It’s just three days until St Austell Brewery’s Celtic Beer Festival, a big event down here in Cornwall, and as ever there’s going to be an awful lots of beers to choose from.
The festival is one of the biggest in Cornwall and will offer visitors a choice of more than 170 beers, including the recently launched Mena Dhu Six Malt Cornish Stout. In addition, there will also be a selection of beers brewed especially for the festival, created in the new small batch brewery development on-site.
Here, brewing director and head brewer, Roger Ryman, shares his top five beers for this year’s festival.
Pacific Jade: a strong blonde ale brewed with New Zealand Pacific Jade hops with hints of cereal, banana and fruit
Smoking Guns: inspired by the wood-smoked beers of Bamberg, Germany, this one has an aroma of beechwood smoked malt
Vanilla & Bourbon Porter: a dark malty beer brewed with loads of fresh vanilla with added bourbon whiskey making it deep and complex
East of the Tamar EPA: new experimental English hops deliver distinctive tangerine and satsuma flavours to this English pale ale
Underdog Session IPA: a light 3.5% ABV beer packed with Simcoe, Galaxy and Styrian Cardinal hops
