Thorner Beer Festival 25/4/2015 The final
list
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Harrogate – As yet unnamed 3.9%
light session ale - hoppy and light
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Roosters - Blind Jack 3.7%
Named after Knaresborough’s most famous historical character, Blind
Jack is an amber ale brewed with the addition of Rye malt and a blend
of American hops to create a quaffable beer with citrus fruit aromas
and a light, spicy finish.
Collingham – Collingham Blond 3.8%
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Abbeydale - Exodus - 4.3%
Golden coloured beer. Well balanced with lemon, lime and tropical
fruit hop character with a subtle malty aftertaste. Slight lingering
bitterness on the palate.
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Slightly Foxed – Flying Fox 4.5%
Clear golden well hopped pale. Fruity aroma of peach and herbal hops.
Blended flavours of mild grapefruit and brown malts.
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Slightly Foxed- Fox Glove 4.3%
A golden coloured premium best bitter, based on English and European
hops. Fox Glove has a full-bodied, fruity flavour from Challenger
hops, with Maris Otter and a touch of caramalt balancing the spice and
fruit aromas of German Brewers Gold and Sovereign hops
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Rat – Ginger Rat 4.5%
Golden ginger ale. Brewed with fresh root ginger & ginger in colour.
Roosters - Baby Faced Assassin 6.1%
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 quaffable India
Pale Ale that shouldn’t be taken lightly.
Kirkstall – Black Band Porter – 5.5%
A full bodied yet beautifully smooth dark porter. Perfectly balance
A crisp and refreshing blonde ale with a hint of peach and a fruity hop
finish.
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Downton – Honey Blond 4.3%
A golden straw coloured bitter. A superb blend of spicy and floral hops,
added to the smooth sweetness imparted by Flaked Maize and Mexican
honey, make this a beer that never hangs around for long! Champion
Beer at the Alton Beer Festival 2008, and also available in bottle.
Honey Blonde is a light and refreshing blonde/golden ale, with subtle
hints of honey and softly sweet malt. The finish is crisp and refreshing.
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Bad Seed - Kohatu Pale Ale 4,5%
Part of their single hop range -Kohatu is a hop from New Zealand that
has notes of pine needles and tropical fruits.
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Lovely Nelly 3.9%
A superb full-bodied amber bronze session beer – with a biscuit malt
flavour balanced with a smooth bitterness from the finest English
Fuggles and Golding hops.
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Ossett – Maitai 3.8%
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Conwy – Minerva Mountain 4.0%
An amber ale with gentle floral aromas followed by herbal/heather
character with a malty finish
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Yorkshire Dales – Muker Silver 4.1%
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Bradford- Razorback 3.7%
A pale ale.
Grafton - Lady Ruby Cherry Beer 4.5%
A dark ruby coloured ale made with cherries. Fruity on the nose. An
initial bitterness on the palate which then leads to a cherry explosion on
the back of the tongue. An easy-drinking beer
Made from pale and wheat malts, this is a crisp, dry and refreshing
ale. Moderately bitter, but with heaps of New Zealand Waimea
hops added at the end of the boil, this session IPA has intense hop
aromas of citrus and pine.
Pheonix - Monkeytown Mild 3.9%
Traditional creamy dark mild.
A blonde Helles style, refreshing ale. Bittered with Hallertau Northern
Brewer hops bursting with Styrian Goldings for a real sharp flavour
and aroma.
The Muker Silver Band was formed in 1897 and is still making music
together in Muker, a tiny village, in picturesque Swaledale.
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B&T - Shefford Mild 3.8%
A dark beer with a well-balanced, roast malt taste taste. This Beer is
brewed using Pearl Pale Malt, Crystal Malt, Caramel, Challenger
Hops, Golding Hops and Fuggle Hops.
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Rudgate - Stars & Stripes 5.2%
Super charged IPA developed from a blend of 7 American hops
infused through various stages of the brew. Copper coloured bitter and
fruity.
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Wolf – Straw Dog 4.5%
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Bradford – The Origin 4,2%
A pale ale, a new beer from a new brewery, firmly putting Bradford
back on the map.
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Leeds – Tomlinson’s Tipple 3.8%
This beer is a dark amber ale, quite malty but with a good amount of
hop character too brewed using Willamette, Columbus and First Gold
hops. For Children's' Cancer Charities,
Brewed with the Tomlinson family to mark the raising of over £7
million pounds by the appeal. Leeds brewery has promised profits from
the beer’s sale will be donated directly to the appeal fund, which makes
us want to match that.
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Rudgate – Treasure Trove 3.7%
Red, fruity, peaches, berries sweet, malty
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Buntingford – Twitchell 3.8%
A golden fruity bitter with a floral aroma and malty / hoppy
aftertaste. Brewed with Maris Otter pale & wheat malts, and English
Goldings hops, plus Cascade hops from the USA.
Pale and refreshing, this clear wheat beer is brewed in the German
style. Soft German hops added to the brew give a wonderful aroma and
slightly sweet taste to leave the imbiber wanting more!
Kirkstall – Three Swords – 4.5%
Very pale and spectacularly thirst-quenching. Three different hops give
this beer a delightful citrus nose.
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Portobello – VPA 4.0%
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Riverhead – White Cloud 4.5%
A dry, extra pale, heavily hopped IPA brewed using summit hops to
give an intense Citrus fruit finish
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Brown Cow - Yorkshire Sovereign 4.4%
Brewed with lager malt and triple hopped with Sovereign variety
grown in East Yorkshire www.eastyorkshirehops.co.uk
Portobello VPA is happy meeting of lager and IPA, endlessly drinkable
with just the right hop hit.
Like water, but a lot, lot better.