The organisers of the Norwich Beer Festival have offered a sneak peview of the beers available when the event gets under way next week.
A taste of London is coming with Portobello Brewing’s roasted caramel Market Porter, alongside its spicy citrus-marmalade Star. Enfield’s Redemption Brewing will be bringing Rock the Kazbek blonde and Urban Dusk ruby.
East London Brewing Co, of Lea Bridge, is showcasing its golden Cowcatcher and blond pale, while Hackney’s Five Points Brewing is supplying a chocolate and coffee full-bodied Railway Porter and fruity amber Best. A golden pale ale and traditional Glowfly bitter will be available from Highgate’s Gorgeous Brewery.
For those seeking something a bit different, organisers suggest looking out for Billericay Brewing’s Chili Porter, Blue Anchor’s Special strong ale, Brentwood’s Chockwork Orange, Cliff Quay’s Magellan wheat beer, or Green Jack’s Harvest Sour.
Speciality beers also include Beartown Brewery’s Bluebeary fruit beer, All Day’s Coffee Stout, Humpty Dumpty’s Lemon and Ginger tangy ale, Lincoln Green’s Green Hopped, Milestone’s Raspberry Wheat, Moon Gazer’s smokey dark Triskele, or Nethergate’s easy-drinking Umbel Ale.
Curiosities
Devon’s Platform 5 Brewery will be featuring its beers, including a highly-hopped American pale ale and its malt and caramel Whistleblower. Also from Devon, Summerskills will be offering Start Point, a golden session ale, and Plymhop, aptly named with hops from Plymstock.
The Curiosity Bar remains the focus for the unusual, with a Chocolate Amaretto from Blue Monkey Brewery, a Rum Porter from Bexley, a fruity chocolate dark mild from Boxcar Brewery, Sabro IPA from Elephant School, and a blueberry coffee stout from Hollow Stone alongside its Sorbeto Grapefruit.
The bar offers the very tasty New Bristol Brewery’s French Toast and Turning Point’s Bourbon Ba Gravedigger’s Biscuits, alongside the obscurely-named Minimal Water Damage, Out Space, Lucid Dream, Cosmic Flux, and Radio Nowhere, all from North Yorkshire.
Whether you like the very sweet or the very sour, or something in between, the festival’s cider and perry bar promises something for every palate, with sweetness indicators and knowledgeable bar staff to advise. This year, look out for Castlings Heath organic cider, Radiant Rose from Scratby, Galanthus Perry by Berties, and Gandhi’s Flip Flop from Apple Cottage to name a few!
