The award-winning pub Kilverts Inn, Hay-on-Wye will be hosting their second beer festival this weekend with a focus on a seasonal speciality - green-hopped beers, that is beers brewed with the first hops of the season.The beer menu: shamelessly ripped from the festival blog
Beers in bright green are green-hopped
Breconshire Brewery:
1) Green Dragon 4.6% HP
Brewed with malted wheat and fresh Goldings hops
2) Ysprid Y Ddraig, 6.5%
Matured in whisky casks for a good few months, this is a beautifully well rounded ale
3) Cribyn 4.5%
A very pale, straw coloured aromatic ale, hopped with Bramling Cross, Northdown and Challenger hops
Corvedale
4)Green Hop 4.5% HP Brewed with Fresh Fuggle hops
Golden Valley Ales
5) Hop, Stock & Barrel 4.6%
A new brewery located at the back of the Bull-Ring pub, this is their flagship ale
Hobson's Brewery 6) Hobson's Mild, 3.2% Champion Beer of Britain 2007 Don't be fooled by the low a.b.v. this is full of flavour Kinver 7) Green Edge 4.2% HP Green hopped beer!
Malvern Hills 8)Green Pear 4.4% HP
9)Priessnitz Plzen Lager 4.3%
Marstons 10) Old Empire 5.7% With it's pale appearance, strong hoppy taste and higher alcoholic strength Marston's Old Empire comprises all the genuine characteristics of a true India Pale Ale, which were necessary to last the 3 month long journey from Burton to Bombay. Otley 12) Columbo 4.0% 13) O8 8.0% Champion Beer of Wales GWBCF 2006 and 2008 Gold Medal CAMRA GWBCF Barley Wine 2006 and 2007 Rhymney 14) Rhymney Export 5.0% A heady flavour, full bodied yet rounded, serious yet quaffable Rudgate 15) Ruby Mild 4.4% Champion Beer of Britain 09, this is a nutty, rich mild Teme Valley 16) Early Bird Fuggles* 4.1% HP 17) Early Bird Challenger*, 4.1%HP A brewery that is surrounded by hop farms? These beers are brewed using single strain of fresh hops - the clue is in their names!
Thwaites
18) Golden Wunder, 4.6% HP
Brewed to celebrate the Munich Beer Festival, this is straw coloured ale with a distinctive continental hoppiness balanced with a smooth dry finish.
Wye Valley Brewery
19) Dorothy Goodbody's Wholesome Stout, 4.6% HP 1 of only 2 ales to gain 5 stars on Roger Protz's Beer-pages.com
Confirmed Ciders:
Brook Farm
Kingstone Black, 6.8% Dry
Just won silver at the Worcester Beer Festival
Perry,
6%, Dry
Orgasmic Ciders
Sweet 6%
Medium 6%
Dry 6%
Gwynt Y Ddraig
Happy Daze 4.5% Medium
Barnstormer 6.5% Dry
Fiery Fox 6.5% Medium
Two Trees Perry 4.5% Medium
Pyder 6% Medium
Moles
Black Rat Cider 6% Dry
Kilverts are also on Twitter, follow @kilverts for comments from Ed as to how the festival is going, if he has time to tweet!Full details of how to find the pub are on their website or festival blog
Kilverts Inn
The Bullring
Hay-on-Wye
Hereford
HR3 5AG
Traveline Cymru provide details of getting to Hay on Wye
I would love to get my hands on some of that Golden Wunder, I last had some when I went to the Munich beer festival a couple years ago and it was amazing. Martson's Old Empire is an old favourite of mine, I can never find the stuff except at the the festivals which is a shame.
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