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2009 FINAL BEER LIST 

THERE HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY FEW CHANGES, MAINLY TO ABVs SINCE THIS FINAL LIST, BUT AS THE BEERS ARE PRETTY MUCH IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, YOU CAN EASILY CHECK AGAINST "BARREL END" LABELS

- PLEASE DO NOT TRAVEL FROM PENZANCE OR MORAYSHIRE IN SEARCH OF A SINGLE BEER!

denotes a beer brewed within 20 miles of Wakefield.

Brewery

Location

Beer

abv

Description

Acorn

Wombwell

Bloomfield Pale

4.5

a golden ale with hints of caramel and a citrus and floral aroma

Acorn

Wombwell

Gorlovka Imperial Stout  

6.0  

deep ebony coloured imperial stout with bags of malt, spicy hot bitterness and a fruity dry finale

Ashover

Ashover,Derbyshire

Hydro

4.2

a refreshing and restorative new brew named after the former popular venue for those people wanting to benefit from the natural spa waters

Ashover

Ashover,Derbyshire

Coffin Lane Stout

5.0

warming chocolate and coffee flavours enhanced by a slightly bitter finish of Fuggles hops

Backyard-Brewhouse

Brownhills,Staffordshire

D & B Porter

ca.4.3

dark and complex; hints of dandelion and burdock with undertones of plum and damson, a slightly sweet start with a dry finish

Backyard-Brewhouse

Brownhills,Staffordshire

Big Red

4.5

a deep red bitter, malt, toffee and caramel nose, sweet caramel and subtle toffee flavour giving way to a  balanced bitter finish

Beowulf

Brownhills,Staffordshire

Dictator 09

5.0

a special IPA style beer brewed each Autumn to use up the preceding year's hops - always different!

Beowulf

Brownhills,Staffordshire

Mercian Shine

5.0

a pale bitter with a fresh hoppy & fruity aroma and a dry finish with its bitterness dancing on the palate 

Blue Monkey Ilkeston,Derbyshire Original 3.6

a copper coloured quaffing ale, and very flavoursome for its strength 

Blue Monkey Ilkeston,Derbyshire BG Sips 3.8

a pale and intensely hoppy beer with enticing tropical fruit aromas, finished with a good level of thirst quenching, almost peppery bitterness

Bob�s

Healey,Ossett

White Lion

4.3

a very pale, flowery lager style beer using Cascade hops

Bob�s

Healey,Ossett

Pomona

ca.5.0

a new green hop beer named after the Goddess of the Harvest

Bob�s

Healey,Ossett

Chardonnayle

5.1

a complex & stylish strong pale ale with hints of lemongrass & fruits like a Chardonnay wine, using Willamette hops for aroma

Brampton

Chesterfield

Impy Dark

4.3

a strong mild with plenty of body and maltiness

Brampton

Chesterfield

Wasp Nest

5.0

a premium ale with a sting in the tail, rich in flavour and dark amber in colour

Brancaster

Brancaster,N.Norfolk

Best

3.8

a refreshing pale ale with a hoppy finish and a touch of citrus

Brancaster

Brancaster,N.Norfolk

Malthouse

4.5

a pale amber ale made using Maris Otter barley and Pilot hops with a little extra roasted barley to give some toasty notes on the finish

Brandon

Brandon,Suffolk

Breckland Gold

3.8

a light, golden session beer. pleasantly hoppy

Brandon

Brandon,Suffolk

Rusty Bucket

4.4

an award-winning extremely pleasant premium bitter with a distinctive balance of hops & malt

Brown Cow

Barlow,Selby

Captain Oates Mild

4.5  

a smooth vanilla and chocolate malty oat mild with some sweetness

Brown Cow

Barlow,Selby

Mrs Simpson's Brew M   

4.3  

This sounds like a Hallowe'en special but fans of brewster Susan Simpson would hardly think of her as a witch - it's actually her thousandth beer - a pale ale brewed with two varieties of New Zealand hops giving a bold punchy hoppiness with strong fruit flavours with a medium dry finish and New World aroma.

Brown Cow

Barlow,Selby

After Dark Coffee Porter  

5.0  

a robust porter originally brewed for Suddaby's of Malton

Captain Cook

Stokesley

Slipway 

4.2  

a light coloured hoppy ale, bitterness coming through from the Challenger hops, full flavoured with a smooth malt after-taste

Captain Cook

Stokesley

Endeavour 

4.3  

a mid-brown ale with a bitter finish

Castle Rock Nottingham Screech Owl 4.9 a strong, heavily hopped I.P.A.often described as a stronger version of Hemlock

Clarks

Wakefield

Classic Blonde

3.9

an award winning, best selling ale, a pale hoppy beer with a hint of citrus fruit

Clarks

Wakefield

Rambling Rose

4

an amber coloured ale, full bodied, fruity with a "blooming" hop finish (Autumn seasonal)

Clarks

Wakefield

Bulldog Bitter

4.2

a golden, hoppy beer with bags of "Spirit"

Clarks

Wakefield

A Kind of Magic

4.3

a dark brown ale using five malts and two hops, brewed by the Festival Organiser
Concertina Mexborough Old Dark Attic 3.9 a dark brown beer with a fairly sweet, fruity taste

Cotleigh

Wiveliscombe,Somerset

Tawny Owl

3.8

well balanced light copper coloured bitter brewed using local malt and English whole hops giving a subtle hop palate to balance the sweetness of the malt

Cotleigh

Wiveliscombe,Somerset

Honey Buzzard

4.5

a dark honey beer with a smoked malt character and honey overtones

Dent

Cowgill,Sedbergh

Ramsbottom

4.5

rich complex chestnut coloured beer,with sweet fruity flavour & dry chocolate finish

Dent

Cowgill,Sedbergh

T�Owd Tup

6

a�rich, dark, fruiitcake-y strong stout with�chocolate and coffee notes �

Earl Soham

Earl-Soham,Woodbridge

Gannet Mild

3.3

mid to dark, well-rounded, Fuggley and slightly sweet

Earl Soham

Earl-Soham,Woodbridge

Victoria Bitter

3.6

a light, hoppy and bitter session beer  brewed using a standard pale malt and crystal malt mix with Goldings and Fuggles hops

East Coast

Filey

Bonhomme Richard  

3.6  

a copper coloured malty bitter with a hoppy finish

East Coast

Filey

Mary Rose

3.8  

a deep copper beer with a citrus finish

East Coast

Filey

Hoppers No.2 

4.1  

clean tasting, very hoppy and a little dry

East Coast

Filey

John Paul Jones 

4.3  

a golden ale brewed with sweet malt, fresh, fruity and aromatic

East Coast

Filey

Empress of India 

6.0  

a strong, light-coloured malty beer with a complex bitter palate

East Coast

Filey

Moodies Mild 

6.0  

a strong and malty dark mild 

Elland

Elland

Top of the Hops 

4.3  

a pale, hoppy ale with a distinct aroma from the Cascade hops

Elland

Elland

Diablo

5.6  

a smooth porter made with 7 different malts and single English hop variety to give a rich, dark, devil of a brew

Elveden Ales

Elveden,Thetford,Norfolk

Elveden Stout

5.0

a good stout with lots of roast malt and a dry finish, also known as Dark Horse

Elveden Ales

Elveden,Thetford,Norfolk

Elveden Ale

5.2

a strong golden ale with good balance of hop and malt

Exmoor

Wiveliscombe,Somerset

Fox

4.2

a mid-brown beer of unusual subtlety and taste

Exmoor

Wiveliscombe,Somerset

Stag

5.2

a full bodied, copper coloured strong ale, malty with a bitter finish

Fat Cat

Norwich

Bitter

3.8

a session strength beer with excellent hoppiness and good balance

Fat Cat

Norwich Honey Cat

4.0

a light golden honey flavoured brew

Felstar

Felsted,Essex

Best Bitter

4.3

a traditional best bitter

Felstar

Felsted,Essex

Jolly Rooster

4.5

a dark-ish best bitter

Fernandes

Wakefield

Centennial  

4.1

light, coloured extremely hoppy with a long lingering aftertaste

Fernandes

Wakefield

Green Hop 

5.0  

a tan-coloured beer using fresh, green hops with a tangy bitterness followed by a bittersweet finish

Fernandes

Wakefield

Hawk Lord 

5.0

a dark, full-bodied ruby red beer

Five Towns

Outwood

Yeti 14

3.6

a brown bitter, sweet in the mouth with a light hoppy quenching finish 

Five Towns

Outwood

Indian Summer  

3.9

a pale hoppy session beer

Five Towns

Outwood Freeborn 4.7 a strong pale bitter flavoured with Nelson Sauvin hops giving a unique fruity finish
Five Towns Outwood Pikeman 4.8 a rich, dark bitter with long,dry finish
Five Towns Outwood Ponte Carlo 4.6 bitter chocolate and malt aromas, malt and chocolate in the mouth with a hint of liquorice in the dry bitter sweet finish

Five Towns

Outwood

Niamh's Nemesis

5.7  

a full bodied but very easy-drinking IPA with hints of grapefruit before a dry finish

Fox

Heacham,Norfolk

Branthill Best

3.8

a red-amber brew with a malty, lightly chocolaty, very nutty aroma and nutty-malty taste and finish are also nutty and malty with hints of roast

Fox

Heacham,Norfolk

Heacham Gold

3.9

pale yellow beer with a surprisingly malty nose, the sweetish malty taste quickly becoming crisp and lightly citrus, bittersweet, lemony, lingering malt finish

Foxfield

Broughton-in-Furness

Riwaka Beata

3.6  

a new beer using aromatic Riwaka hops from New Zealand, said to give intense grapefruit or tangerine flavours, and also zesty Beata hops

Foxfield

Broughton-in-Furness

Sonic Stout 

3.7

an unusual green hop stout made with fresh feral hops imported from Flanshaw

Front Street

Binham,Norfolk

Binham Cheer

3.9

a light and fruity golden ale with an excellent citrus hop character

Front Street

Binham,Norfolk

Callum�s Ale

4.3

a reddish-copper coloured ale with a moreish malty flavour and bitter hop finish

Golcar

Golcar,Huddersfield

Town End Bitter  

4.0  

an amber bitter with a hoppy citrus taste with fruity overtones and a bitter finish

Golcar

Golcar,Huddersfield

Pennine Gold 

4.0  

a hoppy and fruity session beer

Great Heck

Great-Heck

Staggering Genius  

5.0  

a Yorkshire wheat beer, pale in colour, generously hopped with Styrian Goldings to balance the full rich flavour of the malts

Great Heck

Great-Heck

Dark Force Treason Porter

5.4  

a dark beer brewed especially for this years Festival by last year's winner of "Brewer for a Day" Paul Flint

Great Heck

Great-Heck

Super-Dave

5

a beefed-up version of Dark And Very Enjoyable, Great Heck's unusual dark session strength bitter

Harwich Town

Harwich,Essex

Leading Lights

3.8

an easy drinking, full flavoured session beer, copper coloured and flavoured with American & English hops

Harwich Town

Harwich,Essex

Phoenix APA

4.4

an American style pale ale
Holdens Woodsetton, W.Midlands Dragon's Blood 4.6 a flne golden amber ale with an intense hop fruity character, hop dominating throughout 

Iceni

Ickburgh,Norfolk

Celtic Queen

4.0

a golden brew with a light hoppy nose giving way to distinctly bitter characteristics throughout, a shallow mix of malt & hops adding some depth

Iceni

Ickburgh,Norfolk

Fine Soft Day

4.0

a deep gold coloured ale with a distinctive blend of maple syrup and hops giving a balanced bitter sweet aftertaste

Iceni

Ickburgh,Norfolk

Raspberry Wheat

5.0

an American style ale, delicately flavoured with summer fruits, made with Hersbr�cker hops, wheat and lager malt
Ilkley Ilkley Darwin's Tipple 4.5 an autumnal beer full of caramel flavours and a spicy finish
Ilkley Ilkley Smoked Witch 5.0 a strong bitter with toffee flavours and a hint of smokiness

Kelham Island

Sheffield

Back Beat  

4.0  

an amber-coloured beer with a citrus aroma and a sweet malty character

Kelham Island

Sheffield

Rohrbach's Scotch Ale  

5.5  

a malty bittersweet ale created by an American brewer

Leeds

Holbeck,Leeds

Leeds Pale

3.8  

an easy drinking pale ale, light and hoppy with delicate floral notes and a well balanced finish

Leeds

Holbeck,Leeds

Midnight Bell

4.8  

an award-winning premium dark mild, crystal and chocolate malts combining to give a full bodied, complex character 

Lymestone

Stone,Staffordshire

Einstein

5

thinking drinking - lingering combination of pale biscuity Maris Otter malts and choice German Hersbr�cker hops

Lymestone

Stone,Staffordshire

Stone The Crows

5.4

a rich red to black beerusing crystal and chocolate malts, chewy juicy fruit flavours giving way to a deep lingering bitterness from Styrian Goldings, Millennium and Nugget hops

Mallinsons

Lindley,Huddersfield

Emley Moor Mild  

3.4  

dark malts and light chocolate aroma, light chocolate and light bitter taste and finish

Mallinsons

Lindley,Huddersfield

Stainborough Castle 

3.9  

golden colour with fresh green hop nose, bitter, hoppy taste and finish

Mersea Island

East-Mersea,Colchester

Yo Boy Bitter

3.8

session bitter with great tastes of Maris Otter and Crystal malt combined with Fuggles, Challenger, Phoenix & Cascade hops giving a long lasting bitterness on the finish

Mersea Island

East-Mersea,Colchester

Skippers Bitter

4.8

a strong bitter whose full character is dominated by peardrops and juicy malt, followed by a raspberry tartness
Milton Cambridge Pegasus 4.1 an amber brew with a malty, fruity aroma & a well-rounded, bittersweet finish
Milton Cambridge Icarus 4.2 a bold, straw coloured bitter, powerful hop flavours backed by a clean malt palate, satisfying and refreshing
Museum Brewery Burton-upon-Trent Welly's MENCAP Mash 4.2 a golden hoppy balanced beer brewed for MENCAP

Nethergate

Pentlow,Essex

Essex Border

4.8

a strong pale bitter with lots of hoppiness and a good balance of malt which lingers to the finish

Nethergate

Pentlow,Essex

Augustinian

4.5

an amber bitter beer that is malty and fruity with a pleasant citrusy aftertaste

Nook

Holmfirth

Blonde 

4.5  

a deceptively easy drinking classic blond beer

Nook

Holmfirth

Red  

4.5  

a deep chestnutty red ale, rich malty overtones, balanced by a fruity hop aroma

Nottingham

Radford,Nottingham

Rock Ale Bitter

3.8

a good old fashioned, hoppy all-English bitter

Nottingham

Radford,Nottingham

Legend

4.0

a traditional, amber session ale with a flavoursome malt character and lively hoppy finish

Ossett

Healey,Ossett

Big Red 

4.0  

a full-bodied bitter and malty red style ale with citrus and spicy characteristics

Ossett

Healey,Ossett

Revolution IPA  

4.5  

pale and bitter with pine and citrus aromas, slight spice to the palate with an underlying sweetness

Ossett

Healey,Ossett

Excelsior  

5.2  

Ossett's strongest regular beer, winner of many brewers' competitions, deceptively mellow yet with a full flavour that develops into a fruity dryness
Potbelly Kettering, Northamptonshire Captain Pigwash 5.0 made from the finest Maris Otter, chocolate & crystal malts, together with English hops to give an easy drinking dark porter

Prescott

Prescott,Cheltenham

Hill Climb

3.8  

a thirst-quenching, golden pale ale

Red Rat

Troston,Bury-St-Edmunds

Hadleys Gold

5.0

a particularly hoppy golden beer using three varieties of hop and pale malt

Red Rat

Troston,Bury-St-Edmunds

Woolly Pig

5.0

a rich red strong ale made with whole East Anglian barley

Rowton

Rowton,Telford

Bitter

3.9  

a thirst-quenching, golden pale ale

Rowton

Rowton,Telford

Meteorite  

4.7  

a stronger, fuller flavoured premium ale

St. Judes

Ipswich,Suffolk

Gypeswic Bitter

4.4

rich in hops with a lasting flavour, brewed with wheats, malts and finings, late hopped for extra taste (Gypeswic is an old name for Ipswich)

St. Judes

Ipswich,Suffolk

Ipswich Bright

4.4

a refreshingly crisp golden India Pale Ale with a pleasant aftertaste

Salopian

Shrewsbury

Darwin's Origin  

4.3  

a copper coloured beer that evolves with a pronounced hop character, balanced by a refined malt finish

Salopian

Shrewsbury

Jailbird  

4.6  

full bodied, aromatic and well balanced
Saltaire Shipley Raspberry Blonde 4.0 a refreshing, blonde ale infused with a hint of raspberries
Saltaire Shipley Winter Ale 4.9 a strong amber bitter with toffee accents from three rich malts, moderately hopped with Challenger and Bramling Cross hops

Sarah Hughes

Sedgley,Dudley

Dark Ruby Mild

6.0

a legendary dark ruby strong ale with a good balance of fruit and hops, leading to a pleasant, lingering hops and malt finish

Slaughterhouse

Warwick

Saddleback Best

3.8

an amber coloured "conversational" bitter with a distinctive Challenger hop flavour

Slaughterhouse

Warwick

Wild Boar

5.2  

a robust, dark beer, produced using both dark crystal and chocolate malts

Southport

Southport

Cyclone  

3.8  

a bronze coloured bitter, fruity with a hint of blackcurrant from the hops used

Southport

Southport

Golden Sands  

4.0  

a golden-coloured, triple hopped bitter with citrus flavour

Spire

Staveley,Chesterfield

80/- Ale

4.5

a deep copper-coloured malty brew, well enhanced by both Fuggles and Styrian Goldings hops

Spire

Staveley,Chesterfield

Twist & Stout

4.5

a smooth rich stout with notes of coffee and roast malt, followed by a dry finish on the palate and ample hot bitterness

Teme Valley

Knightwick,Worcester

Hop Nouvelle

4.1

aromatic, using the first of its own undried new season's green hops (brewery is located at a hop garden)

Teme Valley

Knightwick,Worcester

Talbot Blonde

4.4

sometimes surprisingly dubbed a light porter, a golden bitter with plenty of hop and a roast malt flavour 

Thornbridge

Bakewell

Wild Swan

3.5

a grassy hoppy and citrus tasting beer with a very pale "white gold" look

Thornbridge

Bakewell

Jaipur IPA

5.9

for some the Holy Grail of beers, a honey golden India Pale Ale with hints of tropical fruits converting to a pleasant bitter finish

Thorne

Thorne

Best Bitter

3.9  

a classic English bitter, with a range of different malts dominating the taste with caramel, chocolate and fruitcake flavours, the hops complementing this with a full bodied bitterness and notes of orange peel, pepper and herbal aromas

Thorne

Thorne

Chairman's Stout

4.4  

a smooth, malty stout with strong chocolate and rich caramel flavours, roasted barley giving underlying bitterness along with a crisp hop finish

Tigertops

Flanshaw,Wakefield

Mount Cook

3.7

an aromatic bitter made with three varieties of fruity New Zealand hops,.Riwaka, Nelson Sauvin and Motueka

Tigertops

Flanshaw,Wakefield

Big Ginger 

6.0  

a strong amber ginger beer

Tigertops

Flanshaw,Wakefield

Bock 

7.0  

a malty brown authentic German style beer

Uncle Stuart�s

Wroxham,Norfolk

North Norfolk Beauty

3.8

a refreshing golden session bitter

Uncle Stuart�s

Wroxham,Norfolk

Local Hero

4.7

a dark strong bitter with a hoppy edge 

Wickwar

Wickwar,Gloucestershire

Rite Flanker

4.3

amber coloured with a big malt taste, fruit notes and a hoppy finish

Wickwar

Wickwar,Gloucestershire

Station Porter

6.1

a rich, smooth, dark ruby brown ale which starts with roast malt, coffee, chocolate and dark fruit, then developing a complex, spicy, bittersweet taste and a long roast finish

Wissey Valley

Wretton,Norfolk

Old Grumpy Bitter

4.5

late hopped, a full flavour amber coloured session ale, one of the happiest beers you could hope to meet

Wissey Valley

Wretton,Norfolk

Walsingham Ale

4.5

amber coloured clean, malty flavoured with a dry hopped character
Wolf Attleborough,Norfolk Wolf Ale 3.9 a copper coloured ale with lots of bite, Goldings and Challenger hops combining with locally grown malt to make it gloriously full-bodied

Wolf

Attleborough,Norfolk

Werewolf

4.0  

chestnut in colour, a full flavoured howlin' good bitter (unless you're a Blues fan you may not get that spellin')

 

 

 

 

dispensed from bag-in-box  

 

 

 

Girardin

Payottenland,Belgium 

Kriek

5.0 

made with 100% whole cherries and delicately flavoured against a sharp background lambic

 

 

 

 

Among the bottle-conditioned beers are expected to be a selection from East Anglian brewers, Brandon, Elveden, Felstar, Fox and Mersea Island 
There will also be bottled Treacle Stout and Excelsior from Ossett.         see tasting notes for British and World bottled beers

Girardin Kriek from the Payottenland in Belgium was available via bag-in-box dispense, and sold very quickly.