Festival of Ale
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Breweries
Below are the breweries supplying the beers for this year’s Festival of Ale.
Provisional Beer List
Below are the provisional beer, cider, and lager lists for this year’s Festival of Ale. There are still some TBCs which will hopefully be added soon.
* This list is subject to change without notice
Beer
| Name | Brewery | Style | ABV | Tasting Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blind Side | Crafty Brewery | Amber Ale | 4.0 | Well balanced malt and hops combine to deliver a distinctive malty bitterness and a crips refreshing finish. |
| Hot Tipple | Crafty Brewery | Pale Ale | 4.2 | Maris Otter and Munich malts from Britain and Germany provide a platform from which the Cascade and Chinook hops shine out. |
| Loxhill Biscuit | Crafty Brewery | Golden | 3.6 | Maris Otter, Munich, and Belgian Biscuit malts give this beer its wonderfully toasty finish and beautiful golden hue. |
| Hog IPA | Hogs Back | Pale Ale | 4.5 | A light and hoppy IPA with a blend of floral and fresh citrus notes upfront. |
| Surrey Nirvana | Hogs Back | Pale Ale | 4.0 | A well-balanced IPA with citrus and tropical notes. |
| T.E.A | Hogs Back | Golden | 4.2 | Refreshing, hoppy, and well-balanced. |
| Ferryman’s Gold | Loddon | Golden | 4.4 | Golden coloured with a strong hoppy character throughout, accompanied by fruit in the taste and aftertaste. |
| Hoppit | Loddon | Amber (Std Bitter) | 3.5 | Hops dominate the aroma of this drinkable, light-coloured session beer with a balanced taste and a pleasant bitterness that carries through to the aftertaste. |
| Abingdon Bridge | Loose Cannon | Amber (Best Bitter) | 4.1 | Copper coloured, traditional ‘bitter’. It kicks off with a good bitter bite, followed by plenty of flavour. A full and satisfying roundness. |
| Bombshell | Loose Cannon | Traditional Ale | 4.2 | Crafted with a blend of lager and ale malt, delivering the perfect balance of refreshing crispiness of a lager, harmoniously combined with the depth of flavour found in a traditional ale. |
| Rushmore Ripper | Tilford Brewery | Dark (Bitter) | 4.4 | Spicy orange toffee and caramel sweetness with a citrus finish. |
Lager
| Name | Brewery | Style | ABV | Tasting Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hogstar | Hogs Back | Lager | 4.5 | A refreshing premium lager with a delicious initial crispiness and a rich hop finish. |
| Foster's | Heineken | Lager | 4.0 | An easy drinking lager that is perfectly balanced with vanilla tasting notes. |
Cider
| Name | Brewery | Style | ABV | Tasting Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hazy Dog | Hogs Back | Cloudy | 5.0 | Full flavoured cider made traditionally by adding back the bittersweet apple juice after fermentation and part maturation in large oak vats. |
| Dark Fruit | Tutt's Clump | Medium/Sweet | 4.0 | A medium/sweet cider produced from a blend of apples infused with real juice from fruits of the forest. |
| Mango | Tutt's Clump | Medium/Sweet | 4.0 | A medium/sweet cider produced from a blend of apples infused with real mango juice. |
| Ridgeway | Tutt's Clump | Medium/Sweet | 4.0 | A medium/sweet cider lovingly crafted in West Berkshire from a blend of the finest English Apples named after the ancient trackway. |
| Royal Berkshire | Tutt's Clump | Medium/Sweet | 7.0 | Award-winning Eastern counties style cider originally produced to celebrate the wedding of local lady Kate Middleton to Prince William in 2011. |
| Strawberry | Tutt's Clump | Medium/Sweet | 4.0 | A medium/sweet cider produced from a blend of apples infused with real strawberry juice. |
| Traditional Farmhouse | Tutt's Clump | Medium/Dry | 6.0 | Award-winning crisp Eastern Counties style real cider handmade from a variety of eating, cooking and crab apples mainly from within West Berkshire. |
