The next Beer Festival is planned for 2nd - 5th March 2012
After the huge success of our last festival we shall have at least 60 ales and ciders.
Focusing once again on the very best Micro breweries across the UK.
Beers now being added daily !
Abbeydale Dark Matter ABV 3.6%. A dark mild beer. Toast and biscuit flavours from the dark malts, subtle hop flavours and a well-balanced finish, not too bitter.
Abigale Samphire Bitter 4.1% Golden amber, a good, solid, bitter with an aroma of malt and Kentish hops; then a biscuity malt flavour, leading to a fruity hop finish.
Aylesbury Brew House Old Glory 4.8% An American Wheat beer with the classic unfiltered hazy appearance. All American hops give fruity aroma to this crisp light bodied beer. Its great clean taste, with a bite of bitterness, makes this a refreshing alternative
Bays Up ‘n’ Under 4% This is a light, easy drinking session beer using a variety of English hops and local Devon malts.
Binghams Coffee Stout 5% Deep ruby, near black, colour. Aroma is roasted malts, some liquorice and mild coffeeish and toffeeish notes. Flavour is roasted malts, coffee, some toffee and dark fruity notes.
Black Cat Hopsmack 4% Bright gold appearance. Good clean zesty citrus on the nose with some floral notes. Lots of lemon on the palate. Very refreshing.
Blue Anchor Spingo Jubilee IPA 4.6%
Buxton Kinder Downfall 4.3% A refreshing, full ?avoured, hoppy golden ale. Mellow marmalade and fruity citrus grapefruit ?avours and aromas are balanced with a gentle malt background to give a very pleasing beer.
Dancing Duck Nice Weather for Ducks 4.1% A copper coloured, fruity, summer ale packed full of flavour. Blackberry, strawberry and floral rose notes in perfect balance with just the right amount of malt character.
Dent Porter 3.8% A dark classic traditional English porter, with delicate tones of five different malts, a rich smooth head and lingering light bitter after-taste.
Elland Scarlettes Fury 4.3% Vibrant red bitter, massively hopped with New World varieties to give furious flavour and bitterness.
Fat Cat Wild Cat 5% A straw-coloured ale, giving some initial light, fruity sweetness. This is counter-balanced by First Gold hops, leaving you with an extremely long, dry finish and a refreshing bitterness.
Fyne Ales Jarl 3.8% A full-on citrus experience. Light and golden, a perfect ale for whiling away the hours on a sunny day.
Grain Brewery Best Bitter 4.2% A malty traditional amber ale, brewed with a blend of pale ale, chocolate and crystal malts.
Green Dragon Strong Mild 5.4% Chestnut brown in colour, aroma is of dark fruit, taste is full with fruit,chocolate and toffee,dry finish.
Green Jack Orange Wheat Beer 4.2% Light, with grainy citrus & marmalade flavours.
Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild 6% Clear dark brown with hint of orangey/red, initial sticky sweetness, hint of dandelion and burdoch, lasting dryness.
Isle of Purbeck Best Bitter 3.6% Aroma is malts and toffee. Palate is medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours are malts, toffee, nuts, hops, sweetness and bitterness.
Itchen Valley Fagin’s 4.1% A light brown, well-balanced beer with fine malts, dry citrus flavors and well-hopped.
Kelham Island Bete Noire 5.5% A dark, ruby winter beer. Malt and caramel, along with some fruitiness and dryness, are in the taste, which also has plum notes and chocolate, and develops into a dry, but sweet, aftertaste.
Leeds Eager Owl 4% An amber brown session ale. Subtle malt and hops give clean apple and caramel flavours with a smooth and satisfying finish
Ludlow Best Bitter 3.7% Fruity aroma. Amber coloured fruity and sweet on the palate with a honey flavour. A hint of dryness in a bitter malt finish.
Magic Rock Highwire 5.5% Mango, Lychee and Grapefruit flavours harmonise against a smoothly composed malt base which develops into a crisp bitter finish.
Milk Street Gulp 3.5% Golden-straw colour. Earthy hop aroma with lemony accents Very bitter body, with earthy notes, hints of mushrooms and cheshire cheese. Complex, tasty session bitter.
Oakham Preacher 4.3% A rich, full bodied chestnut coloured beer with a smooth delicate bitterness. Plenty of sweet malty flavours with a divine, powerful fruity hop flavour and a heavenly aroma.
Rebellion Mutiny 4.5% A reddish, full bodied premium ale, with a rich malty flavour & a lasting, hoppy & bittersweet finish.
Redemption Urban Dusk 4.6% Chestnut coloured best bitter with pale chocolate malt providing coffee aromas and some hazelnut and caramel on the palate, with dark fruit flavours. Citrus notes and an earthy bitterness last into the finish.
Roosters Yankee 4.3% Pale coloured premium aromatic bitter. Our best selling beer. Aromas of Turkish delight, lychees and sometimes Muscat grapes. Soft bitterness.
Salopian Oracle 4% Gold with white head. Malty biscuity body, quite crisp leading to a sharp hoppy, tangy flavour, citric, grapefruit and refreshingly bitter. good fresh hoppy beer.
Saltaire Cascadian Black 4.8% A black IPA, with the roast malt flavours of a stout and the bitterness and fresh pine aroma of the Cascade hop.
Sheffield Beer Works Dr. Moretons Ancient Grease 4.4% A pale beer with a rounded full-bodied flavour. The aromas are grassy and herby while the flavours are herby with spicy fruits and hints of blackberry and melon. The finish is dry and has a long-lasting bitterness.
Summer Wine Gambit 4.2% Gold with white head. Sharp, hoppy, fruity beer, grapefruit skin, pithy, lasting on the palate. Juicy to the last.
Vale Spring Promise 3.9% This is a delicate Copper coloured bitter, with a fresh clean taste.
Wentworth Oatmeal Stout 4.8% Black-brown with red fruit, milk chocolate and treacle nose, smooth, sweetish and roasty.
White Horse Village Idiot 4.1% A beer well hopped with Challenger/Bramling cross hops with a base of fine pale malt and wheat gives a light straw coloured beer with a lasting fruity aftertaste.
Wye Valley
York
Yorkshire Dales Garsdale Smokebox 5.6% Black, off-white head. Smoky, roastiness, hop, alcohol. Bitter. Dry finish.
