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.
It 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.