The award-winning West Wales brewer Evan-Evans is reporting record sales in the lead up to the Easter break.
Despite the dramatic change in the weather, it seems that licensees across Wales are hoping for a busy weekend.
Evan-Evans Group Chief Executive Simon Buckley said: Easter has been a busy time for us with record demand for our beers and customers searching for our new Easter Ale.
We have just completed a rebranding exercise, with a total rebrand of our Evan-Evans products.
Over the winter months we have been trialling a host of new beers for the Welsh market, and Easter Ale is the first of the new seasonal beers.
We have six new seasonal beers for our customers to try in 2012.
We now have reputation for brewing some of the best beers in Wales and for having the widest range of seasonal ales from any one brewer in the Principality.
We will be increasing our brand range with a new organic beer range, which will be priced at the same price as traditional beers.
Despite the recent increase in duty, customers are determined to have a good time. We are seeing increasing demand from all over Wales.
Cask ale is still outperforming the UK beer market, and the large international brewing companies are looking to us small brewers to produce the beers that they cannot produce for this market.
We hope to announce further strategic brewing alliances in the late spring.
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Evan-Evans has a reputation for brewing the highest quality cask-conditioned beers. Evan-Evans is Waless largest specialist brewer of cask ale. The company started brewing in 2004 to produce specialist cask ales for the Welsh and national guest ale market.
The brewing heritage of the Buckley family stretches back to the early 19th century after the Rev James Buckley married the eldest daughter of Henry Child who had founded Childs Brewery in Llanelli. It was set up to slake the thirst of the towns tinworkers, who were rapidly increasing in numbers.
Evan-Evans was founded in Llandeilo in 2003 and began brewing in 2004. It is named after William Evan-Evans who married into the family four generations ago
Photo: Simon Buckley.

Carmarthens leading theatre arts school, Stagecoach, is already planning its summer activities.
Mums and dads planning summer holidays for their children will be delighted to learn that the Stagecoach team will be holding a week-long workshop, from August 6-10.
We all know it can be difficult planning activities for children during the long summer holidays, said Stagecoach Carmarthen principal Liane Davies.
But were making it easy, at least for one week!
Stagecoach Theatre Arts Carmarthen will be staging two different workshops side by side at the Queen Elizabeth High School.
We are very lucky, said Liane.
Julia Donaldson, the author of Gruffalo (a real childrens favourite) has given us permission to stage a workshop for four to six-year-olds.
The children will get a pretty intense week working on the Gruffalo, but we promise it will be fun all the way.
The week will lead up to a special performance of the Gruffalo on Friday, August 10.
For the older children, the six to 18-year-olds, we will be doing Disneys Beauty and the Beast, again with a week of rehearsals leading up to a show at the end.
The workshops are open to all students whether they are current members of Stagecoach or not.
Its a busy time for everyone at Stagecoach.
The popular musical Annie is the groups featured show this year and will take to the stage at The Lyric Theatre in King Street, Carmarthen, ) on Friday and Saturday, July 20 and 21.
Its the schools third annual production, following on the successes of Billy Elliot and last years production of Oliver.
The school recently marked St Davids Day by launching new bilingual classes for early years pupils.
And Stagecoach Theatre Arts Carmarthen has also launched a new afternoon school following the success of the morning classes.
Demand for places at Stagecoach is huge and there is a waiting list to get places, said Liane.
We put the accent firmly on quality teaching here at Stagecoach and we limit class numbers to 15 pupils per class.
That philosophy of making sure that the quality of teaching is at the highest level does, of course, mean that we cannot always accommodate everyone.
But we are doing our best to expand our services.
The new afternoon classes will be for the six to 18-year-olds age group and will run from 2.30pm to 5.30pm. We already have morning classes between 10am and 1pm.
Stagecoach Theatre Arts Carmarthen has its main base at the Model Church in Wales School.
The school opened in May 2009 and became an instant success. The school now attracts students from the three counties of Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion.
Principal Liane added: Our aim is always to nurture and develop four to 18-year-olds to fulfil their potential through dance, drama and singing.
If you want to find out more about Stagecoach Carmarthen, contact Principal Liane Davies, phone: 0845 604 1422. Email - carmarthen@stagecoach.co.uk.
Website - http://www.stagecoach.co.uk/carmarthen

Entry Fee 10 inclusive of food. Closing date for entries Saturday, April 7.
Boys - 0 20 Handicap (18 Hole Medal/White Tees); 21 28 Handicap (18 Hole Stableford/Yellow Tees).
Girls - 0-36 Handicap (18 Hole Medal/Red Tees)
Starting times will be available online on Monday, April 9. See http://www.ashburnhamgolfclub.co.uk
For further info: Ashburnham Junior Organisers Richard Brice 07917 276741 or Simon Greville 07971 229267
Latest results
Ladies GUW Medal Section2
1, Susan Collard, 87 - 12 = 75; 2, Marie Hale, 100 - 23 = 77; 3, Eleanor Roberts, 101 - 22 = 79.
PGA National
1, Philip Rudall, 41 pts (19);2, Carl Stimson, 40 pts (09);3, Steffan Jones, 39 pts (02).
Ladies GUW Medal Section 1
1, Elizabeth Antoniazzi, 113 - 35 = 78; 2, Barbara Buckland, 109 - 27 = 82; 3, Iris Jacob, 118 - 36 = 82.
Wales Open Qualifier
1, Mark Bathgate, 41 pts (18); 2, Derek William Connor, 41 pts (23); 3, Roger Rees, 41 pts (12).
Junior Stableford Boys
1, Lewis Rhys Morgan, 42 pts (27); 2, Aled Greville, 39 pts (16); 3, Osian Bowen, 38 pts (23).
Stableford
1, Elwyn Hughes, 40 pts (10); 2, Wynford North, 39 pts (20); 3, Brian Beynon, 38 pts (20).
Stableford
1, John Beynon, 43 pts (11); 2, Simon Hill, 41 pts (15); 3, Robert Green, 40 pts (20).
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Burry Port Town Band have been crowned Welsh First Section Champions, after beating off the challenge of six other bands at the Welsh Regional Brass Band Championships in Swanseas Brangwyn Hall.
Having finished the 2011 season in fine style, winning the last two contests of the year, the band maintained their fine run of form in a result which earned them a qualifying place at the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain in Cheltenham in September, and which also ensured that they regained their Championship Section status after just two years in the First Section.

The latest 'View from Richmond Park' Carmarthen Town AFC column is in the Carmarthen Journal newspaper today.

The Cefn Sidan Rotary Club meeting report in the Llanelli Star puts the spotlight on the latest guest speaker, someone called Robert Lloyd!
Nice spotlight on the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 'Grand Slam' charity night in the Llanelli Star today.
Nice story about the Ashburnham Golf Club Open Day (this Saturday) in the Llanelli Star today.
The Ashburnham Golf Club's new 'Fab Fore' membership offers are featured in the Llanelli Star and the Carmarthen Journal.
The latest 'View from Richmond Park' Carmarthen Town AFC column is in the Carmarthen Journal today.
The latest Looking After Business column from Carmarthen accountants Clay Shaw Butler is in the Carmarthen Journal today.
Llandeilo brewer Simon Buckley's latest Iechyd Da brewing column is in the Carmarthen Journal today.
Aberglasney head gardener Joseph Atkin's latest gardening column is in the Carmarthen Journal newspaper today.
Smashing picture story in the Carmarthen Journal today about Stagecoach Carmarthen theatre arts group staging the musical Annie this summer.
Llandeilo brewer Simon Buckley expresses fears Sainsbury's will kill Llandeilo in a letter in the Carmarthen Journal today.
Carmarthen Journal puts the spotlight on the big Sainsbury's superstore debate (quotes from town brewer Simon Buckley) today.
Nice story about the countdown to the Carmarthen Mayor's Fun Run races (May 7) in the Carmarthen Journal today.

It wasnt so much Bore da as Zdrvstvuite at the Jenkins Bakery HQ in Trostre, Llanelli.
The bakery rolled out the welcome mat for a delegation of 28 Russian bakery managers and owners.
The bakers, some of the most well-established and well-regarded in Russia, were visiting the UK as part of a trade mission.
The visit was arranged by the Swansea bakery equipment manufacturer, Mono Equipment, which has long-standing links with bakery businesses in Russia, explained the Jenkins Bakerys operations manager Russell Jenkins.
As an award-winning bakery business, we at Jenkins were delighted to play hosts to the Russian delegates and give them a factory tour and samples of our extensive product range.
Some of the delegates had travelled from far-flung corners of Russian and were delighted to find that they had left temperatures of minus 14 behind at home to experience our splendid warm spring sunshine.
Mr Jenkins said the delegates were very interested in all aspects of production at the Jenkins factory and distribution HQ.
Fortunately, we had a couple of Russian interpreters on hand, smiled Mr Jenkins, so I hope they were able to grasp some of the details of our famous corned beef pasties, custard slices and Welsh cakes!
They all seemed very impressed and were very keen to tuck into some of our products at the end of the tour.
The delegation was accompanied by Donna Haynes, export manager at Fforestfach-based Mono Equipment.
She said: The bakers spent some time at a trade show in Birmingham before coming to Swansea and West Wales. The mission was organised by the International Industrial Academy in Russia, whose Deputy Director has previously accompanied groups of Russian bakers to Mono.
The purpose of the visit was to introduce the bakers to British technology and concepts.
Judging by the feedback from the group, they seemed very impressed with the operations at the Jenkins Bakery and I am sure they will take plenty of ideas back to Russia!
The Jenkins bakery employs 300 people, full and part-time, across 25 different stores in South Wales.
The company has the Gold Standard Welsh Food Hygiene Award and the Investors in People award.
The business employs 70 people at its Trostre HQ, while the Jenkins shop network stretches from Carmarthen to Bridgend. There are 13 shops in Carmarthenshire and even one as far afield as Powys.
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