 Owen Ogletree, Thel Melton and Spike Buckowski arrive at the 2014 Great British Beer Festival in London |
Brewtopia Events LLC www.Brewtopia.info Great British Beer Festival List of Real Ales Sampled - August 2014 - Owen Ogletree Southern Brew News Columnist Editor: www.ClassicCityBrew.com Brian "Spike" Buckowski Co-owner & Brewer - Terrapin Beer Company Thel Melton Program book editor - Classic City Brew Fest |
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Ranking
very near the top of our “beer
nirvana” list is the sublime joy of a fresh, well maintained, real
cask-conditioned ale. Look below for the impressive list of real ales
we managed to sample at the largest cask ale festival in the
world -- London's magnificent Great British Beer Festival...
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Real ale (also called cask ale or cask-conditioned ale) is young beer with some residual sugar and active yeast cells that is placed in sealed metal casks. The typical cask has a volume of 10.8 U.S. gallons and is called a “firkin.” In the sealed firkin the beer undergoes a special conditioning process whereby the yeast produces a soft carbonation and complex flavor components and then settles to the bottom of the cask with the help of finings such as isinglass (made from fish swim bladders). After a time, excess carbonation is vented and a serving tap is hammered through a spout on the cask. The beer is served without pasteurization or additions of artificial carbon dioxide or other gasses.  Great British Beer Festival Cask Ales Sampled - 2014 Acorn Barnsley Bitter 3.80 Bitter or Best Bitter Arkell's Waimea 3.60 Golden Ale Bank Top Dark Mild Bateman Black & White 3.60 Mild Bath Ales Summer's Hare 3.90 Golden Ale Blue Bee Lustin for Stout Brains Dark 3.50 Mild Branscombe Vale Mild 3.70 Mild Brewsters Marquis 3.80 Bitter or Best Bitter Bridestones Sandstone 3.90 Golden Ale Burning Sky Plateau 3.50 IPA Byatt's XK Dark 3.50 Mild Canterbury Ales Pardoners Ale 3.80 Golden Ale Churchend Fallen Angel Coach House Gunpowder Mild 3.80 Mild Cotswold Spring Old Sodbry Mild 3.90 Mild Downton New Forest Ale 3.80 Bitter or Best Bitter Elgood's Black Dog 3.60 Mild Fellows Full English 3.80 Bitter or Best Bitter Flowerpots Flowerpots Bitter 3.80 Bitter or Best Bitter Fullers Vintage Ale George's Wakering Gold 3.80 Golden Ale Goose Eye Bitter 3.80 Bitter or Best Bitter Green Jack Trawlerboys Harbour Light Ale 3.70 Golden Ale Harveys 'R' 2.80 Bitter or Best Bitter Harveys Sussex Mild 3.00 Mild Harveys Wild Hop 3.70 Golden Ale Hepworth Summer Ale 3.80 Golden Ale Hobsons Twisted Spire 3.60 Golden Ale Hogs Back HBB 3.70 Bitter or Best Bitter Humpty Dumpty Little Sharpie 3.80 Bitter or Best Bitter Inveralmond Inkie Pinkie 3.70 Golden Ale Jo C's Norfolk Kiwi 3.80 Bitter or Best Bitter Kemptown Thirty Three 3.30 Bitter or Best Bitter Kissingate Black Cherry Mild Leeds Best Bitter Lees Golden Peddler 3.90 Golden Ale Liberation Summer Blonde 3.80 Golden Ale Loch Ness Hoppy Ness Malvern Hills Santler Bitter 3.60 Bitter or Best Bitter Maypole Mayfly 3.80 Bitter or Best Bitter Mersea Island Mersea Mud 3.80 Mild Mighty Oak Captain Bob 3.80 Bitter or Best Bitter Moor Revival 3.80 Golden Ale Moorhouse's Black Cat 3.40 Mild Mumbles Oystermouth Stout Oakham Citra Ole Slewfoot Citraville APA 3.90 Golden Ale Otter Bitter 3.60 Bitter or Best Bitter Palmers Summer Ale 3.90 Golden Ale Purple Moose Glaslyn Ale 4.20 Bitter or Best Bitter Redwillow Headless 3.90 Golden Ale Robinsons Trooper Rother Valley Black Ops 3.80 IPA Rudgate Ruby Mild Salamander Axolotl 3.90 Golden Ale Saltaire Triple Chocoholic Shepherd Neame Whitstable Bay 3.90 Golden Ale Shrewsbury Salopian Darwin's Origin Slater's Bitter 3.60 Bitter or Best Bitter St Austell Liquid Sunshine 3.90 Golden Ale St Austell Proper Job 4.50 IPA St Austell Trelawny 3.80 Bitter or Best Bitter St Peter's Mild 3.70 Mild St. George Dragon's Blood Strathaven Ales Craigmill Mild 3.50 Mild Surrey Hills Shere Drop 4.20 Bitter or Best Bitter Thwaites Naked Runner 3.80 Golden Ale Tim Taylor Boltmaker Two Roses Full Nelson 3.80 Golden Ale Tydd Steam Barn Ale 3.90 Bitter or Best Bitter Ulverston Flying Elephants 3.70 Golden Ale Vale Grumpling Old Ale Wadworth Bishop Tipple Wadworth Old Timer Weetwood Ales Mad Hatter 3.90 Bitter or Best Bitter Wells Bombardier Wolf Battle of Britain 3.90 Bitter or Best Bitter Woodforde's Wherry 3.80 Golden Ale Young's Special Bitter |
