Welcome to the 31st Pigs Ear Festival
On behalf of the Beer Festival Committee and myself, a big welcome to our Beer and Cider Festival, brought to you by the East London and City (ELAC) Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). We continue for the 5th year to be able to hold this festival in the magnificent Round Chapel, and our thanks go to the Round Chapel trustees for hiring their venue to us. A place we now consider home. Particular thanks go to Laurie Elks, Patrick Hamill, and the lovely Lisa Pressland, whom I must mention is a long suffering Spurs fan. As a Chelsea man I will say no more, as she has a hefty punch!! I have been told by many customers over the past 4 years, that the reason they keep coming back is not only the choice of the beers/ ciders/ perries offered, but more importantly the friendly atmosphere, and the obvious enjoyment shown by our staff. Of course that atmosphere can only be fully realised by what you bring to the party, and I hope that you all (returning and new customers alike) will have fun, because this is what the festival is all about. Keen Massey, Adam Miller and Peter Gordon, have done the festival proud again in their choice of
Cask, Foreign and Bottle Conditioned beer ranges; not forgetting Mick Lewis (Leyton Orient!) who provides such a good and varied range of wonderful Ciders and Perries (Not Pear Cider).
COME TO THE DARK SIDE, WE HAVE COOKIES! If you dare! Previously we have had the London, and then the Hackney beer bar. These beers are now amalgamated into the overall range on the main bar in alphabetical order. The Dark Side Bar will feature DARK BEERS. I know that is a shock, but there you are. The styles will be mainly Porters, Stouts and Milds, but there may be some dark Christmas beers and Dark IPA’s, if we can get them. Oh and maybe the odd cookie too.
OUR GRATEFUL THANKS go to our sponsors Trumans Brewery, and Hackney Brewery. In the continued recession we recognise the fantastic generosity they have contributed. Our warm thanks go to East London Brewery and Redemption Brewery for all their help. Thanks also go to Mayor Jules Pipe (a CAMRA member) for all the wonderful support he gives us. In sup-
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Welcome to the festival – continued porting our festival, he is personally supporting a community event and taking time from a very busy schedule; for which we are all extremely grateful. Together with the Speaker Cllr. Sharon Patrick, who is one of our branch members, he will once again officially open the Festival. Councillor Vincent Stops somehow manages to help us organise the festival; how he manages to do that together with his extensive official duties, I don’t know. To our main suppliers – Avalon Wholesale and Boggart Hole, who have maintained such a wonderful service over the years, and to all the breweries supplying direct (who are too numerous to mention individually in this space) – a massive thank you for your efforts and for the Festival specials you have taken the time to produce. To my colleagues I would like to add my personal thanks, because without their enthusiasm, hard work and dedication, there would not be a beer festival. These are the people that truly deserve all the credit and the public gratitude for such a wonderful event. I am extremely grateful to: Bill Green, Steve Hall, Steve Richardson, Bill Bremner, Lynn Bennison, Andrew Wilson, Alan Perryman, Andy Kinch, Marion Robbens, Kim Scott, Pete Giles, Keen Massey, Peter Gordon, Mick Lewis, Adam Miller, Colin Herbert, David Gilchrist, Fletch, Alison Buckland, James Watson, Laurence Fryer and Hugh Smith. If I have forgotten anyone please accept my sincere apologies, your contribution is no less appreciated.
BEER, PERRY AND CIDER OF THE FESTIVAL
VOLUNTEERS Everyone that works at this event is a volunteer. They try their best to provide you, our customers, with excellent service and advice about the beers. There will be busy periods, and during these times, I would ask you to be patient and realise they are not professional bar people. I would also be grateful if you would be honest with both our staff and fellow drinkers by indicating who is next to be served during the busy periods – Thank You. We always need new volunteers, not only to help at the festival during opening times, but with set up and take down and with planning the next Festival. You receive free food and drink for your time, and it’s fun. Please see any member of staff if you are interested, but you must be a CAMRA member.
PLEASE DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE There is a good public transport system in Hackney, and you can enjoy a few drinks and arrive home safely.
2015 FESTIVAL A note for your diaries: next year our Festival will run at this same venue from Tuesday 8th until Saturday 12th December.
FINALLY... From all of us, to all of you and your families, have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Derek Jones - Festival Organiser Steve Richardson - Festival Programme Editor
It wouldn’t be a proper festival without you, the drinkers voting for your favourite champion real ale or cider. Last year we had Colchester Brewery’s fantastic Brazilian porter and London Glider’s dry cider taking out the honours. This year you can vote for your favourite perry too. Who will it be this year? Only you can decide by voting for this year’s champions. Voting forms are available at the venue. Please fill one in and place it in one of the ballot boxes on the bars. 31st Pig’s Ear Beer & Cider Festival 5
Speaker’s Charities The Speaker of Hackney chooses charities each year to support by advocacy and fundraising. Councillor Sharon Patrick has selected Alzheimer’s Society, the Laburnum Boat Club and The Sharp End. Pig’s Ear Beer Festival is especially delighted to arrange collections on behalf of these splendid groups. Sharon is an active CAMRA member and often seen in past years as a Pig’s Ear volunteer. So give generously on behalf of one of our own!
Telephone Information Service where advice and support is offered and referrals to other agencies where necessary The Laburnum Boat Club is a community-based boating project by the Regents Canal in south Hackney. It is a small charity (managed by local people) providing watersports activities for children, young people and their families from all over east London. Its services include: An open-access Youth Club running after-school, weekends and during the school holidays. There is a programme of formal and informal boating activities, with regular trips-away to open and moving water, including expeditions abroad.
Alzheimer’s Society has a vision of a better, fairer world for people with dementia. It believes that people with dementia and the people who care for them have the right to high quality services and support. It works to achieve this through a combination of campaigning, research, awareness raising, training, information provision and the delivery of services. Within East London, Alzheimer’s Society runs a variety of local services which aim to provide those living with dementia with established forms of support. Some of these services include: Dementia Advisor Service for people with dementia, their carers and family Cafes to meet, socialize, gain peer support and information Singing for the Brain sessions for people in the early stages of dementia Carers Support Groups, providing a safe space for information exchange, emotional and practical support 6 31st Pig’s Ear Beer & Cider Festival
A Youth Watersports Training Project equipping unemployed young people with coaching qualifications and finding them jobs in the watersports world both in this country and abroad. Narrowboating: Canal trips for youth, community, education and welfare groups - and local families A Family Club every Sunday, enabling kids and parents to enjoy constructive activities together.
Speaker’s Charities Inclusion: Specific regular sessions for kids with disabilities, leading to their inclusion in the mainstream programme.
The Sharp End is the Seniors Health and Active Retirement Project. With a Haggeston centre, it is a healthy living project for people aged 50 and over living in Hackney. It offers a wide range of services and activities to promote the health and well-being of older people. An independent charity in operation since 1996, it welcomes people of all ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. The oldest member is 92!
A 16th century coaching inn with two bars and a warm welcome. One of the oldest landmarks in Plaistow. CAMRA Good Beer Guide entry since 2004 Fresh homemade food served Monday - Friday 12 to 2:30pm & 5pm to 7:30pm (except public holidays)
Open 11am to 11pm Monday to Saturday, 12 to 10:30pm Sunday
59 - 61 High Street, Plaistow E13 0AD
www.blacklionplaistow.co.uk Some of The Sharp End volunteers It is kept going by volunteers and is much valued by and works with agencies of Hackney Borough Council and the Health Authority. The overall aim of The Sharp End is to maintain and improve the health of older people. The interpretation of health is broad and holistic, encompassing all aspects of physical, mental and social well-being. Social isolation amongst the over 50’s is a growing concern. The Sharp End assists them to lead a fulfilling life. Quotes from members: “I lost my bus pass and wallet and the people here were offering me money to help, even though they only have little pensions. I didn’t take the money but it was amazing. It’s such a great support network.” Anon
East London and City CAMRA can be found on both Twitter and Facebook. We try to promote our local pubs, spread a little ale or pub related news and sometimes have a little out of the pub banter with regulars! For more information and to keep up to date with news, take a look at :
“The Sharp End means a lot to me; it helps my health and we all get on well”. R. Panchal “I like the Sharp End because you can attend as many classes as you like and everyone is friendly”. E. Part
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The Battle for London’s Pubs Welcome festival-goers old and new! Whilst you enjoy some of the very finest real ales and ciders that we have on offer at Pig’s Ear 2014, take a few moments to read about the war being waged for London’s historic pubs. Over the last 40 years, largely through the pioneering campaigning work of CAMRA, real ale has become firmly re-established as our national drink. There are more breweries in the UK now than at any time since the First World War. In London alone, we can count 78 breweries. Real ale, and quality artisan beer is not only safe, but growing and evolving in terms of quality, style, choice and taste. We showcase some of the best here at the festival. In the meantime, the Great British Pub is under attack like never before in our history. Pubs are closing at an alarming rate of 31 each week and London has lost over 2000 traditional boozers over the last 30 years. Since 2010, just one supermarket (TESCO) has converted 38 viable and popular London pubs into convenience stores. Were it not for some forward-thinking swift action on the part of Lewisham (Catford Bridge Tavern) and Wandsworth (The Wheatsheaf) Councils that number would stand at 40! CAMRA is now very much focussed on saving pubs. In many branches, this is a top priority and here in the Greater London Region, under the charismatic leadership of our regional director, Geoff Strawbridge, we are constantly breaking new ground and leading the way on pub protection. Earlier this year, we hosted a sell-out Pub Protection Seminar in a Holborn pub. At this meeting we proposed a regional pub protection strategy, the first such policy document of its kind in any CAMRA region. The strategy was formally adopted by the region in July. Our strategy is to fight hard for planning reform, in line with CAMRA’s national 8 31st Pig’s Ear Beer & Cider Festival
Pubs Matter campaign (see www.pubsmatter.org.uk) and to focus our campaigning efforts on National, Regional and Local Government. In line with this aim, we wrote to every Councillor in London this October and received some very positive and supportive responses from right across the Greater London region. We are standing up for the rights of pub-goers, be they London residents, commuters, visitors, or tourists. We want to safeguard the use of historic pubs on established sites and we are battling against an unfair planning system. A system too skewed in favour of property developers and supermarkets and against those hard-working and thirsty London drinkers who all too often find their precious pubs sold off to the highest bidder to be converted into supermarkets, pawn brokers, betting shops or yet more unaffordable private housing. In some cases, the pub users do not even get a say in the matter due to the planning loophole of ‘permitted development’. Our strategy recognises that as a volunteer organisation, we cannot be everywhere at the same time. We cannot save all of London’s remaining (rapidly depleting!) 3600-odd pubs. Nobody wishes that we had a magic pub-saving wand more than I. It would give me far more time to spend doing what I enjoy, like drinking quality cask ale in London pubs. Instead I find myself writing countless letters to Ministers, Councillors, the Mayor of London, planning officers, Council Leaders, newspapers, online bloggers and a host of other commentators and opinion formers. In September this year, Geoff Strawbridge and I spent a day in the assembly chamber at City Hall in front of the Planning Inspector responsible for overseeing further alterations to the London Plan. We secured some additional pub protection clauses and cross-references, namely in policies 3.16, 4.8 and 7.1 and a specific mention of pubs,
The Battle for London’s Pubs along with a reference to the registration as Assets of Community Value within the supporting justification text at 4.48A. This is precisely why we devised a strategy; so that limited volunteer resource could be channelled to where it could be used most effectively. The campaign is here to help ordinary pub users save their pubs. That is one of our core functions. However we cannot do it for you. You need to want it. You need passion, determination, commitment, and tenacity. Do you want it? CAMRA will advise and support. We’ll help publicise your campaign. We’ll Tweet and spread the news. We’ll tell you how to use the planning system and how to go about registering your pub as an Asset of Community Value. We’ll motivate and encourage and perhaps even inspire. We cannot, and will not, do if for you. We have built up considerable planning expertise in the Greater London Region and have a good network of contacts now amongst all the London boroughs, as well as the London Assembly and various government departments.
Why do we make such a fuss about pubs? Quite simply because they represent over 400 years of cultural and historical evolution in British society. The bar counter at the British pub is one of the few remaining places where it is socially acceptable, in fact encouraged, to strike up a conversation with a total stranger. Most importantly, as real ale enthusiasts, it is the very best place to enjoy quality cask ale. Unless you are drinking real ale from a bottle (bottle conditioned beer) or at a beer festival like this, pubs are pretty much the only place to enjoy it. Long may they continue. Pubs are recognised as vital community social infrastructure and play a unique role in our culture. They are the envy of the rest of the world and always feature amongst the top three things that a foreign visitor to the UK wishes to experience. Yet, with typical British apathetic indifference, as a society we have stood by and watched over one quarter of the nation’s pubs be destroyed over the last 30 years. This is cultural vandalism and a growing number of us are saying ‘enough is enough’. Around half of our London branches do not currently have pub protection officers.
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The Battle for London’s Pubs - continued This is an important committee role but one which often has intangible and unquantifiable results. It is also something of a thankless task but it can be hugely rewarding and I firmly believe that in the London area we are slowly beginning to make a difference. It is sadly no longer the case that only bad pubs close. Neither is it true that if people used their pubs more, they would be OK. ALL London pubs are under threat as they are all worth more in alternative use. That’s free market economics. Only the planning system can safeguard the survival of London’s precious pubs. CAMRA, working closely with campaign groups and London Councils, was instrumental in saving The Wenlock Arms, The Old White Bear, The Cross Keys, The Phene Arms, The Star, The Ivy House, The Wheatsheaf, The Bricklayers Arms, Simon The Tanner, The Hope and countless others. Additionally, we are engaged on fierce campaigns to secure the future of The Porcupine, The Windmill, The Catford Bridge Tavern, The Trafalgar Arms, The Admiral Mann, Turner’s Old Star, The George, The Duke of Wellington, The Heathcote Arms, The Lord Rookwood and right here in Hackney, The Chesham Arms. Without ordinary people standing up for pubs and fighting for what they regard as precious to their communities, all of these pubs and many more like them would be lost forever. If you think you have something to contribute, and you would like to get more involved, we would welcome you with open arms. Our pubs need all the help they can get. Go to our London regional website at www.london.camra.org.uk and click on the Pub Protection Link. Alternatively, email me directly at savethepub@pigsear.org.uk Enjoy the beers at the festival. Enjoy the social interaction in the Grade II* splendour of Hackney’s Round Chapel. But remember, real ale tastes better down your local pub! This Christmas, make time to participate in that Great British pastime – drinking quality cask ale down your local. Here’s to it. Cheers! James Watson Beer Drinker and Publican’s Friend ELAC Branch Pub Protection Officer Greater London Region Pub Protection Advisor @engineerlondon
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Pubs to visit in our area
The pub scene around Hackney is more vibrant today than it has been for many years and there is a long list of pubs we could recommend if you wish to explore a little beyond the doors of the Round Chapel. Up by Clapton railway station you will find the Crooked Billet, 84 Upper Clapton Road, E5. This pub has been here since at least 1731, although you would be correct if you thought the present, large building looked to be post-War. A great garden for the summer months and a good range of real ales, usually including Londonbrewed options. Ask nicely and you will get a CAMRA discount.
Pubs to visit where Popish Conspirators gathered in 1661; but it is certainly not the same building – the present pub went up in the 1930s. A Truman’s house in its day, it is now home to home-brewed Howling Hops Brewery beers and wonderful pork pies. Not to be missed.
Heading down toward the festival venue you will find the Clapton Hart, 231 Lower Clapton Road, E5. Antic have worked some of their magic here, bringing this pub back from dereliction to the popular and extensive pub it is today. Real ales here often come from the best up-and-coming breweries around.
Just across the road from the Round Chapel is the Windsor Castle, 135 Lower Clapton Road, E5. Present since at least 1791, I would not have recommended this one to anyone even just a couple of years ago. Refurbished in May 2013, it is now a destination pub for both its food and its beer, and you might reasonably expect here to find something brewed in Hackney, perhaps at Five Points. A short stroll or a quick bus ride down to Mare Street will take you to the Cock Tavern, 315 Mare Street, E8. This may or may not be the same Cock
Or you might decide to strike out in a south-easterly direction from the Round Chapel to the Plough, 23 High Street, Homerton, E9 – if you do go this way then go via Mehetabel Road and note the currently-closed Chesham Arms, which we all hope will be amongst next year’s recommendations following re-opening. The Plough has been here since at least 1734 and is another old Truman’s pub, but we’ll brush quickly over recent years to September 2013 when it re-emerged as a proper pub. Good food here, and a strong chance of something brewed locally; perhaps from Hackney Brewery. If five pubs are not enough for you, and you are really into your stride to wander further distant, then seek out the London Fields Taproom, the Pembury Tavern, the Adam & Eve or the Gun and you will not be disappointed. Stephen Harris Photographs: Steve Richardson
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The Globe PUBLIC HOUSE & DINING Late night live music venue Jazz • East End • Karaoke Fine Cask Ales Beers, Lagers, Wines & Spirits Served all day, every day Hot and Cold Food Mon - Sat 12-3pm 0208 985 6455 | 20 Morning Lane, Hackney, London E9 6NA 14 31st Pig’s Ear Beer & Cider Festival
Beer style & substance With well over 5,500 different real ales available in the UK, from more than 1,200 breweries, real ale is a very diverse product. There is a beer out there to suit everyone’s palate. With so much beer available, here is a quick guide to some different beer styles.
BITTER Bitters developed towards the end of the 19th century as brewers began to produce beers that could be served in pubs after only a few days storage in cellars. Bitters grew out of pale ale but were usually deep bronze to copper in colour due to the use of slightly darker crystal malts. These are highly hopped ales, ranging from 3% ABV to around 5.5% ABV (ABV means alcohol by volume). Definitions vary from brewery to brewery, but Best Bitters and Premium Bitters tend to have higher alcohol content.
MILD An ale of low gravity and hop rate, hence rounder and distinctly less bitter on the palate and in aroma than more highly hopped bitters. Mild is usually (but not always) darker in colour than bitter, through use of a higher roast malt or caramel. There are considerable variations in mild styles.
creamy head, and good grainy taste contributed by a proportion of dark roasted barley in the mash.
GOLDEN ALES Pale amber, gold, yellow or straw-coloured; golden ales are hoppy beers with a refreshing taste. They may have some malt or fruit flavour but any diacetyl (a butterscotch flavour) should be minimal. They can be up to 5.3% ABV in alcoholic strength.
PALE ALE or IPA India Pale Ale (IPA) changed the face of brewing early in the 19th century. First brewed in London and Burton-upon-Trent for a national market and export, IPAs were strong in alcohol and high in hops, with a significant sulphur nose. They kept well. Beers with less alcohol and hops were developed for the domestic market and were known as Pale Ale.
OLD ALE PORTER & STOUT Porter is a dark, slightly sweeter but ‘hoppy’ ale, made with roasted barley. It was the successor of ‘entire’ and the predecessor of stout. Originated in London around 1730, by the end of the 18th century it was the most popular beer in England. The fashion for the pale ales of Burton-upon-Trent ended the popularity of Porter in the mid 19th century. In recent years a number of brewers have revived Porter. Stout is one of the classic types of ale, a successor in fashion to ‘Porter’. Usually a very dark, heavy, well-hopped bitter ale, with a dry palate, thick
Old Ales reflect the beers available before the restrictions on brewing introduced in the First World War. Contrary to expectation, they do not have to be especially strong; they can be 4% ABV or more. Old Ale can be full of complex flavours, rich fruity malts, tart fruit and spicy hop notes. Darker versions will have a more profound malt character with powerful hints of roasted grain, dark fruit, polished leather, and fresh tobacco. The hallmark of the style remains a lengthy period of maturation during which complex flavours develop.
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127 Grove Rd, Bow E3 5RP (down Haverfield Road and go right in the park).
A Traditional award winning and Good Beer Guide Listed East End Public House. Two constantly changing guest beers. Live music from 9.30pm Friday and Saturday and 8pm on Sunday. Alf, Val and staff wish everyone all the best for Christmas and the New Year!
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Beer styles - continued
BARLEY WINE Barley Wine is a strong beer, often between 7% and 10% - and requires considerable time to mature and become drinkable. A few family brewers have kept the traditional brew, often as a Christmas Ale, and many small brewers now produce their interpretation of the style. Expect massive sweet malt, ripe fruit, pear drop, orange and lemon flavours; with darker fruits, chocolate and coffee if darker malts are used. Hop rates are generous and produce bitterness and peppery, grassy and floral notes.
SPECIALITY BEERS Embrace all types of beer that contain a non-core brewing ingredient intended to impart a distinctive and discernible flavour or character. Examples could be ginger, honey, various fruits, etc. Also: wheat beers, and traditional lager. A recent trend is to use smoked malt, a distinctive taste, not enjoyed by everyone.
BOTTLE CONDITIONED BEER This is real ale in a bottle and the bottled equivalent of the draught real ales you enjoy in the pub. The beer is NOT pasteurised and contains yeast and enough fermentable sugars to allow for a slow secondary fermentation in the bottle. To distinguish this from pasteurised bottled ales, many bottle conditioned beers include the logo ‘CAMRA says this is Real Ale’ on the bottle label.
This is CAMRA’s environmentally friendly initiative for serving beer brewed within 30 miles of the outlet Our LocAle breweries are marked LOCALE BREWERY in this programme. All of our Hackney & East London breweries are marked EAST LONDON BREWER To see our Beer, Cider, Foreign and Bottled Beer lists on your smartphone, please go to: http://bit.ly/PigsEar2014 31st Pig’s Ear Beer & Cider Festival 17
The Beer List
Draught Beer
Enjoy yourselves and the beers on offer, have a safe journey home, and please return another day to enjoy yourselves all over again, Cheers.
Hello again and welcome to our Festival. For those of you that know me, I am the person who together with Keen Massey brings you the weird, wonderful, and newest Draught beers on offer from around Britain. Keen deals with mainly the more established/London Breweries, but obtains their newest offerings and festival specials.
ALNWICK (brewed at DALESIDE) Alnwick, Northumberland Canny Bevvy 2.8% 1 x 9
For my sins, I look for the new Breweries that many of you would not have heard of before. Together, we continue to try and supply a good range across all styles, but being a winter festival, the emphasis is towards stronger darker beers. For this reason we have the DARK SIDE Bar this year. As was once said by a brewery – “What’s the matter Lager Boy, afraid of the dark!”. Not to alienate anyone, of course we have a good range of lighter beers too as all our tastes are different. The Foreign beer bar sells continental Lagers, so we do try and cover most bases. To help you decide, we have a colour code scheme and the breweries descriptions of their beers. To give you the widest choice, we only have one cask of each, though some are in larger casks so will last longer into the festival. Not all beers can be on together due to limited space, so please refer to the labels on the casks for what is available at any time. Our cellar team and Bar Managers will ensure that as soon as a beer is in it’s best condition, it will be on sale, and of course replace beers that have sold out with new beers as quickly as possible. A suggestion for anyone new to the festival, the strength (ABV%) of the beers vary considerably; if you are in for a session, I suggest you start with the lower strength beers first. Starting with the strongest beers will no doubt have quite an effect on your ability to walk, or even think!
Peter Gordon Draught Beer Manager
A full-flavoured, subtly hopped low gravity ale.
Amber Ale 3.8% 1 x 9 Classic amber ale with a strong infusion of fuggles and styrian goldings hops to balance the best quality Maris Otter and crystal malts base. Good hoppy nose and biscuity body. An all day "session" ale if ever there was one.
Gold 4.2% 1 x 9 A golden (blonde) ale with an especially pronounced hop character from its First Gold hops which offers clean refreshing flavours and aromas. With its well-structured malt body derived from finest Maris Otter malt, it is a full bodied satisfying drink with a hint of honey in the finish.
IPA 4.5% 1 x 9 A traditional India Pale Ale with an appealing hoppy aroma of bitter oranges to start followed by a big hoppy taste packed with bitter resins. It is nicely balanced, with just enough sweetnesss to counter robust hops. Dry and very hoppy to finish.
Stout 4.5% 1 x 9 A traditional stout brewed with black malt rather than roasted barley. Dark as the night and hugely satisfying with a familiar stout body.
Brown Ale 4.7% 1 x 9 Brewed in the tradition of historic Tyne and Wear brown ales. A beautiful deep reddish-brown, the flavour is complex with hints of dried fruit, and a lovely hop balance.
ANIMAL (brewed by XT) Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
Chameleon 4.6% 1 x 9 A malty amber ale brewed with all British hops.
Gobble 4.6%
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The Beer List Colour key for beer styles : Stout/ Porter
Bitter
Strong /Barley Wines / Old Ale
Speciality / Lager / Wheat
Snap 4.6% 1 x 9
Mild
Plum Porter 5.2% 1 x 9
Brewed with wheat malt and oats topped off with New World hops.
ANSPACH & HOBDAY Bermondsey, London LOCALE BREWERY
The Smoked Brown 6.0% 1 x 9 A complex brew with a subtle smoke aroma, dark fruits and a gently sweet maltiness.
The Stout Porter 8.5%
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The big brother to their Porter. Bold, rich and complex with aromas of dark fruit, coffee and liquorice.
ASCOT Camberley, Surrey On The Rails 3.8% 1 x 9 A dark mild with a distinctive hop character. Lots of chocolate flavours, it`s a beer to savour.
Aureole Ale 4.0% 1 x 9 Now brewed to a higher ABV of 4% with a new recipe. Heavily hopped Golden Ale using Citra hops.
Penguin Smoked Porter 4.5% 1 x 9 Smooth as silk with an initial subtle hoppinss that gives way to coffee malt flavour at the finish with a touch of smokiness.
Anastasia’s Exile Infused Kiwi Stout 5.0% 1 x 9 Multi award winning beautiful full bodied black stout, that tastes of roasted coffee and dark chocolate has been infused with Kiwi flavour.
ASHLEY DOWN Bristol, Gloucs Remedy 4.0% 1 x 9 A chestnut coloured session beer. Six malts and English Pilgrim hops combine to make a satisfying bitter.
Landlords Best 4.2% 1 x 9 Seven malts and a touch of wheat combined with three English hops to make a beautiful well rounded Best Bitter.
Pale Ale 4.3%
IPA
Golden ? - Unknown
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Starts with subtle sweet malts, then a bit of hoppy, grassy, straw aroma in the middle and a balanced bitter end. An easy drinking beer.
A fruity porter with a splash of Port and a hint of smoke.
Red Stoat 5.2% 1 x 9 A dark beer with loads of oats and roast malts make this a full flavoured, delicious, smooth beer.
ATLANTIC Newquay, Cornwall Ale 4.0% 1 x 9 A well hopped pale amber ale with good body, sweet malt and hints of vanilla.
Gold 4.6% 1 x 9 Refreshing crisp golden ale lightly spiced with zingy ginger. Dry finish with the lingering light marmalade of First Gold hops.
Pilgrim 4.6%
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A ruby-brown beer with a malty nose. Malt dominates the creamy taste and finish balanced by bitter and fruity hops.
Discovery - Northerley 5.5% 1 x 9 A rich Cornish porter with blackcurrant and molasses. Full bodied dark roasted malts, hints of chocolate, ripe blackcurrants and black cherries.
Chapel Rock 7.0% 1 x 9 A full and complex ruby ale underpinned with fruit and spice, overlaid with herbal aromatics and esters.
BEXAR COUNTY Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Holy Mole 5.5% 1 x 9 Subtle Cocoa and a house blend of mexican spices and chilies come together to create a spicy yet smooth winter beer (pronounced mole-eh).
El Ultimo Adios 8.8% 1 x 9 An American barleywine, hoppy like an IPA but sweeter and maltier. Very refreshing and easy to drink for such a big Beer.
Kir Royal 9.0% 1 x 9 In collaboration with Hand Drawn Monkey based in Huddersfield a beer of a different kind with blackcurrants and fermented with champagne yeast.
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The Beer List - continued BEXLEY Erith, Kent
Pale 4.2%
LOCALE BREWERY
1x9
A refreshingly bitter and hoppy pale ale. Big floral hop aroma, medium body, long dry bitter finish.
BOB Pale Ale 4.2% 1 x 9 Smooth pale ale made with a combination of Crystal malts together with UK and New World hops, giving a floral aroma with a well balanced flavour.
BRIGGS (brewed at MALLINSONS) Huddersfield, W Yorks
Blues 4.6% 1 x 9 Redhouse Premium Ale 4.2% 1 x 9 A darker pale ale combining Crystal malts with English Goldings hop for a richer flavour. This ale has a very clean finish and late - hop bitterness.
Golden Session IPA with a pronounced Californian orange aroma. Oranges at the front of the palate fading into hop resin flavours and crisp, sharp bitterness.
BRODIE’S Leyton, London BOROUGH Lancaster, Lancashire Wintertime Dark 5.0% 1 x 9
EAST LONDON BREWER
Six different types of malt are used to create a notable depth of flavour. Maris Otter is used as the base malt followed by Munich malt, Chocolate malt, Black malt, Roast Barley and Flaked Barley. Single hopped with UK Fuggles giving an earthy nose which adds to the already robust flavour.A Substantial Stout.
Old Street Pale Ale 5.0% 1 x 9 Big juicy pale ale with a big hoppy kick.
BUDE Bude, Cornwall Neet 3.7% 1 x 9
BRENTWOOD Brentwood, Essex LOCALE BREWERY
All Spice Chestnut Stout 3.9% 1 x 18 Smooth easy drinking stout brewed with local chestnuts and all spice!
Plumberry 4.6% 1 x 18 Dark Red bitter brewed with local plums and blackberries.
Chilli Chockwork Orange 6.5%
Kiwi 3.8% 1 x 9 Low strength, refreshing golden ale that`s heavily hopped.
1 x 18
Old Ale style beer brewed with fresh oranges. Chilli added to cask to add a spicy kick.
BREW BY NUMBERS Bermondsey,London LOCALE BREWERY
03 |03 Porter - Traditional 6.9% 1 x 9 A modern rendition of traditional mid 19th century porter. Dark, rich and smooth.
03 |03 Porter Traditional Dry Hopped 6.9% 1 x 9
A medium gold in colour with two malts and a little wheat for a nice malty smell, accompanied by a blend of three hops cascade, goldings and nugget to give a bursting citrusy and floral linger that will inspire you to go back for more.
Black Rock 5.1% 1 x 9 Dark ale with fantastically creamy head, with blackberry aromas, pronounced yet smooth malt flavours and a distinctive black olive aftertaste,Brewed to 5.1% for a fullerflavour and more satisfying taste.
BULLFINCH Bermondsey, London LOCALE BREWERY
Rascal 4.4% 1 x 9 Light, hoppy, bitter easy drinking session IPA.
Oatmeal Stout 5.5% 1 x 9 Dark, luxurious, rich and full bodied stout.
BY THE HORNS Summerstown, London
A dry hopped version of our Traditional Porter with East Kent Goldings
LOCALE BREWERY
BREWSMITH Ramsbottom, Lancashire Bitter 3.9% 1 x 9
Amber coloured ale with soft caramel notes with a fruity yet spicy hop finish.
A full bodied pale (for its strength) session bitter. Moderate bitterness, pronounced floral/citrus hop aromas.
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Mick the Miller 4.0% 1 x 9
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The Beer List - continued BY THE HORNS Summerstown, London Hopslinger Black American Ale 5.0% 1 x 9 Light roast yet hoppy ale with a big citrus and passion fruit finish.
Lambeth Walk 5.1% 1 x 9 Velvety rich and chock full of flavour with notes of coffee, toasted hazelnuts and hints of dark berries.
CANOPY Herne Hill, London LOCALE BREWERY
Brockwell IPA 4.1% 1 x 9 A hoppy, heady easily drinkable and session strength pale ale. Brewed using Citra and Cascade hops.
CARLISLE Carlisle, Cumbria Spun Gold 4.2% 1 x 9 A crisp hoppy ale. A lovely red gold colour with a fruit aftertaste. Brewed with pale ale and crystal malts.
Flaxen 4.5% 1 x 9 Hoppy blonde session beer.
Magic Number 4.5% 1 x 9 Copper coloured bitter with smooth caramel undertones.
CASTLES Caldicot, Wales White Knight 4.1% 1 x 9 An American style pale ale with a peach aroma and vibrant taste.
Portcullis 4.2% 1 x 9 A russet brown coloured ale with a tropical fruit aroma. Full bodied with a malty, rounded taste.
CAVEMAN Swanscombe, Kent LOCALE BREWERY
Compass 3.5% 1 x 9 A blend of zesty hops from around the world, including Summit, Willamette, Herkules and Northdown and a simple malt base.
Motueka Pale 3.7% 1 x 9 A single hop pale ale with plenty of fruity antipodean Motueka hops.
Christmas Cave 4.8% 1 x 9 Ruby/Red coloured ale made using some experimental hops and quite a broad range of malts.
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The Beer List - continued Colour key for beer styles : Stout/ Porter
Bitter
Strong /Barley Wines / Old Ale
Speciality / Lager / Wheat
Cavedweller 5.8% 1 x 9 A rich porter, with a full body. Chocolate and coffee notes come through in the malt and dark berry flavours from the hops.
Christmas Club 6.4% 1 x 9
IPA
Mild
Golden ? - Unknown
Bete Noir Stout 5.0% 1 x 9 A full flavoured dry stout with coffee, chocolate and a hint of smoke. A creamy body with a molasses and spice nose.
CRATE Hackney Wick, London
An old ale spiced with Garam Massala and Ginger.
EAST LONDON BREWER
COLCHESTER Wakes Colne, Essex Barbarian 3.9% 1x18
A bright golden session ale with a crisp hop finish.
A well hopped, copper coloured beer.
No Man’s Land 4.2% 1 x 18 Light colour ale with a floral taste, brewed from English hops.
Crate Golden 3.8% 1 x 9 Crate Porter 4.1% 1 x 9 A complex yet sessionable brew, with aromas of chocolate and biscuit.
Crate Pale 4.5% 1 x 9
Old style dark ale, Sweet and creamy.
A fresh aromatic ale, light and fruity with a clean citrusy finish.
COLES Llanddarog, Wales Bramling Cross 4.0% 1 x 9
A smooth full bodied caramel, with a touch of spice.
Santa’s Claws 4.8% 1 x 18
A single hop amber ale.
Merlins Stout 4.0% 1 x 9 A rich creamy stout.
Golden Ale 4.2% 1 x 9 A Golden Ale.
Llanddarog Ale 4.2% 1 x 9 A brown ale.
Christmas Pudding 4.4% 1 x 9 Like a pint of christmas pudding.
Crate Rye 5.7% 1 x 9 DEMONBREW (brewed at TRYST) Larbert, Scotland Black Out 4.4% 1 x 9 A chocolate stout.
DOMINION Moreton, Essex LOCALE BREWERY
Woodbine Racer Turbo 6.2% 1 x 9 A North American pale ale. Initial citrus fruit flavours, with intense aroma of mandarins and clementines.
Brewed with whisky malt.
DOWNTON Downton, Wiltshire Roman’s Christmas Delight 7.2% 1 x 9
CONNOISSEUR St Helens, Merseyside Bloody Mild 3.7% 1 x 9
Strong dark ale almost stout like, combining subtle flavours of coffee and chocolate which linger long into the finish.
This mild offers complex malt flavours with a hint of chocolate combined with Soverign and EKG hops for added aroma.
DOVE STREET Ipswich, Suffolk Bitter 3.7% 1 x 9
Dylan Thomas 4.8% 1 x 9
Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby 4.1% 1 x 9 A tasty balance of Marris Otter and dark crystal malts provide a rich ruby base over which Columbus and Junga hops have been overlaid to preserve the ales malty character.
A traditional bitter with a dryish finish.
Underwood Special 4.0% 1 x 9 A special version of the Underwood Mild.
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The Beer List - continued DOVE STREET Ipswich, Suffolk Funky Dove ?% 1 x 9 Ruby Ale, dry hopped with New Zealand and American hops.
Ed Porter 4.5% 1 x 9 Dark traditional porter, full of flavour.
EAST LONDON Leyton, London EAST LONDON BREWER
Indian Summer 4.5% 1 x 9 Light, refreshing pale beer. Hopped with Admiral, Bramling Cross, and First Gold.
Pig`s Ear Christmas Ale 4.5% 1 x 18 Dark premium ale spiced with nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger.
Cowcatcher 4.8% 1 x 18 American Pale Ale, generously hopped with Simcoe, Amarillo, Columbus, Chinook and Citra hops.
Quadrant Coffee Stout 5.8% 1 x 9 Rich dark, smooth oatmeal stout with added coffee.
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ELGOOD’S Wisbech, Cambrigeshire Coolship Lambic 6.7% 1 x 18 Mega rare cask version of this unblended Lambic style beer.
FIVE POINTS Hackney, London EAST LONDON BREWER
Five Points Pale 4.4% 1 x 9 A zesty aromatic pale ale brewed with Citral & Amarillo hops.
Derailed Porter 5.2% 1 x 9 Derailed Porter is Railway Porter aged for 8 months with Brettanomyces yeast, giving the beer a deeper, rounder, smoother flavour. There are interesting aromas of leather, peat, woodsmoke and tart liquorice.
Hook Island Red 6.0%
1x9
A complex red rye beer brewed with Chinook, Columbus and Simcoe hops.
Five Points IPA 7.1% 1 x 9 A lush brew made with Galaxy and Casade hops, characteristic for tropical and citrus flavours - think lychee, white grape and passionfruit.
The Beer List - continued Colour key for beer styles : Stout/ Porter
Bitter
Strong /Barley Wines / Old Ale
Speciality / Lager / Wheat
FLOWERPOTS Cheriton, Hampshire Cheriton Porter 4.2% 1 x 9 Dark brown/black with a creamy coffee aroma, a hint of sweetness in the mouth along with roasted chocolate maltiness, and a dry finish.
London Porter 5.4% 1 x 9 A traditional London Porter which offers outstanding depth of flavour. A blend of Brown, Crystal and Chocolate malts provide earthy character and creamy delivery, while hints of coffee and chocolate carry through onto the tongue.
GIPSY HILL Gipsy Hill, London LOCALE BREWERY
Beatnik 3.8%
1x9
A fruity pale ale with a tropical air. Firm malt base, with flavours of orange, melon and tropical fruits.
Mild
chee, peaches and lime, hanging off a medium malt body.
Chocolate Oatmeal Porter 4.8%
1 x 18
A lovely rich brew with lots of oatmeal, full of coffee, chocolate and toasted nut flavours.
FULLERS Chiswick, London LOCALE BREWERY
IPA
Golden ? - Unknown
Amarillo/Citra 5.0% 1 x 18 A medium amber beer with a complex hop character full of citrus peel, Seville oranges and tropical fruit.
HAMMERPOT Poling, West Sussex Bottle Wreck Porter 4.7% 1 x 9 A traditional Black Porter with chocolate, coffee and roast malt flavours.
HARWICH TOWN Harwich, Essex St. Nicholas 6.5% 1 x 9 Abbey style brown beer.
HOWLING HOPS Hackney, London EAST LONDON BREWER
Southpaw 4.2% 1 x 9 A punchy amber ale with a mouthful of malt and hops, it comes out with fruit, citrus and refreshing balance, backed up by a corner of bitterness.
GRAFTON Worksop, Notts Coco Loco 5.0% 1 x 9 A sweet tasting dark black beer rich with caramel flavours with added coconut oil.
GREAT ORME Colwyn Bay, Wales Red Dragon 4.5% 1 x 9 Premium bitter.
HACKNEY Hackney, London EAST LONDON BREWER
Session IPA 4.1% 1 x 18 A massive IPA with a sessionable ABV. Big hop flavours of grapefruit, pine and citrus.
Winter Warmer 4.5% 1 x 18 A robust burnt - amber coloured ale that's full of winter spices.
Calypso/El Dorado 4.6% 1 x 9
Pale No4 3.8%1 x 9 Super hopped session ale made with US hops.
American Brown 4.0%
1x9
Big roasty, hoppy tasting brown ale brewed with US hops.
Oatmeal Stout 4.5% 1 x 9 A rich full bodied stout brewed with English hops.
Pale XX No6 5.0% 1 x 9 An American style pale ale, full throttled, hoppy & full of life.
HUMPTY DUMPTY Reedham, Norfolk Christmas Cracking 4.5% 1 x 9 A full bodied low gravity amber coloured unspiced Christmas Ale.
HYDE PARK Plymouth, Devon ? Made in Mutley 4.0% 1 x 9 No beer description available at time of print ?
Silver Fox 4.1% 1 x 9
No beer description available at time of print
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The Beer List - continued JONES THE BREWER Whitney On Wye, Herefords Malty Python 4.2% 1 x 9 A Munich style brown ale.
Wheat Stone Bridge 5.7% 1 x 9
Black Cork 6.6% 1 x 9 We have created an intensely dark beer using pale malt, crystal malt, chocolate malt, oats and malted wheat. Hops are added in 3 stages to create a prominent bitterness and hop aroma.
A Belgian wheat beer.
KUBLA Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset Pale Ale One 4.2% 1 x 9
KENDAL Kendal, Cumbria Pale Ale 4.2% 1 x 9
Our Pale Ale Number ONE exhibits fruity gooseberry and orange aromas through the late addition of Southern Hemisphere hopa.
A traditional Pale Ale with a long dry finish.
KENNET & AVON (brewed at WESSEX) Melksham, Wiltshire Pillbox 4.0% 1 x 9 A light refreshing ale with a hoppy bite that punches above its weight. Lager coloured, and popular with the ladies.
Dundas 4.2%
1x9
A copper coloured best bitter with a pleasant bitterness and citrus hoppy aroma.
Rusty Lane 4.4% 1 x 9 A rusty coloured Irish style red ale with rounded toffee malt flavour and floral hop finish.
Bruce 4.8% 1 x 9 A rich but not overpowering porter with notes of licorice and coffee come through on the aftertaste.
KENT Birling, Kent Hop Dog 4.5% 1 x 9 A highly hopped English Pale Ale using only East Kent Goldings for a taste of the new harvest.
Green Giant 6.0% 1 x 9 A big IPA with a colossal amount of freshly harvested East Kent Goldings creating a rare and complex beer.
TrIPA 10.0% 1 x 9 A massively hopped Triple IPA handle with care!
KNOPS Throsk, Scotland Musselburgh Broke 4.5% 1 x 9 Our modern interpretation of this beer uses four different malts; Pale Ale, Crystal, Chocolate and Roast Barley.
India Pale Ale 5.0% 1 x 9 A light golden ale with a citrus and apricot aroma. Well balanced by a smooth honeyed malt backbone.
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Saison One 4.2% 1 x 9 To create our Saison Number ONE we combine the malts and hops with Chamomile to provide the drying finish of a traditional Saison with the Lavender providing the floral character.
Princess Caraboo 6.0% 1 x 9 A pale ale with added coconut collaboration with Sophie Atherton for Bristol Beer Week.
LAINES Hackney, London EAST LONDON BREWER
Empire Stout 5.0% 1 x 9 Classic dry stout. No frills or fuss. Pale malt, roasted barley, British hops and the finest London water.
Red Empire 5.2% 1 x 9 A red hopped ale with Simcoe and Amarillo. Dark Crystal and Cara malt give this beer a chewy malt body with a fresh lingering hop finish.
Bourgeois Scum 7.0% 1 x 9 Black beer made using toasted wheat flakes and lots of Soachi Ace hops.
LEDBURY Ledbury, Herefords Dark 3.9% 1 x 9 A dark bitter. The bitterness is well balanced with both chocolate and coffee. Ledbury Dark is made only with hops from a single local farm. The hops used add to the beer, notes of spice, marmalade and honey.
LEDBURY Ledbury, Herefords Gold 4.0% 1 x 9 Ledbury Gold is made using two local Herefordshire hops. It is a golden bitter with a honey and fruit finish.
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Welcome to The Three Tuns, a traditional pub in the City of London EC3.
Historic Pub There has been a pub on this site since the 1700s. The old Roman London Wall runs through the beer cellar and has been preserved behind a large perspex panel. It’s rumoured that Jack the Ripper may have hidden in the pub’s cellar on several occasions by using the cellar chute at the rear of the building in Vine Street. We have a small downstairs bar with a smoking terrace to the rear, an upstairs dining room and a ‘secret’ roof terrace in the summer months.
Cask Ale House Five hand pulls serving around ten different cask ales every week, including local beers from a number of London’s independent micro-breweries. We are keen supporters of the CAMRA “LocAle” scheme, which supports local breweries and is helping to bring the brewing industry back to the heart of London. Our house ale is “Tuns Moore Beer” 4.1%, brewed by Caledonian Brewery with five malts and full-flower hops.
36 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2ET | 020 7265 5191 |www.threetunsec3.co.uk
Food Our food comes courtesy of our friends at Backyard Bites and is all homemade on the premises. Lunch is served Mon to Fri 12 noon – 3pm. Weekly blackboard specials are served alongside our main menu.
Opening hours Open Monday to Friday from 11.30am. Closed weekends.
@ThreeTunsEC3
TheTHREETUNSEC3
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The Beer List - continued LEFT BANK Walthamstow, London EAST LONDON BREWER
Snowbeard 4.0% 1 x 9 A fruity, spicy ruby coloured ale made with plenty of Australian Topaz hops.
Milk Stout 4.5% 1 x 9 A smooth tasting milk stout with chocolate aromas.
LITTLE BEER CORPORATION Guildford, Surrey Little Smooth 4.5% 1 x 9 A dry, brisk, light yet also flavourful Milk Stout.
Little Slow 5.0% 1 x 9 A very hoppy Czech style Pilsner with a smooth slightly sweet flavour.
LONDON FIELDS Hackney, London
Polar Dancer 4.4% 1 x 9 Pale and refreshing with amazing fruitiness from Amarillo and Apollo hops.
Good Cheer 4.5% 1 x 9 Rich dark creamy stout, with roast barley for chocolate roastiness and sweet nutty maltiness. Gently hopped with Goldings.
Yuletide Gold 5.0% 1 x 9 Deep golden ale with strong hoppy aroma with citrus flavours.
EAST LONDON BREWER
Hackney Hopster 4.2% 1 x 18 A Pacific pale ale. Dressed in NZ & US hops. Flavours of grapefruit, lemon zest and gooseberry with a dry finish.
3 Weiss Monkeys 5.0%
1x9
IPA/Hefeweizen hybrid. Huge amounts of American hops, traditional Hefe yeast and a big wheat body combine in this beer to give aromas of tropical fruit, bananas and orange peel with a long crisp finish.
Gyle 666 6.6% 1 x 9 From the gates of hell we bring you Gyle 666, a smoked chipotle habanero spiced ale at 6.66%. To be unleashed on all sinners.
American Black Ale 7.0% 1 x 9 Big fruity US West Coast style. Hop flavour, complimented by a sweet malty body with faint notes of caramel, roasted chocolate and nuts.
LYMM Warrington, Cheshire Bridgewater Blonde 4.5% 1 x 9 A golden ale.
Dam Strong Ale 7.2% 1 x 9 English strong ale.
MIGHTY OAK Maldon, Essex Nut Cracker 3.6% 1 x 9 Nut brown session ale with great depth of flavour from crystal, brown and chocolate malts.
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Saxon Strong 6.5% 1 x 9 An amber ale with full malt flavours balanced by a strong hop finish from First Gold and Bramling Cross hops.
MOONSHINE Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire Harvest Moon Mild 3.9% 1 x 18 A well balanced beer dark mild, slightly sweet with plenty of character. Smooth with fruit notes combining with coffee and chocolate flavours.
Hog Hopper 4.4% 1 x 9 A new amber coloured beer that's hopped with American & Australian hops.
Wheat Wine Ale 10.2% 1 x 9 Barley Wine without barley. Wheat has been used instead of barley, hence the name Wheat Wine Ale. Golden coloured with a boozy finish. Brewed in December 2013.
Subik 6.0% 1 x 9 Copper coloured beer. Malt & fruit pastel aromas lead to palatable hoppy flavoured beer, which finishes with a lingering bitter finish.
NEWARK Newark, Notts Best 3.7% 1 x 9 Two malts and three hops give this beer an excellent balance of sweet malt and bitter hops with a subtle hint of blackcurrent and light citrus.
NPA 3.8% 1 x 9 Clear bright and quite hoppy due to the abundance of late hops. Very refreshing with a good head and a long clean bitter after taste
The Beer List - continued BLH4 4.0% 1 x 9 A bright, light hoppy beer.
5.5 5.5% 1 x 9 A complex beer balancing deep malt with a citrus burst.
OAKHAM Peterborough, Cambridgeshire 42 4.2% 1 x 18 The latest edition to the Oakademy range, is this red coloured hoppy ale which consists of forty two different hop varieties.
Asylum 4.5% 1 x 9 Premium amber bitter with insane hop aroma and character, grapefruit and berries to taste before you`re certified to a bitter end.
The Kraken’s Ink 6.8%
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A dark powerful brew with chocolate flavours, leading to a bitter finish.
OLDE POTTING SHED High Spen, Tyne & Wear Dark Wing 4.2% 1 x 9
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A ruby red beer with a deep complex tastel with caramel notes. Bitter with a hoppy finish.
ONE MILE END Whitechapel, London EAST LONDON BREWER
Temperance Dry hopped with Simcoe 3.5% 1 x 9 A low ABV session ale, with a good body for it`s strength, with Simcoe hops in cask.
Rye Mild 3.8% 1 x 9 A dark mild made with 20% rye malt which is lighty hopped with Challenger hops.
Salvation Pale Ale 4.4% 1 x 9 Malted Maris Otter barley, a little wheat and US hops make this a super - drinkable zesty pale ale.
Black & Blue Hospital Porter 5.2% 1 x 9 Our London Brown Porter secondary fermented on blueberry. A Pig`s Ear special.
Snakecharmer IPA 5.7% 1 x 9 A fruity IPA with Simcoe, Sorachi Ace and dry hopped with Mosaic. A 90 minute boil gives this beer a full body with caramel notes, sweet lemon, blueberry and tropical fruits on the nose.
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OPENING TIMES Mon - Sat: 1pm - 11pm Sun: 1pm - 10pm 394 York Way, Holloway, London N7 9LW
Tel: 0207 6074871 Mob: 0787 6770881
www.kriswines.com Kris Wines
@KrisWinesLTD
The Beer List - continued ONE MILE END Whitechapel, London EAST LONDON BREWER
Whiskey Barrel Porter 6.9% 1 x 9 A blend of 8wk barrel aged stout and our London Brown Porter brings our Russian Imperial Stout down to a more consumable cask strength without loss in complexity.
ORBIT Walworth, London LOCALE BREWERY
Nico 4.8% 1 x 9 A take on of a traditional kolsch style beer. Light, crisp and fragrant.
Red Bull 5.5% 1 x 9 A red ale with chocolate undertones and a strong, hoppy finish provided by the Australian hops.
PITFIELD Moreton, Essex LOCALE BREWERY
White Christmas 5.0% 1 x 18 An original wheat beer recipe with an added combination of cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg.
White Rose 5.0% 1 x 9 Wheat beer meets organic Bulgarian Rose Water. The result is a beer that tastes of Turkish Delight. It`s a love or hate thing.
Smoked Alt 6.2% 1 x 9 Strong version of their Alt Bier with smoked malt. Malty smokey and dry.
Black Rose 6.3% 1 x 9
PIED BULL Chester, Cheshire Black Bull Porter 5.2% 1 x 9
Pitfield 1792 Imperial Chocolate Stout combined with organic Bulgarian Rose Water produces a beer that tastes of Turkish Delight and chocolate. Its another love or hate thing.
Black Bull is a classic porter brewed to a local recipe dating from 1865. Uses a blend of six fine malts and the best English hops to give a dry coffee flavour.
1890 Stock Ale 2014 Vintage 10.0% 1 x 9 A Victorian recipe strong ale. The flavours are of Sherry, fruits and honey.
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The Beer List - continued PRESSURE DROP Hackney, London
SAMBROOK’S Battersea, London
EAST LONDON BREWER
LOCALE BREWERY
Pale Fire Lime & Amarillo 4.8%
1x9
House pale but casked with fresh limes and handfuls of Amarillo hops.
Strictly Roots 6.5% 1 x 9 A traditional London Porter, given an earthy quality and an extra bitter note by the addition of fresh dandelion & burdock root.
Traktor 6.5%
Four Chimneys Chocolate Stout 4.7% 1 x 9 A smooth chocolate milk stout with rich chocolate aroma and flavours. A one off brew by Sambrook`s Brewery so make sure you get a taste.
Powerhouse Porter 4.9% 1 x 9 Dark brown Porter with a pleasant roasted malt nose with some sultana and blackcurrent character.
1x9
A Christmas Plum Porter made with locally foraged plums added at the end of the boil, then aged on wood chips soaked in Silvovice,the Czech plum sprit.
RED SQUIRREL Potten End, Hertfordshire LOCALE BREWERY
Milk Stout 4.0% 1 x 9 A creamy full bodied stout full of chocolate and coffee flavours, balanced by a hoppy bitterness.
London Porter 5.0% 1 x 9 Full bodied dark brown/black porter with a good balance of chocolate and roasted barley.
REDEMPTION Tottenham, London 1 x 18
Blonde ale with new Czech hop Kazbek. Refreshing and zesty, with a delicate lemon aroma.
Light Brown. Subtle sweet palate with a bitter finish.
SNAGGLETOOTH Darwen, Lancashire Allotropic Pale Ale 3.8% 1 x 9 A refreshing session pale ale with a slight malt, floral and citrus notes. Finished with New Zealand hops to give a lingering white wine and gooseberry fruitiness. A quaffable and refreshing ale made with German and American hops to give floral, spicy and citrus flavours. This ale has slight malt with a sweet aftertaste.
Cos I'm A Lobster 4.2% 1 x 9
Little Chief 4.3% 1 x 18 Exclusive to this festival. Big hoppy ale packed full of US & NZ hops, with hints of honey and tropical citrus and floral notes.
Beautiful summery red ale with subtle roasted malts. Made from English and American hops to give a spicy currant and berry fruitiness.
SOUTHWARK Bermondsey, London
Urban Coffee Dusk 4.6% 1 x 18 a Full bodied brown bitter with a big hit of coffee.
Fellowship Porter 5.1% 1 x 9 Dark brown Porter with chocolate, liquorice and dry roasted malt flavours.
Fellowship Vanilla Porter 5.1%
SHALFORD Braintree, Essex Ebenezer 4.5% 1 x 9
Deja Brewed 4.0% 1 x 9
LOCALE BREWERY
Rock the Kazbek 4.0%
Russian Imperial Stout 10.5% 1 x 9 A rich dark complex full bodied imperial stout. The chocolate, toasted and coffee flavours from the roasted malts balance nicely with this 10.5% beer.
1x9
Traditional London Porter infused with vanilla.
LOCALE BREWERY
LPA (London Pale Ale) 4.0% 1 x 9 Modern style easy drinking Pale Ale with light malt textures, subtle bitterness and wonderful citrus and tropical tones and powerful aftertaste.
Bermondsey Best 4.4% 1 x 9 Traditional English Best Bitter made with East Kent Goldings hops which produce a superbly balanced chestnut beer, with hints of caramel shortbread flavour and a wonderful lavender, spice honey hoppiness.
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The Beer List - continued STAMPS Everton, Mersey Blonde Moment 3.6% 1 x 9 A pale coloured beer using Citra hops producing a smooth floral and citrus aroma, and flavour, a good session beer.
Bondi Blonde 3.7% 1 x 9 A pale full flavoured blonde beer,using Centennial hops, flowers and citrus most evident, a fresh, tasty, blonde beer.
Mail Train 4.2% 1 x 9 A traditional bitter with an abundance of Fuggles and Golding hops, finishing with a noticeable bitterness and a delightful malt character.
Swedish Blonde 4.3% 1 x 9 A generous amount of Simcoe hops, dry hopped, above a session ale but very quaffable, with a strong hint of citrus.
EAST LONDON BREWER
Ubique 1914 Porter 4.7% 1 x 9 An adaptation of a 1914 porter recipe brewed in commemoration of the WW1 centenary.
Coffee In The Morning 5.7% 1 x 9 A strong full bodied stout brewed with coffee from Grind Coffee Bar.
Swift 3.9% 1 x 18 A lip - smacking drinkable golden ale brewed with both lager and ale hops.
Runner 4.0% 1 x 18 A modern interpretation of a classic style. A deep and dark best bitter.
Bold As Brass 4.2% 1 x 18 Copper coloured ale brewed with a healthy dose of rye & New World hops.
Original Porter 4.5% 1 x 9 A porter brewed the original way, using brown malts as well as black, flavours of chocolate, coffee and caramel. Export Pale Ale brewed to celebrate the first anniversary of the return to London, this was brewed with hops from Britain, Bavaria, Bohemia and the US, as was the original in 1883.
London Keeper 8.0% 1 x 9 The very first beer brewed in our brewery in Hackney Wick. With a year of maturation in cask, this delivers punchy flavours of coffee, liquorice and black treacle.
TWICKENHAM Twickenham, Middlesex
IPA 7.0% 1 x 9 West Coast style IPA hopped with Columbus, Citra and Chinook hops.
TINY REBEL Newport, Wales The Vader Shuffle 6.5% 1 x 9 Belgian Style wood aged porter brewed with authentic Belgian yeast. 100% Belgian malt and candi sugar gives the beer its unique malt flavours backed up with our unique Belgian House strain. Phenolic & bubble gum aromas leading to a sweet malt back bone with added oak flavours from conditioning the beers on oak wood.
TOMOS A LILFORD Llantwit Major, Wales Spiced Porter 6.0% 1 x 9 No beer description available at time of print.
Green Hop 4.2%
EAST LONDON BREWER
Ben Truman 1883 6.0% 1 x 9
TAP EAST Stratford, London
?
TRUMAN’S Hackney Wick, London
1x9
No beer description available at time of print.
LOCALE BREWERY
Yakima Valley ABA 4.8% 1 x 9 A mahogany American Brown Ale with a surprising citrus hit. This beer has a glorious dark shade, brewed with Simcoe and Citra hops.
Decade 5.0% 1 x 9 An IPA brewed specially for their 10th Anniversary. Sweet taste with a clean, crisp finish. Hopped with Chinook and Ahtanum that gives plenty of aroma and a solid hoppy finish.
TWISTED Westbury, Wiltshire Gaucho 3.6% 1 x 9 A pale ale with a lasting aroma and clean finish.
Conscript 4.2% 1 x 9 A golden-coloured ale with a fragrant grassy aroma.
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The Beer List - continued Colour key for beer styles : Stout/ Porter
Bitter
Strong /Barley Wines / Old Ale
Speciality / Lager / Wheat
TWISTED Westbury, Wiltshire Rider 4.2%b 1 x 9 A well-balanced, traditional American red ale.
WEIRD BEARD Hanwell, West London LOCALE BREWERY
Black Perle 3.8% 1 x 9 Coffee Milk Stout, a latte in beer form.
IPA
Mild
Golden ? - Unknown
Ace of Spades 4.7% 1 x 9 A classic London Porter with a rich chocolate, smooth caramel and roasted coffee flavours.
WILD WEATHER Silchester, Hampshire Blizzard 8.0% 1 x 9 A strong powerful winter beer.
WINDSOR & ETON Windsor, Berkshire LOCALE BREWERY
Fire 5.5% 1 x 9 German Style Rauchbier made with 100% beechwood smoked malt. Think Bacon!
Mandarin & Grand Marnier Christmas Ale 5.0% 1 x 9
WEIRD BEARD Hanwell, West London Smoke 5.5% 1 x 9
The classic W&E Christmas beer with an additional twist of a seasonal liquor to further enhance the beautiful orangey notes. This is a one-off.
German Style Rauchbier made with 100% beechwood smoked malt with smoked chipotles added at the end of the fermentation. Think Spicy Mexican Bacon!
Sorachi Face Plant 8.6% 1 x 9 Big Imperial IPA with Sorachi Ace, Summit and Apollo hops but mainly Sorachi.
WELLS & YOUNGS / WELLS Bedford, Bedfordshire A Good Stuffing 4.5% 2 x 9 A fine balance between malt and hops delivers a satisfying rounded pale ale with amber colour, fruity nose and a good hop aroma
WIBBLERS Mayland, Essex The American Gold 5.5% 1 x 9 A golden coloured beer with loads of American hops.
Dark Braggot 8.5% 1 x 9 A true Braggot and not a honey beer.
WILD CARD Walthamstow, London EAST LONDON BREWER
Pale Ale 3.4%
1x9
A true session Pale Ale refreshing, easy drinking and moreish.
King of Hearts 4.5% 1 x 9 A light and refreshing blonde beer with a fragrant and hoppy experience.
Conqueror 1066 6.1% 1 x 18 A cut above the standard conqueror at 6.1% ABV, this one-off cask beer has all the bite of the original beer, but with extra fortification of 1075 to make this beer a even more satisfying full experience.
WINDSOR & ETON/REUBEN’S BREWS (USA) Windsor, Berkshire LOCALE BREWERY
Brew 882 Seattle Porter 4.8% 1 x 9 Collaboration brew of a British Brown Porter with a New World twist producing a full flavoured smooth luxurious beer.
XT Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire After Nine 5.0% 1 x 9 Dark beer with roasted flavours, with added mint and cacao.
XT/THAME Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire Hoppiness Collaboration 4.2% 1 x 9 A Golden Pale Ale brewed in collaboration with Thame Brewery. A crisp tasting beer brewed with American Casade and Columbus hops.
YELLAND MANOR Yelland, Devon ? Standard 4.2%1 x 9 No beer description available at time of print. ?
Classic 4.4% 1 x 9
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At the heart of the City of London and close to Aldgate Tube Station Consistently listed in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide
Local ales available • CAMRA Members Discount (Ask at the bar) Open 12 ‘til late • (Available for hire at weekends) 41 Minories, EC3N 1DT | Tel: 020 7488 3630
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Foreign Bottled Beers The foreign beer bar will feature bottle beers from some of the smaller breweries of Europe and America. Please bring a pint glass to our bar as we need the extra room to serve the beer properly. Adam Miller Foreign Beer Bar Manager.
Belgium
De la Senne Jambe-de-Bois - 8% 330ml
Abbaye des Rocs Blonde - 7.5% 330ml
A strong, sweetish orange-blonde Triple
Strong blond Abbey triple.
Brusseleir -8% 330ml
Achel Extra Bruin - 9.5% 750ml Trappist beer. Big dark and slightlysweet.
Boon Oude Geuze - 4.5% 375ml
De Leite Cuvée Sœur’ise-8.5% 330ml
Horals Oude Gueuze Mega Blend 7% 750ml
Moderately sour oak aged kriek
De Ranke Cuvée de Ranke - 7% 750ml
Mariage Parfait Kriek - 8% 375ml
Kriek de Ranke - 7% 750ml
Strong hoppy blond.
Cantillon Bruocsella - 5% 750ml Lambic.
Iris - 5% 750ml Malt beer with hops in the Lambic style.
Kriek - 5% 375ml A rose-coloured, dry, very tart and cherry-flavoured Kriek. Another classic.
De Cam Oude kriek - 6.5% 375ml Tart cherry lambic
Hanssens Oude Kriek 6% 750ml Lambic with cherries.
Sour beer blended with Giradin lambic.
Brussels Beer Project Delta IPA - 4% 330ml
Lambic with strawberries.
Black IPA
Traditional blend of old and new lambics.
One year-old lambic flavoured with overripe cherries.
Hanssens Oude beitje 6% 375ml
Sour ale with cherries blended with lambic.
Père Noël - 7% 330ml Copper coloured complex Christmas beer.
Dochter van de Korenaar Crime Passionel - 8% 330ml Wheat IPA.
Dupont Saison Dupont Cuvée Dry Hopping 2014 - 6.5% 375ml
Colaboration of 8 lambic brewers and blenders.
Moortgat Duvel Triple Hop 2013 Sorachi Ace 9.5% 330ml
With Saaz, Styrian Golding and Sorachi Ace.
Duvel Triple Hop 2014 Mosiac 9.5% 330ml
With American hop variety mosiac.
Mort Subite Oude Gueuze 7% 375ml
Traditional unfiltered and unsweetened gueuze.
Rochfort Rochfort 10 11.3% 330ml Magnificent Trappist ale. Dark, rich and seductive.
Rodenbach Caractère Rouge 7% 750ml
Limited edition saison
Sour red ale fermented with cherries in oak casks.
Fantome Noel - 6.5% 750ml
St Bernardus Extra 4 4.8% 330ml
Spiced Christmas ale
Giradin Framboise 6% 750ml
Light yellow lightly hopped with a bitter finish
Easy dinking raspberry lambic.
Christmas Ale 10% 330ml Dark complex Christmas ale with a fruity nose
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Foreign Bottled Beers - continued St Feuillien / Green Flash (USA) Belgian Coast IPA 7.5% 330ml Belgian style IPA
Struise XXX Rye Triple Reserva- 10.0% 330ml Rye Triple aged Bourbon beer
Tilquin Gueuze a L’Ancienne - 6% 750ml New lambic blender. Excellent sour gueuze
Brewfist / De Molen (NL) Gose - 3.7% 330ml Traditional German style of beer with salt.
Cloudy golden wheat beer with a hint of banana
Brewfist/ Toccalmatto/ Ducato/ De Molen (NL) Mild I’d Like To Drink - 6.5% 330ml
Kloster Andechs
Collaboration brew of a strong dark mild
Brùton Dieci (10) - 10% 750ml Barley wine
Intense dark Trappist classic
Dieu du Ciel! Corne Du Diable - 6.5% 341ml Red ale IPA with dry hopping
Denmark Amager / Hoppin Frog (USA) Frog Hops to Amager 8% 500ml
Weissbier Dunkel - 5.0% 500ml Brown wheat beer with malt and banana
Mahrs Bräu Hell - 4.9% 500ml Clear golden beer
Maisels & Friends Marc’s Chocolate Bock - 7.5% 750ml
German version of Irish stout tasting of malt, chocolate and coffee
Westvleteren 12 - 10.2% 330ml
Canada
Julius Echter Weissbier Hell - 4.9% 500ml
Germany Augustiner Edelstoff 5.6% 500ml Refreshing gold beer
Lagerbier Hell 5.2% 500ml Easy drinking Munich lager
Weissbier 5.4% 500ml Light cloudy wheat beer
Berliner Bürgerbräu Rotkehichen 5.3% 500ml
Rittmayer Smokey George - 5.0% 500ml Light amber smoked beer
Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen - 5.1% 500ml Highly smoked dark beer
Hells Lagerbier - 4.3% 500ml Lightly smoked lager beer
Schneider Weisse Tap 7 - 5.4 % 500ml
Imperial Stout
Blond lager from Berlin
Dark blond wheat beer with a banana taste
Beer Here (de Proef)
Hönig Posthörnla 5.4% 500ml
Weihenstephaner Korbinian - 7.4% 500ml
Farligwine (de Proef) 11% 330ml Barley Wine
To Øl (de Proef) F*** Art This is Religion 8% 330ml
Lightly smoked reddish amber beer
Braurel Königshofer Alt 5% 500ml
Copper coloured vinous aged in wine barrels
Amber malt flavoured slightly bitter ale
Grenadier - 9.1% 330ml
Distelhäuser Landbier 5.1% 500ml
Strong blond triple
Amber beer tasting of caramel and malts
Italy Batzen Bräu Dunkel - 6.5% 330ml Brown beer with roasted malts
UrPorterl - 5.5% 330ml Black beer with roasted malts and coffee
Very dark double bock with a malty taste.
Früh Kölsch - 4.8% 500ml Blond beer from Cologne
Jever Pilsener - 4.9% 500ml Refreshing crisp tasting lager pils
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Ireland Porterhouse The Devil’s HalfAcre 13.5% 330ml Black IPA
Louder 11% 330ml
American style Barley Wine
Lithuania Raudonų Plytų Nežinomas Krantas - 6% 330ml Abbey style dubbel. Brown beer with malts and fruits
Foreign Bottled Beers - continued Kaapse Brouwers Gozer - 9.8% 330ml
Riley’s Double IPA - 7.5% 355ml
Nøgne Ø / Mikkeller (Denmark) / Brewdog (Scotland) Horizon Tokyo Black 16% 250ml
Imperial Stout
West Coast style IPA made bold and bitter
Jaapie - 10.1% 330ml
Imperial Stout
Kompaan 45 Porter - 7.1% 330ml
Two Roads Workers Comp Saison - 4.8% 355ml
Lervig Aktebryggeri Reserve Konrads Stout - 10.4% 330ml
Intense dubbel porter blend
Hazy golden Saison. Fermented with raspberries.
‘t IJ Wit - 7% 330ml
Saugatuck Neapolitan Milk Stout - 6.0% 355ml
Norway
Imperial Russian Stout.
Lervig Aktebryggeri / Magic Rock(GB) Farmhouse IPA 6% 330ml Farmhouse Ale.
Hazy amber American style ale
Cloudy citric wheat beer.
‘t IJ Speciale Vlo - 7% 330ml Rags, bags and bums strong ale
Ukraine Slavutych Lvivske Porter 8% 500ml
USA Netherlands Bad Hair Brewing Ut bittere eind - 6.5% 330ml Hazy amber IPA
Steevug Triple - 8% 330ml Strong blond triple
Berghoeve 1842 Hammer Brand - 4% 330ml
Alaskan Smoked Porter- 6.5% 660ml
Porter with mildly roasted, burnt caramel flavours
Imperial Stout Dark robust porter with a strong smokey flavour.
Sweet Stout, With chocolate, peanuts and espresso
Khoppig - 4% 330ml
Cismontane Black’s Dusk - 8.5% 500ml
Butchers Tears Green Cap - 6% 330ml Golden Ale
De Arn Iris Pale Arn - 7.5% 330ml Golden IPA
Triple Arn - 8% 330ml Golden IPA
FOREIGN DRAUGHT BEER Not all the foreign draught beers will be on at any one time. Look out for some more surprises!
Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Milk Stout -5.3% 660ml
Black porter with subtle chilli taste Session IPA
Dry stout with flavours of Neapolitan Ice Cream.
Barrel Aged Imperial Stout.
ITALIAN CASK BEER BIRRIFICIO AURELIO Pils 4.1% Classic pils lager style
Founders Rübæus - 5.7% 355ml
Aurora 5.6%
Moylan’s - Ryan Sullivan’s Imperial Stout 10% 660ml. Imperial stout
Belgian Ale
Mission Carrack Imperial Red Ale - 10.2% 355ml
Italian take on IPA
Ruby red with malt and hops
Another Italian take on IPA
7 Vene IPA 6.5% ETERNAL CITY Lupa 6.0%
De Molen Bommen & Granaten - 15.2% 330ml
Dark Seas Imperial Stout - 9.8% 355ml
HILLTOP Anterprima 4.3%
Imperial stout with chocolate and coffee
Light Ale
Bombs and Grenades barley wine
Emelisse / Marble (GB) Earl Grey IPA - 6.8% 330ml
Shipwrecked Double IPA - 9.25% 355ml
Irish Stout
Golden IPA with balanced Bergamot
Gallagher Stout 5.5%
Amber IPA with malts and hops
TROLL Dorina 5.2% Golden Ale
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Take Away Bottled Beer Bar Oink! Oink! Take home a bottled beer from Pig’s Ear – have a CHRISTMAS treat. Welcome once more to the Bottled Beer Bar. This year we’re proud to offer another superb selection of the magnificent beers now on offer in Britain. New breweries regularly produce innovative and attractive beers and established ones supply old favourites, and indeed exciting new beers of their own. Try them yourself! Our 2014 selection is exceptional for its quality. Some beers are stonkingly strong . As is a hallowed Pigs Ear tradition, there are many Imperial Stouts, and a choice of Barley Wines, IPA’s and Christmas Ales among others. As our christmas gift to you – all bottles can be bought at festival prices to take away. Buy six and there’s a discount. Keen Massey Bottled Beer Bar Manager
ASCOT Surrey Santa’s Reserve 5.2% 500ml BARNET Hertfordshire Reluctant Prophet 8.0% 275ml BRENTWOOD Essex Special Reserve 7.0% 275ml BREW BY NUMBERS Greater London Imperial Stout 8.6% 330ml BRISTOL BEER FACTORY Bristol Belgian Rye 7.0% 330ml Belgian Conspiracy 7.5% 500ml BUXTON Derbyshire Nth Cloud 8.2% 330ml Tsar 9.5% 330ml Rain Shadow 11.8% 330ml 40 31st Pig’s Ear Beer & Cider Festival
Take Away Bottled Beer Bar BY THE HORNS Greater London Vive la Brett 6.1% 330ml CHARLES WELLS Bedford Courage Russian Imperial Stout 10% 275ml DOMINION Essex Woodbine Racer Turbo 6.2% 500m DURHAM County Durham Temptation 2008 10.0% 500ml FULLERS Greater London Brewer’s Reserve No2 8.2% 500ml HARDKNOTT Cumbria Rhetoric Edition 1 10.2% 330ml Rhetoric Edition 2 10.2% 330ml Rhetoric Edition 3 12.4% 330ml Granite 2013 12.7% 330ml Granite 2013 Islay Whisky Cask 13.2% 330ml Granite 2013 Bourbon Cask 14.4% 330ml Vitesse Noir Bourbon Cask 14.8% 330ml HARDKNOTT Cumbria / BRAINS, Glamorgan Gordian Knot 6.0% 330ml LEFT BANK Greater London Imperial Sorachi Saison 7.0% 330ml LITTLE BEER COPORATION Surrey 1917 Imperial Pilsner on Ardberg Whisky 7.4% 375ml Little Sprit 9.5% 375ml MARBLE Greater Manchester Decadence 8.7% 750ml MOONSHINE Cambridgeshire Anniversary Ale 7.2% 330ml Wheat Wine Ale 10.2% 330ml ONE MILE END Greater London Snakes Alive 7.8% 330ml B A Russian Stout 8.5% 330ml PARTIZAN Greater London Quad 11.2% 330ml PITFIELD Essex Imperial Stout 9.3% 500ml White Christmas 5.0% 500ml
RAMSGATE Kent Big Cracker 7.5% 330ml Imperial Stout 2012 Brett 12.0% 330ml Imperial Stout 2012 Wild Turkey 12.0% 330ml REDCHURCH Greater London Old Ford Export Stout B A 7.5% 330ml SAMBROOK’S Greater London No5 8.2% 330ml Russian Imperial Stout 10.5% 330ml SIREN Berkshire Americano Coffee IPA 9.1% 330ml SIREN Berkshire / MIKKELLER Denmark Daydream 12.0% 330ml SIREN Berkshire / DE MOLEN Netherlands Empress 8.5% 330ml TWICKENHAM Middlesex / ALVINNE Belgium Hill 60 8.0% 500ml TWICKENHAM Middlesex / ALVINNE Belgium / STRUISE Belgium Oud Bruin 8.1% 500ml WEIRD BEARD Greater London Double Pearl 8.6% 330ml Holy Hoppin Hell Batch 5 9.2% 330ml WILD Somerset / TOCCALMATTO Italy Indigo Child 8.0% 330ml
We are also planning to have additional Christmas beers available. Details were not available at the time of printing - you can see the full Bottled Beers List at the Festival.
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Cider & Perry Bar Welcome to the Cider and Perry Bar. Here you will find probably the biggest range of real ciders and perries available in East London this year. In the West Country, cider is made from cider apples, grown specifically for making this drink, you can’t eat or cook with them. In the Eastern Counties cider has always been made, but cider apples were not usually grown, so a mixture of eating and cooking apples is used, giving a completely different style of this drink. Real cider is made by first crushing the apples, then pressing out the juice, and usually allowing a natural fermentation to take place, using the wild yeasts found on the skins and in the flesh. And several months later you have cider. The bright orange, fizzy concoctions found in most pubs are, in my opinion, a completely different drink. Often made with apple concentrate, they are filtered, pasteurised and then gas put into them, and can also have a heavy dose of water added as well. Unfortunately, these drinks account for around 90% of the UK cider market.
This year we will include a range of ciders from Dorset. Many years ago, this County was a large cider producing area, but in recent years this had dwindled to almost nothing. In fact when CAMRA published its first Cider Guide in 1987 there were only two. Now there are a number of producers, most of whom have only started in recent years, and we will have a range of them here. You are, of course, cordially invited to come to the bar to say hello, and buy me a drink. Cheers Mick Lewis Cider Bar Manager
Perry, the companion drink to cider, is made exactly the same way but with pears, and in the West Country, perry pears are grown for making this drink. There are now several producers in the East making perry from other pears, and we hope to have at least one of these. And please remember, “perry” is the real word for this drink, not pear cider!
We hope to have the following ciders and perries available, although they may not all be available at the same time.
CIDERS:
BORDER ORCHARDS (Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire)
BARTESTREE (Bartestree, Herefordshire) Started by former editor of CAMRA’s Good Cider Guide, Dave Matthews in 2013. It is hoped to have a Yarlington Mill single variety cider.
BOLLHAYES (Dunkeswell, Devon)
Small producer who started in 2012.
CIDER BY ROSIE (Winterbourne Houghton, Dorset) One of the longest-established of the newer producers in Dorset, Rose Grant started commercial production when she retired from her real job.
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Producing since 1988, their main business is selling wine and cider making equipment.
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Cider and Perry List - continued DENGIE (Mayland, Essex)
WEST MILTON (West Milton, Dorset)
Originally a collaboration between a local producer and Wibblers Brewery, but now produced by Wibblers.
Small producer, he is the man behind the yearly Powerstock Cider Festival.
DORSET NECTAR (nr Waytown, Dorset)
WILKINS (Mudgley, Somerset)
Producing organic cider for about 5 years.
Well known from many CAMRA festivals, it is hoped to have a single variety cider made from Morgan Sweet apples.
DUDDA’S TUN (Doddington, Kent) Producing since 2009.
GIBBET OAK (Tenterden, Kent) Small producer, made on a family run fruit farm.
HEWITT (Staplow, Herefordshire)
WOUGHTON ORCHARDS (Milton Keynes, Bucks) Small, producer using local cider apples, who has recently planted some perry pear trees.
Cider fermented in an old canal warehouse. It is hoped to have a single variety cider.
PERRIES:
LONDON GLIDER (Woodofrd Green, London)
It is hoped to have a single variety perry made from Painted Lady pears.
Producing since 2010 using apples sourced from neighbours’ spare fruit.
BARTESTREE
(Bartestree, Herefordshire)
DUDDA’S TUN(Doddington, Kent)
MARK ROGERS CYDER(Melplash, Dorset)
Perry made from non-perry pears.
Producing commercially since 2008 using their own apples.
GIBBET OAK (Tenterden, Kent)
PENALLT(Penallt, Monmouthshire)
HECKS(Street, Somerset)
Another perry made from non-perry pears.
Producer who started 4/5 years ago. We will have a cider called Martha’s Smalls.
Family producer for over 100 years, with their own perry orchard.
RICH’S (Watchfield, Somerset)
NEWTON COURT(Newton, Herefordshire)
Family business producing cider for over 50 years.
SCROPTON (Scropton, Derbyshire) Possibly the last chance to try this cider as the owner is moving houses and may not produce any more
TALBOT HARRIS (Burton Bradstock, Dorset) Small producer established 2010. It is hoped to have a whisky barrel cider.
TWISTED (Longburton, Dorset) Small producer since 2010, their cider is usually supplied to pubs in its pasteurised form, but available unpasteurised from their own premises.
CELTIC MARCHES (Bishops Frome, Herefordshire)
Producing since 2000. It is hoped to have a single variety perry made from Longden Winnal pears.
OLIVER (Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire) Producing since 1999. Tom Oliver is often the other side of the world as a sound man for various bands.
PENALLT (Penallt, Monmouthshire) It is hoped to have a single variety perry made from Gin pears.
ROSS-ON-WYE (Ross-on Wye, Herefordshire) Producer who is also a contract grower of fruit and whose premises have one of the best cream teas in the world.
Family have grown fruit and hops on their farm for over 100 years.
VIRTUAL ORCHARD (Old Wolverton, Buckinghamshire)
It is hoped to have a seasonal cider called Saxon Aelle.
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LONDON DRINKER Don’t forget to pick up a copy of London Drinker magazine, available FREE at this Festival and at all good London pubs! Published bi-monthly.
The battle for The Chesham Arms featured on the cover of the Aug/Sept 2014 issue. London Drinker Magazine online at: www.london.camra.org.uk/londondrinker
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