Thornbridge is getting behind a pub favourite, announcing its Cask Year of Beer launch.
Established in 2017, Year of Beer is a project where Thornbridge announces a new draught beer for every month of the year.
Envisaged as a way to give trade customers and consumers the means to plan ahead, months in advance, it quickly evolved into something more ambitious. A showcase of the range of Thornbridge’s output, and an opportunity for its brewing team to explore and innovate with different styles.
The rise of Covid-19 and national lockdowns in the UK seriously affected Thornbridge’s 15th anniversary in 2020. It had planned a year of innovative keg beer and cask collaborations with the best and brightest of British brewing.
The continued stresses of the pandemic prevented a Year of Beer announcement for 2021, so 2022 offers the chance of a triumphant return.
The beer menu
Already out of the blocks is Hacksaw, an East Coast IPA with all the haziness and tropical fruit flavours that entails. And drinkers might have had a chance to try the return of Twin Peaks, an Anglo American pale ale that, when it was first released in 2013, was California brewing legend Sierra Nevada’s first UK collaboration.
The rest of 2022 promises to go from strength to strength, with Thornbridge putting out everything from a golden mild to a Pina Colada pale, by way of returning cult favourite ice cream porter Salted Caramel Lucaria.
Perhaps most excitingly, Thornbridge has teamed with rising star of Mexican brewing, Cervecera Macaria, to create Carlotta, a mole inspired chili chocolate Mexican stout, in time for Cinco de Mayo.
Simon Webster, chief executive of Thornbridge Brewery, said: “Cask beer has always been in our DNA, from our very earliest days brewing at the hall to today. The last couple of years have unfortunately required us to make less of it than we’d have liked, but that’s why we’re all the more excited to get it into people’s hands this year.
“We’re so lucky to have such a talented team of brewers working for us and such an enthusiastic audience ready to sample their creations, and hopefully this Year of Beer will do them all proud.”
