African Porter

This porter appears black when poured into a glass but is a dark rich mahogany colour when held up to the light. Brewed to be a drinkable dark beer full of roasted malt flavours. It also has a smoothness on the palate.

Flavour
Roasted aromas dominate, smoky burnt toast with coffee and dark cocoa notes with hints of toffee.

Key Facts
Alcohol: 4.5% ABV
Bitterness: 22 IBU (moderate)
Hop Aroma: Low
OG & FG: 10.3 °P & 1.8 °P
Colour: 180 °EBC (dark with a deep red hue)

California Blonde

Brewed in the true style of the Californian blonde beers, this is a lightly flavoured beer. It is a very easy drinking beer. It is a hybrid ale (an ale that drinks like a lager) with neither the malt nor the hops dominating the flavour.

Flavour
Easy drinking with some maltiness, some bitterness and some ester fruitiness.

Key Facts
Alcohol: 4.8% ABV
Bitterness: 18 IBU (low)
Hop Aroma: None
OG & FG: 10.3 °P & 2.0 °P
Colour: 11 EBC

Country Ale

A quaffable pale ale with low maltiness and a pleasant hop aroma. This is a beer drinkers’ beer, crisp and refreshing with dryness from burtonised water (very hard brewing water) and some astringency from the hop polyphenols.

Flavour
Mid strength beer with a good bitterness and East Kent Goldings as a classic English ale aroma hop.

Key Facts
Alcohol: 3.8% ABV
Bitterness: 26 IBU (moderate)
Hop Aroma: Prominent – English Hops
OG & FG: 10.0 °P & 2.8 °P
Colour: 15 EBC
Maltiness: Low

English IPA

Flavour
Medium maltiness and rich with fruity esters.

Key Facts
Alcohol: 5.8% ABV
Bitterness: 43 IBU (assertive – but balanced by the malt and fruity esters)
Hop Aroma: Moderate – English Hops
OG & FG: 13.7 °P & 3.0 °P
Colour: 14 EBC

Irish Red

The dominant flavours are provided by the speciality malts giving the colour, the biscuity roasted grain flavours and the deep red malty hues when the beer is held up to the light. The hops provide medium bitterness to balance the maltiness, but the focus is mainly on the malt so the hop aroma is very low.

Flavour
Medium maltiness and roasted malt.

Key Facts
Alcohol: 4.5% ABV
Bitterness: 24 IBU (noticeable)
Hop Aroma: Low
OG & FG: 11 °P & 2.5 °P
Colour: 30 EBC

Kristall Weiss

Weiss beer is a Bavarian specialty. It has an emphasis on the characteristic flavours, produced by the yeast during fermentation. Normally this type of beer is served as a cloudy hefeweiss, this beer is filtered to produce a crystal-clear version of the summer Bavarian favourite.

Flavour
Characteristic clove and banana fruity esters overlay a bready wheat beer.

Key Facts
Alcohol: 4.8% ABV
Bitterness: 14 IBU (very low)
Hop Aroma: None
OG & FG: 12 °P & 3 °P
Colour: 10 EBC

Cherry Blonde

This beer has been brewed as a blonde ale to which a twist of cherry has been added, making it a slightly sweet-flavoured beer. This refreshing mid-strength beer hints at the sweetness and yet has a remarkably adult tartness/tanginess to it.

Flavour
As easy to drink as the Swagga California Blonde, it has a piquant sherbet-like acidity balanced with a subtle sweetness and a cherry-pop estery flavour. The bitterness of this beer is very low.

Key Facts
Alcohol: 3.8% ABV
Bitterness: 15 IBU (very low)
Hop Aroma: None
OG & FG: 9.5 °P & 2.2 °P
Colour: 9 EBC

Sorghum Ale

A limited-release experimental brew made with local red sorghum. This is a craft brewer’s take on an ancient African grain. Sorghum is gluten-free and full of natural antioxidant polyphenols. This brew was made without hops (as hops traditionally don’t grow in Africa) and with a modern mashing process and kieselguhr filtration to produce an interesting take on sorghum beer. An ale yeast results in fruity flavours from fermentation.

Flavour
Easy drinking with some astringency, and loads of fruity esters.

Key Facts
Alcohol: 4.5% ABV
Bitterness: 0 (No Bitterness)
Hop Aroma: None
OG & FG: 10.3 °P & 1.5 °P
Colour: 4 EBC (Very Pale)