Con Club Beer Festival April 2010
Friday 23rd 6 - 11,
Saturday 24th 12 - 11,
Sunday
12 - 8
Free Admission - Public Welcome -
Live Music - Great Food
- All beers £2.70 a pint
Tasting Notes
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Exmoor - Fox 4.2%
As subtle as the
creature after which it is named, this is
one of Exmoor Brewery’s most popular ales.
Four malts are mixed in the mash tun and
deliver a graceful and sleek malty mouthfeel.
Hops are Goldings, producing a burst of
delicate citrus and slight spicy on the
mid-palate, and Progress, which soothes the
finish with a soft bitterness, while more
malt comes forth to produce a delicious and
lingering bittersweet character.
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Fuller’s - ESB 5.5%
ESB has a wonderful rich
mahogany appearance. Taking in the nose, the beer is
bursting with cherry and orange, balanced by soft malty
toffee and caramel notes. The unique blend of hops
imparts grassy, peppery notes on the tongue along with
intense citrus fruit characters of grapefruits, oranges
and lemons. The blend of Pale Ale and Crystal malts in
the brew give a biscuity, toffee element to the beer. A
smooth, mellow bitterness lingers on the palate to give
a superbly satisfying finish.
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Ringwood - Fortyniner 4.9%
Golden ale with a satisfying
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Harveys - Georgian Dragon 4.7%
A ruby ale brewed to celebrate Dr
Gideon Mantell 'The father of Palaeontology'
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Fuller’s - Gales Seafarers Ale 3.6%
A fresh,
bracing aroma of zesty and spicy hops is followed by a
refreshing palate full of fruit and malt character.
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Goff’s - Tournament 4.0%
Copper-coloured with a fine white head. Creamy
caramel aromas with some musty, watery hops. Simple hop
flavours on the tongue, with the occasional burst of
sweetness.
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Hop Back - English Hop Medley 4.0%
We have used 3 English hop varieties to create an
easy drinking, chestnut coloured pale ale with a complex
range of flavours. Pioneer hops give a crisp bitterness
which perfectly complements the spicy citric hoppiness
produced by the First Gold & East Kent Goldings hops,
giving a satisfying dry finish.
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Itchen Valley - Green Jackets 4.5%
Fruity hops on the nose, clean
and refreshing to taste with a hoppy and bitter dry
finish.
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Orkney - Dark Island 4.6%
A classic, iconic dark Scottish beer, Dark Island
has a rich fruity nose balanced by flavours of
chocolate, dried fruit and figs.
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Oakham - JHB 3.8%
Dominated by hops that give
characteristic citrus notes. Hops and fruit on the palate
are balanced by malt and bitter base. Dry hoppy finish with
soft fruit flavours.
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Fuller’s - Gales HSB 4.8%
A popular and distinctive premium beer, brewed with
the finest malt and hops,
a hint of Dundee cake on the nose leads to a rich,
fruity taste and silky smooth finish.
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Dark Star - Hophead 3.8
Amber in colour, the flavour and aroma remind you of freshly
picked hops. Floral and evocative.
It drinks fairly easily and is dry to the point of
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Timothy Taylor - Landlord 4.3%
Golden appearance with an off
white head, the citrus nose carries through, well
balanced with the lingering bitterness and of course
plenty of hops.
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Arundel - Sussex Mild 3.7%
A traditionally brewed, dark
and creamy mild Its low gravity and lowhop rate
gives a slightly sweet character. |
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Harveys - Armada 4.5%
The flavours of fine hops dance on the palate
demanding further exploration
of the deeply satisfaction of the lingering after
taste.
Another finely crafted Ale from the masters of
brewing in Lewes. |
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Hop Back - Summer Lightning 5.0%
An extremely pleasant, bitter,
straw-coloured beer with a terrific fresh, hoppy aroma.
This, coupled with an intense bitterness, leads to an
excellent long, dry finish. Probably the beer to receive the
most awards in Britain for its cask conditioned variety.
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Cairngorm - Howler 4.2%
Rich flavoured strong ale. Very smooth with lots of
fine condition. The initial strong malt flavours gives way
to bitter sweet estery finish with a hint of blackcurrant.
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White Horse - Saracen 4.5%
Saracen has a crisp bitterness
garnered from the great English hop varieties Fuggles
and East Kent Goldings. The biscuit/caramel flavours
from the Vienna and Amber malts used in the grist
balance the bitterness to a fine finish.
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Harveys Best - 4.0%
Superbly balanced
session bitter with a prominent hop
character. Our most famous and popular brand
- it makes up over 90% of our total brewing
capacity. Winner of the Champion Best Bitter
of Britain title at CAMRA's Great British
Beers Festival in 2005 and 2006. First
brewed as recently as 1955! |
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Harveys - Olympia - 3.6%
A spring beer
with plenty of hops! This classic is rumored
to be strained though an old felt hat once
the the property of Tom Paine. A lingering
after taste reminiscent of fine champagne
titivates the palate whilst the legs remind
you the finest ballerinas of the Bolshoi
ballet. |
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Arundel - Old Knucker 5.5%
A very dark old ale,
malt dominates the initial taste, but leads
on to a
bitter-sweet, coffee finish. |
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Gadd's - Dragon's Blood
A big beer in all
senses of the word: rich, malty, blood red
ale with tangy, spicy fruity bitterness,
English hop aroma and a long, a very long,
satisfying bitter-sweet finish |
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Moorhouse - Black Cat 3.6%
An enlighting brew
bursting with hops dancing like angels on the tongue.
Leaving a lingering malty after glow. |
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Dark Star - Original 5%
Yet another finely
crafted ale from the master brewers of
Sussex.
Everything you could desire, if beers could
be awarded Michelin stars this
would get 3! |
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