XT Brewing says it will be keen to prove that British brewers can easily match the competition from overseas when it has a stand at the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) next month.

XT Fighting FishIt says its bar will be an opportunity to showcase the core range of XT and Animal beers plus a number of special one off beers brewed specially for the event.

These will include:

  • Burton IPA: a proper old school IPA, brewed strong at 7.1% ABV and aged for three months in full-sized oak barrels;
  • Animal Rhino: a quad hop amber ale, made using Amarillo, Simcoe, Citra and Sorachi Ace varieties;
  • Collaboration Red — The Siamese Fighting Fish (4.6%): brewed with leading malt supplier Baird’s Malt, who joined in the brewing process, gave technical help, and provided the trendy new Red-X malt. The beer also uses liquid nitrogen frozen hops — Cryo-Hops — a new technique for extracting more flavours from the hops.

Hop Kitty’s very naughty cousin, the one with bigger muscles — the feral Evil Kitty at 7.2% — will be available to a limited number of pubs this summer, as well as at GBBF.