What's Going on in the World of Craft Beer? BREWERS CORNER ISSUE
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FRESH BEERS Catch up on the latest UK Craft Beer releases. BREWERS CORNER What’s going on in the world of Craft Beer? TWICB BEER TOURS Check out our curated & hosted Craft Beer Tours. TWICB PODCAST Rob is joined by Chris from Two Tribes Brewing. 62ISSUE SIXTY TWO MAY 3rd 2021 ISSUE 62 - 3 MAY 2021 Only two weeks to go until we can return to inside drinking at our favourite pub or taproom. It’s been a long time coming, but at last we can look forward to the future with confidence. Plenty of new Craft Beer releases to report on this week as many brewers have been keen to show their shiniest new beers in time for the Bank Holiday Weekend. Fancy an awesome Craft Beer break later in the year? Then think about joining us on one of our Grand Beer Tours commencing in the second half of 2021, (Covid permitting). TWICB Grand Tours are hosted and carefully curated long-weekend tours for small groups of Craft Beer fans. They are jointly hosted by TWICB and a leading UK Brewery. The Brewery Owner/Head Brewer will join the tour and be company throughout. Tours includes either 3 or 4 B&B nights hotel accommodation, in-destination ground transportation, tutored tasting events and beer launch events. Tours to Copenhagen, Denmark and New England in the US are now available to book. Check out the promotional pages in this Newsletter for more details. CONTENTS Beer Releases Beer Tours Brewer’s Corner Festivals Page 3 Page 16 Page 19 Page 21 TWICB Podcast Online Beer Taproom Directory Podcast Directory Page 24 Page 25 Page 34 Page 42 A big thank you to our current Patreon supporters: John Stevens Jamie Ramsey Peter Corrigan Sue Johnson Angela Peterson Alex Postles Nick Flynn Jazz Hundal Charlie Smith Phantom Brewing Co. Dolphin Brewery Bekki Bentley White Berkshire Beer Box Ryan Charlton Papermill Micro Pub Steve Hartley 2 LATEST UK CRAFT BEER RELEASES 26th April – 2nd MAY 2021 Three Hills Brewing Happy Hour 3.5% DDH Table Beer The first of 3 beers brewed to celebrate the imminent opening of their Bermondsey Beer Mile Brewery/Taproom. Fresh DDH Table Beer. Three Hills Brewing Big Noise 7.5% Witbier The second of 3 beers brewed to celebrate the imminent opening of their Bermondsey Beer Mile Brewery/Taproom. Witbier with coriander seed. Three Hills Brewing Gordon Bennett 10% Imperial Stout The third of 3 beers brewed to celebrate the imminent opening of their Bermondsey Beer Mile Brewery/Taproom. A salted caramel barrel-aged Imperial Stout. Three Hills Brewing Forbidden Fruit: Apricot 6% Fruited Sour Bursting with Apricots (over 500g/L) this is thick and fruity with a hint of vanilla. Slushie in a can. Salt Beer Factory The Hop! Single Hop Series – Mosaic Edition 5% IPA This series of single-hop beers aims to showcase the unique character of some of the popular hop varieties. Mosaic hops are complex, best known for notes of Mango, stone fruit, tropical fruit, citrus & pine. Salt Beer Factory The Hexagon Project #07 6% Sour IPA Collab with Hop Revolution. The Nelson Sauvin and Motueka hops are the stars of this beer, providing notes of gooseberry and white wine. These aromas are paired with a layered sourness to produce a fruit-led, gooseberry, lime, chardonnay nose & flavour. Salt Beer Factory Flavourtown 2 - Bi Fieri 8% Imperial Porter Collab with Queer Brewing. An 'out of bounds' porter with leading notes of cacao, hedgerow fruit and toffee. The Queer Brewing Project is an LGBTQ owned brewery, raising awareness of queer issues and money for LGBTQ charities. 3 Unity Brewing Co. May Provisions - Sauvignon Blanc Saison 6.5% Sauvignon Blanc Barrel Aged Saison This beautifully elegant beer is a blend of two different Saisons, aged in 4 Sauvignon Blanc barrels and inoculated with Brettanomyces. The result is a complex and delicious beer with funk, body and spritz - all wrapped up with the undeniably unique character of Sauvignon Blanc. Beak Brewery Cliff 6.5% Saison Collab with Forest & Main. Made with wheat, pilsner malt and a traditional Belgian yeast strain – along with an abundance of Saaz and Motueka hops. Quiet, complex with a touch of acidity and barnyard-y flavours reminiscent of fresh silage, morning hearths and foggy apple blossom. Beak Brewery Pool 5% Pale Ale Brewed with flaked wheat, flaked oats and London Fog yeast along with Hallertau Blanc and Nelson Sauvin hops for super gloopy mouthfeel and spritzy, ethereal flavours of lemongrass, grapefruit and cassis. Attic Brew Co. Big Dipper 9% DIPA Aroma is like walking into a sweet shop, backed up with flavours of gooseberry, passionfruit, guava and a load of sticky resin. It's layer on layer of intriguing fruit flavours. Nelson Sauvin, paired with Huell Melon and Mandarina Bavaria in the dry hop represents a significant departure from a hop bill you'd usually come across in a DIPA, but it just works so well. Chain House Brewing Co. Ozzy Broke The Mirror 6.5% Sour Peach and Apricot Fruited Sour. Fruit on the front end, with a super moreish tart finish. Vocation Brewery Citra Five Ways 7% IPA A bold and juicy 7% IPA with bags of tropical fruit aromas and flavours. Brewed with Citra T90 pellets, BBC pellets, Lupomax, Incognito and Spectrum. Signature Brew Rewind 4.7% IPL With bold hits of pine and citrus, this clean and refreshing lager reverses the brewing process to remove the gluten. Signature Brew Good Vibrations 5.2% Pale Ale This hazy, golden New England Pale Ale contains cosmic waves of stone fruit and vanilla. 4 Thornbridge Brewery Valerio 5% Tropical Pale Ale Hopped exclusively with Australian Galaxy, Vic Secret and Ella to give aromatic flavours of Orange, Pineapple and a hint of spice. Tart, juicy and sweet in equal measure. Thornbridge Brewery The Colonel 5% Kentucky Common A dark amber colour, though light in body. Touch of biscuity, malt sweetness with some caramel and a delicate floral character. A refreshing, easy drinking beer with a subtle, creamy finish. Duration Brewing Co. Ways of Being 6% IPA Collab with Boxcar. Enhanced mango, peach and candy with notes of tropical citrus lemon and lime. Each sip is like popping a pit between your teeth. Duration Brewing Gracefully Facedown 8% DIPA Collab with North Brewing. A really crisp, clean and tropical aroma. An assertively bitter West Coast DIPA. Gipsy Hill Brewing Co. Squashed – Lychee, Gooseberry & Elderflower 4.8% Sour Ale Super light and crushable. For this third release of the series they've ramped up the fruit additions at 220g/litre, resulting in a spritzy spring sour perfect for sipping in the sun. Gipsy Hill Brewing Co. Pendler 5.3% Pilsner A Northern German style pilsner. Clean and crisp, with a light kick of melon and spice on the nose. Tettnanger, Mittlefruh and Spalter play incredibly well together, giving zesty citrus spice notes with a pronounced noble hop bitterness. Gipsy Hill Brewing Co. Huddle 6.8% IPA Chocked full of Strata and Citra, Huddle churns out zesty lemon, passionfruit and grapefruit flavours, with their house yeast strain of Vermont playing back up with peachy, stone fruit esters on the nose. A heavily hopped, dank IPA with a fresh finish. Gipsy Hill Brewing Co. Big Baller 11.3% TIPA A TIPA version of their core favourite Baller. At 48g/litre this could be the heaviest hopped brew they ever made. Mosaic, City and Ekuanot smash out everything you want from this style - huge dank, juicy, tropical flavours. 5 5 years of premium canning 100s of happy customers 10,000,000+ cans produced Adaptive solutions for beer, hard seltzer, cocktails & much more. Product design services available. Find out more at www.themthatcan.com [email protected] THE UK’S LEADING SUPPLIER OF MOBILE CANNING Little Monster Brewing Co. In Red 5.2% Session IPA Their first instalment of their exploration into different hop pairings. Getting the game off to a bang are Idaho 7 and Bru-1. Little Monster Brewing Co. Finding Gravity 8% DIPA Collab with Make Make Beer. Nelson, Ella and El Dorado go on a galactic adventure together and the results are out of this world. Fyne Ales Whinstone 6.2% Farmhouse Ale Scottish Barrel-aged Farmhouse Ale, complemented with foraged gorse flowers. Soft botanical and coconut aromas give way to gentle sourness and salinity before a soft finish with a hint of vanilla. Siren Craft Brewing Co. Steps To Enlightenment 5.7% Märzen Collab with Yonder Brewing. A gentle addition of zest accentuates the unmistakable orangey notes of Amarillo hops, resulting in a fresh take on a classic style. This full- bodied Märzen glows a rich amber colour and finishes clean and dry. Salopian Brewery Sin Eater 7.2% NEIPA A union of leaf hopping and dry hopping, jammed into a fruit spread of pineapple, caramelised sweet orange and soft mango. Superbly fluffy malts parachute a devilishly light bitterness. ⠀ Polly’s Brew Co. Lost Again 5.4% Pale Ale Featuring a reeled back, chilled out, Amarillo, Citra and Mosaic hop bill, this beer ticks all the typical Polly's boxes; with tropical notes a-plenty, but a pleasant spiky bitterness to keep everything in check. Polly’s Brew Co. Monstercat 7.1% West Coast IPA Featuring Simcoe, Chinook, and Columbus. This beer purposely accentuates each hop varietal, displaying the awesome resinous, piney, earthy notes that each bring to the table. Polly’s Brew Co. Totally Not Enormous 7.2% DDH IPA Letting Amarillo take the lead in this beer with all its floral, tropical, and orange notes, with additions of Galaxy, El Dorado, and Citra adding a metric tonne of juicy stone fruit flavours, before rounding out with Mosaic to finish everything off.