Beer and music have always been a part of The Great Britain Hotel, with a great reputation for a variety of craft beer and cider on tap and the added bonus of great live music.
With that in mind, we've chosen to showcase three sour/wild beers for the whole of Good Beer Week to provide a refreshing introduction to craft beer’s tart side!
•Moon Dog's Mr Mistoffelees - It’s summer, and it’s hot! What could be more delicious than an annual release of Mr Mistoffelees - a passion fruit and mango wild ale?! It’s packed full of complex sour, acidic and funky wild ale characters (from the 6+ months of aging with various bugs and brettanomyces strains) and balances that with passion fruit and mango tropical sweetness. Yum!
•Mash Brewing: Wizz Fizz 3rd Edition - Dry-Hopped This ancient German beer style was favoured by Napoleon Bonaparte whom dubbed it the "Champagne of the North". Mashed wheat and barley along with aged hop flowers create a sweet home for the yeast and lactic acid bacteria to get to work. Bread and sherbet aromas and a thirst quenching acidic finish are balanced with a crisp floral fruit character from heavy dry-hopping at the final stages of production.
•Rodenbach Grand Cru is a blend of 1/3 young beer and 2/3 of beer aged two years in large oak vats. The more important proportion of oak matured beer contributes to its fruity taste, complexity and intensity.
To balance out the sourness, we’ve got a sweet line-up of live music for the day.
The final day will kick off at 12pm on Sunday, May 22 – make sure you try one of our sour beers, listen to sweet & wild bands and be a part of the Good Beer community and share in the good times!
Good Beer Week = Great Britain Week!
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