The Beers ... |
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| Arbor Ales | Hunny Beer | 4.2% ABV |
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Hunny Beer is an amber ale brewed with wild blossom honey. Not too sweet, as you might at
first expect, the delicate flavours from the honey are balanced with an initial bitterness
followed by a smooth “lager-like” hoppy finish. |
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| Ascot Ales | Anastasia Exile Stout | 5.0% ABV |
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Our stout is packed with chocolate and roasted coffee flavours, with a slight sherry like
aroma. Further bittered to balance the sweetness of the malts, the beer has a unique hoppy
aroma with orange, pine and resin flavours noticeable. The mouth feel of the beer is further
enhanced with a silky smooth finish. |
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| Bristol Beer Factory | Milk Stout | 4.7% ABV |
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Finest Creamy Stout Sweet, black and extremely full-bodied. Unfermentable Lactose sugar
(added during the boil) sweetens the Chocolate and Black Malt derived roast / burnt
flavours. Ingredients: Maris Otter Pale Malt, Crystal, Chocolate & Black Malts. Challenger
Hops. An historic beer, recreated for the modern drinker. |
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| Crouch Vale | Golden Duck | 3.8% ABV |
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A grand and tasty golden session beer. |
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| Crouch Vale | Amarillo | 5.0% ABV |
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A superb premium golden ale with wonderful aroma and a lasting spicy flavour. |
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| Dancing Duck | Gold | 4.7% ABV |
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A modern IPA with powerful hoppy bitterness and aroma balanced with strong malt notes.
English First Gold hops give peppery, plum-like and orange zesty flavours. |
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| Dancing Duck | Ay Up | 3.9% ABV |
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An eminently drinkable pale session ale. Subtle malt and floral notes are matched splendidly
with citrus hop, rounded off with a slightly dry finish. |
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| Dark Star | Black Coffee Pilsner | 4.8% ABV |
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Inspired by a trip to the Czech Republic, this beer plays upon the intrinsic coffee flavour
in the unfiltered dark Budvar. A dark lager, brewed with imported Czech malt, hops from the
Zatec region and a traditional Czech yeast strain. The natural coffee flavours
characteristic of these malts are enhanced by the addition of coffee beans after
fermentation. |
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| Dark Star | Espresso Stout | 4.2% ABV |
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A black beer brewed with roasted barley malt and challenger hops with freshly ground
espresso coffee beans also added to the copper for a few minutes to provide a rich and
complementary coffee aroma |
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| Dark Star | Revelation APA | 5.7% ABV |
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A black beer brewed with roasted barley malt and challenger hops with freshly ground
espresso coffee beans also added to the copper for a few minutes to provide a rich and
complementary coffee aroma |
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| Devilfish | Apachi APA | 5.0% ABV |
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Brand new for Spring/Summer 2012. The perfect American Pale Ale (APA) and chi is Chinese for
demon/devil clever eh? This really is a stunning beer to quote some of the lucky pubs who
have had it so far. |
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| Downton | Dark Chimera | 5.5% ABV |
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A complex, dark brown ale combining subtle coffee and chocolate flavours with a rich, hoppy
aroma. |
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| Frog Island | Fire Bellied Toad | 5.0% ABV |
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A beer distinguished by the clean refreshing flavours produced from Pilot hops. The depth
and intensity of the hop character combines well with the balanced malt flavours to produce
a bittersweet finish in the mouth. |
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| Gloucester | Priory Pale | 3.7% ABV |
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A refreshing hoppy ale with citrus and tropical notes. |
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| Gloucester | Gold | 3.9% ABV |
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A refreshing crisp, hoppy and thirst quenching golden ale. |
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| Gloucester | Mariners | 4.2% ABV |
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A distinctly smooth, malty and hoppy copper ale. |
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| Gloucester | Dockside Dark | 5.2% ABV |
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A silky rich ale, warm and chocolaty with a subtle sweetness. |
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| Hoggley’s | India Pale Ale | 5.0% ABV |
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A full-bodied India Pale Ale gloriously hoppy and a full 5% |
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| Houston | American Pale Ale | 3.9% ABV |
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A pale, refreshing citrus ale. Zingy and fresh packed full of American Liberty Hop aroma
with an intense fruit taste. |
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| Inveralmond | Ossian Golden Ale | 4.1% ABV |
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A pale, golden coloured brew with a full bodied fruity flavour with distinct nutty tomes and
a hoppy, zesty, orange aroma, derived from First Gold and Cascade hops. |
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| Kelham Island | Pale Rider | 5.2% ABV |
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This popular pale ale is a well balanced, strong and fruity ale flavoured with North
American hops. As described in the Good Beer Guide 2005 "it's sweetness and bitterness
continued to the finish" |
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| King’s of Horsham | King’s Old Ale | 4.5% ABV |
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A Silver medalist in the national Winter Ales festival and CAMRA winner of best Old Ale.
Smokey, Smooth velvety flavour. A classic Old Ale |
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| Kinver | Over the Edge | 7.6% ABV |
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A winter warmer, specially brewed for the Christmas season. |
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| Lancaster | Blonde | 4.1% ABV |
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This most stylish and contemporary beer is crafted from pale Maris Otter Malt and carefully
combined with Germanic style Munich Malt. The slightly citrus and delicate earthy aromas are
created by a combination of First Gold and imported Saaz hops. |
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| Mallard | Duck ‘n’ Dive | 3.7% ABV |
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A light single hopped beer made from the new dwarf hop FIRST GOLD. This bitter beer has a
very hoppy nose, with good bitterness on the palate and a dry finish. |
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| Mallard | Duckling | 4.2% ABV |
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A crisp refreshing bitter with a hint of honey and citrus flavour. Dry hopped. |
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| Mallard | Friar Duck | 5.0% ABV |
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A pale full malt beer, hoppy with a hint of blackcurrant flavour. |
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| Northern Jewel | IPA | 4.5% ABV |
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Blond beer, with raspberry. |
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| Partners | Pure Gold | 3.5% ABV |
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An easy drinking session beer combining four different malts, that give this beer a complex
character. It is finished using Target and Fuggles hops. |
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| Partners | Tabatha | 6.0% ABV |
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Very pale Belgian style tripel beer with a strong fruity, hoppy character with a hint of
coriander. Powerful and warming with a bitter dry finish.
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| Ramsbury | Queen of Diamonds | 3.9% ABV |
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An amber coloured beer using traditionally malted optic spring barley from the Marlborough
Downs in Wiltshire. In addition Golding hops are used to give a smooth delicate aroma and
flavour. |
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| Ramsbury | Ugly Duckling | 4.0% ABV |
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Notes to follow! |
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| RCH | Steam Spring | 4.6% ABV |
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Golden coloured, with plenty of bitterness in the taste. |
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| Redemption | Pale Ale | 3.8% ABV |
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Golden amber colour with floral hops on the nose alongside subtle fruit aromas. Toffee
sweetness and fruit flavours balanced by floral, earthy hop contribution. Long, dry and
satisfying bitter finish. |
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| Salopian | Lemon Dream | 4.5% ABV |
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A wheat beer very much in the modern English style – served bright and top fermented. The
recipe uses 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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| Saltaire | Empress IPA | 5.0% ABV |
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Traditional English pale ale with good malt base, strong bitterness and the marmalade citrus
flavours of the Golding hop. |
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| Severn Vale | Session | 3.4% ABV |
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A low gravity with plenty of flavour, thanks to plenty of English Goldings and Fuggles hops.
Traditional brown colour. Beer for the sensible drinker, or those in for a long session. |
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| Severn Vale | Vale Ale | 3.8% ABV |
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A rich amber beer with full-bodied malt flavours and uses four different hop varieties to
give a complex nose and taste. |
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| Severn Vale | Dursley Steam | 4.2% ABV |
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A sparkling summer ale full of flowery hops. |
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| Severn Vale | Luverly Jub’lee | 4.2% ABV |
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Brewed to celebrate The Queen`s diamond jubilee. A golden ale with bright and zingy flavours
60 years in the making! |
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| Severn Vale | Severn Sins | 5.2% ABV |
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SIBA 'Supreme National Champion' 2008. A wonderfully dark, malty stout full of roasted
barley. Available all year round. |
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| Shardlow | Cavendish Gold | 4.5% ABV |
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Pale gold, bright and clean tasting. Full bodied with pronounced bitterness and complexity. |
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| Sharps | Doombar | 4.0% ABV |
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A nicely balanced but firmly malt-accented amber Cornish bitter with an accomplished balance
of spicy resinous hop, inviting sweet malt and delicate roasted notes. |
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| Skinners | Ginger Tosser | 4.0% ABV |
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This is a lovely hoppy golden ale, fused with Cornish honey, gives this session beer a
superb round finish with a hint of ginger. |
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| Stroud | Budding | 4.5% ABV |
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Very popular pale ale with a grassy bitterness, sweet malt and luscious floral aroma. |
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| Stroud | Tom Long | 3.8% ABV |
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Amber session beer with spicy citrus aroma. Good body for low ABV. |
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| Stroud | Hallelujah | 4.5% ABV |
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Lager in colour full flavoured real ale with a rich fruit nose featuring New Zealand ‘Green
Bullet’ hops to give a pine lemon crispness and increasing hoppiness toward the satisfying
bitter finish. |
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| Uley | LX | 4.5% ABV |
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A little Goldings, a lot of Fuggles and some Challenger for the bittering hop and then some
Bramling Cross with a touch of Cascade for the aroma hop giving LX a rounded, non-citrus but
mellow, fruity finish |
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| Uley | Old Spot | 5.0% ABV |
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A distinctive, full-bodied ruby coloured ale with a fruity aroma, a malty, fruity taste,
with a light, hoppy bitterness, and a strong, balanced aftertaste |
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| Uley | Pigs Ear | 5.0% ABV |
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Deceptively strong IPA that is eminently quaffable. A pale-coloured beer with a light hop
balance leads to a hoppy, fruity aroma and smooth, finish. A wolf in sheep's clothing! |
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| Uley | Uley Bitter | 4.0% ABV |
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A copper coloured beer with hops and fruit in the aroma, and a malty, fruity taste
underscored by a hoppy bitterness with a hint of fruit in the taste. The finish is dry, with
a balance of hops and malt. |
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