This weekend, Friday 12th to Sunday 14th September, at the RAFA Albatross Club (close to the De La Warr Pavilion at the seafront), very reasonable prices, and many very interesting ales from around the country, as described on their site:
ALBATROSS CLUB
6TH BEXHILL BEER FESTIVAL
(GREAT BEXHILL BEER FESTIVAL) (GBBF)
BEER LIST & TASTING NOTES
£3.00 A PINT ------ £1.50 A HALF------ £1.00 A THIRD-
1/ ACORN BREWERY
BARNSLEY BITTER 3.8 %
This award winning Barnsley Bitter is brewed using the finest quality Maris Otter malt and English hops. Chestnut in colour, having a well-rounded, rich flavour, it retains a lasting bitter finish. Brewed using yeast strains used in the 1850′s to brew ‘Barnsley Bitter’.
Acorn Brewery Barnsley Bitter won a Silver Award in its class at the Great British Beer Festival 2006 and was also a finalist in 2007, 2008 and 2012.
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2/ DUNHAM MASSEY BREWERY
CHOCOLATE CHERRY 3.8%
A multi-award winning speciality beer. The class of Dunham dark with a dry hint of cherry that cuts through the malt flavours.
3/ BIG CLOCK BREWERY
DIRTY BLOND 4.2%
An easy drinking, dark blond beer.
A new brewery based in Accrington Lancashire.
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4/ THE YARD OF ALE BREWERY
BLACK AS OWT STOUT 4.2%
A dark stout with a strong roasted coffee aroma.
The smoothly rich taste leads to a medium-bitter finish.
5/ WILSON POTTER BREWERY
RUBY RED 4.4%
An easy drinking rich ruby ale with a full-bodied, Malty berry taste, with a floral aroma.
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6/ SONNETT 43 BREWERY
BROWN ALE 4.7%
A very moreish rosy brown beer. Quite a simple brew for those who like their beer mild and fruity with flavours of malt and toffee blending well with a pleasant light bitterness.
7/ EAST LONDON BREWERY
JAMBOREE 4.8%
A golden beer using English hops throughout, in particular Brambling Cross, Jamboree has a blend of lager, pale and wheat malt, giving a smooth but refreshing mouth feel.
8/ THE FIVE POINTS BREWERY
RAILWAY PORTER 4.8%
A Porter in the classic London style with our own twist. Aromas of chocolate and coffee with hints of caramel, brewed with British East Kent Goldings hops.
9/ STEEL CITY BREWERY
HE’S NOT THE MESSIAH 4.8%
Ultra pale ale. Brewed with US magnum hops. Loads of Cenennial and Motueka hops
after flame-out and Citra and Chinnock in the fermenter. Good enough for Jehovah Himself. False beards not required.
10/ TOTALLY BREWERY
PUNCH IN THE FACE IPA 4.8%
Peppery aroma, Citrus and tropical fruit flavours and a balanced malt bill.
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11/ SALTAIRE BREWERY
BLACKBERRY CASCADE 4.8%
American style pale ale, with the aromas and strong bitterness of Cascade and Centennial hops, infused with a hint of blackberries.
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12/ REDWILLOW BREWERY
WRECKLESS 4.8%
A pale ale, loaded with Citra and Amarillo hops, which provide the flavour of tropical fruit and a clean finish.
13/ MONCADA BREWERY
NOTTING HILL RUBY RYE 5.2%
A robust ruby ale made with rye complimented by a fruity hop aroma.
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14/ THE MELWOOD BREWERY
KALEIDOSCOPE EYES 5.5%
Pale IPA style beer with Pioneer and Amarillo hops.
“Picture yourself on a boat on a river with tangerine dreams and marmalade skies”
15/ROOSTER BREWERY
BABY FACED ASSASSIN 6.1%
Brewed with 100% Citra hops that create aromas of mango, apricot, grapefruit & mandarin orange, along with a lasting, juicy, tropical fruit bitterness, the Baby-Faced Assassin is a deceptively quaffable India Pale Ale that shouldn’t be taken lightly.
16/ ELLAND BREWERY
1872 PORTER 6.5%
Rich, complex and dark Porter from an original 1872 recipe,
with an old port nose, and coffee and bitter chocolate flavours on the palate.
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17/ BASELINE BREWING
REBEL ALLIANCE 6.5%
A “proper” IPA at 6.5% ABV this beer recalls the alliance between the Mughal Empire and rebels from the British East India Company, in the first Indian Uprising of 1857.
The end result of the rebellion was the disbanding of the Mughal Empire as well as the East India Company, and the establishment of the Raj.
18/ WELTONS BREWING
CHURCHILLIAN 6.6%
A big stout. Charcoal flavours mixed with hints of treacle toffee. Aromas of toast & berry fruits.
We are fed up with strong English stout being called, Russian. This is English Churchillian.
MUSIC PLAYED BY THE EXILES
FOOD AVAILABLE UPSTAIRS.
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