Cheltenham Real Ale Festival 2016
We have booked the Cheltenham Town Hall for August 26 – 28th (Fri-Sun) over the late August bank holiday. Join us to sample 150 beers and ciders throughout the festival. Sessions will run continuously for the complete day. Note that the Friday session starts at 5pm
This year there will not be advanced tickets. Entry will be on the door priced at £7 with a £2 discount for card carrying CAMRA members. This brings the entry fee down to £5.
This year the festival will be open to the public at the following times: Friday 5pm to 11pm, Saturday 12 noon to 11pm and Sunday 12 noon to 10pm.
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Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham |
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Ended Sun 28 Aug 2016 |
Information is provided to the best of our knowledge, but please check with the festival organiser before attending as the details here may be inaccurate.
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This beer list is tentative, please check at the festival for available beers as changes can occur before and during the festival.
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(3.8%)JHB
Oakham Ales
This popular beer was crowned Champion beer of Britain in the bitter category in 2001 and 1999. A nationally respected ale, perfect for those long sessions as well as a quick pint at lunchtime.
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(5.5%)APA
Allendale Brewery Co Ltd
Allendale Pale Ale is jam-packed with a choice selection of some of the world's most remarkable hops, refreshingly bitter, full of citrus and tropical fruit aroma.
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(4.2%)Curlew's Return
Allendale Brewery Co Ltd
A beautiful light ruby ale, highly drinkable with a refreshing bitterness and an exciting citrus floral hop character from a late hopping of Cascade.
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(4.0%)
Pennine Pale
Allendale Brewery Co Ltd
Brewed with an outstanding trio of bold American hops for a full fruity aroma and flavour, with a refreshing citrus finish.
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(3.8%)Motueka
Arbor Ales
Just one variety of hop in this pale golden ale. Expect a tropical citrus twist, with hints of lemon and lime.
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(5.0%)
Baste Rosse
Arbor Ales
Collaboration with Mezzo Passo. A Cascade and Mosaic red ale.
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(6.0%)
Rocket Man
Arbor Ales
Full flavoured American IPA, brewed with a very simple malt bill and a few heavy handed additions of Mosaic and Citra hops.
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(7.2%)Black
Battledown Brewery
Deep, dark and complex. A smooth and warming end of the evening drink.
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(4.2%)
Gin House
Battledown Brewery
Golden speciality beer, brewed with Gin botanicals in the place of hops.
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(5.2%)
Special Pale Ale
Battledown Brewery
A crisp and slightly fruity pale ale. Triple hopped and brewed in the original India Pale Ale tradition
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(4.2%)
Fathom it Out
Bespoke
A golden IPA bittered with spicy Columbus hops with a fruity citrus finish from Citra and Pallisade.
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(5.0%)
Over a Barrel
Bespoke
Strong rich forest ale, richly coloured fruity strong ale with generous peppery finish of goldings hops.
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(5.5%)
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(5.8%)
Burnout
Brass Castle Brewery
An award-winning smoked porter. A deliciously complex dark ale with sweet roasted notes alongside coffee and liquorice.
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(3.8%)
Cliff Hanger
Brass Castle Brewery
A refreshing single-hop Cascade golden ale bursting with citrus and floral notes.
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(4.3%)
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(4.2%)
Hazelnut Mild
Brass Castle Brewery
Gentle coffee aroma. This mild has a touch of hazelnut and chocolate too.
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(3.6%)Life's a Peach
Brass Castle Brewery
Sorachi Ace and Citra hops meld with real added fruit in this tropically hazy ‘Pina Colada' beer. Expect Pineapple and coconut.
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(3.9%)
Northern Blonde
Brass Castle Brewery
An easy-drinking malty blonde, using hops from the UK's northernmost hop farm in Yorkshire.
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(4.8%)
Snow Eater
Brass Castle Brewery
Single-hopped pale ale. Chinook hops provide punchy citrus and pine flavours.
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(5.7%)
Sunshine
Brass Castle Brewery
A take on the ‘winter warmer'. An East Yorks version of the fashionable US West Coast hop-forward IPA. Three hop types in this one, to justify the ‘sunshine-in-a-glass' claim.
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(4.0%)
Tail Gunner
Brass Castle Brewery
A dry-hopped rye session ale with a reddish hue. Brewed originally for the Jubilee celebrations and called ‘Q-Queenie'.
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(5.0%)
Colonel Jack
Brewhouse and Kitchen
Traditional IPA Bitter, Citrusy, Hoppy Large amounts of hops deliver an intense piney and citrusy aroma and flavour in a bitter, easy drinking Pale Ale
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(5.0%)
Bitter Kiwi
Bristol Beer Factory
A New Zealand Pale Ale with tastes of Gooseberries and Pineapples.
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(4.4%)
Enigma
Bristol Beer Factory
New red ale brewed. Low bitterness allows a malt bill of Maris Otter, German specialty malts and crystal rye to be fully appreciated. Delicately dry hopped with the unique Enigma as well a blend of the most aromatic, fruity hops we have.
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(4.6%)
Independence
Bristol Beer Factory
US Style pale ale. Very distinctive pale ale that we have hopped continuously throughout the boil.
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(4.5%)
Milk Stout
Bristol Beer Factory
Sweet, black and extremely full-bodied. Unfermentable Lactose sugar (added during the boil) sweetens the Chocolate and Black Malt flavours.
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(3.8%)
Nova
Bristol Beer Factory
A light malt base; Maris Otter, CaraPils and wheat malt allows the bright, fresh and zesty hop aromas to shine underpinned by herbal and floral notes.
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(4.2%)
Seven
Bristol Beer Factory
Toffee malt flavours balanced with smooth hop bitterness and aroma. Pale, Crystal and Wheat malt, with English Challenger bittering hops and Fuggles aroma addition.
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(4.7%)
Sorachi
Bristol Beer Factory
Powerfully hopped with Columbus for bitterness and a big late addition of Sorachi Ace to give an intriguing aroma with citrus, dill and coconut.
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(6.5%)
Southville Hop
Bristol Beer Factory
This beer is heavily hopped, packing it with tropical fruit flavours and aromas. Pineapple, passion fruit & grapefruit are the dominant features of this beautiful amber ale.
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(5.0%)
Twelve Apostles
Bristol Beer Factory
Brewed to showcase a trio of Australian hops. Galaxy giving citrus & passion fruit, Ella bringing anise & floral aromas and Enigma redcurrant and melon.
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(4.2%)
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(4.0%)
Yeti
Butcombe
A crisp, punchy 4.0% pale ale with a beautiful balance of rugged North American hops.
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(3.8%)
Goats Milk
Church End Brewery
Golden yellow nectar. Pale barley, crystal malt and oats, blend to fill the palate with flavour. Aromatic hops dance over the tongue for a gentle hop finish.
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(3.8%)
Grave Diggers
Church End Brewery
Dark red, with a complex mix of chocolate and roast.
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(4.6%)
Stout Coffin
Church End Brewery
Black, chewy and creamy. A first class example of what a stout should be.
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(5.0%)
Drover's Return
Cotswold Lion Brewery
A strong ruby coloured mild. Just enough hop to keep it interesting, but mainly malty and mild.
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(4.4%)
Golden Fleece
Cotswold Lion Brewery
Packed with citrus grapefruit flavours. The perfect beer to accompany breakfast. Also cuts through any spicy food!
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(3.8%)
Shepherds Delight
Cotswold Lion Brewery
A light ale with a crisp and citrus flavour.
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(4.7%)
American Pale Ale
Dark Star Brewing Co.
With a yeast especially imported from the USA, along with Cascade, Centennial and Chinook hops this beer has a crisp taste and is full of aroma.
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(4.2%)
Expresso Stout
Dark Star Brewing Co.
Espresso is a black beer with fully roasted barley malt and challenger hops but with freshly ground espresso coffee beans added to the copper for a few minutes after the boil to provide a complementary coffee aroma.
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(5.0%)
Festival
Dark Star Brewing Co.
A chestnut bronze-coloured bitter with a smooth mouthfeel and freshness; a classic style strong bitter brewed as a Dark Star version of Festive, a former great Sussex beer from King & Barnes.
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(3.8%)
Hophead
Dark Star Brewing Co.
An extremely clean-drinking pale golden ale with a strong floral aroma and elderflower notes from the Cascade hops. This beer is full-bodied and full-flavoured yet gentle enough to make it a favourite session beer.
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(4.2%)
Hylder Blonde
Dark Star Brewing Co.
A delicate and lightly hopped beer with the fresh fruitiness of South Down's elderflowers which are added after the boil to preserve their delicate aroma.
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(5.0%)
Original
Dark Star Brewing Co.
The brewery's eponymous former Champion Beer of Britain. A dark, strong and bitter beer that defies classification. It has a complex malt flavour with a hint of burnt flavour from the mixture of Crystal and Chocolate grist.
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(4.0%)
Partridge Best
Dark Star Brewing Co.
A Best Bitter brewed in a traditional Sussex style using Maris Otter, Crystal and Chocolate malts with East Kent Golding hops. Typical of Dark Star ales, the Best Bitter relies on the heavy handed addition of aromatic hops late in the boil.
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(5.7%)
Revelation
Dark Star Brewing Co.
A blend of Warrior, Cascade, Columbus, Crystal and Chinook by the sack full then dry hopped during conditioning using the ‘Hoptimizer' (Industrial sized hookah).
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(4.8%)
Sunburst
Dark Star Brewing Co.
A hint of initial sweetness adds to the fruitiness and grapefruit tang of this summer ale without detracting from its clean flavour and rich hop aroma.
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(5.2%)
Steady Rolling Man
DEYA Brewing Company
This beer is a heavily hopped and aromatic pale ale. With citrus and tropical fruit notes we welcome this new Cheltenham brewery to CRAF 2016.
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(5.0%)
EPA
The Fat Cat Brewing Company
Golden Marris Otter barley provides the malt base to carry English hop flavours of Admiral, First Gold and Progress varieties
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(4.1%)
Hell Cat
The Fat Cat Brewing Company
Hell Cat gets its kick from the blend of American hops, packed with bright, citrus flavours.
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(5.5%)
Citra IPA
Franklins
There's a world wide hop shortage but it appears this brewery has called in countless favours to make sure that we have enough of the hop to bring single hopped IPA to our beer festival.
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(3.8%)
English Garden
Franklins
This award winning brew was our first beer and is the perfect session ale. A golden beer wrapped up in a rich hop aroma. First brewed in a garden in, er, England!
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(4.1%)
Mama Knows Best
Franklins
Always listen to Mother! A traditional yet modern, essentially British Best Bitter. Mosaic hops add citrus, mango and an earthy pine bitterness to this malty caramel classic. A wonderfully versatile favourite.
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(3.9%)
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(4.2%)
Cascade
Gloucester Brewery
Full bodied fruity beer with a malty backbone. Bold Cascade hops with Simcoe for aroma.
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(4.8%)
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(3.8%)
Dave
Great Heck Brewing Co Ltd
Dark, silky smooth session bitter brewed with English chocolate and crystal malts. Come to the bar and meet your new best mate, Dave.
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(4.8%)
Treasure IPA
Great Heck Brewing Co Ltd
Apricot, mango and lime aroma. A little sweetness combined with a grapefruit bitter taste.
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(4.3%)
Voodoo Mild
Great Heck Brewing Co Ltd
Very dark mild brewed with addition of chocolate and black malt. In keeping with the beer style, hops don't feature in the flavour profile of this beer as much as with other Great Heck beers but it's no shrinking violet. Beautiful chocolatey, roasty flavours dominate this classic dark mild.
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(4.0%)
Sussex Best
Harveys
A blend of four different hops from local growers impart a distinctive character and a moreish quality.
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(4.6%)
Forest Falcon
Hillside Brewery
A 4.6% golden ale using a new experimental English hop grown in Herefordshire
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(4.2%)
Legless Cow
Hillside Brewery
Inspired by our nation's finest traditions, this best bitter has a rich caramel flavour with a smooth citrus hop finish.
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(3.9%)
Black Country Bitter
Holdens Brewery
A Dark amber premium beer with robust malty overtones and a bitter sweet full bodied taste. Brewed using the Finest English Maris Otter Malt and Goldings hops this big, beautiful malty monster is an industrial strength beer at it's best.
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(3.7%)
Black Country Mild
Holdens Brewery
A bold chestnut-red mild with nutty biscuit notes with a delicious hint of chocolate. Brewed using amber malt, caramalt, black malt and choicest Fuggles it is an easy drinking traditional black country mild.
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(4.4%)
Dunter
Mallinsons
NEW latest in the bird beer range, Dunter is the Scottish word for the Eider, pale with a fruity hoppy nose, a bitter taste with hints of pineapple and citrus fruits, and a clean bitter finish.
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(3.8%)
Nelson Sauvin
Mallinsons
Brewed using Nelson Sauvin hops from New Zealand. A hoppy citrus taste
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(4.0%)
SPA 14
Mallinsons
Big hop punch with a great bitter taste and a long bitter finish. Uses Mount Hood, Topaz and Columbus hops. </p>
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(7.5%)
Attila
Oakham Ales
Fruit notes and elder flower on aroma. Taste of ripe red berries and citrus fruit, with a long, bitter, fruity finish.
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(4.6%)
Bishop's Farewell
Oakham Ales
A strong premium beer of structured quality dominated by elaborate fruity hop notes, with a grainy background and dry finish.
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(4.2%)
Citra
Oakham Ales
A light refreshing beer with pungent grapefruit, lychee and gooseberry aromas leading to a dry, bitter finish.
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(6.0%)
Green Devil IPA
Oakham Ales
An amazing hop harvest aroma with tropical fruit bursting through. Smooth and fruity starting with passion fruit, pineapple, and mango developing into lemon, limes and a citrusy bitterness. Finishes with a crisp refreshing dry aftertaste.
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(4.0%)
Inferno
Oakham Ales
Flame gold in colour, this igniting ale flares complex fruits across your tongue leaving a dry fruity, thirst suppressing bitter finish.
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(5.7%)
Oblivion
Oakham Ales
Oblivion has a strong spiced fruit aroma, with a rich malt and full on fruit flavour, which lingers on in almost boundless bitter finish
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(4.0%)
Velvet Claws
Oakham Ales
Limited special beer containing Cascade, Herkules, Willamette, Amarillo hops from Oakham.
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(4.0%)
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(4.2%)
02 Croeso
Otley
A light copper coloured ale with citrus and floral aromas with a satisfying bitter aftertaste. Previously known as CO2 and more lately Croeso.
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(4.6%)
12 Thai-Bo
Otley
Speciality brew originally brewed in collaboration with beer writer Melissa Cole. Infused with all things Thai.
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(5.2%)
Grand Prix
Prescott Ales
A dark strong ale, brewed with pale and crystal malts, together with Fuggles, Goldings and Northdown hops to produce an intense sweet, malty flavour with a hoppy after taste.
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(4.5%)
Summer Season's Best
Prescott Ales
Refreshing amber ale, Cascade and Willamette hops provide light and zesty taste balanced by Maris Otter pale and Crystal Malts for a smooth finish.
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(5.5%)
Super 6 No.4
Prescott Ales
** Awaiting Tasting Notes and Beer Style **
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(4.2%)
Mad Goose
Purity Brewing Co. (England)
A zesty pale ale with a smooth and citrusy finish. Brewed with English Maris Otter, Caragold and Wheat malts, with Pilgrim bittering hops and Cascade and Willamette aroma hops. Winner of several awards.
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(3.8%)
Pure Gold
Purity Brewing Co. (England)
A Refreshing and easy drinking golden ale with a dry and bitter finish.
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(4.5%)
Ubu
Purity Brewing Co. (England)
(pronounced ‘OO-BOO') Named after a faithful canine friend of the brewery. Full flavoured beer with a sweeter finish.
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(3.5%)
XPA
Purity Brewing Co. (England)
Maris Otter and Wheat malts, Pilgrim, Eureaka and Chinook hops. (XPA Extra Hoppy Pale Ale)
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(4.1%)
Faithless 61
Redwillow Brewery
Hopped with hops from the southern hemisphere (New Zealand and Australia)
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(3.7%)
Headless
Redwillow Brewery
Refreshingly floral Pale Ale with a restrained orange-led bitterness and a light, straw-hued colour.
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(5.7%)
Smokeless
Redwillow Brewery
A surprisingly approachable smoked porter, velvet smooth with a robust malt backbone. This is infused with Chipotles to give even more smokiness and a subtle hint of heat, a real winter warmer.
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(6.1%)
Baby Faced Assassin
Rooster's Brewing Co
Brewed with 100% Citra hops that create aromas of mango, apricot, grapefruit & mandarin orange, along with a lasting, juicy, tropical fruit bitterness, the Baby-Faced Assassin is a deceptively drinkable India Pale Ale that shouldn't be taken lightly.
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(5.0%)
Fort Smith
Rooster's Brewing Co
Brewed using Citra and Chinook hops from the USA to create tropical and passion fruit aromas and a lasting, bitter finish, Fort Smith is a big and bold pale ale brewed in the American style.
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(4.3%)
Yankee
Rooster's Brewing Co
Hoppy aromas of lemon, pine and florals are prominent on the nose. Similar flavour notes are accompanied by more fruit notes like pineapple and pears as well as biscuity malts and caramel sweetness. A viscous texture and medium body are finished off with a dry and subtly bitter finish.
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(4.3%)
Darwin's Origin
Salopian Brewery
Darwin's Origin is an eclectic mix of hops from across the world but this blend produces a beer that offers something to everyone. Crisp, tart, fruity and refreshing. Darwin's Origin currently features in the Ratebeer worldwide top 50 Bitters list. (July 2016)
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(4.5%)
Hop Twister
Salopian Brewery
A strong focus of taut, lemony, grapefruit on the finish which is balanced by a dry bitterness.
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(4.5%)
Lemon Dream
Salopian Brewery
A small amount of fresh lemon to compliment the citrussy flavours produced by the wheat malt. Each of the Hops used, Goldings, Saaz and Cascade add fresh lemony flavours to the brew.
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(4.2%)
Matrix
Salopian Brewery
A refreshing golden yellow ale with a crisp white head. Prominent hop flavours are balanced by biscuit malt dry finish.
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(4.8%)
Blackberry Cascade
Saltaire Brewery
American style pale ale with the floral aromas and strong bitterness of Cascade and Centennial hops, infused with a hint of blackberries.
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(4.0%)
Blonde
Saltaire Brewery
A straw coloured lager ale with creamy, soft malt flavours, delicately hopped with Czech hops for modest bitterness and slight spice flavour.
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(4.8%)
Cascade Pale
Saltaire Brewery
An American style pale ale with the good bitterness, piney, resinous aromas and the citrus and grapefruit flavours of the Cascade and Centennial hop.
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(4.0%)
Elderflower Blonde
Saltaire Brewery
A refreshing blonde ale delicately infused with the flavour of elderflower.
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(4.0%)
Raspberry Blonde
Saltaire Brewery
Refreshingly blonde ale delicately infused with raspberry flavours.
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(4.0%)
Saltaire Pride
Saltaire Brewery
A classic English pale bitter, with light malt base and spicy fruitiness from the Challenger, Bramling Cross and Cascade hops.
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(6.0%)
Dark Ruby
Sarah Hughes Brewery
This strong, absolutely black ale has a good balance of fruit and malt on the palate leading to a pleasant, lingering finish.
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(4.6%)
Cwtch
Tiny Rebel Brewing Co
Un-traditional Welsh red ale a perfect blend of six caramelly malts and three citrussy American hops.
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(5.0%)
Dirty Stop Out
Tiny Rebel Brewing Co
Dark and smoky, just like a good night out. 9 malts give the beer a rich, complex body, with smoked oats giving it something completely different. To balance all the malty goodness it's packed to the gunnels with Slovenian hops to provide an equalising bitterness that adds yet another layer of depth.
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(4.4%)
Fubar
Tiny Rebel Brewing Co
Flagship pale ale and a firm favourite. Uses classic American hops to give an edge to this traditional British style, providing a bit of flavoursome relief from the boring brown stuff that's filled Britain's pint glasses for too long.
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(4.2%)
Fugg Life
Tiny Rebel Brewing Co
British hops like Fuggles may not be trendy like their American cousins, but they live the Fugg Life. This British Pale Ale is wholly hopped using British hops.
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(4.5%)
Loki
Tiny Rebel Brewing Co
Session-style Black IPA using the new ‘Jester' hop grown in the UK to counteract big bold American hops. Tropical and resinous aromas dominate with crisp-like citrus flavours with moderate bitterness.
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(3.9%)
One Inch Punch
Tiny Rebel Brewing Co
A take on an American session beer is brewed using the Mosaic hop giving you big tropical hits of flavours and aromas that you're more used to finding in an IPA. This is a session beer made the Tiny Rebel way.
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(5.2%)
Stay Puft
Tiny Rebel Brewing Co
At the National Winter Ale Festival in Derby, it took just three hours for an 18 gallon barrel go. This is a Sweet Marshmallow porter named after the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from the Ghostbusters franchise.
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(4.2%)
Bibble
The Wild Beer Co
Brewed with Vienna Malt and Oats. Hopped with Mosaic hops, renowned for their tropical fruit flavours. It is unfined, so naturally hazy.
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(5.5%)
Fresh
The Wild Beer Co
Created with a passion for flavour and a lust for hops this is a fragrant pale ale.
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(4.1%)
Millionare
The Wild Beer Co
A Chocolate and Salted Caramel Milk Stout.
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(4.7%)
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