| Date | Venue | Main Content | Competition | Winner | Judge |
| 30.10.2000 | The Nutclough Inn. Hebden Bridge | Inaugural Meeting. Steering Committee appointed. Steve Taylor. Alan Pepper. Derek Spedding. Agreed to hold quarterly meetings. Aims of group defined. | - | - | - |
| 13.01.2001 | The Nutclough Inn. Hebden Bridge | Clive Donald of Brupaks demonstrated a selection of his stock. James McCrorie. Bill Cooper. Paul Travis from Beer In Print. attended | - | - | - |
| 22.04.2001 | York Brewery | Tour and first competition | English Bitter | David Craven | Local Camra |
| 30.06.2001 | Marble Arch Brewpub. Manchester | Clive Le Pensee gave a talk on the history of Brewing and Malting | - | - | - |
| 27.10.2001 | The Riverhead Brewery Tap. Marsden | Graham Barthorpe`s topic talk on Water Treatment | - | - | - |
| 23.02.2002 | The Sparrow Hawk. Burnley | Norman Jackson`s topic talk, How I Brew | Winter Ale | Ian Priddy | Local Camra |
| 27.04.2002 | Brupaks. Honley | Tour of warehouse and talk by Clive Donald on the growth and history of Brupaks | - | - | - |
| 15.06.2002 | Black Sheep Brewery. Masham | Joint area meet up with the McBrewers. Also Graham Wheeler . Brewery tour and talks by many members and the head brewer. | - | - | - |
| 27.07.2002 | The Boundary Pub Ashton-Under- Lyne | Topic Talk by Joe Hughes. Natural progression in brewing. | Summer Ale 1.036-1.042 |
Ian Priddy | Bill Lowe NGWBJ |
| 26.10.2002 | Minerva Hotel. Hull | Topic Talk by Derek Spedding. Steam Beer. Guided tour of Hull`s historic pubs. | - | - | - |
| 25.01.2003 | Queen Hotel. Todmorden | Talk and demonstration on
Coopering by Roy Dutson. Roy actually broke down and rebuilt a barrel
during his talk. Steve Taylor stood down as chairman. Allan Pepper elected. |
Irish stout | Bill Lowe | Roy Dutson NGWBJ |
| 26.04.2003 | Copper Dragon Brewery. Skipton | Steve Taylor our former chairman conducted a tour of his new 10 barrel brewery. Pictures Of the Brewery | - | - | - |
| 26.07.2003 | The Oddfellows Arms
Brewery Tap. Elland. Then Eastwood & Sanders Fine Ales Brewery |
Brewery Tour and tasting
session.
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Pilsner Lager 1.045-1.080 |
Mark Tobin | David Aris Yorkshire Fed. |
| 30.08.2003 | Humber Sloop Trip | 10 Members sailed up and
down the Humber in a restored sailing barge. Later they docked on the Hull quayside only to find a beer festival. The crew of brewers were reluctant to set sail again and had to be press ganged aboard. |
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| 25.10.2003 | Head of Steam. Railway Station. Huddersfield. | Dr Keith Thomas from Brulabs. Talk on Yeast and propagation + microscope work. | - | - | - |
| 31.01.2004 | The Leggers Inn. Dewsbury | Topic Talk. by Derek Pilkington. Rule of Thumb --- What makes "your" beer different? | Barley Wine 1.080 up |
Tom Yates | Peter Kennet Yorkshire Fed |
| 26.03.2004 | Brulabs Sunderland | Lads weekend away. 2 day brewing techniques course | - | - | - |
| 24.04.2004 | Stalybridge Station | Speaker was a "no show" so
the meeting became a feedback session for the information gathered at
Brulabs. Ingredients divided for Standard Beer Variable Hop experiment. |
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| 31.07.2004 | Howcroft Inn. Bolton | Topic Talk by Roy Dutson on Mini Mashing, | Steam Beer | Bill Lowe | Roy Dutson NGWBJ |
| 5.09.2004 | Tenbury Wells | Hop Walk. Tour of a working hop farm whilst harvesting with free samples. "Marvellous". | - | - | - |
| 30.10.2004 | St Thomas Church Hall. Huddersfield | Our Standard Grain Bill and Variable Hop tasting and evaluation session. | Set Recipe. Any hop | Joe Hughes | Members |
| 29.01.2005 | Cheshire Ring. Hyde | Michaela Miedl a graduate brewer from Germany. Talk about Decoction Mashing and German Brewing. | Christmas Ale1.045-1.080 | Bill Lowe | Dave Summerton NW . Fed |
| 26.02.2005 | Copper Dragon Brewery. Skipton | Steve Taylor, our former chairman, gave us a tour of his even bigger new 40 barrel plant | - | - | - |
| 15.04.2005 | Edinburgh Various locations. | Another "lads weekend" to meet the McBrewers with Tours around the city`s historic pubs , the Caledonian Brewery and McCowans Brewhouse | - | - | - |
| 31.07.2005 | Golden Ball York | Doug Hodkinson. Talk and tasting of IPA. James McCrorie attended | German Wheat Beer | Joe Hughes+ Ian Priddy | Alan Gough NGWBJ |
| Sept 2005 | Hook Norton Brewery. Hook Norton. Oxon. |
Another "lads weekend" away
to this fine old brewery still powered by a steam engine. |
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| 29.10.2005 | The Beartown Brewery and Tap. Congelton | Ian Priddy. talk on cider making from the Apple to the Bottle. + Brewer Tour | - | - | - |
| 18-21.01.2006 | Winter Ales Festival. Manchester | The NCB members ran a
stall at the annual Camra Winter Ales Festival. Over 200 of our bottles sampled by the public. Winter Ales Pictures |
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| 28.01.2006 | The Black Horse. Preston | Ian McAnally gave a talk
on his brewery recently featured in B.C. Allan Pepper stood down as chaiman. Derek Spedding elected.. |
Pale Ale | Martyn Pashley | David Aris. Yorkshire Fed |
| 28.02.2006 | Colne Municipal Hall | NCB had a "Dry Stand" at the first Pendle beer festival. Photo`s Banners Grain and Hop samples on display & Flyers distributed. | - | - | - |
| 29.04.2006 | Barge & Barrel. Elland | John Eastwood gave talk on cellarmanship. | - | - | - |
| 29.07.2006 | The Salutation. Doncaster | Chris Hall . Gave a talk on his day brewing the prizewinning Steam Beer recipe with Dave Sanders at the Elland Brewery | Historical Boddingtons | Tom Yates | Bill Lowe NGWBJ |
| 21.10.2006 | The Works. Sowerby Bridge. | David Edge. Book review. David pulled about 40 brewing books from his rucksack. (Davids rucksack was likened to Mary Poppins magic bag) We all wondered when the clothes stand would appear. | - | - | - |
| 27.01.2007 | Cricket Club. Todmorden | Organic brewing with Wim
van der Speck of Little Valley Brewery. Sampling Competition of our London Pride Clone |
London Pride |
Ian Priddy | Judged by all members |
| 27.02.2007 | Colne Municipal Hall | Pendle Beer Festival. Again a "dry" stand with some pictures of members breweries on display. Malt and hop samples for sniffing. Flyers distributed. | - | - | - |
| 28.04.2007 | The Cheshire Ring. Hyde | John Kerrane gave a talk on his Yeast experiment. He split a 5gall batch of and fermented with 5 different yeasts and brought along the resulting beer for sampling and evaluation. | - | - | - |
| 28.07.2007 | The Grove. Leeds | Clive Donald of Brupaks brought along some of his latest stock and also judged The ALT competition. Thomas Yates Talk on conical fermenters. | Dusseldorf Alt | Tom Yates | Clive Donald |
| 27.10.2007 | The Works. Sowerby Bridge. | Peter Robinson Gave a illustrated talk on the origin and history of Yorkshire Square Fermenters. Harry Goulding Gave an overveiw of the Brewery History Society. | - | - | - |
| 1.12.2007 | The Works. Sowerby Bridge | Xmas Get-together | - | - | - |
| 26.01.2008 | Heald Green Village Hall. Cheshire | English Pale Ale competition. Winner to brew same beer for the Derby inter-regional competition in April. Bill Lowe elected chairman as Derek Spedding stood down to be Webmaster. | English Pale Ale | Bill Lowe | Judged by all present. |
| 5.04.2008 | CBA Derby Festival. | We won the inter-regional award for a Pale Ale... Other winners from our group were -Rob Franklin -Thomas Yates -Nigel Atack & Bill Lowe. Well done all. An Excellent well organised event . Enjoyed by all who attended. | - | - | All beers judged by qualified Judges. |
| 26.04.2008 | Thwaites Brewery. Blackburn | Special tour with Head Brewer Steve Fielding. Later Steve gave a talk on how he develops new recipes. Pictures of Thwaites Brewery | - | - | - |
| 9.08.2008 | Lynn and Nigel Atack`s
garden. Doncaster |
Summer B.B.Q. Another good day. | Summer Ale 1.040-1.050 |
Harry Goulding | Frank Stead NGWBJ |
| 25.10.2008 | Little Valley Brewery. Mythomroyd | Tour of organic brewery and sampling. Explanation of the challenges involved producing organic beer. | - | - | - |
| 29.11.2008 | Stalybridge Buffet Bar. | Get-together for a Xmas social drink. (and pie and peas). | - | - | - |
| 31.01.2009 | Heald Green Village Hall. Cheshire | Timothy Taylors Landlord
clone competition. 14 entries of which most were judged to be
superior to the supplied control bottlesof Landlord. Heald Green Pictures |
English Pale Ale Landlord style. |
Martyn Pashley | Judged by all 20 members present |
| 26.04.2009 | Bay Horse Inn. Terrington | Tour of NCB member Rob Franklin`s 1 bbl brewpub. Talk by Rob of his transission from craft brewer making 5 gall batches to running a village pub and serving his own beer. Good food, good beer, good weather and a good day in a good pub.. Storyteller Brewery | - | - | - |
| 27.06.2009 | Copper Dragon Brewery Skipton | Another joint meeting with the Scottish Craft Brewers. Coopering demonstation by Roy Dutson. Inter regional competition . High tech brwery tour. A rematch is planned for 2011. Copper Dragon pics. | Scottish Eighty Shilling
Ale India Pale Ale |
Kenny Mowbray SCB Derek Spedding NCB |
Doug Hodkinson |
| 26 July2009 | Crown Inn Stockport | Meeting in historic pub
that was a finalist in the Camra pub of the year vote. Crown Pictures |
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| 31.10.2009 | The Sportsman. Huddersfield | Very informative talk on Water Treatment by Tony Barnsley. The group agreed to organise an inter-regional competition next September. Visit coincided with a pub beer festival. | - | - | - |
| 28.11.2009 | Jubilee Refreshment Rooms Sowerby Bridge station | Xmas meet up. Then moved on to The Works and Puzzel Hall. | |||
| 30.01.2010 | Heald Green Village Hall. Cheshire | AGM + India Pale Ale
competition and tasting. Bill Lowe re-elected as chairman Vote for the abolishment of membership fee was carried. Now those attending meetings to pay £2 to cover room hire etc. |
IPA | Tom Yates | Group |
| 24.04.2010 | The Works Sowerby Bridge | Interesting talk by Alan Gayton about the hop experiments that the Midlands members have been doing. Various arrangements for the Skipton National discussed. Big call for volunteers and entries. | - | - | - |
| 24.07.2010 | Doncaster | Summer BBQ + Summer Ale competition | - | - | - |
| 18.09.2010 | Copper Dragon Brewery Skipton | CBA 2010 National Full Results | - | - | - |