American Beers in the Saddle at White Horse

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Annual three-day American Beer Festival: Friday July 3-5

The beer festival will showcase beers rarely seen on UK shores from the American craft brewing scene, as well as beers from English breweries that use American hops in their beers.

The American beers at the festival will include cask brews from Sierra Nevada, Victory and Stone Brewery - which is bringing out the big guns in the form of a smoked porter with vanilla pods in the cask, a Pale Ale with coriander and an extra oak-chipped version of Arrogant Bastard – all designed to tantalise the tastebuds.

Keg beers on offer will include a choice from the Goose Island,Flying Dog, Anchor, Great Divide and Left Hand Breweries and Victory Prima Pils, as well as a selection of English Ales using American hops, like Saltaire's Cascade and Brodies' Californian.

And, to prove that although British beer styles are often emulated in the States but rarely bettered, the opening of the event was marked by the tapping of a very special 40-gallon whisky cask that has been filled with London Porter from Greenwich’s Meantime Brewery especially for the festival.

Visit www.whitehorsesw6.com for further details.

 

Melissa Cole

 

July 3, 2009