded Brewers, and Wiper and True to set up shop at GCHQ for the afternoon. There’ll be cases of beers, gift packs and all manner of merchandise perfect for the beery people in your life. A great opportunity to stock up on your favourite local beers for Christmas, get all your gift shopping done (everyone likes beer, right?!), and a unique chance to buy direct from the people who made them.

We’ve also got Gopal’s Curry Shack to keep you warm with their delicious Indian street food plus chutneys and pickles for presents.

Good Chemistry will be opening the bar, and as well as our ‘in-warehouse’ dj spinning all your favourite seasonal songs, some of the breweries will be taking over the wheels of steel for guest superstar dj sets!

Facebook event here

Cheers & Merry Christmas!

PLEASE NOTE: some of the breweries will not be accepting cards, so please bring plenty of cash

After some of their staff came to the East Bristol Brewery Trail on the August bank holiday, BrewDog in Cardiff have invited us to take over their taps for an evening at the beginning of November. We can’t wait to get our beers over the bridge and share them with the good people of the ‘diff!

We’ll be there from 6pm too, so come along for a chat, to ask any burning questions you have about us, our brewery and our beer, and to hang out with us.

Beers pouring: TBC – maybe some new ones, maybe some specials, check out the facebook event for updates!

Facebook event here

Cheers!

Back in September the guys from Bison Beer cycled from their shop in Brighton to our brewery in Bristol, where we brewed a beer together. Ryed With Us, our 6.4% rye IPA collaboration, is now ready so we’re taking the return trip (in our van, obviously, we’ve got beer to carry!) to launch the beer and premier the film they made of their epic bike ride.

Tickets are a tenner, available here, and there’ll be beer, popcorn and hotdogs, as well as a ‘proper’ film to follow the short about the bike ride.

We’re really looking forward to heading down to the south coast, catching up with the Bison boys again, and launching our new brew. Hope to see you there!

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Cheers!

We are really excited to be included in the first Bristol Craft Beer Festival, at Motion just round the corner from us.

Running for four sessions over Friday and Saturday at the end of Bristol Beer Week, we’ll be showcasing a couple of our beers alongside THIRTY other breweries – from Bristol and the south-west, the rest of the UK and even further afield!

A ticket to the festival allows you to sample beers from all the breweries, chat to the brewers, and check out the music line-up. There’ll be awesome food stalls to fill your belly too!

Bristol Craft Beer Festival: https://bristolcraftbeerfestival.co.uk/brewers/

Bristol Beer Week: http://www.bristolbeerweek.com/calendar/2016/9/2/closing-party

Cheers!

We at Good Chemistry love a bit of science so we have lined up a programme of talks from the academics behind some of the most interesting beer-related research currently taking place. This is a free unticketed event – the only charge is at the bar! Seats are first come, first served, but we have lots of sofas and chairs.

On Tuesday 30th August:

• The Cultural Significance of the British Beer Renaissance

Dr Thomas Thurnell-Read, a lecturer in cultural sociology at Loughborough University, has carried out extensive research into drinking culture, including looking at how the British beer renaissance has recast the relationship between consumer and producer. This talk will touch on the activism of CAMRA, the craft beer scene’s fascination with punk imagery, and the rejection of mass production in favour of more individualised alternatives.

Follow him on twitter: @ThurnellReadSoc

• Fermenting Culture – Gender, Brewing and the Revival of Craft Work

Dr Neil Sutherland from UWE and colleagues Dr Scott Taylor and Dr Chris Land have recently embarked on an academic research project exploring gender in the craft brewing industry. Although still in the early stages of this, their talk will give a broad overview of their findings so far, as well as facilitating a discussion around important areas: in what ways can the craft beer industry be understood as gendered (or not), what are the various approaches/perspectives on gender (eg celebration, ambivalence, hostility), and, if we’re witnessing a move toward more inclusive and egalitarian practices, why now? Good Chemistry’s own Bob & Kelly are involved in this research.

On Wednesday 31st August:

• The Science of Your Pint

Do you know how many calories are in your drink? Do you care? Would you want to see a health warning on your beer bottle? What about standard shaped glasses? And how would knowing your drinking speed change you drinking behaviour? In response to government calls to regulate labelling on alcoholic beverages, these are just some of the questions Dr Angela Attwood and Dr Olivia Maynard from the Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group at the University of Bristol will ask you to consider in their talk on the psychology of your pint glass.

Follow them on twitter: @OliviaMaynard17, @AngelaAttwood

Follow the Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group: @BristolTARG

• The Science of Hangovers

Why do we feel so awful the day after heavy drinking? Is there any truth behind the idea that hangovers get worse as we get older and that we feel worse if we “mix” our drinks? Dr Sally Adams from the University of Bath will discuss these questions and ask if there is a potential cure for hangovers on the horizon.

Follow her on twitter: @SallyScientist

The bar will be open throughout from 5pm each day, so come down early for a pint before the first talks kick off at 6:30pm. After our speakers finish at 8:30pm we’ll be manning the bar until 9pm to carry on the chat.

And check out Bristol Beer Week’s kind words about us here

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Here it comes again!

Five of Bristol’s best breweries are rolling up the shutters once again to welcome you all to our ‘hood – this time as the launch party for Bristol Beer Week!

With just a short walk between each brewery, it’s a chance to meet the brewers, explore the area and sample some great local beers. The Brewery Trail is centred around the start of the Bristol & Bath cycle path, near Lawrence Hill station and only ten minutes from Temple Meads.

We’re delighted to be joined for the weekend by the amazing and innovative Plumed Serpent Cantina, cooking up a storm of Mexican deliciousness.

Pick up a map at your first brewery, and if you visit all five you’re in with a chance to win a selection of East Bristol breweries beers!

Bristol Beer Week: http://www.bristolbeerweek.com/calendar/east-bristol-brewery-trail

Facebook event here

#EastBrisBrewTrail

Cheers!

BIG NEWS: we can now take card payments so no need to bring loadsa cash!

It’s nearly one whole year since we first got the keys for the big old warehouse we now know and love as GCHQ!

As we love any excuse to throw open those roller doors and welcome you all in, this seems the perfect time to do it again. So on Saturday 13th August come down to St Philips and enjoy comfy sofas, great food, tunes from our dj plus a set from special guest Lonely Tourist, and of course freshly poured Good Chemistry beers. There may even be some special one-off brews to go alongside your favourites.

We very much look forward to seeing you.

Cheers,
Kelly & Bob

BIG NEWS: we can now take card payments so no need to bring loadsa cash!

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We’re thrilled to be invited to take over the taps at Bath’s newest temple to beer. After a massive and thorough overhaul Chapter One opened back in May, run by Michael and Emma who not only really know their stuff when it comes to beer but are lovely too! We’ll be there from 5pm so come down armed with any questions, or just to check out this great local pub.

Beers pouring: Business Casual, Solar Impulse, Hurly Burly, Field Work and a very special keg of Morello Theory!

Cheers!

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We’re teaming up with the excellent Tobacco Factory in Southville for our (and their) first tap takeover! We’ll have SEVEN beers across keg and cask on their outside terrace bar, and we’ll be hanging out celebrating the start of the weekend from 5pm. Come down and join us for a pint or three!

Beers pouring: Fresh Start, Business Casual, Hurly Burly, Field Work, Redstart Rye, and Solar Impulse on keg AND cask!

Looking forward to seeing you – cheers!

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Maybe you couldn’t get tickets this year. Maybe you can’t get the time off work. Maybe you just set up a brewery and can’t get away for the weekend.

Whatever the reason, we’re not going to Glastonbury this year are we?

So, why don’t you come over to ours at the weekend and we’ll celebrate the festival at GCHQ instead. We’ll set the bar up, get the sofas out, put coverage on a big screen – you can even wear your wellies if you want! But we’ll have no mud, no camping and no rain! Gopal’s Curry Shack will be here on Saturday and we’ll have their delicious pakoras on Friday and Sunday – get here early as they sold out at our previous event.

Cheers, see you here!
Kelly & Bob

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Five of Bristol’s best breweries are rolling up the shutters for the first bank holiday weekend!

With just a short walk between each brewery, it’s a chance to meet the brewers, explore the area and sample some great local beers. The Brewery Trail is centred around the start of the Bristol & Bath cycle path, and between Temple Meads and Lawrence Hill stations.

Pick up a map at your first brewery, and if you visit all five you’re in with a chance to win a selection of East Bristol breweries beers!
s nearly one whole year since we first got the keys for the big old warehouse we now know and love as GCHQ!

Food Connections: http://www.bristolfoodconnections.com/fringe/east-bristol-brewery-trail/

Facebook event here

#EastBrisBrewTrail

Cheers!