Coventry Beer Festival 2023
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- Location
- Coventry Rugby Football Ground, Butts Park Arena, Butts Road. Coventry CV1 3GE
- Beer list
- 74 beers listed
Beer List
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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1987 Wheat
Light and hazy in appearance, lightly hopped with Citra, Cascade and Mandarina Bavaria to give a banana and fruit flavour. Named after the Sky Blues FA cup winning year.
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2021 West Coast Pale
A hoppy West Coast pale, golden in colour hopped with Mosaic, Magnum, Simcoe and Citra. Named Coventry being hosts to the UK city of culture in 2021.
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All Three Hearts
Light easy drinking pale ale hopped with NZ Hops.
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Alnwick Stout
A traditional stout brewed with black malt rather than roasted barley.
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An amber Cornish Bitter brewed with a blend of five different grains and six hop varieties. With Azacca, Cascade and Simcoe giving a full bodied, fruity and fragrant bitter. Additional dry hopping with Goldings and Galena adds depth to the aroma.
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Ansley Mild
An old traditional recipe that developed a smooth, dark and very moorish finish!
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Best Ale
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Big Sky
Re-brew of a favourite from last year, sporting a slightly lower ABV this time. This West Coast Pale is a combination of the classic American hops and the all new powerful Strata. The Strata hops bring a dank edge to the light body. Expect a crisp bitter profile with notes of passion fruit. Collaboration with Tooth & Claw Brewing.
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Bitter
A traditional bitter.
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Bliss
Pale ale brewed with Amarillo, Citra and El Dorado hops giving a light citrus and floral aroma. With a very smooth body, a great malt character and a soft bitterness it's a blend of both traditional and modern styles.
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Blueberry Mild
A traditional mild with a hint of blueberries.
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Bobby's Tipple
Hopped with generous amounts of US hops Centennial and Simcoe, and British classic East Kent Goldings and the new(ish) Jester, this straw coloured pale ale has lashings of citrus and stone fruit flavours with a subtle hint of pine, as well as a floral and blackberry aroma. At a nice, easy going 4.2% ABV, it’s super sessionable, delicious and delightful moreish. Vegan friendly.
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Bow English IPA
Brewed with floor-malted Maris Otter pale malts using Fuggles, Goldings, and UK Cascade hops. This English IPA is light golden in colour. The beer has a hop-forward aroma, with a little biscuit character coming from the Maris Otter. Dry and well-balanced, a traditional English IPA bitter-style IPA.
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Chocolate and Vanilla Porter
A one-off festival special London style porter with hints of chocolate and vanilla.
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Christmas Rose
Chocolate, orange and cinnamon stout. A soft silky chocolate start, with a hint of bitter orange rounded off with a smooth finish of cinnamon giving nostalgic tastes of winter.
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Classic Mild
A mild of classic style full of roast malt and balanced by delicate hops. True to type it has a rounded sweetness and a smooth dry finish.
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Cloud Cuckoo
This warming winter ale is matured for a minimum of 6 weeks in our cellar to ensure a full and smooth flavour. Deep ruby, full-bodied strong malty ale. Plum and soft fruits dominate followed by a smooth roasted finish. The name reminds us of our early years Cuckoo Brewing.
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Dark Knight
A stout with a chocolate and coffee aroma and a smooth dark fruits finish. Vegan friendly.
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Daymark
This Red IPA has a malty backbone, rich and bready with lightly roasted flavours and is packed full of citrus and tropical fruit aromas, provided by a mix of New Zealand Motueka and US Amarillo hops added late in the boil and, also as a dry hop addition. Unfined and unfiltered, it's a proper seasonal ale.
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Departed
An ode to the Mosaic hop. Soft, juicy, tropical and aromatic with red berry and stone fruit flavour. Vegan friendly.
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Double R Diner
A big, bold imperial stout packed with traditional breakfast flavours. Imagine sitting down to breakfast, pouring copious amounts of maple syrup all over some waffles, and taking that first bite followed by a swig of fresh coffee. Well, that's this imperial stout. A collaboration with our friends from Mashionistas Brewing. Vegan friendly.
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Fettlers Finest
A bold, aromatic and beautifully hoppy English style pale ale that packs a flavourful punch.
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Go To
A super easy drinking pale ale. Perfect for summer afternoons. Mosaic, Loral and Chinook hops layer a woody, grapefruit character onto a crisp, dry base.
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Gold
Beautiful golden ale jammed full of English Pioneer and American Amarillo hops leaving a dry bittered finish.
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Golden Haze
A well balanced session pale with a lightly bitter citrus finish. Vegan friendly.
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Grave Digger's Ale
Dark black and red in colour, with a complex mixture of chocolate and roast flavours. The use of two different hops, gives the beer a complex feel and smooth finish.
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Hazy Pale
Our original Session Pale Ale has taken some time off, done some growing up and is back on the scene tasting better than ever. Naturally hazy and bursting with flavour.
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Herringbone Gear Saison
Golden murky ale, dry fruity with a hint of spicy flavours and a moderate bitterness.
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Honey Porter
Dark malted porter, light body with a dry honey finish.
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Kapa
Hazy Kentish American pale ale using Fuggles for bitterness and with juicy Citra hops and English Bramling cross both in the whirlpool and double dry hop. A big punch of citrus complements hedgerow fruits and a slightly sweet finish with a full body from oats and wheat. Fermented with Kveik Voss yeast.
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Level Best 25
A "one off" brew to celebrate the brewery's 25th birthday.
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Magic Eye Level
An American stout enriched with deep coffee notes, and emboldened by Sabro hops, session-able with a tropical aroma and a roasty body.
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Magus
Our best selling beer is the ultimate session drink. Simple pale malts provide a base for a complex blend of hops. Very pale with lemon, subtle grapefruit bitterness and tropical fruit notes. A clean and spicy black pepper finish. Gluten free.
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Meor
A modern style session IPA. On the hot side, hops give this classic beer a spicy bitterness, while on the cold side, dry hops create a juicy fruit aroma and lasting flavour. Brewed with Cascade, Chinook, Simcoe, and Mosaic hops. The flavour profile is a delightful combination of malt, mango, citrus, and herbal notes, with a slightly sweet finish. Vegan friendly.
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No Butts, No Maybees
A special for the BUTTS Park Arena, pale, intensely full bodied and strong.
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Novus
A dry hopped porter, rich in colour and malt flavour with an abundance of plum and blackberry and a hint of dark chocolate. Absolutely delicious!
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A New Zealand Extra Pale Ale brewed with Spring malt and hopped with Simcoe, Pacifica and Nelson Sauvin. Hoppy citrus flavour and a dry finish.
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Old Bill
This traditional stout has a thick creamy head, a chocolate start with a hint of roasted coffee and liquorice, a slight bitter end completes the flavour.
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Onco Fonco
A punchy small IPA hopped with El Dorado, Citra and Idaho 7 for juicy tropical flavours. Lots of oats in the mash for body and mouthfeel.
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Padstow IPA
Like traditional Indian Pale Ales we have made our IPA with a stronger ABV. Yet it's still refreshing and satisfying.
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Penpol
Our interpretation of a moreish, hop bitter and aromatic single hop Citra cask pale ale.
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Porter
Rich dark and sumptuous porter with a good handful of luxurious flavour from Madagascar Bourbon vanilla. Sip it in your best smoking jacket.
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Porter
This Porter uses a base of our own organic lager malt mixed with a complex blend of dark and crystal malts that creates a dark sultry body. Liberally hopped with spicy East Kent Goldings that gives a soft and subtle bitterness resulting in a quaffable porter. Our house porter is brewed to stay true to style, complex and flavourful beer with plenty of dark malt character.
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Prince Of Pirates
A dark, medium bodied porter with a malty sweet chocolate nose balanced by a bitter hop finish. Vegan friendly.
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Ransom
Pale ale with Olicana fruity hops and Challenger for bittering.
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Raspberry Ram
Dark roasty stout with raspberry notes.
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Real Mild
A full-flavoured dark mild brewed with chocolate and black malts and hopped with Kent Fuggles. Produced originally to celebrate our 5th anniversary.
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Red Dust takes its name from the coloured clouds thrown up from the steel works of Consett and offers a ruby red pint with a hint of spice and crisp malt finish.
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Ribersborg
A dark dry ale produced using 4 different malts with overtones of liquorice and charred toast.
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Riviera Gold
A deep golden Pale Ale with subtle bitterness from First Gold hops plus Styrian Goldings with citrus fruit flavours from Cascade and Chinook hops giving way to a mouth lingering hoppiness.
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Rusty Pumpkin V3
A deep golden brown ale made with real pumpkin and the addition of ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves with a hint of bitterness.
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Seville Blossom
Capturing the feeling of Seville in the Spring, when all the orange trees are in full bloom, this delicate floral sour brings you a bit of Spanish sunshine.
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Skrimshander
An aromatic copper-coloured pale ale brewed from the finest malted barley and Kentish hops for a refreshing taste and a fruity finish. Deliciously fruity with spicy citrus hop aromas, clean fresh taste and dry hoppy finish of a great Kentish ale.
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Stout
A full mouthfeel, smooth chocolate oat stout with a creamy finish.
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Sun Up SIPA
A full-bodied hazy hop-forward session IPA. Stacks of oats give this beer a lovely haze and soft mouthfeel. Simcoe hop in the boil, along with the Verdant yeast strain lays down apricot/stone fruit flavour backed up by zesty citrus and floral aroma from the ever popular Mosaic dry hop. Hops: Centennial, Simcoe and Mosaic.
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The Champion
Our champion Mild has a smooth character and taste notes of chocolate malt, which gives this beer plenty of flavour and belies its strength.
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The Long Black
Strong aromas of freshly brewed coffee lead followed by malt sweetness and dark berries. Silky smooth chocolate and a dark roasted malt backbone sit alongside notes of red berries from English Bramling Cross hops all balanced with fresh, cold pressed coffee. Vegan friendly.
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Tropical
Our great taste award winning pale is hopped with 4 American varieties. Expect a tootie fruity/tropical nose and taste. Sessionable hazy pale ale, great for any time of the year. Gluten free.
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Tropical Delusion
A stunning IPA with a combination of hops producing notes of tropical fruit and hints of citrus.
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Twilight
A salted caramel porter, waves of caramel sweetness in this smooth porter, with a full, salty finish. Vegan friendly.
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Vicar's Ruin
This is our straw coloured best bitter. Delightful hop flavours soften to a delicate malt finish.
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Welcome Back To Milk
The sweeter sister to traditional stouts, think deep coffee and dark chocolate complemented by a bold sweetness. A firm favourite amongst the Underground Medicine team.
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Wey-Aye PA
Our elegant IPA benefits from late additions of Cascade and Centennial hops, the grain bill is enhanced with a light touch of Munich malt.
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Wrapped In Citra
A smooth, juicy East Coast style IPA showcasing the mango and pineapple qualities of fresh Citra hops. Vegan friendly.
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XK Dark
Big malt aroma and flavours. Bitter chocolate and blackberries and a soft lingering bitterness.
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Yacht Rock
Join us on our cask-only voyage of Citra-fuelled chill. No dry land, or dry hops ahoy, just miles and miles of pale, bright, open waves. Hops used Citra, Cascade and Magnum. Brewed with traditional London Ale yeast for extra malty smoothness.
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Apple Pie Cider
Gently spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves this really is like apple pie in a glass! Can also be warmed up as a mulled cider.
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Dry
Award winning dry cider made from a blend of 8 different varieties of apple to make a light and flavoursome cider.
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Medium
Smooth, easy drinking award winning medium cider that is full of flavour, made from a blend of Kentish apples.
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Medium-Dry Cider
Still, crisp and fruity cider with a balance of acidity and sweetness.
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Mulled Cider
A lightly spiced medium cider, ready to warm up any winter evening.
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Pear
Refreshing medium pear cider (perry) blended from pears and a touch of Bramley apples – not too sweet!
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Pear Of Pigs
A pear cider, made from three selected varieties of Brogdale pears. Full fruit flavour with some natural sweetness.
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Woolly Pig Sweet Cider
Made from the same 30 varieties of apple from Brogdale Farm as our dry cider, this retains the complex flavours and is back sweetened with Russet and Cox apple juice.
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