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Hastings Beer and Music Festival partners with Waverly TBS for its selection of lager and ales. This page provides the tasting notes and details of all the ales that will be available at this years festival. Beer lover's be warned, once its gone its gone...

Featured lager is RedStripe and Corona Bottles.
 

Harveys Best Bitter

4% ABV

Winner of the First Prize Gold Medal at the International Brewers’ Exhibition in 1980, this beer is brewed to an original gravity of 1036° -1040° from a recipe which has evolved over many years. It is a full, well-hopped bitter with a reputation that exceeds the borders of its native and adjoining counties.

 

Harveys Best Bitter

4.5% ABV

A premium bitter, born from the bottled ale of the same name. Brewed to an original gravity of 1044° -1048° , this golden bitter is ‘dry hopped’ in cask to produce a dry, bitter palate and a splendid aroma of hops. It was awarded Second Prize at CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival in 1992.

Adnams' Bitter

Adnams Bitter

3.7% ABV

 

This is the Classic Southwold Bitter, full to the brim with fragrant aromas of the very finest hops and malt
It’s dry, yet strangely wet: refreshing, with a distinctive liiiiingering bitterness. In short: appetising, delicious and ever so Southwoldy

Adnams' Broadside

Adnams Broadside

4.7% ABV

Broadside's rich flavours make it an instant hit with lovers of premium cask bitter.
I taste almonds, zest and conserved fruit! Mmmmm! I sense a wonderful balance of malt and hop flavours. Broadside is a pint to savour like a fine wine! Gorgeous.

Adnams' Regatta

Adnams Regatta

4.3% ABV

The taste of a perfect summer, Regatta is light, bright and a crisp flavour.
It’s a delightful sunshine colour, wonderfully thirst quenching and with a refreshing touch of bitterness. On a summer’s day in Southwold (or anywhere else for that matter) there’s nothing finer. Available April to September.

Adnams' Explorer

Adnams Explorer

4.3% ABV

A blonde beer suffused with the aromas of a grapefruit grove. The massive citrus attack will burst on your palate allowing all the flavours of the imported New World hops to deliver their fruity bitterness.

We’ve done our research here and we expect Explorer to be particularly popular with both younger and women drinkers as the light refreshing drink of choice.

Young’s Special

4.5% ABV

A classic bitter that has gained cult status among cask ale drinkers.

Amber in colour, Young's Special has a fruity, slightly estery nose with a good hop aroma and full round flavour, a fine balance between malt and hops.

100% malt brew: Maris Otter and crystal malt together with Fuggle and Golding hops.

 

Young’s Bitter

3.7% ABV

Bursting with taste, Young's Bitter is an easy to drink, refreshing cask ale with a fresh, fruity aroma that leaves a long, satisfying bitter finish. It is traditionally brewed to deliver a clean taste and is light and dry in flavour with a subtle taste of hops.

 

Brewed by methods unchanged for generations to modern standards using only the highest quality traditional ingredients.

 

100% malt brew: Maris Otter and crystal malt with Fuggle and Golding hops.

 

Young’s Waggledance

4.5% ABV

Unusual name, unusual beer. The Waggle Dance is a movement a bee performs to alert the hive of a source of nectar.

 

Waggle Dance is brewed with a touch of honey which gives it a taste of summer no matter when you raise a glass. This is balanced by a healthy does of hops to provide the bitterness that gives a wonderfully delicate flavour.

 

The overall result is beautifully balanced and sneakily seductive.

 

Pale ale and crystal malt, Fuggle and Golding hops together with South American honey create this delicious golden ale with a superb honey aroma.

Fuller’s London Pride

4.1% ABV

London Pride is a smooth and astonishingly complex beer, which has a distinctive malty base complemented by a rich balance of well developed hop flavours from the target, challenger and northdown varieties in the brew.


Its flavour has been likened by Stephen Cox, beer writer and former campaigns director at CAMRA, to 'the sensation of angels dancing on the tongue...'!

Fuller’s Discovery

3.9% ABV

Brewed using a unique blend of malted barley and wheat for a delicious malty taste bursting with rich, biscuity flavours. Liberty hops are added for a distinctive zesty character and fruity bite, whilst Saaz hops add a gentle bitter taste for a clean, refreshing finish.

Discovery tastes great served chilled, and its light, refreshing character makes it a perfect accompaniment to many foods.

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Hop Back Summer Lightning

5.0% ABV

Summer Lightning has a light aroma of hop and lemon and is very lively in the glass, producing a large, bubbly head that reduces to a tenacious frothy layer on the surface of the beer.

This is a beautiful summer session beer - light, refreshing and extremely drinkable - although the strength suggests that the 'session' tag should be treated with caution.

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Hop Back Crop Circle

4.2% ABV

A very clean flaxen-coloured beer with wonderful thirst-quenching properties. The subtle blend of aroma and bittering hops give a crispness on the tongue which is delicately fruity, giving way to some dryness. The inclusion of some flaked maize in the grist subtly hints at crisp corn flavours.

Hammerpot Meteor

3.8% ABV

A chestnut coloured session bitter with a combination of malts giving a depth of character often absent in a beer of this strength. Smooth in the mouth yet with a hop character derived from fine English hops that gives a pleasant refreshing and slightly dry finish.. Meteor has an ABV of 3.8%.

 

The name Meteor is in tribute to the aircraft and the men who flew them, based, at the now disused, Tangmere RAF station a few miles from the Brewery. These aircraft were not only the first Allied jet fighters but also set a number of world air speed records in the air over Worthing and Littlehampton.

 

Hammerpot Red Hunter

4.3% ABV

Deep mahogany to ruby red bitter. A full bodied, rich and slightly vinous malt character soundly balanced with finest English hops.

 

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Charles Wells Bombadier

4.3% ABV

A burnished copper colour, it has a rich, tempting aroma of peppery hops and raisins, while the palate is dominated by more dark fruit, juicy malt and tangy hops.

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Charles Wells Bombadier

3.6% ABV

A complex finish of bitter hops, nuts and citrus fruits.

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Charles Wells Summer Solstice

4.1% ABV

Summer Solstice is a full flavoured 4.1% ABV bitter, with a refreshingly malty flavour and a distinctive bitterness, derived from a blend of the finest English Challenger hops.

Batemans England Expects

4.1% ABV

An amber coloured bitter full of character, laced with English hops to satisfy any crowd’s thirst.

 

Dark Star Sunburst

4.8% ABV

Strong, bitter and refreshing beer with a dark straw colour and hoppy aroma.

Dark Star Summer Solstice

4.2% ABV

Brewed with 100% Maris Otter pale malt, to produce a very clean taste and bright golden colour. This beer is bursting with summer flavours and floral aroma.

England's Ale

Wychwood England’s Ale

4.0% ABV

A mid red/brown coloured beer with a distinct citrus aroma of Goldings hops. The flavour of the beer is a combination of sweetness balanced by a dry biscuit flavour, from the amber malt. The Goldings hops impart a light citrus tang and soothing hop flavour.

 

England’s Ale stands proudly on the bar and its striking balance of bitterness brings all this taste to a triumphant conclusion.

Tangle Foot

Badgers Tanglefoot

4.9% ABV

Traditional premium ale, light golden in colour. Noticeable floral dry hop aroma balanced with biscuity and fruity notes. Full bodied with a medium bitterness and a rounded, smooth, hoppy flavour. Hints of melon and pear. A clean finish with some hoppy linger.

Badger First Gold

Badgers First Gold

4.0% ABV

Lauded for its well balanced bitterness, with hints of orange and spice, First Gold gives this classic Badger ale its clean, fresh, distinctive taste.

Broughton Bramling Cross

4.2% ABV

The eccentricity of the Manitoban gives beers a blackcurrant and lemon quality which is exciting when carefully handled. Alternatively, Bramling Cross can provide a sweet creamy drinkability. This hop should be excellent for spiced beers, Christmas beer, fruit beers. curry beer, as well as having potential for winter and summer wheat beers. Very few overtly Bramling Cross beers yet exist.

 

Harviestoun Dragonfly

3.6% ABV

A pale hoppy bitter, brewed with the American hop Amarillo, blended with English Fuggles. The malt grist is pale ale and crystal malts plus wheat malt to promote a full creamy head.

Skinners Betty Stogs Bitter

Skinner’s Betty Stogs

4.0% ABV

A pale amber, mid-strength beer with distinct hoppy overtones.

Workie Ticket

Mordue’s Workie Ticket

4.5% ABV

A tasty, complex beer with malt and hops throughout and a long, satisfying bitter finish. Well worthy of the title 'Champion Beer of Britain' award 1997.

Cameron’s Nimmo’s XXXX

4.4% ABV

Light golden beer with a well balanced character derived from the best English malt and goldings hops. Lingering and satisfying aftertaste.

Golden Best

Timothy Taylor’s Golden Best

3.5% ABV

The last of the true Pennine light milds, this amber coloured beer makes a refreshing session ale. The smooth and creamy flavour makes it the popular choice close to the Brewery.

Shepherds Neame Spitfire

4.5% ABV

Crafted from traditional varieties of English malt, this golden ale combines an underlying depth of maltiness, tinged with a subtle hint of toffee, with the bold citrus and fruity spiciness of Kentish hops, to produce a well-balanced, thirst quenching, popular drink.

Shepherds Neame Best

4.1% ABV

An ambient bitter, which successfully merges the biscuity sweetness of English malt with the fruity, floral bitterness of locally grown hops from the Kent countryside, to give a clean, satisfying and moreish drink (to quaff, effortlessly, among friends).

Elgood’s Golden Newt

4.1% ABV

Golden Newt has a prominent hop character; a blend of Fuggles, Goldings and Cascade has been used in the recipe to bring the delicate hop flavours and aroma to the fore. The use of Cascade gives a pleasing citrus aroma. Finest Pale Maris Otter malt has been blended with Wheat malt and Rye Crystal to provide a full flavoured beer. The lavish use of late hop dominates the malt flavour.

Boondoggle

Ringwood’s Boondogle

4.0% ABV

A straw a coloured beer brewed at 4.0% flavoured with just 2 aroma hops, the highly prized Fuggles and the new dwarf variety, First Gold.

Woodforde’s Wherry

3.8% ABV

With a fresh zesty aroma, the flavour is everything you could wish for from a 3.8% beer: An initial crisp and clean floral flavour that evolves into a hop-influenced citrus flavour with a slightly sweet malt background.  Given the chance to develop, the finish has a wonderful hoppy bitterness and a hint of grapefruit.

Charlies Angel

Springhead Charlie’s Angels

4.5% ABV

A pale golden beer with a deeply fruity aroma and flavour which leads to the well balanced bitter finish. Very refreshing... very morish

 

Charlie's Angel was his wife Queen Henrietta Maria. In addition to raising a family of nine children she amassed a significant fighting fund for the Royalist campaign from her her year long visit to the Netherlands in 1642

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Caledonian’s Nectar Summer

4.3% ABV

Rich, bronze colour. Complex fruity character. Citrus palate balanced with zesty sweetness.

 

Roasted malt and honey added to give complex malty / honey character.

 

Hops: English Fuggle and Slovenian Styrian Golding

 

 

 

Other Features Beers

ARUNDEL

ASB

4.5

WHITES

1066

4.0

WHITES

WHITE GOLD

4.9

WHITES

HEART OF ROTHER

4.5

ROTHER VALLEY

WEALDEN

3.7

ROTHER VALLEY

LEVEL BEST

4.0

ROTHER VALLEY

HOPPERS

4.4

ROTHER VALLEY

BOADICEA

4.6

TITANIC

THEY THINK IT'S ALL..

4.5

HIGHGATE

ENGLAND'S PRIDE

4.0

FREDERIC ROBINSON

ENGLAND'S CHAMPION         

3.9

COACHHOUSE

PIONEER

4.1

NETHERGATE

CROSS BORDER

4.1

SMILES

ZING ALE

4.3

ISLE OF ARRAN

AARON BLONDE

5.0

 

 

 

 


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