Five Star new kitchen

Thank you to all our customers and neighbours for your patience and bouquets to the Cannon Crew & kitchen team who have coped magnificently with the difficulties over the last few weeks while we’ve be operating from a temporary kitchen.

The good news is that the flooring is going down today and the new kitchen will be fully operational from sometime on Wednesday. There may be a bit of a hiatus for a day or two while everyone learns where to find everything, but hopefully, yet again, the smooth operation of the brasserie will be unaffected. Our Cannon Fodder menu over the last few weeks has featured lots of lovely warming and comforting stews and curries. We shall be seamlessly continuing into National Curry Week this week with more of the delicious curries Adrian and Som have been busy perfecting from their temporary base.

Just before we ripped it down and started to rebuild, the Cannon Kitchen received the top accolade of five gold stars under the Council Health Department’s “Scores on the Doors” scheme. If it were possible, we should now be in the running for an extra star with our new cooking, freezer and refrigerated storage facilities.

Christmas is coming

We had a great morning at Alder Carr Farmers' Market on Saturday tasting and selling our new Gunner's Daughter christmas puddings, new for this year, and made for us using our ale by Coles Traditional Puddings in Essex. I was able to try out the delicious combo of Gunner's Daughter Christmas pud with Alder Carr's amazing Christmas ice cream - a treat our Christmas party customers will be able to choose from our seasonal menu which starts on 1st Dec. I have to report it was scrummy, a match made in heaven! Roll on December!!

We sold a lot of our celebratory ale for St Edmund's Day too in mini casks as well as 'bright' in carry kegs - quite a lot of customers commented on how they'd read about the brew in The East Anglian earlier in the week or heard about it yesterday morning on BBC Radio Suffolk. It was surprising how few people knew that St Edmund was our country's first patron saint - we need to reinstate him, he's far more eligible than St George!

Wet or Dry it will be a great Bank Holiday at The Old Cannon!

Plans are almost finalised for the upcoming bank holiday and it does not matter if it rains or shines there will be a warm and beery welcome for all down at The Old Cannon.

Given the recent downpours we've taken the beer fest inside and there will be around 30 beers for you to try over the weekend. On the 'Angles, Picts and Vikings' theme there will be some East Anglian favouites, from Scotland 3 beers from Harviestoun, and 2 each from Stewarts and Inveralmonds, and the 'Viking element' comes from brewer Mattias Sjoberg from Compass Brewery with his King's Shipment (6%). The Old Cannon's founder brewer Richard Eyton Jones is sending down some of his new Dark Horse brewery's Heton Pale Ale and, for those of you who like a strong one, we'll have Oakham's Attila at 7.5%!

Music will be provided by Nik Lowe and his band Sunday lunchtime; last year's favourites ‘Allaidh Modhan’ (www.modhan.com) will be back on Sunday evening playing their “funked up folk” and Monday afternoon will feature the wonderful 'George Breakfast and the Cornflakes'.
Fun starts at 12 Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Beer Festival Aye, Aye, Aye!

Yes, the third (aye, aye, aye!) Old Cannon Beer Festival is coming up and plans are already well underway to welcome ales from North of the Border (not Norfolk this time, but Scotland!) as well as the best of the Angles (your favourites from the last two years) and even some from Viking land.

The taste of summer at last!

New potatoes from Eye, smoked trout from Orford, delicious crayfish from the north Norfolk coast and a lovely soft ewe's cheese from Thetford - delicious! And what could be more summery and 'Old Cannon-ish' than local chicken Caesar salad topped with warm Suffolk beer bacon lardons! Our new summer Cannon Fodder menu board went up this weekend and now all we need is the sun...

George Breakfast & The Cornflakes

Monday's Bank Holiday will see a very different sort of breakfast served up at The Old Cannon. George Breakfast and The Cornflakes to be precise! So come on down for his own special serving of country, blues and jazz - from 3pm.

Eat Dragon on St George's Day

To celebrate England's patron saint's day today, our chef Adrian has dreamed up some delicious 'Dragon Sausages'. Made with finest Suffolk pork and flavoured with dangerously hot Suffolk chilli from our local Chilli Farm in Mendlesham, you too can breath fire!.

April 17th Morris Men Day of Dance

The Old Cannon was overrun today (Saturday) by Morris Men from all over the country.

Some of the 55 groups visiting Bury for the National Day of Dance called in at the brewery for impromptu dance sessions and plenty of refreshing beer!

The Rt Hon Peter Lilley MP for Hitchin & Harpenden pulling a pint of OCB’s Rusty Gun

The Rt Hon Peter Lilley MP for Hitchin & Harpenden pulling a pint of OCB’s Rusty Gun. Our fine ale, first brewed at The Old Cannon last Autumn, has been chosen as the house ale of a new hostelry in Hertfordshire, also known as The Rusty Gun.

April 7th New Spring Menu

Spring is in the air and on the new Cannon Fodder menu which starts today. Delicious new season Cromer crab, Cornish sea bass and local lamb complement the Old Cannon favourites most popular dishes: our famous Gunner's Daughter sausages or fresh Lowestoft cod fried in beer batter.

April 5th Hop Monday

Hoppy Easter

Cask Ale Week closes on Easter Monday which is also designated 'Hop' Monday in celebration of that vital ingredient that gives beer its character and flavour. The Old Cannon will be open all day and be celebrating with live, acoustic music from Adrian Nation and Ash Vigor.

March 29th National Cask Ale Week

There will be much to celebrate over Easter this year when The Old Cannon Brewery in Bury St Edmunds joins many of the nation’s best pubs next week in raising a glass to real ale and toasting everything that’s brilliant about beer.