CASK BEERS (WITH % Alcohol by Volume)

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CASK BEERS (WITH % Alcohol by Volume)

Twickenham Beer & Cider Festival 2015 CASK BEERS (% Single Hop with bitterness traditional mild ale Alcohol By (Flyer) IPA bursting through, malts Volume) (4.6) from a very dry bitter DANCING DUCK series of IPA finish; unfined - Brewery, Derby 1. style brews, may have a slight Dark Drake but with a haze (4.5) Velvety different hop Mothership oatmeal stout, each time; this Amber Ale (5.5) winning ‘Bronze’ in one has Flyer - American-style 2015 Champion a citrusy amber ale with Beer of Britain at resinous hop resinous hop notes Olympia in August, ARUNDEL with toffee coming through a after winning ‘Gold’ Brewery, and liquorice sweet malt base, in the Stout Ford, W. notes followed by a long category and Sussex AYLESBURY bitter finish; unfined ‘Bronze’ overall at Black Brewhouse, BRIGHTWATER the Champion Stallion (3.7) Aylesbury,Bu Brewery, Winter Beer of Smooth tasting cks. Claygate, Surr. Britain competition lightly-hopped dark Way Back Top Notch in January mild with distinct When (4.1) From a (3.6) Balanced DERWENT chocolate and micro -brewery amber ale with Brewery, Silloth, roasty notes specialising in ‘one- floral Cumbria ASCOT Ales, off’ experimental hoppiness Whitwell & Camberley, beers, this is a leading to a Marks Mild (3.7) Surrey return to the old clean, bitter Recreation of an Alligator days, as only finish. historic brew from Ale (4.6) Golden Fuggles and Daisy Gold the Whitwell & Mark ale with Cascade Goldings hops have (4.0) Golden ale Brewery in Kendal, hops for a been used in this with a moderate formerly marketed grapefruit aroma traditional brew. No tropical fruit hoppy as Dark Mild, it may and refreshing tasting notes as yet character and some now be found as thirst-quenching BALLARDS balancing malt, and W&M Mild; hints of bitterness Brewery, a bittersweet finish chocolate and Nyewood, W. All Citra caramel, but a Sussex (4.3) Only Citra nutty malt finish Midhurst hops are used DORKING Mild (3.4) giving a bitter with Brewery, Traditional dark bite and distinctly Dorking, Surrey mild, well-balanced citrus flavour; very and refreshing with refreshing Smokestack a biscuity flavour Lightnin’ (4.0) BIG SMOKE Brew Robust subtly- Co, Surbiton, Gtr. BURSCOUGH hopped red ale Lond Brewing Co, infused with smoky Solaris Burscough, Lancs notes produced Session Pale (3.8) Flat Rib from beech-smoked From the brewery Mild (3.6) Classic malt at the Antelope pub mild, dark and Red India in Surbiton, fruity satisfying, produced Ale (5.0) Strong, golden-amber beer with crystal and hoppy red beer, Rev.2 updated October 16th Page | 1 Twickenham Beer & Cider Festival 2015 with hints of fruit bitterness and KEW Brewery, cake (!) and background hops, East Sheen, Gtr. caramel from the leaving a tingling London malts, but a aftertaste; awarded Kew Green pleasing bitterness GREAT ORME ‘Silver’ in this (& Black) (3.4) Buffalo Brewery, year’s CBOB at Voted ‘Beer of the Buffalo (5.1) New Llandudno, Olympia in August Festival’ at Ealing in American Pale Ale- Conwy July - out of around style beer - amber Welsh 300 beers, a rich colour with a Black (4.0) complex reported buttery Smooth-tasting bittersweet aroma, ‘seriously dark beer with roast HOP BACK chocolate milk stout good’ coffee notes in Brewery, brewed with 4 DOWNTON aroma and taste; Downton, Wilts. malts, oats, organic Brewery Co., awarded ‘Bronze’ in Crop Circle chocolate and milk Downton, Wilts. the Mild category at (4.2) Barley and sugar, and cacao German CBOB at Olympia wheat malts and nibs added late for Pale Ale (4.2) this year flaked maize are even more Seasonal special so HANLONS used for this very chocolate named as 4 Brewery, Newton tasty yellow bitter Pagoda German-grown hop St Cyres, Devon with complex hop, No.2 Pale (4.3) 2nd varieties are used; Port Stout fruit and citrus brew of the 2nd in a clean bitter finish (4.8) Recreation of aroma and flavours series of brews to Pumpkin the beer originally and a bittersweet this style with Ale (4.2) Locally- brewed by finish; said to be different hop grown organic O’Hanlons, whose gluten-free varieties used each pumpkins are recipes were although to date time, No.2 having mashed into this bought when they only the bottled lots of UK grown very popular annual closed; black beer version has been Cascade hops Hallowe’en special, with ruby port certified as so by giving soft giving it an orange added to the brew; Coeliac UK grapefruit flavours hue roast malt flavour KELBURN and a fruity aroma; FRENSHAM gives way to Brewing Co., unfined, so may Brewery, bitterness in the Barrhead, E. have a natural haze Frensham, Surrey aftertaste; won Renfrews. Petersham Rambler ‘Bronze’ in the Jaguar (4.5) Porter (4.0) (3.9) Refreshing ‘Speciality’ Full-bodied ale with Rich, complex golden session ale category at CBOB bite, with porter with a blend with well-rounded this year undertones of of 5 malts, gently floral and hop HIGHLAND grapefruit and a dry-hopped to aromas and Brewing Co., lasting citrusy complement the satisfying bitterness Swannay, Orkney finish; awarded toffee and treacle Forager Scapa ‘Silver’ at this notes (4.2) Rich copper- Special (4.2) All year’s Champion Richmond coloured ale; subtle the way from Beer of Britain in Rye (4.3) Pale oak and vanilla Orkney, but August, after hoppy rye beer with notes are offset by strangely described getting ‘Gold’ in the spiciness from the a caramel/spicy hop as a good copy of a Golden Ales rye and big doses of balance typical Lancashire category 3 hop varieties for bitter, full of spicy berry and Rev.2 updated October 16th Page | 2 Twickenham Beer & Cider Festival 2015 blossom aroma; their 10th MILLIS Brewing balanced amber unfined, so may anniversary at their Co., South session bitter with a have a natural haze present location Darenth, Kent fruity nose and KISSINGATE and for the 50th Dartford bitter taste; a Brewery, anniversary of Wobbler (4.3) regular offering at Lower Maris Otter malted Tawny-coloured full- the Triple Crown Beeding, W. barley, recently bodied best bitter and White Swan in Sussex celebrated at a with complex malt Richmond Black Norwich festival and hop flavours Cherry Mild (4.2) AEgir (7.5) and a long, clean, THE PARK Real black cherries Seasonal brew, slightly-roasted Brewery, (in muscavado) are launched here last finish Kingston-upon- added to the brew year, named after a MORDUE Thames, Gtr. to produce this mythological Norse Brewery, North London mild, that has a giant sea god who Shields, Tyne & Killcat Pale light Amarillo hosted parties for Wear (3.7) from the hopping for a the other gods, but IPA (5.1) micro-brewery near wonderful taste the beer is of a Easy-drinking Richmond Park experience; smoked Baltic strong beer with (note the beer awarded joint porter style, as was plenty of hoppy names), a straw- ‘Silver’ in the brewed in the Baltic bitterness, coloured beer with Speciality Beers states and exported especially at the grapefruit aroma category at CBOB to Scandinavian end; bottled version and bitterness from at Olympia this year countries; smooth won an award at the hops, and a dry, Sussex and richly malty this year’s CBOB bitter finish; note – (4.0) Glorious sweet, but good NEW PLASSEY unfiltered/unfined, chestnut beer with hop balance Brewery, Eyton, so naturally hazy simple roasted malt LITTLE BEER Clwyd Gallows notes, a gentle Corp., Guildford, Midnight Gold (4.4) deeper flowery bitterness Surrey Mild (4.2) Medium colour and more and a crisp Little Haka strength mild with a bittersweet than bittersweet malty (3.5) Not a ‘special’ real fullness of above with finish for the RWC but a character and pineapple like notes Powder regular brew; a pale flavour, dark and from the hops and Blue Blueberry ale with New subtle Crystal malt; also Porter (5.5) Full- Zealand hop OLD SCHOOL unfiltered/unfined, bodied with strong varieties with some Brewery, Warton, so naturally hazy dark roasty tastes, aroma of passion- Lancs. PARTNERS subtle blueberry fruit; light-bodied Hopscotch Brewery, and raisin notes and thirst- (3.7) Sunshine- Hightown, W. and a gentle quenching coloured pale ale, Yorks. gathering bitterness Little balancing a crisp Head ‘n’ LANGHAM Tenderness (4.0) astringent taste Feed (4.2) from the Brewery, American-style with a delicate former Anglo-Dutch Lodsworth, amber ale with light lasting hoppiness of Brewery, a W. Sussex biscuit and caramel citrus fruits refreshing hoppy Decennium sweetness, but OTTER Brewery, beer with malt (4.0) Blonde heavily dry-hopped Luppitt, Devon flavours and a clean robustly-hopped ale with Cascade hops Bitter (3.6) finish, specially brewed specially for Classic well- Rev.2 updated October 16th Page | 3 Twickenham Beer & Cider Festival 2015 brewed for rugby- Best Bitter Shere Drop related events Scrumdown (3.8) category, and joint- (4.2) Multi-award- PHIPPS NBC, Malty bitter brewed Bronze in that winning hoppy ale Northampton with dark crystal category this year with some Red Star and chocolate SAMBROOK’S balancing malt and (3.8) From the re- malts, and First Brewery, slight fruity commissioned Gold hops; an Battersea, Gtr. sweetness; Victorian-built occasional brew for London regularly available Albion Brewery, a rugby events at the Crown in full-bodied Midland RUDGATE Pumphouse Pale Richmond Road red bitter from a Brewery, Ale (4.2) Greensand recipe ‘passed on’ Tockwith, N. Refreshing golden IPA (4.6) Strong- from the 1950s Yorks. beer with hints of flavoured and easy- Ratliffe’s Ruby Mild citrus lingering into drinking IPA, with Stout (4.3) (4.4) Multi-award- the bitter finish; intense grapefruit Marketed as winning beer, ‘flies out the and hops in the ‘Celebrated’ stout including ‘Silver’ in window’ when aroma and taste, as it used to be, a the Mild category at found in our local and a soft citrus creamy full-bodied CBOB this year; a pubs finish malty brew ‘always nutty rich ruby ale TITANIC Brewery, wholesome, strong Brew 22 - Powerhouse Burslem, Staffs. and true’ Chocolate Dunkel Porter (4.9) Dark PHOENIX Weizen (4.5) Now brown porter with a Anniversary (4.5) Brewery, for something pleasant roasted Special one-off Heywood, Gtr. completely different malt nose with brew for the 30th Manchester - the name implies some sultana, anniversary of the Skellington a version of a very blackcurrant and brewery (not the (4.1) New dark German wheat treacle notes; dry ship!), a mix of Hallowe’en-time beer, but some roasted finish. American and brew (name from barley malt is also SHUGBOROUGH English hops and the 1993 film The being used, as well Brewery, Milford, pure-English malt Nightmare Before as flavoured soya; Staffs. with citrus Christmas?), a not yet tasted, so Gardener’s overtones ‘barebones’ pale we’ll have to see Retreat (4.2) From Plum brown bitter, hoppy how it turns out the brewhouse at Porter (4.9) Dark, and refreshing SALOPIAN Shugborough Hall, strong and well- Wobbly Brewing Co., ancestral home of rounded porter Bob (6.0) incredibly Hadnall, the Earls of Lichfield brought to an even tasty strong mid- Shropshire (but the brewer is keel by Goldings brown bitter, Darwin’s from Titanic), a hops and natural everything well- Origin (4.3) Return seasonal red-brown plum flavouring balanced; both of this light copper beer with berry and that really comes bitterness and ale with a striking gentle spice aroma through; awarded slight sweetness hop profile giving way to a ‘Gold’ in the last right through balanced by a malty caramel Speciality Beers POTBELLY refined malt finish; taste, with a good category at CBOB Brewery, Bronze award at bitter finish at Olympia this year Kettering, last year’s CBOB at SURREY HILLS Northants. Olympia, after Brewery, winning Gold in the Dorking, Surrey Rev.2 updated October 16th Page | 4 Twickenham Beer & Cider Festival 2015 TWICKENHAM England, New lager, but it’s not Olympics, now a Fine Ales, Zealand and really so - a seasonal brew with Twickenham, Australia seasonal dark a fresh, clean and Gtr. London VALE Brewery, brown bitter; vary full-flavoured taste Sundancer Brill, Bucks. easy-drinking with a from a mix of (3.7) Light zesty ale Best (aka smooth mouth-feel American and with citrus notes Vale IPA) (3.7) and slight chocolate Australian hops dominating; finish is Light copper- and coffee WOODFORDE’S bitter but balanced coloured heavily- overtones Brewery, by biscuity hopped all-English WINDSOR & ETON Woodbastwick, sweetness IPA with a thirst- Brewery, Norfolk Strange quenching balanced Windsor, Berks. Sundew Brew (4.1) contains finish Zinzan’s (4.1) Hops emerge 5 hops – including Black Swan World Cup Drop from a mix of malt, Styrians, Chinook Mild (3.9) Dark and (3.7) Not the same fruit flavours and and Cascade – smooth with hints as the previously bitterness to giving this dark of chocolate and brewed beer just provide a cutting golden ale a big, coffee on the nose, known as Zinzan’s edge to both taste hoppy aroma over a a soft rounded malt Drop, a red bitter and aroma fine malty base. finish using Crystal rye Tap & Go Naked VPA (4.2) and an innovative (5.0) Punchy Ladies (4.4) Vale Pale Ale has double-roasted malt copper-coloured IPA Flagship beer, American hops for and New World characterised by named after the assertive dry hoppy hops with light citrus notes with water nymph ale with a citrus tropical fruit hints of herbs, statuary behind this nose combined with flavours pepper and pine - hall, an outstanding a notable Knight of an occasional brew spicy hop beer, with sweetness the Garter (3.8) for rugby-related fruity overtones and WILLIAMS BROS. Straw-coloured ale events a lasting bitterness. Brewing Co., brewed with YEOVIL Ales Champions Alloa, American Amarillo Brewery, Lufton, Ale (4.7) Brewed Clackmannanshir whole-leaf hops, Somerset only with e grapefruit-like POSH IPA ingredients from September aroma and gentle (5.4) Amber-gold RWC-winning Song (4.2) Sold out bitterness. strong IPA with a countries, a hoppy of their award- Eton fruity body and a red rye IPA with winning Williams Boatman (4.3) strong lasting English rye and Black, so they Golden ale bitterness some lager malts, offered this instead; originally produced and hops from marketed as a black for the 2012

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