A BURNLEY brewery has announced its bubbling Hallowe’en brew had record sales over the spooky season.

Moorhouse’s Brewery Ltd, located in Moorhouse Street, is celebrating selling more than half-a-million pints of its “Pendle Witches” ale.

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The firm’s beers include Ruby Witch, White Witch, Pendle Witches Brew and Blond Witch.

The brands are themed around the story of the ill-fated “witches” who roamed Pendle Hill in the early 17th century.

The ale-makers celebrated its 150th birthday this year and laid on a two-day Hallowe’en Festival of Beer with spooks and spiders after decorating up its brewery to fit the occasion.

Managing director David Grant said that his team has worked tremendously hard to achieve record growth again this year against all the challenges and problems of the current market.

He said: “Despite many pubs closing each week and the number of micro-brewers growing relentlessly, our quality beers have won through.

“It seems that the trend to the lighter coloured blonde beers is still growing with Blond Witch and White Witch performing so well out of our six core beer list.

“We have only recently put White Witch on as permanent since it was launched as a seasonal ale just two years ago, but it is terrifically popular as a tasty, easy drinking brew everywhere it appears.”

This follows growth at six per cent for last financial year with sales close to £6m for the former ‘backstreet” Burnley brewery, which in 2011 opened a new multi-million pound brewery to treble production.