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TV star Eamonn Holmes toasts new Stourbridge brewery

Eamonn Holmes was flying the flag for the Black Country as he helped celebrate the launch of a £500,000 new brewery in Stourbridge.

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The presenter was invited to attend an event to mark the completion of work at the Sadler's Ales brewery site in Station Drive, Lye, attended by staff and customers.

It has taken eight months to convert the former warehouse into the facility, which will increase the firm's beer production from one million pints annually to three million.

While no new jobs have yet been created as part of the expansion bosses are planning to take on more people.

Eamonn Holmes who has been at the opening of the Sadler's Brewery new base in Lye, Stourbridge.

A new upstairs bar, which will open on Fridays and Saturdays, will also be created. Bosses said the firm's established brewery at the Windsor Castle pub in Stourbridge Road would continue operating, with the two sites complimenting each other. Mr Holmes, who visited the brewery last year, said he was delighted to have been invited.

He met staff and guests, including Dudley Council leader Pete Lowe and James Stevens, of Black Country folk band The Empty Can. He also posed with the Black Country flag.

The presenter, who is friends with bosses at the brewery, said: "My son Declan is interested in brewing craft beers and became a Twitter friend of the brewery's sales director Ian King.

"They began chatting over social media and started talking about the work being done here. It has really come on and the work which has been done is impressive."

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