With the difficulties the pub and catering trade has been facing in the last year or so, alongside the growing interest in food sourcing, and keeping things local, the Polgooth Inn near St Austell is getting back to basics to make sure their customers know exactly what they are getting on their plate.

As well as making their own meaty burgers and marinating olives on site, they are now curing their own ham, and making their own sausages, with plans in the pipeline to make hogs pudding and cure bacon in-house too.

St Austell Brewery has launched a delicious new ale designed to add it a bit of spice to the lives of real ale fans across the South West. 

Cockleroaster - ­­ a delicious chilli and chocolate infused stout – is the first new beer in an exciting seasonal ale programme launched by St Austell Brewery for 2010. 

The Brewery has teamed up with the award-winning South Devon Chilli Farm to create Cockleroaster, which is a 4.5 % abv ale. 

One of Cornwall’s most successful pubs has reopened after a major £150,000 refurbishment to give it a stylish and fresh new look. 

St Austell Brewery’s hugely popular Central Inn, in Newquay, has had a three-week designer makeover to its interior decorations, as well as new furniture and lighting… including a giant new 20ft x 5ft high-tech LED light wall on its dance floor. 

Staff at St Austell Brewery’s Falcon Inn, St Mawgan, celebrated British Yorkshire Pudding Day (Sunday Feb 7) by cooking up this whopper to accompany their Sunday’s roasts.