Bottled Beers


Belgium
Cantillon	Bruxelles Rose De Gambrinus Raspberry Fruit Lambic Fresh raspberries are added to an intensely sour beer to give the pink Champagne of the beer world. The lewd label fell foul of the US authorities and had to be purified for import.
	37.5cl	5.0%	£4.95
	Gueuze Blend of Young & Aged Lambics Aromas of horse blanket and horse piss are the tell-tale signs of a wild yeast known as brettanomyaces. It also produces acetic acid in this intensely sour, characterful museum-piece.
	37.5cl	6.0%	£4.95
Deus	Bosteels Brewery Deus Strong Belgian Ale Sporting a Dom Pérignon look-alike bottle and matured in caves in Champagne, Deus is not short of ambition. A profound and complex beer that blurs the boundary.
	75cl	11.5%	£18.50
Duvel	Moortgat Brewery, Breendonk, Antwerp Duvel Strong 'Blonde' Ale The most famous blond from Belgium. Pale gold with a dense rocky head showing lots of mouth-tingling carbonation from a well-judged maturation in bottle. Saaz hops give a floral and citric blast on the nose. A beautifully balanced beer with lots of complexity.
	33cl	8.5%	£3.50
Liefmans	Oudenaard, East Flanders Frambozen Oudenaarde Raspberry Ale A traditional ‘sour brown ale’ from Flanders provides the base beer to which raspberries were added traditionally to stimulate a secondary fermentation. A great aperitif.
	37.5cl	4.5%	£3.95
	Kriek Sweet Cherry Fruit Beer A desert or pudding beer with plenty of residual sweetness. Morello and sour Scharbeek cherries are added to a sour brown ale producing a delightfully sweet and sour beer.
	37.5cl	6.0%	£3.95
Trappist, Belgium	Back to top
Orval	Notre Dame d'Orval, Villers-devant-Orval Orval Trappist Pale, with a distinctive bronze appearance. Well-hopped with a firm, drying bitterness and the hallmark tang of Brettanomyces. A great palate cleanser.
	33cl	11.3%	£4.50
Rochefort	Notre Dame de Saint Remy, Rochefort, Namur 10 or Quadrupel Trappist Strong, dark, profound Trappist beer in the old ale style with aromas of vanilla and dark chocolate and rich, lingering chocolate malt flavours.
	33cl	11.3%	£4.50
Westmalle	Notre dame de Sacre Coeur, Malle, Antwerp Tripel Trappist From its rich tawny hue to the fine carbonation lacing its chalice goblet, this highly aromatic and rich pale ale commands reverence. Vanilla and ripe pear fruitiness is underscored by a drying, leafy bitterness. Complex and superb.
	33cl	9.5%	£4.25
Czech Republic	Back to top
Budweiser	Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic Budweiser Budvar Bohemian Pilsner A 90 day lagering confers a special roundness and complexity on this classic. Whole native Saaz hops deliver fine noble hop aromas and a smooth bitterness. Eminently quaffable.
	33cl	5.0%	£3.00
England
Whitbread	Samlesbury, Lancashire Gold Label Barley Wine One of Britain’s enduring classics. A monument to malt and warming higher alcohols.
	18cl	10.9%	£2.50
Adnams	Sole Bay Brewery, Southwold, Suffolk Broadside Old Ale First brewed in 1972 for the bicentenary of the battle of Sole Bay. Rich, mellow malt sweetness is cut by the tangerine fruitiness of First Gold hops. Delicious with blue cheese or a book at bedtime.
	50cl	6.3%	£3.75
	Sole Bay Brewery, Southwold, Suffolk Innovation Strong Pale Ale First brewed in 2007 as a celebration of the installation and commissioning of their state of the art brewhouse. An exciting hybrid of UK and US styles with Columbus hops from the Pacific north-west, Styrian Goldings fromSlovenia giving a spicy orange note, and Boadicea, a dwarf hop variety grown nearby in Framlingham which lends a lemon and lime citric edginess and energy to the bitterness. Sterile filtered, it ages subtly.
	50cl	6.7%	£3.75
Meantime	Meantime Brewery, Greenwich, London Chocolate Beer A combination of dark kilned and chocolate malts gives a sumptuously smooth mouthfeel to this dessert beer. Good with chocolate puddings or as a late morning restorative.
	33cl	6.5%	£3.50
	Meantime IPA India Pale Ale The story began in Bow London in the 1790’s and has now jumped across the river. It was originally brewed for the civil servants and troops in India, as a strong, heavily hopped beer was needed to withstand a tropical voyage. IPA is brewed with Fuggles and East Kent Goldings hops, giving theclassical earthy dryness overlaid with orange pekoe fruitiness of this most Maris Otter variety. The perfect foil for a mature cheddar with oatcakes.
	75cl	7.5%	£8.75
	Meantime London Porter The first mass-produced beer for an urban market was London Porter. This bottle conditioned recreation is a blend of two beers: a smoked bockbeer in the Franconian tradition and a well-hopped porter that captures the dark malt complexity and firm bitterness that epitomizes the style. Good with oysters, better with steak and sublime with chocolate pot.
	75cl	6.5%	£8.75
	Meantime Union Vienna Style Lager A rare example of a Vienna Style Lager popular in the 19th century. The toasty, spicy, rye grain and caramel like flavours of this good looking tawny/red lager linger on the palate. Hopped with American ‘cascades’ giving some heft to the charred malt flavours. A must for BBQ parties.
	33cl	4.9%	£3.50
	Meantime Weisse Bavarian Style Wheat Beer The defining character of a Bavarian Weisse beer is its yeast which gives the banana and clove aromas along with fabulous carbonation. There is 60% malted wheat in this beer - high even by German standards - which yields a light, zesty interpretation of the style. The ultimate refresher and perfect with Weisse Wurst.
	33cl	4.9%	£3.50
Germany	Back to top
Schneider	Kelheim, Bavaria Schneider Weiss Bavarian Hefe Weiss The ‘Rolls-Royce’ of German wheat beers. Aromas of bananas and cloves and fabulous effervescence make this the ultimate picnic beer. Prost!
	50cl	5.4%	£3.75
Schlenkerla	Bamberg, Bavaria Rauchbier Smoked Marzen Beer Beech wood from the Franconian forests is used to cure some of the malt in this full-flavoured smoked larger. Not for the faint hearted – try it with brunch!
	50cl	4.8%	£3.75
USA	Back to top
	Chico, N. California Sierra Nevada Pale Ale American Pale Ale A cult beer in Northern California and a world classic pale ale. Superb brewing skills and unsparing use of exotic hops from the Pacific North-West give enough pungency and juiciness to delight the mature hop-head.
	35.5cl	5.6%	£3.50
Anchor Brewing Co	San Francisco Liberty Ale American Premium Pale Ale Fritz Maytag is the ‘grandfather’ of the US craft-brewing movement and bought Anchor whiles a graduate student at Stanford in the late 1960’s. He has created wonderful beers for over 30 years. Liberty Ale first brewed in 1974 should be in every beer lover’s fridge.
	35.5cl	5.9%	£3.50
Brooklyn	New York, USA Brooklyn Lager Vienna Lager Garrett Oliver is the cultured and inspirational brewmaster at work here creating a ‘new wave’, aromatic, spicy and well-hopped food-friendly beer. Superb with tomato based sauces.
	35.5cl	5.2%	£3.50

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