Beers on Tap
Beers on tap!
The SIBA Team could not WAIT to get back to their local pubs and taprooms in April and May as the industry finally began to reopen and the draught beers began to flow once more. We have of course all been enjoying a variety of genuine independent UK craft beers in small pack at home during lockdown and have mentioned a selection of them here on our former ‘Desk Beers’ pages over the last few issues of the magazine. However, nothing can beat a sip of your favourite craft beer in a sunny pub garden or taproom yard, or inside in a buzzing bar or bottle shop. So in honour of these first steps to a full re-opening of the craft beer retail scene, here we bring you a selection of the beers SIBA Staff have enjoyed when they were first allowed ‘out out’ at last (some of us even found enough time between sips to take a photo of the momentous occasion)…
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Golden State & YPA – Rooster’s Brewing Co (Californian Pale Ale, 4.3% ABV ) (Yorkshire Pale Ale, 4.1% ABV )
Picked by Ian, SIBA’s outgoing National Chair “My first post lockdown "in pub" pint was actually in our [Rooster’s] Brewery Taproom - it was a pint of our current limited edition Golden State - our California Pale Ale. And my first proper pub pint was in my local - the Half Moon Knaresborough - where I savoured their best-selling beer, a pint of Rooster's YPA - aka Yorkshire Pale Ale! It's particularly good to be back inside as we have suffered an Arctic spring in Yorkshire this year.”
Level Up – Elusive Brewing (American Red, 5% ABV)
Picked by James, SIBA’s Chief Executive “The first pint I had back in the pub was an Elusive Brewing Level Up, at the Charlton House Green Goddess pop-up. Charlton House, up until the week before, was being used as a vaccination centre. Once they’d done the priority groups in my area, they shut it down and converted it into this pop-up pub. There was some poetry about that. It was excellent!”
