Initially an A4 magazine, the format changed to 16 pages of A5 in 1995, and by 2002 editor Adrian Hennessy stated in the programme for that year’s Norwich Beer Festival that around 8,500-9,000 copies, each of 20-24 pages, were printed and distributed in the (then) Norwich & Norfolk branch area six times a year. This was reduced to quarterly from 2003.
In 2009 West Norfolk Branch’s magazine Cask Force joined .. forces with Norfolk Nips with the new publication carrying the title of Norfolk Nips & Cask Force.
The 2019 editions of Norfolk Nips were awarded National Magazine of the Year, the first time the magazine had won the title. Unfortunately, due to the COVID pandemic, editor Lucy Cousins was unable to collect the award, as the Members Weekend 2020, due to take place in April of that year, was cancelled.
2019 also saw changes to the look of the magazine, with Cask Force being dropped from the title, and a new, cleaner logo.
The only edition published in 2020 was the Spring edition, in March, immediately prior to the COVID pandemic.as pubs were closed from late March to July, all of November, and from early January 2021.
The magazine returned after the pubs reopened in May 2021, with two editions being published, the second sporting a new-look cover with a larger title.
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Editors
- Lucy Cousins edition 188 Spring 2019 – present
- Chris Lucas, ‘Stig’ editions 171 Winter 2014 – 187 Winter 2018/19
- Mike Baldwin editions 153 Summer 2010 – 170 Autumn 2014
- Mike Baldwin & Warren Wordsworth edition 152 Spring 2010
- Graham Freeman & Warren Wordsworth editions 150 Autumn 2009 – 151 Winter 2009
- Andrea Kirkby editions 144 Spring 2008 – 149 Summer 2009
- Adrian Hennessy edition 81 October 1995 – 143 Winter 2007-8
- Sarah Anne Burns edition 80 August 1995
- Sarah Dent editions 77 February 1995 – 79 June 1995
- Rod & Sarah Dent editions 38 August 1988 – 76 December 1994
- Paul Moorhouse editions 22 Christmas 1985 (as Publications Co-ordinator) – 37 June 1988
- Not known, probably Paul Moorhouse, edition 21 Beer Festival Special October 1985
- Jason Tillyard editions 11 February 1984 – 20 July 1985
- Paul Moorhouse editions 1 July 1982 – 10 December 1983