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listed here as and when they appear.
For all sales enquiries please email Dave or Boggart, Boggart Brewery Distributions are now taking our beer...
See where our beer got to on our new map here!, and see what people say about our beer on Ratebeer here...
All our ales will be crafted by us in the Steel City of Sheffield (formerly at the Brew Company but now at Little Ale Cart) from recipes created by ourselves or unearthed from yellowing brewlogs of the past. We promise not to rebadge anything - ever - and to list every dry-hop and/or variation we do under the "mother" beer. We plan to brew only "one-off" beers and, at this stage, don't intend to repeat any of them although we don't rule out re-brewing any beers which come out particularly well. We may, however, tweak the recipe to make version 2.0 even better...
Each pumpclip will be consistently "branded" (see me shudder as I utter that word) with our nifty hatched steel plate background plus each brew will get a "worksplate" which describes the brew's vital statistics namely gyle (brew) number, alcohol percentage, theoretical colour units (expressed as EBC) and theoretical bitterness (expressed as IBU); see the example below from our first brew "Hop Manifesto". We use Beersmith 1.4 for recipe calculation and the Tinseth method of IBU determination although, as any brewer will tell you, the theoretical IBU and actual IBU isn't always the same... that's one reason we err on the side of caution and put much more hops in than most other brewers just to make sure we hit our target! (although that's one hop we'll never use - tongue stripping caustic bitterness isn't part of our manifesto).
We will be producing a "brewsheet" for each beer packed with the beer's essential details including tasting notes, the hops used and other nuggets of gen. This information is designed to help landlords describe the beer to customers and also for drinkers to find out what's in our beers! Just look for the "Brew sheet" symbol next to a clip and click on it for the relevant sheet in PDF format.
We also have a very special commemoration beer planned, but we're not saying what for until it happens... !
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Brew 8 : Master of the Spooniverse, 21/08/2010 Forged at Little Ale Cart The brewday photos are here... |
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Brew eight is one we wish we didn't have to make but, as we can't change what's happened, we feel it's only right for us to do everything we can to keep the memory of our good mate Chris Fudge alive. Chris died this year at the tragically young age of 39 and so, in order to show our appreciation for his friendship and all he did for the cause of scooping and craft beer over the years, we've decided to brew a hoppy beer - his favoured style - in his honour. If you know anything about 1st generation diesel locos you'll recognise the class 47's on the clip; Chris was a huge fan of the class and travelled over a million miles behind them so the name - despite being potentially confusing to normals - would, we'd like to feel, mean a lot to him and make him laugh in that infectious way he had... it's just a shame he's not around to enjoy it. All profits from this brew will be donated to cancer charities and therefore we ask everyone who drinks the beer to raise their glass in tribute to Fudgey, a great bloke, friend and character who will be greatly missed in both the scooping and beer world... RIP Chris, you won't be forgotten.
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Our Verdict -
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| Where it got to: Hunter's, Kilburn (MotS); Cask & Welly, Sheffield (Bez, TSAO); | |
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Brew 7 : HopSession, 14/08/2010 Forged at Brewwharf, Southwark, London |
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This isn't really one of our brews per se but a collaboration with Phil Lowrie of Saints and Sinners at Brewwharf! We were invited to roll on down to London to brew with Phil and, having seen the Brewwharf kit through the huge glass windows previously, who were we to refuse such an offer? We have included this beer on our list of brews as we devised the recipe with Phil (making it sort of our beer, plus it's brewed in the Mid-Atlantic Pale Ale style!) and think it should turn out to be a bit of a beast - well, it does have 6.5kg of hops in a 5BBL brew and that's without the dry-hopping - and we had such a good time brewing at Brewwharf we feel it only right that we should tell you all about it through the medium of photography... so, the phots will be online very shortly! The beer will, hopefully, be available at Tamworth beer festival and a very small number of other places but the best place to catch it will be Brewwharf itself; get on down there and let us - and Phil - know what you think!
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Our Verdict -
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Brew 6 : Western Bram / New World Disorder, 24/07/2010 Forged at Little Ale Cart |
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Our sixth brew diverts from normal practice and comes out as a "double A-side"... if such a thing exists in the beer world! It was brewed for Bram's birthday and so, with Peterborough BF wanting a decent percentage of the total barrelage, we've only done two distinct variants from the brew (plus the obligatory Bez), both worthy of A-side billing in their own right. The brew, the second under our own HMRC license, utilised Columbus, Magnum, Centennial, Citra, Cascade and Amarillo in the copper for a full-on US hop feast and will be dry-hopped with mango-esque Citra (Western Bram) and Amarillo (New World Disorder). Both these hops give stunning results when used as dry-hops and both beers will therefore be noticeably different with the Citra giving a sweet tropical fruit overtone whilst Amarillo will add a luscious peachy fruitiness. The best place to try the beer will be Peterborough Beer Festival but it will also be out and about in a very small number of other places too; we really need a bigger brewlength! Thanks to Steve Fulcher for the phot of 1015...
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Our Verdict : New World Disorder - Dry, bitter and very fruity were the key flavour components with some subtle yet delicious hints of tropical fruit and lemons on the nose and, increasingly, in the flavour. The body was reasonably full with plenty of maltiness whilst the finish maintained it's hefty bitterness well yet with lots of fruitiness from the late hops and a bitter, citrussy and surprisingly (for us!) malty finish which balanced the bitterness and hop oils well. (8/10) Bez 4 was obviously without much of the subtle fruit and citrus aromas (which come from the dry-hops) but still packed in the flavour with a malty, bitter and reasonably hoppy taste and curiously dry finish with a pronounced oily bitterness. Not the best Bez we've done although the high ABV certainly had something to do with the flavour balance. (7/10) Western Bram - Oh yes, oh yes... Citra are rapidly becoming one of Gazza's favourite hops and rarely does he sample a beer blessed with their magical fairy dust than he goes all dewy-eyed and starts gibbering about cat's piss and mangoes... must be old age. Anyhow, WB was dry-hopped with Citra and, consequently, turned out to be an absolute stunner! A huge aromatic nose of hop oils, sweet juicy fruits and that deliciously bizarre reek that Citra bestows was stunning and the glass was sniffed for a good few minutes before any beer was even consumed! In the mouth a huge, crashing bitterness was immediately apparent (although never astringent or caustic) with oily hops, lots of herbage and hop juice and even some rich biscuity maltiness and a hint of alcohol too. The finish still had rich malt although the sublimely fresh, juicy and aromatic hops balanced the bitterness superbly... I'm chuffed to have brewed something like this; it's everything I wanted to make and, had someone given me a glass of this a year ago and told me I was going to be co-brew it, I'd have laughed in their face. (9.5/10) Or, you can tell us your opinion! |
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| Where it got to: Peterborough Beer festival (WB, NWD); Old Oak, Horsley Woodhouse (NWD); Hand & Heart, Peterborough (WB, NWD); Altrincham BF (NWD); Star, Huddersfield (NWD); Cask & Welly, Sheffield (Bez, WB); Dragon, Worcester (NWD); Harlequin, Sheffield (NWD) | |
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Brew 5 : Independence Day Pale Ale, 12/06/2010 Forged at Little Ale Cart |
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Our fifth brew is a proper hop-monster, no doubt about that! To celebrate our independence (and Yorkshire Day if there's any left by then!) we have brewed a beer with a huge 1 kilo of hops per brewer's barrel (36 gallons) including Columbus for bittering and pungent hop flavour, Magnum for soft bitterness, Centennial for "sherbet lemon" citrus flavour and aroma, Cascade for it's sublime citrus zest and, finally, a big helping of gloriously pungent and fruity Citra at flame-off... plus it'll then be dry-hopped in the cask with Cascade and Amarillo (a mix suggested by Gazza's favourite Portland brewpub) for good measure! This beer has been brewed with our standard malt grist of Fawcett's LCMO plus a small amount of Wheat Malt and will be very pale, very hoppy and also very bitter! We've overloaded the IBU meter (or would have if such a thing existed) breaking the 100 threshold which, to give you a rough idea, is approximately five times more bitter that most standard beers on the market today although pretty much par for pale ales brewed in the last century, making it a traditional pale ale albeit slotting nicely into our self-proclaimed "Mid-Atlantic" style! The beer will be out and about shortly and, as always, your feedback is very welcome... we love to hear what people say about our beers even if they hate them! (although we'd rather you loved 'em...)
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Our Verdict - What a cracker this was!
The maltiness was strangely pronounced in the flavour although the
huge dose of citrussy hops and big (yet never harsh) bitterness took
over nicely and brought the beer to an oily, hop-juicy conclusion
with more bitterness and a smooth hop and citrus aftertaste; good
stuff indeed.
(8/10) Bez 3 was obviously not as hoppy in the nose yet had a gloriously complex aroma and taste of grapefruit, melon, lemon zest and juicy tropical fruits which melded well with the malt and long bitterness and resulted in a deliciously drinkable pale ale which left no doubt about the amount of hops used in it's production! (8/10) Merton Ruination - Citra are one of our favourite hops and they made this beer an absolute belter! Their intense "cat's piss on a mango" character - in the nicest possible way - infused the brew with a gloriously fruity and unique aroma and taste which brought plaudits from both Merton Beer Festival and the Star in Huddersfield... cheers! (9/10) And, finally, despite the very sad occasion, Goodbye Fudge provided some cheer with it's almost tongue-curlingly grapefruity aroma and oily overtones; Chinook are definitely a hop which bring their character to the beer and this was no exception! A glorious example of hop overkill which showcased what we're all about... (8.5/10) Or, you can tell us your opinion! |
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| Where it got to: Continental, Preston (ID); Wenlock, London (ID, B3); Dragon, Worcester (ID, MR); Cask & Welly, Sheffield (B3); Royal Oak, Bath (B3); Merton Beer Festival (MR); Riverside, Sheffield (ID); Star, Huddersfield (MR, ID); Coach & Horses, Dronfield (ID); Anchor, Birmingham (ID); Fudge's Wake, Tamworth (GF); Castle, Bradway (ID); O'Donoghues, Wakefield (ID); Harlequin, Sheffield (ID) | |
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Brew 4 : 51st State, 13/03/2010 Forged at Little Ale Cart |
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Brew four sees a return to our forté of "pale 'n' hoppy" after the success of our first stout and continues our theme of naming the beers after "proper" music, in this case New Model Army's seminal track from the "Ghost of Cain" album. The name also hints at what's in the brew; we're piling in the West Coast hops with CTZ (Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus), Centennial and Citra all utilised plus it was dry-hopped with yet more zesty Centennials. The strength is 4.7% with a colour rating of 5.2 EBC and the usual bitter blast you expect from us with 76 IBU's. We brewed this one in "the brick shed", aka Little Ale Cart, and it is in our own Cypherco plastic casks, too, which are black-black-purple (even though some unkind souls have said they're pink!). Newsflash - D-Generation XX has won Best Golden beer and Overall Beer of the Festival at Doncaster !!!
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Our Verdict - Wow! After a few
weeks' conditioning in-cask the Centennials certainly livened up
this brew (although I think Columbus are a better dry-hop aroma
wise)! A huge hop aroma, all citrus, hop oils and fruit,
gave way to a full-on bitter yet rounded flavour with some maltiness
before an almost "Sherbert lemon" zinginess from the
Centennials, some
tangerine zest and loads of rich resinous hop flavours and then a
long, bitter, citrussy aftertaste with plenty of hops and yet more
citrus fruit and zestiness - what a corker! (8.5/10) Bez was similar with only a slightly less pronounced zesty, citrus hop nose before the strongly citric, bitter and lemony taste, very fresh and lively, leading to a huge citrus, tangerine and bitter hop finish with a very long hop oil aftertaste. (8/10) D-Generation XX had a simply massive aroma as you'd only get by immersing yourself in hops; it really was something to behold and bounded from the glass like a greyhound from the blocks. Hop oil, resin, juicy fruit, herbs and raw almost hemp-like aromas led to the very bitter, juicy and tropical fruit-flavoured body, finishing long, bitter and hoppy but it was that aroma I'll remember for a long, long time... stunning. (9.5/10) A Slight case of Overhopping - 51st State was full of tropical fruit and zesty citrus aroma and flavour although didn't quite reach the high standard of D-Generation XX. (8/10) Or, you can tell us your opinion! |
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| Where 51st State got to: Wenlock Arms, London; Wellington, Sheffield; Dragon, Worcester; Doncaster Beer Festival; Strathmore Arms; Frodsham Beer Festival; Harlequin, Sheffield; | |
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Brew 3 : Black No.1, 16/01/2010 This beer is dedicated to Pete Steele, RIP Forged at Little Ale Cart |
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Our third brew will be, in a surprise move, a stout! Despite being out-and-out Hopheads we appreciate other styles too, and certainly don't want to get typecast just yet! We're both stout drinkers (in both senses!), so are pleased to reveal that our third brew will be the first of a new 'Black Metal' series, appropriately enough called 'Black No.1' (after a song written, coincidentally, by Pete Steele of Brooklyn's Type O Negative), it will be a full-bodied, traditional (very) dry stout, weighing in at 5% abv. As usual, there will be the limited release of a variant, this time with a mystery ingredient and called "Douro Negative". Since our first two brews elicited comments from unsuspecting normals along the lines of 'this is too bitter' we fully expect to hear comments like 'yuk, this is nothing like Guinness'. Yes, that's the point, this is proper stout! We will be brewing this beer at Little Ale Cart due to lack of capacity at our usual hosts The Brew Company; both breweries are likely to feature in our future productions, rest assured that we will always declare the origin both on our website and on the pumpclips.
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Our Verdict - Well, that came out pretty well and no-one could call it bland, that's for sure! A huge roast, chocolate and full-on toasted malt flavour was tempered by a hefty bitterness - as a Stout should have - with some leafy, fruity hops adding interest. The finish was massively burnt and roasty with, maybe just a touch too much sweetness meaning we could have left out the Crystal and maintained our boycott...! Still, it had everything we think a stout should have and it was even compared to "old-fashioned" stout by drinkers in the Bitter Suite; just the kind of feedback we want and appreciate. (8.5/10) Douro Negative had a lovely richness and fruitiness from the Port atop the coffee-chocolate and bitter base flavour (8.5/10), whilst Czarna Kawa positively reeked like a just-made espresso and was about as near-perfect as we could have hoped for! (9/10) |
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| Where Black No.1 got to: Derby Beerfest; Harlequin, Sheffield; Dragon, Worcester; Cask & Welly, Sheffield; Fleetwood BF; Liverpool BF; Bitter Suite, Preston; Wenlock Arms, London; White Horse, Hedgerley; Oakwood BF, Rotherham; Doncaster BF; | |
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Brew 2 : Worcestershire Sourced, 14/11/2009 Forged at The Brew Company |
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Brew two follows a similar pattern to our first in that was made with only Maris Otter malt (normal colour this time, although we're still a crystal malt-free zone!) and a touch of wheat malt, but this time we'll be using, in addition to our favoured Magnum for bittering, some very special Worcestershire Cascades which Gazza has managed to acquire from a very sociable brewer who shall remain nameless but let's just say that we're well in debt to him! We managed to acquire half the total harvest of these hops and used 6.1kg of them (plus 50g per cask for the dry-hopping in addition to 1.2kg of Magnum for bittering) to produce what we hope will be a hop-lover's wet dream in a glass... oh yes!
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Our Verdict - Sadly, the
Worcestershire Cascades were nowhere near as citrussy as we hoped
(and they smelt!) so hop character was down on expectations, however
the beer had an earthy bitterness with a tangy, fruity hop taste,
maybe elderflower and/or ripe melons, so all wasn't lost. An
experiment that went wrong but at least we tried...!
(5/10) Wheel Ale Wasn't noticeably different than the base beer (5/10) whilst 15:20 came out by far the best with a lovely zesty, lemony Cascade nose. (6.5/10) |
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| Where Worcestershire Sourced got to: Pig's Ear BF (Wheel Ale); Strathmore Arms; Dragon, Worcester; Plough, Worcester; Bacchus, Newcastle; Hillsborough Hotel, Sheffield; Harlequin, Sheffield; Micro Bar, Manchester; Black Lion, Manchester, New Oxford, Salford, White Horse, Hedgerley | |
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Brew 1 : Hop Manifesto, 26/09/2009 Forged at The Brew Company |
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Our first beer was brewed on 26th September and will be ready week commencing 12th October. As it's our first testbrew it has been brewed and will be sold under the Brew Company's license although brewed the beer ourselves and created the recipe. It is 4.8% alcohol and 81 IBU's in bitterness with a base of Fawcett's low-colour Maris Otter malt and Magnum, Centennial, Cascade and Chinook hops with Amarillo as the dry-hop. Although we've not going too mad with the hops to begin with it still promises to be quite a treat for us... oh, and you hop-heads! Why Hop Manifesto? Well, it sets out our stall on what characteristics (hops!) we intend to strive for in our beer and also hints at us being slightly revolutionary... hop-wise, obviously, as we're good Capitalists in reality who love shiny-shiny new things...
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Our Verdict - What a blinder for a first beer!
Okay it didn't clear star-bright and it wasn't as hoppy as we hoped,
but the Amarillos came through beautifully with a peachy fruitiness
and the citrus hop was great. With a bit more bitterness and
hop in the finish this could have been just what we're aiming for
meaning us never brewing anything new again... lucky you, then, it
wasn't as good as we hoped! This beer will be repeated in the
future but, this time, made to recipe with a bunch more hops for
good measure... 7.5/10 Bez came out pretty decent but was lacking the finishing Amarillo peachyness (7/10) and Life of Brian was over-lemoned (!) but still an interesting experiment and has given us an insight as to how much we need next time. (6/10) |
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| Where Hop Manifesto got to : Wenlock, London; Oxford Beer Festival; Dragon, Worcester; Bacchus, Newcastle; Anchor, Birmingham; Various Sheffield pubs; | |
