Beer-Jing Ale-lympics Beer Festival [long]

May 23, 2008 13 Replies

This is the beer list for the West Riding Refreshment Rooms beer festival in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, next weekend, from Thursday 29th May to Sunday 1st June, 12.00 lunchtime to 12.00 midnight daily.



I expect to be working some of the shifts on the bar, so do come along and say hello:


Abbeydale -embalming prep - 5.0% - £2.30 A pale beer, hoppy aromas with grassy and fruity flavours, beautifully balanced with a lingering finish



Anglo dutch - sarah barnes (stark raven wild) - 6.0% £2.40 A black brew, midly hopped with target, surprisingly light on the tongue.



Atomic - bomb - 5.2% -£2.30 A golden ale with a well hopped fruity finish, brewed with maris otter malt and 3 aromatic hops



Barstormer - wild hare - 5.0% - £2.30 A pale organic bitter, toasted grapefruit aroma with a hoppy & fruity taste. Refreshing & clean on the palate



Blythe - chase bitter - 4.4% - £2.20 Copper to tawny coloured with a fruit & hop start with a caramel sweetness developing sweetness developing



Bradfield - olympic special - 4.5% - £2.20 A fruity full bodied pale beer with bursts of citrus and summer fruits aromas, refreshing drink with a sharp dry aftertaste



Breconshire - ramblers ruin - 5.0% - £2.30 Dark amber, full bodied with rich biscuity malt & fruit flavours. Background hops and bitterness round off the beer



Caledonian - xpa - 4.3% - 2.20 A golden beer with a citric hop aroma, a full, malty flavour & clean, bittersweet finish



derventio - roman pale ale - 3.6% - £2.10 Light, fragrant & deliciously hoppy



dogs life - gone to the dogs - 4.5% - £2.20 A light brown beer with a well balanced malt & hop flavour



Durham - beer-jing bitter - 4.4% - £2.20 A golden ale, fruity & rich with orange & honey with a touch of corriander, balanced by centennial hops



Elland - sunshine day - 4.8% - £2.20 A debut beer, pale copper coloured and a full flavoured bitter with a hoppy aroma and a long bitter aftertaste



Enville - ginger - 4.6% - £2.20 Golden bright with gentle ginger twangs. A drinkable beer with no accute flavour but a satidfying aftertaste of sweet hoppiness



Fernandes - pickled pecker - 5.5% - £2.30 A smooth strong black stout, easy drinking for it's strength



Grafton - summer bliss - 4.5% - £2.20



Greenfield - brewery mill - 4.2% - £2.20 Golden bitter with a slightly dry hoppy taste



Holdens - golden glow - 4.4% - £2.20 A golden ale with a subtle yet fragrant hop aroma. A thirst quenching refreshing beer



Hornbeam - west riding steam ale - 4.8% - £2.20 Red-copper in colour witha deep hoppiness, floral & fruity with citrus mellow to a pleasing sweetness



Harviestoun - mae best - 4.2% - £2.20 A darker beer with blackcurrant overtones further hop additions produce a pleasing floral aroma. - very moreish!



Harviestoun - ptarmigan - 4.5% - £2.20 A well balanced bittersweet beer. The dominant malt & hops together with fruit produces a clean hoppy aftertaste



Leeds - yorkshire gold - 4.2% - £2.20 a full golden ale. Specially selected English Northdown hops give this well balanced bitter a rich and satisfying finish.



Moorhouses - ale-lymics ale - 4.2% - £2.20 A smooth, satisfying dark ale with a full round distinct chocolate malt body and a pleasant hop aftertaste



Nethergate - stour valley - 6.5 - £2.50 A strong entire butt brewed using a blend of dark chocolate and amber malts. A fine dark garnet ale



Oakham - jhb - 3.8% - £2.10 A straw coloured ale with an aromatic citrus hop. A hoppy, fruity and bottersweet palate with a dry bitter aftertaste



Oldershaw - decacdence - 6.3% - £2.50 Strong, amber & full of flavour witha fruity, spicy aroma from 1st gold and willamette hops



Olde swan - dark swan - 4.2% - £2.20 Smooth & sweet dark mild with a late roast malt in the finish



Salopian - hop twister - 4.5% - £2.20 A golden pale ale with a fine citrusy flavour leading to a complex, refreshing hop finish



Saltaire - olympia - 4.0% - £2.10 Greek honey is infused with this classic blonde beer for a refreshing taste



White horse - saracen ipa - 4.5% - £2.20 A medium body with a crisp bitterness from fuggles and east kent goldings hops. Vienna & amber malts balance the bitterness



woods - shropshire lass - 4.2% - £2.20 Fruity, golden bitter with good hop and dry aftertaste, blonde and well flavoured



Yorkshire dales - silver - 4.1% - £2.20 Crisp and dry with lots of golding hops


I've never toasted a grapefruit - sounds intriguing!

good luck with the fest, MikeMcG

Is it available intravenously? ;-)))

Come along and find out :-))

I'm pleased to say we ran out of beer at 10.30 last night.

That's 32 firkins drunk between Thursday lunchtime and Saturday evening at the outside bar.

It's been an excellent festival - thank you to all of you who made the trip to Dewsbury for it.

Oh - and that Abbeydale beer never made its way to the festival bar. I suspect it will be on in the pub at some point.

Could do with it being on on 14/6/2008 as we'll be popping in for an all day breakfast on the way to the airport to catch the plane to Prague for even more beer.

Very handy is the new Leeds via Dewsbury train gets us to the cellar bar as well!

Yes, but it doesn't run when I want to use it (evenings and Sundays).

Because the weather was so bad yesterday, the live band planned for the West Riding was moved to the Cellar Bar, and a very good time was had by all.

Yes well it would be welcome. As it was I might have come to Dewsbury on Friday evening if it had run at that time, but was unable to do so. As\it was had another appointment on the Saturday (though my spies were there) and of course Sunday no train again.

See you feathure quite a lot (with the hat!) in Innspeak this week

I guess I was one of the spies. I left a few staffing forms for the Keighley and Worth Valley Festival at the bar for the attention of Mike Roebuck.

"Who?" the youth behind the bar asked

"Mike Roebuck, CAMRA Heavy Woollen district" I explained.

"Oh, you mean Mike the Hat!" he beamed

"That's the one!"

Anyhow, Mr Hat - if you didn't get the forms, we'd still be grateful if you could twist a few arms at your local branch for volunteers. The festival is on June 27, 28 and 29th. As with most CAMRA festivals, there are certain staff incentives!

Haven't seen this week's Innspeak yet, however, its redoubtable journalist John Grey was spotted at the festival bar over the weekend, so there might be a report in the next edition.

Sounds about right - was it the long-haired James or the short-haired James you asked? :-)

Haven't seen them yet, Andrew - I'll follow up soon. We have a branch meeting tomorrow. I'll put your staffing request on the agenda.

Definitely long-haired. I also asked the manager, who doesn't have much hair at all.

My good friend Paul Rigg from the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is emailing you with a staffing request form. Hope to see you and/or your colleagues at some point during that weekend.

OK - understood.

E-Mail received and responded to. Thanks. I'll let Paul know once I've put it to the branch.

snip

Well, the calculations have been done. The West Riding sold 5,081 pints of real ale last week, slightly less than half of them on the festival bar. A new record.

And, of course, there's no demand for real ale, oh no.

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