Welcome your to your September Beer Club box. This month we have something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
Something old. We revisited our first collab with Parrotdog from New Zealand. We rebrewed the delicious DDH IPA from early 2019... the first brewery in the UK to use the hop now known as Nectaron,
Something new. We are excited to present you with a brand new TFG full of English fruit.
Something borrowed. Well, sort of borrowed. We highlight a couple of beers from our friends at Full Circle in Newcastle. We have brewed with them a couple of times – most notably in collaboration for Future Skies, a 6.0% Citrus IPA. We have an amount of stock of this that is closing in on it’s drink by date – as it’s still tasting good we are giving
you opportunity to buy some at a very low price... See the “coupons” section at the end of this booklet. On the subject of Full Circle, we will be at attending and pouring at Full Circle’s first beer festival - if you’re attending please come say hello.
Something blue. Atlantis!!! Our gluten free SIPA is tasting better than ever and the label is certainly blue. Transmission IPA is more turquoise than blue - but what you have in your box is super fresh. Enjoy.
Be sure to fill in the questionaire as we begin to formulate a new beer recipe together. We can’t wait to see what you’re thinking!
Have a great month!
X North
AT A GLANCE
SILVER SUBSCRIPTION
TFG 29
Style Triple Fruited Gose
+ Blueberry
+ Redcurrant
+ Blackberry
ABV 4.5%
Hops N/A
In our 29th edition, we’ve combined blackberry, blueberry and redcurrant. These fruits are very much in season and compliment our signature gose base like nothing else.
Brewed with wheat, oats, milk sugar and an incredible amount of English berries – this takes it’s place as one of the best TFGs we’ve made to date.
Expect sweet blueberry on the nose, notes of tart redcurrant on the palette, finishing with a burst of juicy blackberry.
CONTAINS BARLEY + OATS + LACTOSE
NORTH x PARROTDOG
Style DDH IPA
ABV 7.0%
Hops Nectaron + Citra
Back at the beginning of 2019 we brewed this beer – a collaboration with Parrotdog from New Zealand. It was special for a couple of reasons. The collab was really enjoyable, we exchanged ideas and techniques and it resulted in a beautiful beer. This was also the first beer in the UK brewed with what would become known as Nectaron. HORT 4337 hops (as they were known) were brought over by Parrotdog in their luggage... A risky move but one that paid off.
Large quantities of Nectaron hops deliver big juicy fruit flavours, think pineapple, passion fruit as well as peach and citrus fruits. When this was first produced it felt like a break through of sorts... Amidst the overwhelming choice of hazy IPAs that are available today it’s easy to forget that these beers like this were no commonplace. It’s a joy to be able to revisit this pivotal beer again years later!
VEGAN / CONTAINS BARLEY + WHEAT + OATS
PARROT DOG IN 2019 DELIVERING THE HOPS AT OUR OLD BREWERY SITE
ATLANTIS
Style Session IPA
ABV 4.1%
Hops Mosaic, citra, Galaxy
Light, bright and laid back, Atlantis is a 4.1% soft and crushable pale ale. Made with American Mosaic and Citra hops and Australian Galaxy hops, Atlantis sings with vibrant pithy grapefruit and crushed pine needle aroma and bursts with sweet blueberry and fleshy pineapple flavour, all rounded off with a satisfying bitter finish that keeps you coming back for more.
VEGAN / CONTAINS BARLEY + WHEAT
TRANSMISSION
Style IPA
ABV 6.9%
Hops Citra + Mosaic + Chinook + Sultana
A beer that needs no introduction, it’s Transmission, our beloved core IPA! You know what they say about IPA? Freshest is bestest! This Transmission is FRESH!
Resinous pine, pithy pink grapefruit zest and fleshy ripe pineapple combines with a soft haze of juicy stone fruits and sweet mango. Transmission is an award-winning IPA and our core range headliner. A beer we’re incredibly proud of and one that stands up against the best brewing has to offer!
VEGAN / CONTAINS BARLEY + WHEAT
FULL CIRCLE – ALL SYSTEMS DOWN
Style Oat Stout
ABV 4.5%
As Full Circle describe it:
The roasted coffee and chocolate aroma of this silky smooth Oat Stout is followed up swiftly with flavours of rich malt and a mild hop bitterness. The biscuity malt backbone ties this beer together beautifully, ticking all the boxes of what we want from an easy drinking stout.
VEGAN / CONTAINS BARLEY + OATS
FULL CIRCLE x FIERCE –
NIMBLE LIKE A TREE FRO
Style Cold IPA
ABV 6.2%
As Full Circle describe it:
Created in collaboration with our friends at Fierce we bring you this Cold IPA. Hopped with Columbus, Citra, Strata and El Dorado, expect big hits of citrus and tropical fruits with a hint of peach and apricot. Finished with a very subtle zingy bitterness at the end which is enhanced by the effervescence of this brew.
VEGAN / CONTAINS BARLEY + WHEAT
GUEST BREWERY
NEWCASTLE’S FULL CIRCLE TELL US THEIR STORY
In 2018 our founder Ben Cleary was running The Pip Stop, his beer, wine & spirits retail outlet from their location in Annfield Plain, which is where he met our Head Brewer, Alex Redpath. The two spoke at length about starting a brewery as Alex was a keen home brewer, having recently completed a course at Brewlab who was looking to take his knowledge and passion into a full time career as a brewer.
Ben hired Alex to work as a development brewer for what would become Full Circle
Brew Co. They bought a 140L kit and started experimenting with brews, while test marketing them with customers at The Pip Stop to learn all they could about their likes and dislikes regarding the beers, the branding and anything else they could discover.
When they were happy with the product, brand and their new location they decided in 2019 that it was time to take this project to the next step and take Full Circle Brew Co. from a shed in Stanley to our location in Hoults Yard, Byker.
FEATURED IN THIS MONTH’S BEER CLUB
Moving into our first ‘real’ brewery felt like such a massive step up for us, especially being able to have our own taproom on site and keeping The Pip Stop alive within the same premises. But as we fired up the brew kit for it’s first turn in March 2023 we would soon be in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and all of our movements were put on an indefinite hiatus.
Luckily we were able to quickly adapt and find ways of getting our beer into the hands of those who wanted it, despite us not being an
GUEST BREWERY
established brand yet. We ramped up our export comms as Europe were ahead of the UK with navigating the pandemic, they were resuming normal life long before we were and therefore had bars in need of beer. We still have a strong export trade and currently export to 12 different countries across Europe and Asia.
Through other initiatives such as our FCBC NOW delivery option, which people could use to get same day delivery on their beers alongside a roaring trade through The Pip Stop, we managed to get through lockdowns without having to furlough our staff and managed to grow well in what seemed like the worst time to start a business we could possibly imagine.
Once the world started to return to business as usual, we were finally able to find our feet and discover who we wanted to become and start conducting business as we had always planned.
Our production in 2023 was up 99.5% vs 2022 after securing a number of contracts. In 2024 our beers began pouring in Newcastle International Airport, making us the first independent brewery pouring there for a considerable time.
The future is looking bright and we’re looking forward to growing further in the years to come!
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