January ’10

Andy and Rosie join the team – With sales up 48% from 2009, new team members were needed and both Andy Hatch (deliveries) and Rosie Cotgrave (sales) jumped aboard!

April ’10

Sponsorship of Palm FM’s first ever Pub Quiz

May ’10

Local MP celebrates election victory with Bays –Rather than celebrating victory with imported French champagne, we offered our local MP’s the opportunity to celebrate with their locally brewed beer. Winning candidate Adrian Sanders duly accepted!

Pirate’s win back world record! Once again we happily sponsored the Brixham Buccanears in their world record attempt for gathering the most pirates in one place. They easily beat last years attempt and also won the record back from the American pirates!

June ’10

Sponsorship of local Beer Festival – For the first time Bays Brewery sponsored the highly successful ‘Summermoon Festival’ held in Kingskerswell. The festival offers great live music, local beers and other entertainment!

Topsail Launched - Topsail was launched in June at the Occombe Farm Beer Festival. Since its launch, it has fast become one of Bays most popular beers!

July ’10

Sponsorship of First ever South Devon Music Festival – Newton Abbot was the rocking venue for the first ever South Devon Music Festival. A highlight of the day was Will Young requesting a pint of Bays whilst on stage, which he happily downed in one!

Marldon Apple Pie Fair - We were delighted to be asked to run a bar for the 2010 Marldon Apple Pie Fair, a truly fun day for all the family.

October ’10

Sponsorship of the Dartmouth Food Festival

December ’10

Jingle Ale Launched in bottles

National Award Win - We were honoured to win the best ‘Promotion and PR’ Award at the National Brewing Business Awards. 

Judges praised us for our ‘’holistic in-house strategy which was an all-round example of brilliant promotion and PR by a local brewery team without the financial resources to outsource their marketing. Bays Brewery should be very proud of its win.”