2012 Festival Beers - Hook Norton Festival of Fine Ales

1	Adnams	Lighthouse	3.4%	With its light fragrance, lovely malty flavours and long hoppy after palate, Adnams Lighthouse shines through as another champion beer from The Coast.	Suffolk
2	Adnams	Lighthouse 2	3.4%	With its light fragrance, lovely malty flavours and long hoppy after palate, Adnams Lighthouse shines through as another champion beer from The Coast.	Suffolk
3	Arkell’s	Wiltshire Gold	4.0%	A light golden coloured Ale brewed using English Maris Otter malt, which creates a satisfyingly sweet malty flavour. The use of traditional hops give the beer a mellow floral hop aroma followed by a distinctive hoppy taste.	Wiltshire
4	Art Brew	TBC	TBC	TBC	Dorset
5	Atomic Brewery	TBC	TBC	TBC	Warwickshire
6	Backyard Brewhouse	Blonde Bitter	4.1%	Citrus and pine nose, with a dry, crisp and hoppy taste.	West Midlands
7	Badger	Firkin Fox	4.3%	Bronze coloured seasonal ale with a fruity/hoppy aroma.	Dorset
8	Bateman	TBC	TBC	TBC	Lincolnshire
9	Bellingers	Blenheim	3.9%	A clean tasting, dark straw coloured bitter, with balanced sweetness.	Oxfordshire
10	Bewdley	Worcestershire Way	3.6%	A pale straw colour, First Gold, Celeia, and Fuggles hops. A very refreshing session beer with citrus aftertones.	Worcestershire
11	Branscombe Vale	Branoc Ale	3.8%	A blonde amber session beer. Well balanced bitterness with fruity notes.
12	Braydon Ales	TBC	TBC	TBC	Wiltshire
13	Breconshire	TBC	TBC	TBC	Powys
14	Brough’s	Brough’s Blonde	4.2%	A light blonde beer with a crisp after taste.	Shropshire
15	Broughton	Clipper IPA	4.2%	A light coloured, crisp tasting, well-hopped ale. Clean refreshing malt flavour overlaid with a strong hop character and a crisp hop bitter aftertaste.	Peeblesshire
16	Burton Bridge	TBC	TBC	TBC	Staffordshire
17	Butcombe	Adam Henson’s Rare Breed	TBC	TBC	Avon
18	Cannon Royall	TBC	TBC	TBC	Worcestershire
19	Carlsberg – Tetley	TBC	TBC	TBC	South Wales
20	Castle Rock	Harvest Pale Ale	3.8%	Pale beer with a distinct hop flavour that leads to a crisp finish.	Nottinghamshire
21	Compass	TBC	TBC	TBC	Oxfordshire
22	Coors	Hancocks HB	3.6%	Dating from at least 1925, a traditional cask ale with an aroma full of crystal toffee and pear drops with a hint of liquorice. A touch drying, its soft and smooth malty palate has a faintly sharp	Staffordshire
23	Coors	Sharps Doom Bar	4.0%	A balance of spicy resinous hop, inviting sweet malt and delicate roasted notes.	Staffordshire
24	Cotswold Brewing Co	TBC	TBC	TBC	Gloucestershire
25	Cotswold Spring	Stunner	4.0%	A straw coloured ale with mouth-filling malt complemented by a lovely tropical fruitiness on the nose and palate, and a long refreshing finish.	Gloucestershire
26	Dark Star	Hophead	3.8%	An extremely clean drinking pale gold coloured ale with a strong floral aroma and elderflower notes. This beer is full-bodied despite its very quaffable strength and dryness.	Sussex
27	Donnington	S B A	4.0%	A malty bitter from Britain’s most picturesque brewery.	Gloucestershire
28	Donnington	Best Bitter	3.5%	Light, malty and delicious, from Hooky’s only real rival.	Gloucestershire
29	Dowbridge	Fosse	4.8%	Well balanced, premium beer with caramel & burnt toffee flavours leading to a hoppy, dry finish.	Leicestershire
30	Dowbridge	Gladiator	4.5%	Ruby chestnut, well balanced beer. Smooth and malty, but with a bitter, dry finish. Some fruit aroma and slight toffee sweetness.	Leicestershire
31	Enville	Ginger Beer	4.6%	Produced using root extract ginger this ingeniously created ginger beer has a flavour which is not overpowering and is very	West Midlands
32	Everards	Tiger Best	4.2%	An award winning best bitter brewed with crystal malt to give it a rounded toffee character.	Leicestershire
33	Felinfoel	Double Dragon	4.2%	A full drinking, premium Welsh ale, malty and subtly hopped, with a rich colour and smooth balanced character. “The National Ale of Wales”.	Carmarthenshire
34	Freeminer	TBC	TBC	TBC	Gloucestershire
35	Frog Island	TBC	TBC	TBC	Northamptonshire
36	Fuller’s	London Pride	4.1%	Rich and smooth, with a good malty base – an a easy drinking beer with great body and a fruity, satisfying finish.	Middlesex
37	Fuller’s	TBC	TBC	TBC	Middlesex
38	Goff’s	Jouster	4.0%	A tawny coloured ale with a good balance of malt and bitterness and a clean hoppy aftertaste.	Gloucestershire
39	Grainstore	TBC	TBC	TBC	Leicestershire
40	Hambleton	TBC	TBC	TBC	North Yorkshire
41	Hook Norton	Cotswold Lion	4.0%	Perfectly balanced, fresh and fruity. A blend of four malts and four hops gives a slightly sweet taste and a wonderful aroma of dark	Oxfordshire
42	Hook Norton	Diamond Reserve	6.0%	In celebration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, the strongest ale we have brewed at Hook Norton for over 100 years. A vintage version of Old Hooky.	Oxfordshire
43	Hook Norton	Double Stout	4.8%	Smooth and full-bodied with a refreshing hoppy aftertaste. A blend of dark malts give it a character all of its own. Black malt enriches the colour and teases the palate, and brown malt gives it the dryness.	Oxfordshire
44	Hook Norton	Haymaker	5.0%	A strong pale ale of distinctive taste. Plenty of Goldings hops during the brewing give it a certain something extra – like sunshine dancing on the tongue.	Oxfordshire
45	Hook Norton	Hooky	3.5%	A subtly balanced, golden bitter, hoppy to the nose, malty on the palate. The classic session beer, eminently drinkable.	Oxfordshire
46	Hook Norton	Hooky Gold	4.1%	A pale, crisp beer; the Maris Otter malt gives it a bold, clear, confidence, while the traditional English Fuggles and Goldings and American Willamette hops give it the best of the old and the new	Oxfordshire
47	Hook Norton	Hooky Mild	2.8%	A dark chestnut coloured ale, full of roast malt flavours, and complemented with superb dry-hop aromas from East Kent Goldings.	Oxfordshire
48	Hydes Anvil	Manchester’s Finest	4.5%	The choicest English pale ale malt and English fuggle hops gives this traditionally fermented premium beer its distinctive and satisfying flavour.	Greater Manchester
49	Keltek	Keltek King 2	5.1%	King is paler than many bitters whilst remaining exceptionally well balanced and long lasting on the palate.	Cornwall
50	Keltek	Keltek King	5.1%	King is paler than many bitters whilst remaining exceptionally well balanced and long lasting on the palate.	Cornwall
51	Lees	Bitter	4.0%	A copper coloured beer with a malty, hoppy aroma. You are left with a distinctive malty aftertaste. One pint is never enough!	Greater Manchester
52	Loddon	Ferryman’s Gold	4.4%	Brewed using Slovenian hops which impart a zesty lime flavour.	Oxfordshire
53	Loose Cannon	TBC	TBC	TBC	Oxfordshire
54	Marston’s	Cumberland Ale	4.0%	A superb golden coloured, full flavoured ale with a delicate hop character
55	Moorhouse’s	TBC	TBC	TBC
56	Mordue	Summer Tyne	3.6%	A very pale lager style beer to be drunk on hot nights. Complex hop aroma. Be warned – easy to drink!	Tyne & Wear
57	Nailsworth	Alestock	3.6%	Light in colour and more hoppy than a caffeine fuelled bunny on a bouncy castle. Full of Elderflower notes. Lager drinkers, you might like this one.	Gloucestershire
58	Nethergate	Lemon Head	4.0%	Hints of lemon and ginger.	Suffolk
59	North Cotswold	Cotswold Best	4.0%	An easy drinking chestnut colour best bitter made with the finest english hops.	Warwickshire
60	Oakham	Scarlet Macaw	4.4%	Tart gooseberry and soft peach on the nose. Gooseberries and fruit to taste, before an intense bitterness that’s as sharp as a macaw’s screech!	Cambridgeshire
61	Abbeydale	TBC	TBC	TBC	Yorkshire
62	Old Swan	Entire	4.4%	TBC	West Midlands
63	Oxfordshire Ales	Churchill HPA	4.5%	Brewed to give a citrus-fruit malt, spicy hops and a moreish thirst-quenching edge. Brewed in association with Churchill Heritage the ale is a tribute to one of the World’s greatest statesmen, political thinkers and orators.	Oxfordshire
64	Patriot	Kiwi	4.1%	TBC	Warwickshire
65	Patriot	TBC	TBC	TBC	Warwickshire
66	Potton	Village Bike	4.3%	A complex hop character imparted by a blend of four hop varieties, producing a beer of exceptional character. Multi award	Bedfordshire
67	Purity Brewing Co	Pure Gold	3.8%	A refreshing golden ale. An easy drinking beer with a lovely dry and bitter finish.	Warwickshire
68	R C H	Pitchfork	4.3%	A golden bitter with floral citric hop aroma. A hoppy predominate taste, slightly sweet and fruity, leaves you wanting more	Somerset
69	Robinson’s	TBC	TBC	TBC	Cheshire
70	Rudgate	TBC	TBC	TBC	Yorkshire
71	Sarah Hughes	TBC	TBC	TBC
72	Severn Vale	Luvely Jub-lee	4.2%	TBC	Gloucestershire
73	Shepherd Neame	Bishops Finger	5.0%	Mouth-filling fruit (prunes, plums and dried apricot) spiked with palate-prickling pepper, cinnamon and a soft bitter blood-orange finish.
74	Skinners	Betty Stogs	4.0%	Easy drinking copper ale with a superb balance of citrus hops, malt and bitterness. Bitter finish is slow to develop but long to	Cornwall
75	Slaughterhouse	Saddleback	3.8%	An amber colour conversational bitter with a distinctive Challenger hop flavour.	Warwickshire
76	St Austell	Proper Job	4.5%	Mutiple award-winning beer. A powerfully hopped golden bitter that explodes with citrus grapefruit flavours,	Cornwall
77	St Austell	Tribute	4.2%	Hoppy flavour and fresh citrus nose are good enough to rival any fine white wine.	Cornwall
78	St Georges	Premium Bitter	4.2%	Traditional amber ale characterised by its smooth fruity start and giving way to a resinous hop finish. One to truly tempt the taste	Worcestershire
79	St Peters	TBC	TBC	TBC	Suffolk
80	Summerskills	TBC	TBC	TBC
81	Teignworthy	TBC	TBC	TBC	Devon
82	Teme Valley	This	3.7%	All the easy drinking virtues of a light ale with a vivid hop aroma. Challenger and Fuggle hops with a hint of chocolate malt make a memorable session beer.	Worcestershire
83	Three Castles	TBC	TBC	TBC	Wiltshire
84	Timothy Taylor	Landlord	4.3%	Often regarded as one of the best ales in the country, fruity, almost “lemony” bitter. Madonna’s favourite beer!	Yorkshire
85	Timothy Taylor	Landlord 2	4.3%	Often regarded as one of the best ales in the country, fruity, almost “lemony” bitter. Madonna’s favourite beer!	Yorkshire
86	Tring	Fanny Ebbs	3.9%	Highly refreshing blonde coloured ale both crisp and dry on the palate with a citrus hop aroma imparted by Cascade and Saaz.	Hertfordshire
87	Uley	Hogshead	3.7%	A cotswold pale ale	Gloucestershire
88	Wadworth	Farmers Glory	4.7%	A classic English ale to celebrate the hard work and fruits of our agricultural industry. A rewarding beer after a hard day’s work.
89	Wadworth	Red White and Brew	4.0%	Brewed in celebration of all things British; a powerfully hopped golden ale with a zesty hoppy nose. The initial fresh, cleansing palate develops into a strong powerful bitterness, a sorbet of beers and a real thirst quencher.
90	Warwickshire	Shakespeares County	3.4%	Refreshing lower gravity golden ale.	Warwickshire
91	Wells and Youngs	London Gold	4.8%	This combination of English malted barley and Syrian hops provides a well rounded floral and citrus flavour with hints of fruit, finished off with a dry, hoppy bitterness.	Bedfordshire
92	Wentworth	WPA	4.0%	Award winning hoppy ale. Golden in colour with a sharp, bitter taste.	South Yorkshire
93	Wessex	Warminster Warrior	4.5%	Reddish brown and beer flavoured.	Wiltshire
94	Wood Farm	1823	3.5%	A full bodied Dark mild with hints of caramel finishing with a smooth malty palate.	Warwickshire
95	Woodforde	Wherry	3.8%	Fresh and zesty with crisp floral flavours. A background of sweet malt and a hoppy ‘grapefruit’ bitter finish characterises this champion bitter.
96	Wychwood	Hobgoblin	4.5%	Full-bodied, Ruby beer that delivers a delicious chocolate toffee malt flavour, balanced with a rounded moderate bitterness and an overall fruity, mischievous character.	Oxfordshire
97	Wyre Piddle	Summer Splash	TBC	TBC	Worcestershire