Audley CC Beer Festival 2011

Black Hole Brewery (Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire )

RED DWARF ABV 4.5% A distinctive dry taste and a ruby red colour form the basis of this award winning bitter. Goldings hops provide a fruity finish and the malt combination gives an underlying toffee flavour.

Blue Monkey Brewery (Illkeston, Derby)

AMARILLO ABV 3.9% Golden in colour, full of taste with an aromatic aftertaste juicy malt mouth feel and an extremely long and bitter hop finish

Bradfield Brewery (Sheffield)

FARMERS SIXER 6%  A light coloured, strong lager type ale, with a fruity taste giving a pleasant refreshing finish.

Dark Star Brewery (Ansty, West Sussex) 

HOPHEAD ABV 3.8% An extremely clean drinking, pale gold coloured ale, with a strong floral aroma and elderflower notes.  Well balanced and full bodied despite its very quaffable strength and dryness.

AMERICAN PALE ABV 4.7% The yeast strain used for the brewing of this American style pale ale is specially imported from the USA, along with Cascade, Centennial and Chinook hops. The low colour Maris Otter malt provides a perfect light colour and dryness to complement the crisp taste and full aroma of the hops.

Dunham Massey Brewery (Dunham Massey, Cheshire)

DUNHAM PORTER ABV 5.2%  A classic old style English porter. Dark, creamy, full bodied and packed with flavour.

DUNHAM GOLD 7.2% This is a light, refreshing, fruity, hoppy, Belgian style English ale, and it’s one to certainly not be missed.

Green King Brewery (Bury St Edmund, Suffolk )

ABBOT ALE ABV 5%  This irresistible ale has masses of fruit characters, a malty richness and superb hop balance. It is brewed longer to a unique recipe.

Hawkshead Brewery (Staverley, Cumbria)

HAWKSHEAD RED ABV 4.2% A Red Ale. Bitter-sweet. First comes the sweetness of the Dark Crystal malt, which gives it the red colour, and then the long dry finish. A beer for those who like their ale to have some colour and taste of malt.

LAKELAND GOLD ABV 4.4% Golden Ale. Hoppy and uncompromisingly bitter with complex fruit flavours from the blending of a modern English hop, First Gold, with the outrageously fruity American hop, Cascade. A hopheads' beer... with balance. A real beer drinkers beer.

Ironbridge Brewery (Telford)

IRONBRIDGE PALE ALE ABV 4% Pale gold in appearance with a white head. Brewers Gold and Tettnang hops from Germany.

Kelham Island (Sheffield )

RIDERS ON THE STORM ABV 4.5% On the dark side of pale, this is a pleasantly bitter, hoppy pale ale with plenty of punchy aroma.

Millstone Brewery (Mossley, Greater Manchester)

TIGER RUT ABV 4.0% Very pale and hoppy ale with a distinctive citrus/grapefruit aroma. 

Mallinsons Brewery (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)

DEIMOS ABV 3.8% Blonde in colour with a light passion fruit and mango nose, bitter light fruity taste and long bitter hoppy finish.

Marble Brewery (Greater Manchester)

BEST BITTER ABV 4.3% Plale, tawny in colour, hoppy with a good malt balance.  Assertively bitter.  LAGONDA GINGER ABV 5% Brewed with fresh stem ginger, this is a deeply flavoured organic bitter,  really fiery heat and spicy flavour.

Salopian Brewery (Shrewsbury, Shropshire)

IRONBRIDGE STOUT ABV 5% A black dry stout with a warming hue, dark malts provide a satisfying and full flavour. While the addition of continental hops provides a refreshing clean crisp and spicy finish.

Summer Wine Brewery (Holmfirth, West Yorkshire)

ZENITH PALE ABV 4% A pale golden almost blonde in colour, it is packed with zingy Centennial hops which give a citrus bite & flavours of lime all set against a pale malt backdrop. Big in the flavour stakes & all set off with a massive dry hop aroma.

Thornbridge Brewery (Bakewell, Derbyshire )

LORD MARPLES ABV 4% Surprisingly smooth with light toffee and caramel characters, a mixture of floral and spicy hop notes and a pleasing bitter finish.

Timothy Taylor Brewery (Keighley West Yorks)

LANDLORD ABV 4.3% An increasingly dry, hoppy, bitter finish complements the spicy, citrus character of this full flavoured and well balanced amber beer.

Weetwood Brewery (Tarvin, Cheshire)

OLD DOG ABV 4.5%  A 'premium' bitter with a smooth, full bodied flavour. Dark roasted malt produces a deep colour and the use of the whole hops provide that extra flavour and aroma to what will be a memorable and lasting experience.

YOUR LOCAL BEERS:

Joules Brewery (Market Drayton, Shropshire)

JOULES PALE ALE 4.1% Brewed with a blend of crystal malt providing a biscuity base and a malty sweet caramel flavour with a crisp, clear finish. A special blend of hop flower gives the fruity, well rounded bitterness and slightly spicy aroma.

Merlin Brewery (Arclid, Sandbach, Cheshire) 

SPELLBOUND ABV 4% it has a subtle citrus aroma and a dry finish with excellent levels of bitterness with  the fruity, spicy flavours – distinctly there, but without overpowering the beer. GOLD ABV 3.8% Merlin’s Gold is a light golden ale with a shining, lustrous appearance. It has a floral, rounded citrusy flavour that is perfectly balanced – not too delicate, just delightful to drink.

KING’S ALE ABV 3.6% Kings Ale is a superb easy drinking tawny ale, full of taste and flavour.  The finest malted barley is combined with Fuggles and East Kent Goldings hops to give depth and character. 

DRAGON SLAYER ABV 5.6% DragonSlayer is a dark, delicious brew with a complex flavour.  The finest Maris Otter and Chocolate Malt are combined with traditional Northdown and Bramling Cross hops to give great depth of flavour with blackcurrant afternotes.