– Ilkley Brewery Specials / Festival Of Britain(s Beers)
Next week we are proud to present two very special beers that will launch Ilkley’s new ‘Origins’ range and as such will be a departure from their current branding.
They will of course retain the quality, hop-forwardness and drinkability that you would come to expect from an Ilkley beer. They are incredibly excited to be launching this range at next weeks Festival Of Britian(s Beers) they include:
Medina: This is a Moroccan style Saison, brewed in collaboration with esteemed Beer Writer Pete Brown. It is 6%, dark brown and has hints of coriander, ginger and orange.
Siberia: A Rhubarb Saison, Siberia was brewed in collaboration with Melissa Cole (yet another renowned Beer Writer). The sour rhubarb is balanced by vanilla, and there is an underlying heat to this 6% Saison.
Cheers and beers.
– Updated: Festival of Britain(s Beers) / March 26th – 8th April 2012
The end of this month sees our first festival of the year! We have taken on board some of your suggestions following our previous blog piece and we are proud to present a selection of Britain’s finest beers.
Update…… 15th March 2012
We thought we would entice you a little more for our forthcoming Festival of Britain(s beers). This festival is a must for a beer lover and it’s really exciting for us too. To have an entire Birtish tap takeover on our bar is something to be really proud of, because so many great beers are being brewed on these shores by amazingly talented people.
Here are four beers we are getting really excited about, these will be on during the festival period:
Summerwine Maelstrom
New permanent Double IPA, 9% in volume this is lining up to be an impressive beer. If Diablo is anything to go by it’s going to be epic.
Kernel Motueka IPA
Keg Kernel does not come around very often, we have had a couple but they have kindly done us some more. Motueka is a dual purpose hop variety from New Zealand and one of our favourites, bred from noble this hop imparts flavours of tropical fruit & spice.
Lovibonds Dirty 69
Were lucky to get this one too, a black version of the 69 IPA. Brewed with a nod to tradition but with modern techniques and hop choice. Hopped with Cascade and Chinook then dry hopped using the Hopinator.
Camden USA Hells
Brewed as a limited release, we have the only keg outside of London. Made with all US hops this unfiltered lager is not to be missed. Star spangled, hopped to hells.
/ UPDATED stock list :
/ CASK
Darkstar
Imp Stout
Black Coffee Pils
6 Hop
Revelation
Juniper Rye
2009 Critical Mass
Thornbridge
Galaxia
Jaipur Dry Hopped (two variants)
Broc
All Magic Rock core range
Gadds Kent IPA
Kernel Export
Red Willow Faithless XI
plus MANY more….
/ KEG
Magic Rock
8 Ball
Dark Arts
Rapture
Cannonball
Human Cannonball
Thornbridge
Raven
Steelmaker
Halycon
Chiron
Saison DuPort
Summerwine
Reaper
Mailstrom
Kernel
IPA Motueka
IPA Amarillo/Citra
Lovibonds
Henley Gold
Henley Dark
69
Dirty 69
Lager Boy
Camden
Helles
USA Hells
Ink
Wheat
Pale
Gadds South Pacific IPA
Darkstar Revelation
Brewdog Libertine Porter
Ilkley MJ Pale
The Festival of Britain(s Beers) launches on Monday 26th March with Darkstar / Meet The Brewer and continues until Sunday 8th April 2012.
Artwork by Steve Hockett.
– Meet The Brewer with Darkstar / Monday 26th March
As part of the Festival of Britain(s Beers) we are proud to present one of the UK’s best brewers around today! Please welcome a special Meet The Brewer all the way from sunny Brighton, Mark Tranter from Dark Star Brewing Company.
Brewery Info /
Dark Star was born in 1994 in the cellar of The Evening Star Pub, in Brighton. Then, with a brew plant only marginally bigger than an enthusiastic home-brew kit, the characteristic style of hoppy beers was developed and tried out on the willing guinea pigs at the bar.
Within a few hard working years it was obvious that the brewery could no longer keep up with the growing thirst of the Evening Star’s drinkers, yet alone the demand for its beers from other local pubs and beer festivals.
In 2001, the brewery relocated to a new purpose-built brewery in Ansty, near Haywards Heath. Then in 2010 the brewery moved to its third and current site in Partridge Green, West Sussex from where it still supplies the Evening Star with a selection of its beers, along with its sister pubs the Stand Up Inn, Lindfield, the Duke of York, Shoreham and it’s brewery tap, The Partridge in Partridge Green.
Meet The Brewer with Darkstar
Monday 26th March / 5.30pm – 8pm (event starts at 6.15pm)
Port Street Beer House, Port Street, Manchester
SOLD OUT
– Photos / Meet The Brewer with Brodies – Monday 27th February
Here are a few blurry pictures from last nights Meet The Brewer. Our most ‘outlandish’ event featured big hair, pies and cabaret.
Thanks to Brodies (for the beer and humour) and The Crusty Cob (for the pies)
