Meantime Brew Master, Alastair Hook, has spent 20 years planning the quintessential English lager. His reasoning is simple.The great European lager brewers use very soft water and neutral yeasts to ensure that only the flavours of their locally grown malt and hops come to the fore. East Anglia is home to the world’s finest malting barley and Kent is home to some of the world’s best hops. Midway between the two, London is ideally placed to bring them together in a straightforward, clean, long-matured, unpasteurised lager, where all you can taste is malt and hop.
Robinsons Brewery
At Blue Moon Brewing Company, everything we do stems from our artistic approach to brewing beer. Our philosophy is simple, we take great, classic styles and make them even better by adding unique twists. It's been like that since we added our first twist back in 1995 in Denver, Colorado.
Brooklyn Lager is direct descendant of the pre-Prohibition favorite Vienna lager style, displaying a firm malt center supported by refreshing bitterness and a floral dry-hopped aroma, A true American original, it's smooth, refreshing and versatile with food. Whether it's your first craft beer or your hundredth, you'll find Brooklyn Lager as robust and inviting as ever.
Region: Brooklyn
Type: Lager
Eye: Blonde and limpid with a white foam
Nose: Floral and hoppy notes
Palate: Mouth light to be determined by a beautiful bitterness
Bitterness: 1/5
Sweetness: 4/5
Package Information: Bottle 35,5cl
And this time it is all about the beer, and the beer is awesome! Gone are the 200+ IBUs which brought grown men to tears! Our new Nanny State is 0.5% ABV and focuses on being a great drink as opposed to a great publicity ploy. This beer is now focussed on getting all that is good about BrewDog into a practically alcohol free format. It is a West Coast inspired pale ale with a difference!
Region: Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Brand: Brewdog
Nose: Big fruity up front and in your face aroma with a medley of ripe citrus, orange, sherbet lemon and lychee
Palate: Amber and crystal malts add some biscuit sweetness which is quickly balanced and overcome with more fruity hop and resinous flavours and then these cleanse the palate and transcend into a long, refreshing and quinine bitter finish.
Package Information: Bottle 33cl
Nothing compares to the fresh, fruity complexity of a great wheat beer. Ours combines authentic Bavarian yeast with a whopping 60% wheat, traditionally brewed to bring out all the fruit and spice aromas along with flavours of banana, clove and orange. It’s refreshing, summery, and pairs perfectly with a seafood platter or a bite of soft cheese.
Region: London, England
Brand: Meantime Brewig Company
Look: Golden orange color
Nose: Aromas of banana, chewing gum and spices
Palate: The palate is acidic and submerged by citrus fruits
Best Food Pairing: Outstanding with seafood and soft cheese
Package information: Bottle 33cl
Portobello Pilsner is a traditional lager in the pilsner style. The fully rounded flavour is achieved through long cold fermentation and maturation with specially selected yeast.
Region: North Kensington
Type: Pilsener
Look: Clear medium orange yellow color
Nose: Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, light hoppy, grass, fruity hops
Palate: Palate is light, dry and crispy
Bitterness: 2,0
Sweetness: 2,0
Package Information: Bottle 33cl
Taking the best from the light refreshing biers of the continent, especially the kolsch style, this balanced golden ale is a favourite across Scotland. Edinburgh Gold pours deep gold with one finger of white head. On the nose is a blend noble hops and a little caramel sweetness. The taste is medium to light bodied with continental hops and moderate bitterness providing a pleasing smooth finish.
Country / Region: Scotland
Style: Golden Ale
Look: Gold
Nose: On the nose is a complex blend of noble hops and a little caramel sweetness
Palate: The taste is medium to light-bodied with continental hops and moderate bitterness providing a pleasing smooth finish.
Package Information: Bottle 33cl
The unique bourbon barrel aging process unlocks flavours like vanilla and toffee, which combine with the malty character of this Scotch Ale to create an incredible taste experience. Barrel Aged with first fill bourbon barrels using the unique barrel into beer process.
Country: Scotland
Type: Barrel Aged
Look: Amber
Nose: Caramel and rich roasted malts
Taste: Incredibly smooth with a delicious toffee character and a light hop fruitiness
Finish: Creamy and warming
Package information: Bottle 33cl
Hitachino Nest make top quality fermented ales in Japan. Established in 1823, Kiuchi is known as a premium Japanese sake brewery, and their passion and craft have been passed down within their family for eight generations. Kiuchi is famous for its sophisticated, well-balanced beer and is the backbone of Kiuchi family's heritage. A rich and exquisitely balanced Amber Ale brewed by Kuichi. A explosion of flavour comes from the roasted malts and aromatic British hops. Paired with spicy food and hearty winter dishes.
Region: Japan
Style: Red Ale
Brand: Hitachino Nest
Look: Pours a dark red tinged brown with a thin beige head
Nose: Caramel, fig and black cherry on the nose
Palate: Caramel and black fruit notes on the palate and a bitter hoppy finish
Package Information: 33cl bottle
With deep black color, a thick creamy head, rich chocolate, toffee and coffee flavours and full-bodied smoothness, this is the epitome of a handcrafted dark beer. The brew is hopped at a high rate and naturally carbonated. The result is dark in the glass, but surprisingly light on the palate.
Region: San Francisco
Brand: Porter
Look: Black color
Nose: Wonderfully boozy aromas and flavours of chocolate, dried berries, and coffee
Palate: Dry, smoky finish and a pleasant bitterness on the palate. There is so much taste that comes out of the beer yet it still finds itself very smooth and balanced
Package Information: Bottle 35.5cl
Hopped with Warrior and Columbus this impressive US IPA has big citrus, notably grapefruit, hop aroma and flavor with caramel malt notes to balance the 60 IBU bitterness. With sweetness.
Hitachino Nest White Ale is brewed in the tradition of a Belgian style white beer with coriander, nutmeg, orange peel and orange juice. Refreshing, mildly hopped with a complex flavour it is one of Hitachino's top-selling beers in Japan and the USA.
And this time it is all about the beer, and the beer is awesome! Gone are the 200+ IBUs which brought grown men to tears! Our new Nanny State is 0.5% ABV and focuses on being a great drink as opposed to a great publicity ploy. This beer is now focussed on getting all that is good about BrewDog into a practically alcohol free format. It is a West Coast inspired pale ale with a difference!
Region: Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Brand: Brewdog
Nose: Big fruity up front and in your face aroma with a medley of ripe citrus, orange, sherbet lemon and lychee
Palate: Amber and crystal malts add some biscuit sweetness which is quickly balanced and overcome with more fruity hop and resinous flavours and then these cleanse the palate and transcend into a long, refreshing and quinine bitter finish.
Package Information: 3 bottles of 33cl
East Coast (or New England) IPAs are the in thing at the moment and this is one of the better ones out there. Brewed in East London by Howling Hops using a ton of American & New Zealand hops. Its big, juicy and delicious.
Region: London
Type: IPA
Eye: Very pale – straw to yellow in colour
Nose: The aroma is very fruity and hoppy but very smooth, consisting light citrus fruits, a tropical mango pepperiness and some light stone fruit.
Palate: The flavour matched the aroma very well being very smooth on the palate, but surprisingly subtle given the fruit explosion of the aroma.
Packaging Information: Bottle 33cl
