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WELCOME TO ISSUE 3 OF CBR MAGAZINE + YOUR FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

CBR’S TEAM AND TWO BREWS THEY WILL MAKE A BEELINE FOR AT CBR LONDON 2015

Welcome to Craft Beer Rising London 2015. As we take over the Old Truman Brewery once again for our third year, we have grown to deliver what we believe is a bigger and better show than ever.

We now have a festival app (head to craftbeerrising.co.uk to download) that’ll give you the low-down on all your favourite brewers and allow you to vote for your top beers of the event.

Festival highlights include several brewery launches, new drinks releases, and the UK debut of the five-strong New Zealand Craft Beer Collective of Yeastie Boys, Renaissance, 8 Wired, Tuatara and Three Boys. There will also be some fantastic talks in our Mash Tun area hosted by Melissa Cole, including chats with Celt Experience’s Tom Newman on mead, a lager exclusive with master Austrian brewer Karl Trojan, plus Melissa’s own food and beer matching.

Then there’s the music and food… Soul II Soul legend Jazzie B takes our headline spot supported throughout the weekend by Don Letts, The Doctor’s Orders, Channel One and Andy Smith amidst a plethora of other musical talent. Food-wise there are lipsmackingly good offerings from the likes of Prairie Fire BBQ and Dosa Deli. Last, but certainly not least, we’re giving you this magazine (incorporating the event programme) so you can enjoy some great articles and re-live the fun of Craft Beer Rising when you get home! Thank you for coming and… cheers! Enjoy!

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Daniel Rowntree, co-founder & director 1) Harbour, Spiced Dunkel Bock 2) Renaissance, Abundance Baltic Cherry Porter Simon Dehany, event manager 1) Yeastie Boys, Gunnamatta 2) Wadworth, Coriander & Lemongrass Chris Bayliss, co-founder & director 1) Yeastie Boys, His Majesty 2) Lagunitas Sucks Double IPA Matt Wright, editor, CBR magazine 1) Hogs Back Montezuma Chocolate Lager 2) Vedett Extra Ordinary IPA Pete Brown contributor: see page 6 1) Beavertown Applelation 2) Camden Barrel Aged IHL Melissa Cole contributor: see page 38

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never wanted to be a beer writer: not until after I’d already become one by accident. Since I was 13, reading number 44’s copy of NME every Wednesday before delivering it on my paper round, I wanted to be a music writer. Music seemed important, sometimes dangerous, always thrilling.

Bands stood for something, had something to say, and transported teenagers like me away from our dreary existences to somewhere meaningful.

So a couple of years ago, when I first met a music writer whose work I had read for years, I was surprised to find that he was jealous of me.

“The world of beer now is the world of music in 1977, whereas music now is beer in 1971!” says Andrew Harrison, former Word magazine staffer and Q editor, and now a freelance lifestyle journalist.

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“Musically, we’re all now listening to Watney’s, whereas beer is like punk – it’s Year Zero. When I was a student, I was in record shops every day. Now, if you’re not in a pub, you feel like you’re missing out. It’s driven by grassroots enthusiasm, it has that rare combination of creativity, inspiration and an audience who want it, and it’s happening without permission from the authorities. Even bands can make themselves more current these days by releasing a beer.”

It’s a neat analogy, and one that will extend as far as you want to take it. I often use musical metaphors in my beer writing, from describing flavour in musical terms to comparing brewers to bands (Thornbridge and BrewDog as the Beatles and the Stones, anyone?)

In each case, being a fan, as opposed to simply a consumer, is a nerdy, mostly

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“ROBINSONS GAVE BRUCE DICKINSON OF IRON MAIDEN A BLIND TAS TE TE S T OF TEN BEERS – HE CORREC TLY NAMED SIX” male pursuit, but with just enough sociability to make it acceptable. There are different factions, an elitism on the part of ‘serious’ fans, and the inevitable cries of “sell out!”, or at the very least, “I preferred their earlier stuff.”

Another beer-loving music writer is Richard King. Author of How Soon Is Now? – an essential history of indie music – he laughs at the debates raging over the definition and true meaning of craft beer. “Go back ten or 15 years to early music blogs, substitute ‘craft beer’ for ‘indie’, and the arguments are exactly the same – word for word,” he says.

But the relationship between beer and music is more than just neatly analogous. It’s real in a physical sense, and goes back at least 150 years.

In the 1840s, some pubs in industrial cities, especially London, began putting on live entertainment. Larger pubs were rebuilt as small theatres, with stages at one end. For the most successful, the show became a bigger draw than the beer. ‘Music hall’ combined English folk, eastern European polka and AfricanAmerican spiritual traditions to create

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the first pop music, not to mention stand-up, ventriloquism, wrestling and other acts that went on into the more respectable medium of variety theatre and, ultimately, cinema and TV. Britain’s Got Talent is simply music hall and variety updated, and the hopeful bands are following in the tradition of 19th century pop idols Marie Lloyd and Harry Champion, who made songs like My Old Man Said Follow The Van and Any Old Iron the smash hits of their day.

Beyond the boozer So pop music in its earliest form grew out of the pub. When rock arrived, it too acknowledged a clear debt. Paul McCartney’s father was a variety theatre bandleader, and you can hear echoes of music hall in songs like When I’m SixtyFour. Queen acknowledged similar influences on Killer Queen and other hits. As theatres became bigger and so harder to fill, the pub provided a place for bands to hone their skills. In the early ‘70s the genre of ‘pub rock’ emerged as a reaction to the excesses of prog and glam. While the scene was short-lived

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and sold hardly any records, it was the catalyst for punk, and the crucible from which performers such as Elvis Costello and Joe Strummer emerged.

The venues could be more famous than the bands. The Hope and Anchor in Islington hosted several gigs a week in its tiny upstairs room. Madness famously developed their sound there, and shot the video for One Step Beyond against its grimy backdrop. In 1979 a band billed as ‘The U2’s’ played to nine people there, and abandoned the gig after The Edge broke a guitar string. Usually the place was packed though, with bands including Joy Division and The Stranglers creating queues of desperately hopeful punters hundreds of yards down the street.

This shared history makes it more understandable that a band like Madness would want to launch their own beer, coming relatively late to a trend that began when Yorkshire’s Dent brewery created British Ale Power, a beer for British Sea Power’s gig at the Tan Hill Inn, the highest pub in England, in 2008.

Since then, acts including Elbow, Iron Maiden and Bellowhead have had a go.

A bunch of musical brews Beers are a useful way of raising awareness among a certain demographic of music fan – most bands that do them have a predominantly male fan base that’s drifting towards middle age. But in most cases, there’s a lot more to these beers than cynical marketing.

Madness’s beer Gladness was created in conjunction with the landlord of Camden’s Dublin Castle, another pub with which the band shares a long history. That first beer has now been joined by two more, Nightboat and Lovestruck, and the Dublin Castle was the first pub to stock all three.

Elbow have supported their last two albums with tie-in beers. This is a band that met in a pub and played its first gig in a pub, and regards beer as a vital part of what they do. “We’ve always enjoyed drinking, it goes hand in hand with music,” Garvey told me. “We’ve only ever done one gig without a drink.”

He turned to the band. “Do you remember it? It didn’t work, did it? The audience was happy, but…”

“We weren’t happy though,” chipped in drummer Richard Jupp. “It felt like there was a band member missing.”

The most successful band beer has to be Trooper, created by Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson, which has become the biggest beer Robinson’s Brewery makes. Other brewers passed on the chance to work with Iron Maiden, but Dickinson wowed Robinson’s with his beer knowledge and passion. They gave him a blind taste test of ten beers. He correctly named six of them, a feat that stunned head brewer Martyn Weeks.

Dickinson likes southern bitter, and thanks to his genuine input to the recipe Trooper is unlike any other beer Robinsons brews.

If there’s one criticism that can be levelled at UK band beers, it’s that they tend to play safe. To quote Dickinson talking about Trooper, they’re beers with which “everyone can have a good session and we can all go away friends” – middle of the road in terms of both taste and alcohol. Some people expect a little more… attitude from their favourite bands.

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BEER LOVES MUSIC Music-focused brewers Sam McGregor founded Signature Brew because, throughout a career in the music industry, he became sick of the dire quality of beers available at gig venues. Having contract-brewed beers for acts including Professor Green and The Rifles, he’s now set to open his own brewery and says future musical collaborations will only consist of more unusual beers. “Out of nine collaborations so far, the most interesting one we did was with metal band Mastodon, who wanted to brew a black IPA. In the early days, everyone was concerned about not putting people off. But now we’re brewing permanent beers, collaborations are a chance for us to do something that’s different.”

Of course, there’s more to creating a great collaboration than the beer itself: there’s a whole musical aesthetic to celebrate. Music fans Mark Seaman and Andrew Helm founded Revolutions Brewing near Leeds in 2010, originally intending to brew beers that were all 3.3%, 4.5% or 7.8%, to reflect the RPM of vinyl records, until practical considerations intervened. But there are many more ways to create what Mark refers to as a ‘homage’ to music. “Every month we brew a special, which goes back 33 years for its music inspiration, and we try to tie the style of beer to the track it’s named after. We’re up to 1981, so we’ve done ‘Kids in America’, a UShopped pale ale, and ‘Pretty in Pink’, a raspberry wheat beer.”

Mark sees much in common between beer labels and record artwork. “The album cover used to be massive, it was part of the experience,” he says. “Our pump clips pay homage to that. It not only draws people to the beer, it makes them curious about what’s coming next.”

One self-described ‘competent home brewer’ has taken these broader associations even further. When Island Records asked Robin Pearson to create a beer for the label, he produced a session IPA. “It’s full of tropical fruity flavours from the hops and fits with Island’s Caribbean heritage and the feel of the label,” he says. “And I love the play on the word ‘session’.” Demand has been so

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strong that Robin turned to Brighton Bier, his adopted hometown’s leading brewery, to help take the beer to a commercial scale. It comes with its own Spotify playlist, chosen personally by Robin from the label’s eclectic roster.

It’s no coincidence that so many of us feel drawn to combine the twin passions of music and beer. They have a deeper link than the enthusiasm of fans or their recent shared history. Both have been with us since the dawn of civilisation, playing a symbolic role at the same time as being everyday treats. Both bring us together and break down social boundaries. We use both to identify ourselves, to say things about our personalities. In both, personal tastes vary widely, but there are acknowledged classics. Beer and music are more than just perfect partners: they are two sides of what it means to feel truly alive.

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Craft Beer Rising’s first Yorkshire road trip uncovers some stunning beers and inspiring breweries. By Matt Wright...

t’s mid-afternoon and we’re driving southeast from Masham, north Yorkshire. With seven breweries already visited on Craft Beer Rising’s inaugural Yorkshire Road Trip, we have one more stop to make – Bad Seed Brewery in Malton.

Staring out from the passenger seat at the Yorkshire hills, cursing my decision to drink a pint of Black Sheep Best and sample – copiously – the Imperial Russian Stout, I try to forget thoughts of trickling Dales streams as the iPod shuffles tracks amid the random percussion of clinking beer bottles. It dawns on me that two beers we’ve discovered on this tour brilliantly encapsulate Yorkshire’s extraordinary brewing scene in 2015.

On the one hand you’ve got Ilkley Brewery’s award-winning Westwood Stout – a white chocolate stout brewed in collaboration with BrewDog, cheekily named after hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood. On the other you’ve got Black Sheep Best – a smooth, clean-tasting, quaffable ‘proper Yorkshire bitter’ (Geoff Boycott accent please), brewed in traditional Yorkshire open fermenters. Both beers are excellent in their own way, and both reflect Yorkshire brewing in 2015: a story of tradition and innovation, beautifully blended.

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No brewery demonstrates the fusion of old and new like Ilkley Brewery, the fifth stop on Craft Beer Rising’s Yorky Tour. Walking into Ilkley Brewery is like wandering into a tube station at rush hour. At odds to its rustic surroundings below Ilkley Moor, the brewery – founded in 2009 – is bursting at the seams: forklifts shift barrels, the marketing department plan their next campaign, and the brewery team, led by Christa Sandquist, mash-in. They are a youthful, energetic team but much of what they do is inspired by the past. Marketing manager Luke Raven explained: “The first Ilkley Brewery disappeared in the 1920s and we’re continuing their work. We discovered some of their old artwork and our branding has been inspired by it. Our beers tend to be a mix of old and new too.” A good example is Mary Jane, Ilkley’s bestselling beer, which is named after a character in the old Yorkshire folk song On Ilkla Moor Baht’at, but is brewed with very of-the-moment American Amarillo and Cascade hops.

Heritage is no stranger to the next stop on our road trip either – Black Sheep Brewery of Masham.

The tale of Black Sheep is one of stubbornness, determination and stunning cheek (who’d have expected those in Yorkshire?).

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YORKSHIRE ROAD TRIP Paul Theakston’s family had made beer for six generations in Masham, but in 1987 his old family firm was taken over – after a long and bitter saga – by Scottish & Newcastle. The new owner told Paul he could still have a job, but not at Theakston.

“Er, no thanks,” said Paul. What he did next reveals a man with a neck brassier than Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Paul bought a building literally across the road from his old Theakston brewery, secretly filled it with rare kit rescued from failed UK breweries, including original Yorkshire Stone Square fermenters, and opened Black Sheep Brewery in 1992 under the nose of Scottish & Newcastle. Audacious work! Today Black Sheep is run by Paul and his two sons Rob and Jo. The brewery’s core beers are all smooth, clean-drinking and well balanced, and they have recently installed a fivebarrel plant to trial experimental brews.

Products of this include Reaper, a triplehopped rye red ale.

Insatiable demand for beer At each brewery we visited, the most surprising thing was the feeling it was flat

Inside mission control at Ilkley Brewery

James Broad (left) and Chris Waplington of Bad Seed Brewery of Malton

‘EACH BREWERY WAS FLAT OUT TO MEET DEMAND’ out to meet demand. That’s despite Yorkshire having more breweries than any other county. With unprecedented brewery growth over the past five years, it’s the last thing we were expecting.

Abbeydale Brewery in Sheffield is a prime example. The first stop on our tour, Abbeydale consists of a friendly team of 17, operating a 30-barrel plant, a 100-mile delivery radius, and producing 200-250 brewer’s barrels per week. Director Dan Baxter told us: “We brew one guest beer per week and that level of variety is a commercial decision – customers demand it. The only time we worry about beers not selling is if they are low-ABV brown ales. Our most popular brews are 4.1% pales.” Dan also explained that they were starting to showcase more British hops through their Albion series, a move based on the growing rarity and price of New World hops.

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‘Spawny tossers’ The above insult is just one of the names colleagues called us after hearing we were going on a two-day Yorkshire brewery tour.

It was hard to feel they were wrong after wandering into Northern Monk Brew Co’s new brewery, bar, refectory, bottle shop and art gallery in Leeds. Northern Monk is one of the newest arrivals on the Yorkshire brewing scene and has created a stunning temple to beer and food in a converted Victorian flax store. It is a brilliant space – surely one of the most impressive homes of any new British brewery – and a bold way to enter the brewing industry. Expect to hear more about them soon.

After eating a great meal at Northern Monk’s HQ and sampling some of its highly creative brews, it was onward to Bradford.

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‘WE FELT INSPIRED BY THE HEALTH OF YORKSHIRE’S SCENE’ opposite the Victorian mill that houses the 20-barrel brewery, Ewen explained how Saltaire Blonde – a straw-coloured beer brewed with Saaz hops – has become the biggest-selling Yorkshire-brewed ale in Yorkshire. “Consistency of product has been vital,” said Ewen. “Building up trust with drinkers is critical and as we double the brewery’s footprint over the next year or so, consistency will continue to be a big focus.”

Saltaire Brewery was founded in 2005 and has come a long way in ten years. The place feels like it’s been around for a century.

Starting a Revolution Of the seven breweries we visited – and we’d have loved to have seen more – Revolutions in Castleford was the most unusual. As Pete Brown explains in this issue’s beer and music feature (p6), Andrew Helm and Mark Seaman are huge punk and synth-pop fans and everything they brew has a musical theme. “Each month we brew a special with the same title as a song or album released 33 years ago, with a recipe that reflects the name,” said Andrew (33 refers to the speed at which vinyl albums are played). “So we’ve brewed ‘Ghost Town’, ‘White Wedding’, ‘Turning Japanese’ and

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THANKS!

Cheers to all the fantastic Yorkshire breweries who took the time to see Craft Beer Rising Magazine and apologies to those we didn’t manage to meet.

Next time!

‘Echo Beach’ to name a few. Like punk, we have a J.F.B.I. approach,” continued Andrew, “just fucking brew it.”

If Revolutions are the punks, the last stop on the tour – Bad Seed Brewery of Malton – are the young indie upstarts. Exhomebrewers James Broad and Chris Waplington started Bad Seed Brewery in May 2013 and have found that demand has rapidly outstripped supply from their fourbarrel kit. “There have been lots of rapid, near-vertical learning curves,” laughed Chris. After tasting some of their beers, it’s clear they’ve successfully navigated most hurdles to produce some beauties like their Hefeweizen and their Plum & Peppercorn Wit. Bursting with creativity and enthusiasm, Bad Seed represent the future of Yorkshire’s burgeoning brewing scene.

As we departed Bad Seed Brewery for southern England, we couldn’t help but feel inspired by the apparent rude health of the Yorkshire brewing scene. It felt like there was room for more beer makers in the county, not that the current ones were gasping for air. But then when you’ve got brewing heritage combined with innovation and a drive for quality, you’ve got the perfect recipe for success.

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ADNAMS, STAND 30 SUFFOLK, UK Mosaic Pale Ale, 4.1% Dry Hopped Lager, 4.2% Blackshore, Stout, 4.2% Ghost Ship, Pale Ale, 4.5% 1659 Smoked Ruby Beer, 4.7% Wild Hop, Amber Beer, 4.8% Crystal Rye IPA 5% Innovation, IPA, 6.7% Coconut Cove, Barrel Aged Porter, 7% Barrel Aged Broadside, Strong Ale, 7.9% THE AMERICAN CRAFT BEER COMPANY, STAND 56 WEST MIDLANDS, UK Bringing the best US beers to the UK. Stevens Point Amber Lager, 4.6% Stevens Point Pale Ale, 5.4% Stevens Point Belgium White, 5.4% Stevens Point IPA, 5.6% ASPALL, STAND 64 SUFFOLK, UK Temple Moon, 5.8% Isabel’s Berry, 3.8% Harry Sparrow, 4.6% Chevallier Outlier Dry Hopped Lager, 5.2% Draught Suffolk Cyder, 5.5% Perronelle’s Blush Suffolk Cyder, 4.0% Little Creatures Pale Ale, 5.2% Premier Cru Suffolk Cyder, 7.0% Waddlegoose Lane Woodsprite, 5.8% Waddlegoose Lane Spadger, 4.5% BACKYARD BREWERY, STAND 24 NORTHAMPTON, UK

The Bee 17, Hop Struck Pilsner 4.7% The Lawnmower, Amber Lager, 4.8% BAD SEED BREWERY, STAND 23 NORTH YORKSHIRE, UK India Pale Ale, 7.0% Cascade, American Pale Ale, 5.2% Barrel Aged Saison, 6.5% Berliner Weisse, 2.9% Topaz Pale Ale, 4.5% Oatmeal Stout, 4% BATEMANS BREWERY, STAND 12 LINCOLNSHIRE, UK XXXB, Pale Ale, 4.5% Yella Belly Gold, Golden Ale, 3.9% Vintage Ale 2013, Barley Wine, 7.5% Black & White, Dark, 3.6% Mocha, 6.0% Orange Barley, 6.2% Hazelnut Brownie 6.3% Mocha Amaretto 6.5% B Bock 6.0% BATH ALES & BEERD, STAND 29 BRISTOL, UK BATH ALES Gem, Amber Ale, 4.1% Dark Side, Stout, 4.0% BEERD Baron Samedi, Coconut Porter, 5.1% Vigilante, US Pale Ale, 4.5% Crowbar, Barrel Aged Imperial Stout, 8.5% Cubic, American Pale Ale, 4.5% Colossus, IPA, 6.9%

BEAR HUG BREWING, STAND 43 LONDON, UK Hibernation White IPA, 5.2% Spirit Pale Ale, 4.2% Bruno Pilsner, 4.2% Himalayan Red Rye Ale, 5% BEAVERTOWN, STAND 59 London, UK Neck Oil, Session IPA, 4.3% Gamma Ray, American Pale Ale, 5.4% 8 Ball, Rye IPA, 6.2% Black Betty, Black IPA, 7.4% Smog Rocket, Smoked Porter, 5.4% Holy Cowbell, India Stout, 5.6% Heavy Water, Imperial Stout with Sea Salt & Cherries, 9% Bloody ‘Ell, Blood Orange IPA, 7.2% Applelation, Bramley Apple Saison, 8.7% Gose Strikes Black, Blackberry Gose, 4.8% Londonerweisse, Berlinerweisse infused with gin botanicals, 2.8% Imperial Brown, 8.7% BEDLAM BREWERY, STAND 57 WEST SUSSEX, UK Golden, 4.2% Benchmark, Best, 4.0% India Pale Ale, 4.8% Porter, 5.0% Bedlam Lager, 4.0% BEERCATALUNYA, STAND 25 BARCELONA, SPAIN Barcelona Blonde, Pale Ale, 5% Further Westward, West Coast IPA, 6.3% Black Irish, Stout, 6%

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La Masia, English Bitter, 4.2% Pa i Roses, Wheat Beer, 4.8% La Segadora, Farmhouse IPA, 7% THE BEER COLLECTIVE, STAND 60 SUSSEX & LONDON, UK Distributor/brewer collective.

KingBeer Evolution IPA, 5.5% 360 Pale #39, 3.9% Laines Pale, 4.2% KingBeer Black Symphony, Porter, 5% 360 West Coast Pale #50, 5% KingBeer Northern Lights, Pale Ale, 4.2% 360 Pacific IPA #56, 5.6% BLACK ISLE BREWING CO., STAND 37 SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS, UK Blonde, 4.5% Red Kite, Amber, 4.2% Goldeneye, Pale Ale, 5.6% Porter, 4.2% Hibernator, Oatmeal Stout, 7% Scotch Ale, 6.2% Smoked Porter, 5.5% Rudi’s Red Rye, 6.8%

Pluscarden, Abbey Blonde, 5% BLUE MOON BREWING CO., STAND 21 COLORADO, US Belgian White, Wheat Ale, 5.4% BOUTIQUE BEERS, STAND 49 BRISTOL, UK Craft beer importer/distributor.

St Stefanus, Belgian Blonde, 7.0% Anchor Steam, 4.8% Anchor Porter, 5.6% Brooklyn Lager, 5.2% Chapel Down Curious Lager, 4.7% Chapel Down Curious IPA, 5.6% Chapel Down Curious Porter, 5% Bellerose, 6.5% Kwak, 8.4% Flying Dog Snake Dog IPA, 7.1% Flying Dog Doggie Style, 5.5% Morgenrot Alhambra, 6.4% Sam Adams, 4.8% Viru, 5.0% BREWDOG, STAND 13 ABERDEENSHIRE, UK

Punk IPA, 5.4% Cocoa Psycho, Imperial Chocolate and Coffee Stout, 10% Hardcore IPA, Imperial IPA, 9.2% Bourbon Baby, Bourbon Barrel-Aged Baby Scotch Ale, 5.8% Konichiwa Kitsune, Fruit Infused Double IPA, 8.2% Hardcore Maelk, Barrel Aged Imperial Black Milk IPA, 10.1% AB:12, Barrel-Aged Black Ale, 11.2% Vagabond, Gluten Free Pale Ale, 4.5% Jackhammer, West Coast IPA, 7.2% AB:11, Black Barley Wine, 12.8% AB:17, Three Coffee Rye Imperial Porter, 10.9% Dead Pony Pale Ale, 3.8% Libertine Black Ale, Black IPA, 7.2% This.Is.Lager, Bohemian Pilsner, 4.7% THE BREWERS’ PROJECT, STAND 38 DUBLIN, IRELAND New Guinness project.

Guinness Dublin Porter, 3.8% Guinness West Indies Porter, 6%

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CBR LONDON 2015 PROGRAMME BUDVAR UK / HOXTON SQUARE CRAFT BEER CO., STAND 34 BUDWEIS, CZECH REPUBLIC / LONDON, UK BUDVAR Unpasteurised Budvar, 4% Dark Cherry Budvar, 4% HOXTON SQUARE CRAFT BEER CO. London Plane Ale, US Pale Ale, 4.5%

BY THE HORNS BREWING CO., STAND 10 LONDON, UK Stiff Upper Lip, Pale Ale, 3.8% 2 Tone, Lager, 4.5% Lambeth Walk, Porter, 5.1% Diamond Geezer, Red Ale, 4.9% Wolfie Smith, Amber IPA, 5.2% Hopslinger, US IPA, 5.9% Flapper, Double IPA, 9% Vintage 2014, Barleywine aged in oak, 11.5% Vive La Brett, Saison, 6.1% CAMDEN TOWN BREWERY, STAND 35 LONDON, UK Hells Lager, German-Style Lager, 4.6% Camden Pale Ale, 4.0% Gentlemen’s Wit, Belgian Witbier, 4.3% IHL (India Hells Lager), IPA resurrected as Lager, 6.2% Black Friday, Black Lager, 5.2% Camden Pils, Unfiltered Lager, 4.6% Camden versus Petrus, Belgian Stout, 6.0% Beer 2014, Bourbon Barrel Aged Bock Lager, 9.5% Barrel Aged IHL, Bourbon Barrel aged India Pale Lager, 7.2%

CARBOTEK, STAND 75 HAMPSHIRE, UK An evolution in the transportation, storage and dispense of craft drinks.

Andwell Muddler Blonde, 3.9% Fynburys Rutland Cider, 6% Riva Borella Vino Frizzante Wine, 11% CAVE DIRECT BEER MERCHANTS, STAND 41 KENT, UK An importer since 1979.

A vast array of beers on the stand include Paulaner, Tiny Rebel, Page 24, Mongozo and Troubadour.

THE CELT EXPERIENCE, STAND 39 Caerphilly, Wales La Tene, Hoppy Pale, 3.5% Golden Age, Hoppy Pale, 4.2% Dark Age, Resinous Mild, 4.0% Silures, Infused Pale Ale, 4.6% Bleddyn IPA, 5.6% The Oak King, German Hefeweizen, 6.3% Lammas Harvest, Berlinerweisse, 5.4% Ogham Oak, Belgian Tripel, 8.5% Coco Orange Paganism, Porter, 7.1% CHARLES WELLS, STAND 20 BEDFORD, UK Young’s London Stout, 4.3% DNA, New World IPA, 4.5% Charlie Wells Dry Hopped Lager, 4.7% Double Chocolate Stout, 5.2% Sticky Toffee Pudding, 5.0% Banana Bread Beer, 5.2% Young’s Hummingbird, Golden Ale, 4.2% Erdinger Weissbier, 5.3% Erdinger Dunkel, 5.3%

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CRAFT BREW ALLIANCE, STAND 40 USA Kona Longboard Lager, 4.6% Redhook Longhammer IPA, 5.9% Kona Castaway IPA, 6.0% Kona Big Wave, Golden Ale, 4.4% Kona Fire Rock Pale Ale, 5.9% Widmer Brothers Upheaval IPA, 7.0% Widmer Brothers Alchemy Pale Ale, 5.8% CRAFTY DAN, STAND 55 BLACKBURN, UK 13 Guns, American IPA, 5.5% Curious Orange, Fruity Pale Ale, 5.0% Symphonic, Blackberry Stout, 4.7% Lil’ Bewdy, Australian Hopped Pale Ale, 4.2% Pocta, Czech Hopped Lager, 4.3% Porcelain, White IPA, 5.2% Big Ben, English Brown Ale, 5.8% Triple C, Hoppy Golden Ale, 5.3% DARK STAR BREWING CO, STAND 1 WEST SUSSEX, UK Hophead, Pale Ale, 3.8% Original, Old Ale, 5.0% APA, US Pale Ale, 4.7% Revelation, IPA, 5.7% Sunburst, Golden Ale, 4.8% Espresso, Coffee Stout, 4.2% DUVEL MOORTGAT, STAND 3 BELGIUM Duvel, Golden Ale, 8.5% Vedett Extra Blond, Pilsner, 5.2% Vedett Extra Ordinary IPA, 5.5% Vedett Extra White, Wheat Beer, 4.7%

CBR LONDON 2015 PROGRAMME DUVEL MOORTGAT, STAND 3 (CONT...)

Liefmans Fruitesse, Fruit Beer, 3.8% Liefmans Kriek Brut, Fruit Beer, 6% Boulevard Tank 7, Farmhouse Ale, 8.5% Boulevard Single Wide IPA, 5.7% La Chouffe, Blond Beer, 8% Houblon Chouffe, Ardennes Triple IPA, 9% De Koninck, Antwerpen Pale Ale, 5.2% ELGOOD’S BREWERY, STAND 4 CAMBRIDGESHIRE, UK Coolship Dark Sour, Lambic, 6.7% Coolship Blonde, Lambic, 6.7% Coolship Fruit, Fruit Lambic, 5% QE Apple & Vanilla Wheat Beer, 4% QE Cherry & Raspberry Wheat Beer, 3.6% EUROBOOZER, STAND 6 HERTFORDSHIRE, UK A long established importer/distributor.

Stiegl Goldbrau, Golden Lager, 4.9% Schremser Haus Bier, Golden Pilsner, 4.0% Schremser Bio-Roggen, Organic Cloudy Rye Beer, 5.1% Rogue Dead Guy, German Maibock, 6.5% Rogue American Amber, 5.3% Titanic Stout, 4.5% FORDHAM & DOMINION / SAUGATUCK & TAILGATE, STAND 71 DELAWARE, USA / MICHIGAN, USA / TENNESSEE, USA Fordham Route 1, IPA, 4.5% Fordham Rams Head, IPA, 7.5% Fordham Gypsy, Helles Lager, 5% Fordham Copperhead, Amber Ale, 5% Dominion Hop Mountain, American Pale Ale, 6% Dominion Oak Barrel, Stout, 6% Dominion Cherry Blossom, Lager, 5% Dominion Beach House Pilsner, 5% Dominion Candi, Belgium Tripel, 10% Saugatuck Oval Beach, Blonde Ale, 5% Saugatuck Neapolitan, Milk Stout, 6% Saugatuck Amber, ESB, 5.5% Tailgate Blacktop Blonde, 5% Tailgate, Session IPA, 5%

MUSIC ROOM SCHEDULE From Mr Thing to Pete Paphides to Don Letts…

Thursday, February 19 CBR Presents The Doctor’s Orders, London’s supreme hip hop, beats and funk collective.

18:00 Ralphonze 18:55 JP 19:50 Mo Fingaz 20:45 Spin Doctor 21:40 Mr Thing 22:35-23:30 Dom Search (The Nextmen)

21:00-00:00 Andy Smith B2B Boca 45

Friday, February 20 CBR presents The Magnificent Seven – nothing but seven-inches of pure pleasure all night long.

18:00 Ollie Jones 19:30 Bee Shiver (Size Doesn’t Matter)

Sunday, February 22 African vibes, reggae, dub and more.

11:00 Mogadisco 12:30 Dappa 14:00 Channel One 16:00 Don Letts

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Saturday, February 21 Disco, funk, soul, rock and more.

11:00 Knee Deep Disco 12:30 Boogie Nights 14:00 Pete Paphides 18:00 London Disco Society 19:00 Kid Fiesta 20:30 Stuart Patterson 22:00 Jazzie B

Don Letts

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CBR LONDON 2015 PROGRAMME FOUNDERS BREWING CO., STAND 18 MICHIGAN, USA All Day IPA, 4.7% Centennial, IPA, 7.2% Backwoods Bastard, Barrel Aged Scottish Ale, 10.2% Breakfast Stout, 8.3% Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS), Barrel Aged Imperial Stout, 11.2% Big Lushious, Chocolate Raspberry Stout, 7.8% FOURPURE BREWING CO., STAND 58 LONDON, UK Pils, Lager, 4.7% Pale Ale, 5% Session IPA, 4.2% IPA, 6.5% Amber Ale, 5.1% Oatmeal Stout, 5.1% Plus specials TBC FRANCISCAN WELL, STAND 22 CO CORK, IRELAND Rebel Red Ale, 4.3% Chieftain IPA, 5.5% Shandon Stout, 4.3% GLASTONBURY ALES & SUNNY REPUBLIC BREWERY, STAND 76 SOMERSET, UK / DORSET, UK GLASTONBURY ALES Mighty Chi, West Coast IPA, 6.5% Equinox, Black IPA, 5.9% Blonde Bombshell, 5.5% Thriller, Cappuccino Porter, 5.0% Hedge Monkey, Amber Bitter, 4.6% Love Monkey, Summer Bitter, 4.2% Soap Dodger, Cider, 4.8% New Elixir NPD Projects, various

SUNNY REPUBLIC Beach Blonde, NZ Pale Ale, 4.4% Hop Dog, IPA, 5.5% Black Swan, Stout, 4.2% Huna Red, Amber/Hibiscus Ale, 4.2% Dune Raider, American Brown/Vienna Lager Hybrid, 5.0% GREENE KING, STAND 32 SUFFOLK, UK IPA, 3.6% IPA Gold, 4.1% IPA Reserve, 5.4% St Edmunds, 4.2% Yardbird, 4% Double Hop Monster IPA, 7.2% Strong Suffolk, 6% Morland Old Speckled Hen, 5% Morland Old Golden Hen, 4.1% Morland Old Crafty Hen, 6.5% Morland Old Hoppy Hen, 4.2% Belhaven Craft Pilsner, 4.8% Belhaven Scottish Ale, 5.2% Belhaven Twisted Thistle, 5.6% Belhaven Speyside Blonde Oak Aged, 6.5% Belhaven Oat Stout, 7% HARBOUR & THE WILD BEER CO., STAND 44 CORNWALL, UK / SOMERSET, UK HARBOUR Spiced Dunkel Bock, 6.5% Double IPA No.7, 7.2% Double IPA No.8, 7.3% Imperial Chocolate & Vanilla Stout, 8.7% Pale Ale, 6% Porter No. 6, 6.8% WILD BEER Bibble, Pale Ale, 4.2% Fresh, Pale Ale, 5.5% Millionaire, Milk Stout, 4.7%

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Modus Operandi, Wild Brown Ale, 7% Beyond Modus, Sour Brown Ale, 8% Evolver, IPA, 5.8% Sourdough, Sour, 3.6% Wild Goose Chase, Sour, 4.5% HARRY BROMPTON’S ALCOHOLIC ICE TEA, STAND 33 LONDON, UK Alcoholic Ice Tea, 4% Harry Brompton’s Berries & Cucumber, 4% HARVIESTOUN BREWERY, STAND 11 CLACKMANNANSHIRE, SCOTLAND, UK Schiehallion, Lager, 4.8% Bitter & Twisted, Golden Ale, 4.2% Broken Dial, Amber Ale, 4.5% The Ridge, Pale Ale, 5% Old Engine Oil, Black Ale, 6% Ola Dubh, Barrel Aged Porter, 8% HAWKES, STAND 42 LONDON, UK Alcoholic Ginger Beer, 4% Urban Orchard Cider, 4.5% HIVER, THE HONEY BEER, STAND 50 LONDON, UK Hiver, the Honey Beer, Honey Blonde Beer, 5% Hiver, the Honey Ale, Honey Brown Ale, 4.5% HOGAN’S CIDER, STAND 7 WARWICKSHIRE, UK Hogan’s Draught Cider, 4.5% Hazy Daisy, 3.9% Picker’s Passion, 5.3% Panking Pole, 6.2% Poacher’s Perry, 5.8% Hogan’s Apple Spirit, 40%

ON STAND NO.57 OUR FIELDS OUR HOPS OUR BEER FIELD TO FIRKIN BREWS

BEDLAM BREWERY

Albourne Farm Estate , Shaves Wood Lane Albourne , West Sussex BN6 9DX

Tel: +44 1273 978015 Twitter: @BedlamBrewery

BEDLAMBREWERY.CO.UK

CBR LONDON 2015 PROGRAMME HOGS BACK BREWERY, STAND 46 SURREY, UK Hogstar Lager, 4.5% Surrey Nirvana, Ale, 4% TEA, Best Bitter, 4.2% Montezuma Chocolate Lager, 4.5% Hazy Hog Cider, 5% A Over T, Barley Wine, 9%

STREET FOOD MERCHANTS

HONEST BREW, STAND 65 LONDON, UK Beers matched to your taste and delivered to your door.

Straight Up Amber Ale, 4.6% HOOK NORTON BREWERY, STAND 72 OXFORDSHIRE, UK Double Stout, 4.8% Rye IPA, 4% Ventura, Pale Ale, 4.5% Lion, 4.0% Flagship, IPA, 5.3% Diamond Reserve, 6.6% Crafty Ales Yard Arm IPA, 7% Crafty Ales Imperial Stout, 6%

Little Jack Horners Making sausage rolls the way they should be: 100% outdoor-reared meat in handmade shortcrust flaky pastry.

Mouthwatering flavours to complement your choice of beers...

Fleischmob Austrian street food slingers, serving up Austrian food, London style.

Moons Green Charcuterie Hand-made British charcuterie using traditional methods and ingredients.

Prairie Fire BBQ 16-hour hickory-smoked beef brisket and 14-hour applewood-smoked pulled pork sandwiches.

Dosa Deli Delicious street food inspired by Asian flavours.

Meat Merchants Bringing a snack revolution to British pubs and bars.

HOP STUFF BREWERY, STAND 19 LONDON, UK Pale Ale, 4.5% Fusilier, Amber, 4.3% Renegade IPA, 5.6% Oatmeal Stout, 4.8% Gunners Porter, 7.4% A.P.A, American Pale Ale, 3.8% ILKLEY BREWERY, STAND 62 WEST YORKSHIRE, UK Siberia, Rhubarb Saison, 5.9% Mary Jane Export, IPA, 6.0% The Mayan, Chipotle Chocolate Stout, 6.5% Ilkley 1874, American Lager, 4.5% Something special – come to the bar and find out…

INNIS & GUNN, STAND 5 EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, UK Original, Scotch Ale, 6.6% IPA, 5.6% Rum Finish, Scotch Ale, 6.8% Lager, 4.6% Scotch Whisky Porter, 7.4% Irish Whiskey Finish, 7.4% JÄGERMEISTER, STAND 66 Lower Saxony, Germany Jägermeister, Herbal Liqueur, 35%

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Prairie Fire BBQ

Moons Green Charcuturie

Little Jack Horners

THERE’S AN ADVENTURE BREWING Sharp’s ‘There’s an Adventure Brewing’ campaign will give people the opportunity to win one of five extraordinary adventures during 2015.

The first adventure will offer members of the public the chance to join Sharp’s Director of Brewing and world renowned brewer, Stuart Howe, on a journey to create their very own personal brew.

Winners will join Stuart at the Sharp’s brewery, where they’ll learn the art of craft brewing, working through their own ideas to bring to life their perfect taste profile.

Their beer will be brewed and made available as a limited edition across select pubs and bars as well as the Sharp’s shop.

To find out more go to — www.sharpsadventure.co.uk

TELEPHONE 01208 862 121 VISIT WWW.SHARPSBREWERY.CO.UK FOLLOW US

CBR LONDON 2015 PROGRAMME KIWI CRAFT BEER COLLECTIVE (RENNAISANCE / 8 WIRED / TUATARA), STAND 51 MARLBOROUGH, NZ / MARLBOROUGH, NZ / KAPITI COAST, NZ Tuatara APA, Aotearoa Pale Ale, 5.8% Tuatara Pilsner, 5.0% Tuatara Double Trouble, APA, 9.0% Renaissance Stonecutter Scotch Ale, 7% Renaissance Voyager IPA, 6% Renaissance MPA, Double IPA, 8.5% Renaissance Abundance Baltic Cherry Porter, 8.1% 8 Wired iStout, 10% 8 Wired Rewired Unchained, Brown Ale barrel-aged with brett, 5.7% 8 Wired C4 Coffee Brown, Coffee Brown Ale, 8.0% 8 Wired Saison Sauvin, 7.0% KIWI CRAFT BEER COLLECTIVE (YEASTIE BOYS / THREE BOYS), STAND 52 WELLINGTON, NZ / CHRISTCHURCH, NZ Yeastie Boys Gunnamatta, Earl Grey IPA, 6.5% Yeastie Boys Pot Kettle Black, South Pacific Porter, 6.0% Yeastie Boys Her Majesty 2013, Belgianstyle Brown Ale, 7% Yeastie Boys His Majesty 2013, Belgian-style Golden Strong Ale, 7.5% Three Boys IPA, 5.2% Three Boys Oyster Stout, 6.5% Three Boys Pils, 5.5% Three Boys Golden, Golden Ale, 4.5% LAGUNITAS BREWING COMPANY, STAND 31 CALIFORNIA, USA

IPA, 6.3% Brown Shugga, 9.9% Imperial Stout, 9.9% Lagunitas Sucks, Double IPA, 7.8% PILS, Pilsner, 6.2% LONDON BREWING COMPANY & TAP EAST – LONDON BREW PUBS, STAND 15 LONDON, UK Tap East IPA, 6% Tap East Tonic Ale, Pale Ale, 3% Tap East Smokestack Porter, 6.5% Tap East Sixpence Stout, 5% London Brewing Co. Upright, Session IPA, 4% London Brewing Co. Stout, 4.4% London Brewing Co. Mad as Hops, Rye IPA, 6.2% London Brewing Co. London Particular, Wheat, 5.0% LONDON FIELDS BREWERY, STAND 14 LONDON, UK Hackney Hopster, Pacific Pale Ale, 4.2% Love Not War, Red Ale, 4.2% Shoreditch Triangle IPA, 6% 3 Weiss Monkeys, White IPA, 5% MARSTONS BEER CO., STAND 9 BURTON-UPON-TRENT, UK Shipyard American Pale Ale, 4.5% Marston’s New World Pale Ale, 3.8% Revisionist Dark IPA, 4.8% Revisionist Craft Lager, 4% Revisionist Ruby Liquorice Smoked Beer, 3.6% Single Hop New British Archer, 4%

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MEANTIME BREWING COMPANY, STAND 17 LONDON, UK Union Lager, 4.9% Yakima Red, 4.1% London Pale Ale, 4.3% London Lager, 4.5% MONDO BREWING COMPANY, STAND 53 LONDON, UK Pale Rider, American Pale Ale, 4.6% London Alt, Altbier, 4.8% Kemosabe IPA, 6.2% James’ Brown Ale, 5% A mixture of exciting specials, 5-7% NENE VALLEY BREWERY, STAND 69 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, UK Big Bang Theory, West Coast Pale, 5.3% Bible Black, Porter, 6.5% Australian Pale, Pale Ale, 4.4% Saison, 5ish% Jim Irving Pale, IPA, 5.6% NORTHERN MONK BREW CO., STAND 27 WEST YORKSHIRE, UK New World IPA, 6.2% Dark Arches, Black IPA, 6.7% Northern Star, Mocha Porter, 5.9% Faith, Pale Ale, 5.1% Eternal, Session IPA, 4.1% Chennai, Export Porter, 5.4% Indian Spiced Ale, 5.2% TBC, Scotch Ale, TBC ORCHARD PIG, STAND 70 SOMERSET, UK Reveller, Sparkling Cider, 4.5% Maverick, Spicy Still Cider, 4.0% Hog Father, Strong Still Cider, 7.4%

Boutique Beers offers a wide range of beer styles from many different countries.

From A - Z, we have easy drinking pilsners, hopped IPA’s, malty porters and many more.Our range has captured the best of UK, USA and beyond.

Along with an excellent range of beers, we can also support your outlet with branded Boutique Beers point of sale to help drive your range such as glassware, beer mats and menus designed by our in house team.

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CBR LONDON 2015 PROGRAMME PIERHEAD PURCHASING LTD, STAND 26 KENT, UK Named importer of the Year 2014 by the International Beer Challenge.

Day of the Dead, Death Rides A Pale Horse, Blonde Ale, 5.5% Day of the Dead, Immortal Beloved, Hefeweizen, 5.4% Day of the Dead, Queen of the Night, Pale Ale, 4.7% Day of the Dead, Death Becomes You, Amber Ale, 5.5% Day of the Dead, Pay The Ferryman, Porter, 4.6% Day of the Dead, Hop on or Die, IPA, 6.8% Cave Creek, Chili Beer, Lager, 4.2% THE PORTOBELLO BREWING COMPANY, STAND 73 LONDON, UK London Pilsner, 4.6% VPA, Pale Ale, 4.0% Market Porter, 4.6% PURITY BREWING COMPANY, STAND 45 WARWICKSHIRE, UK Longhorn IPA, Rye IPA, 5% Lawless Lager, 4.5% Gnarly, Black Beer Conditioned in Whisky Casks, 6.5% Pure Gold, Golden Ale, 3.8% (cask) 4.3% (bottle) Mad Goose, Pale Ale, 4.2% Pure UBU, Premium Amber Ale, 4.5% Saddle Black, Black Beer, 5.1% (cask) 7% (bottle) REDWELL BREWING, STAND 8 NORFOLK, UK Hells, Lager, 4.6% Steam, California Common, 4.6% India Pale Lager, 5.5% Pale Ale, 4% White IPA, TBC TBC, California Common, TBC SALTAIRE BREWERY, STAND 67 WEST YORKSHIRE, UK Hop #256, Pale Ale, 5% Triple Chocoholic, Stout, 4.8% Trio Pale, Pale Ale, 4.4%

TALKS All talks will take place at The Mash Tun, Stand 77, hosted by Melissa Cole Thursday Trade Session (Feb 19) 2pm-2.45pm: Melissa Cole Talks Craft Insight into the opportunities offered by the craft beer market: How to capitalise on great beer, the importance of retail standards and pitfalls to avoid.

3-3.45pm: The Canning Revolution Fourpure, Beavertown and Camden Town breweries discuss the advantages and reasoning behind the next big thing for packaging for craft breweries.

4-5pm: Beer & Cheese Matching Join Des de Moor for a fascinating session matching some of the world’s best beers with delicious artisanal cheeses from the British Isles.

Saturday afternoon (Feb 21) 1-1.45pm: The Rise of Mead Mabinogion Mead get geeky with fermented honey. Find out more about the global renaissance of this fast growing beverage.

2.15-3pm: Kiwi Craft Beer Collective Hear what’s happening in NZ and sample some exciting beers from panel members Yeastie Boys, Renaissance, Tuatra, 8 Wired and Three Boys.

Sunday afternoon (Feb 22) 12.15-1pm: The Lager Debate: Old School V New School Melissa Cole talks to Karl Trojan of the Schremser Brewery and is joined by Meantime and BrewDog for an old-versus-new take on lager.

1.30-2.30pm: Beer & Food Matching Melissa Cole introduces you to some of her favourite beer and food matches – ideal for a Sunday lunchtime chill-out session with friends.

Stateside IPA, 6% South Island Pale, Pale Ale, 3.5% New World Red, Red Ale, 5.2% Celebration Ale, Golden Ale, 6.5% Saltaire Gold, Blonde Beer, 4% Saltaire XS Imperial Stout, 8.9% Saltaire XS Imperial IPA, TBC, 9%+ Amarillo Gold, Wheat Beer, 4.4% Cascade Pale Ale, US Pale Ale, 4.8% SHARP’S BREWERY, STAND 63 CORNWALL, UK Cornish Pilsner, Lager, 5.2% Atlantic, Pale Ale, 4.2% Doom Bar Reserve 20, Premium Ale, 6%

High Five, IPA, 5.7% Special, Premium Ale, 5% Wolf Rock, Red IPA, 4.8% 6 Vintage Blend, 7.4% Single Brew Reserve 2013, 4.5% Honey Spice IPA, 6.5% Chalky’s Bite, 6.8% Chalky’s Bark, 4.5% Dubbel Coffee Stout, 7% Saison à Cornouaillais, 6.2% Gose von Landschaft, 5% ST AUSTELL BREWERY, STAND 54 CORNWALL, UK Proper Job, IPA, 4.5% St Austell IPA, 5.5%

GE T T HE FE S TIVA L A PP – VOT E FOR CBR 20 15’S BE S T BEER! Go to craftbeerrising.co.uk, click on ‘BEER’ and follow the link

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INTRODUCING

WE SENT OUR MOST ENTERPRISING GUINNESS BREWERS ON A QUEST TO EXPLORE NEW RECIPES, REINTERPRET OLD ONES AND COLLABORATE FREELY. WE ARE PROUD TO INTRODUCE THEIR FIRST TWO BEERS.

NOW AVAILABLE IN 500mL BOTTLES AND 30L KEG

WITH ITS ORIGIN IN A 1796 ENTRY IN OUR BREWERS’ DIARIES, DUBLIN PORTER IS SWEET AND SMOOTH WITH MALT AND DARK CARAMEL NOTES. WEST INDIES PORTER, ORIGINATING FROM 1801, IS COMPLEX YET MELLOW, HOPPY WITH NOTES OF TOFFEE AND CHOCOLATE. The GUINNESS word and associated logos are trade marks. © Guinness & Co. 2015

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GE T T HE FE S TIVA L A PP – VOT E FOR CBR 20 15’S BE S T BEER! Go to craftbeerrising.co.uk, click on ‘BEER’ and follow the link ST AUSTELL BREWERY, STAND 54 (CONT...)

Korev, Lager, 4.8% Big Job, Double IPA, 7.2% Seven Seas of Rye, 4.8% Blackbeard Stout, 4.5% St Austell Gose, TBC THISTLY CROSS CIDER, STAND 36 EAST LOTHIAN, SCOTLAND, UK Jaggy Thistle, Scrumpy, 7.4% Rum Cask Cider, 7.4% Whisky Cask Cider, 6.9% Traditional, 4.4% Original, Farmhouse Cider, 7.2% Strawberry, 4% Ginger, 4% THORNBRIDGE BREWERY, STAND 48 DERBYSHIRE, UK Jaipur, IPA, 5.9% Chiron, American Pale Ale, 5% Tzara, Koln-style Beer, 4.8% Coritani, Imperial English IPA, 7.4% Twin Peaks, Pale Ale, 5% Jehanne, Biere de Garde, 7.4% Bayern, Late Hopped Pils, 5% Trekdrop, Imperial Liquorice Stout, 9% Halcyon, Imperial IPA, 7.4% Beadeca’s Well, Smoked Porter, 5.3% AM:PM, All Day IPA, 4.5% L’Eroica, English Pale Ale, 4.3% Jaipur X, Imperial IPA, 10%

TRUMAN’S BREWERY, STAND 28 LONDON, UK Runner, Best Bitter, 4.0% Swift, Golden Ale, 3.9% Attaboy, American Pale Ale, 4.6% Pale, NZ Pale Ale, 4.1% London Keeper 1880, Stout, 8% Ben Truman 1883, Export Pale Ale, 6.0% Côte Breton Brut Cidre, 4.5% VERMONT HARD CIDER COMPANY, STAND 2 VERMONT, US Woodchuck Amber, Cider, 5% Woodchuck Granny Smith, Cider, 5% Woodchuck Raspberry, 4% Woodchuck 802 Dark & Dry, Cider, 5% WADWORTH & CO LTD, STAND 47 WILTSHIRE, UK 6X, Premium Bitter, 4.1% Swordfish, Rum Beer, 5% Horizon, Golden Ale, 4% Bishops Tipple, Golden Ale, 5% Coriander & Lemongrass, 4.2% WESTSIDE DRINKS, STAND 16 LONDON, UK A drinks division in association with Fuller’s that incorporates exclusive imports alongside a craft keg range.

Fuller’s Frontier, Lager, 4.5% Fuller’s Black Cab, Stout, 4.5%

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MEET THE BREWER Q&A WITH JOHN BEXON, MASTER BREWER, GREENE KING Which beers do you have you the most respect for and why?

Most people who know me will say that Abbot Ale is my beer of choice, and they’d be right. It is revered among my brewing peers as a ‘true brewer’s beer’. It is packed full of flavour, owing to the fact it is brewed for longer using a unique recipe, which I couldn’t possibly share with you!

Greene King 5X – our rare 12% vintage ale – is also very high on my list, which you probably won’t be surprised about. It is hard to describe how special this beer is. There are not many people who have had the privilege of trying it and it only recently made its first appearance in a pub, the CAMRA-recognised Freshfield in Formby, Liverpool. It’s a unique drinking experience.

Finally, I would pick Duvel from Belgium.

At 8.5% ABV, it is quite a niche beer and not something to be quaffed, but it’s so flavoursome and warming. I have a lot of respect for whoever brews it.

How do you come up with ideas for new beers at Greene King?

We work closely with a number of teams in the business to look for opportunities in the market, and around seasonal events like Halloween, Christmas or the Six Nations rugby. We often build a beer from someone’s vision of the final product, as they describe it. In such cases I picture the raw materials needed to develop that character or flavour. The St Edmund Brewhouse also gives me freedom to play with new materials that are not always viable in the main brewery. These include new malt and hop varieties, as well as a range of other ingredients.

Give us an overview of your beer career.

I started out in the industry in 1977 as a lab technician for Bass in Burton-Upon-Trent.

Then I worked in brewing roles at various Bass breweries, gaining the DipBrew as a qualified master brewer in 1989 and

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John Bexon with a pint of his favourite brew

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Greene King are on Stand 32 at Craft Beer Rising London 2015.

becoming senior brewer at the Cape Hill Brewery in 1990. I left Bass in 2001 to join Greene King as head brewer. Before joining, I qualified with an MBA after studying for three years at UCE in Birmingham.

Do you use any unique kit?

The St Edmund Brewhouse, which we opened in November 2013 to brew smallbatch and limited-edition experimental beers, has some state-of-the-art brewing equipment. This includes a mash-mixer, a lauter tun and copper whirlpool. I would also describe the 100-barrel oak vats that we use to brew 5X as unique.

What’s influencing you and your brewing team at the moment?

The explosion of different flavours in the craft market, the search for new raw materials, the resurgence of keg beer and New World hops.

What is the biggest challenge the UK brewing industry faces?

For us, the biggest challenge is keeping up with the changing habits of consumers and ensuring that our beers are as relevant in ten years’ time as they are today.

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HILL SIDE BRE WERY Gloucestershire A chance meeting at an event (with possibly a few beers involved) led to me being sent a case of Hillside beers and, I have to say, the quality was more accomplished from a brewery that is under two years old than from some more established places that shall remain nameless!

This is in no small part down to owner Paul Williamson hiring master brewer Derek Orford, who has worked at a whole host of breweries, large and small.

With its own borehole water and stunning views across the Cotswolds, Hillside Brewery is knocking out plenty of perfectly polished classics, but it’s the ‘Craft Specials’ range that will really get beer geeks’ motors running.

My personal stand-out was Jolly Jester, for which the brewery collaborated with local hop grower

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Gloucestershire’s Hillside Brewery has some fantastic beers in its Craft Specials range

Brighton Bier’s previous home at the Hand in Hand pub on Upper St James’s Street in Brighton was, without doubt, one of the quirkiest breweries I’ve had the pleasure to brew in, spread over three floors of a tiny pub. Heath Robinson would have been proud of the way the place was put together!

But the Hand in Hand simply wasn’t big enough to cope with demand and the company has now spread its wings and is churning out the first brews from its new 15-barrel Brighton home, under the watchful eye of ex-City boy Gary Sillence – don’t judge him for that though, he’s a very nice chap, promise!

The beer that I was immediately taken with was the No Name Stout, a gloriously rich, dark and

Mark Andrews from Town End Farm, who works with hop factor Charles Faram to develop a range of experimental hops.

They figured that the floral, bitter nature of the Jester would work very well against a 9% Belgian quad and boy they were right. The Centurion American IPA is another outstanding effort, balanced and drinkable despite its weighty 7% ABV.

East Sussex mysterious 5% oatmeal stout that is dangerously suppable.

But Brighton Bier don’t just excel on the dark side, the rest of the range is equally delicious and the brewery will also be jumping on the can bandwagon in 2015 for its eponymous new flagship pale ale, which will also be available in keg and cask.

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HOGS BACK BRE WERY Surrey Hogs Back Brewery may have been around for a long while, but under the stewardship of industry stalwart Rupert Thompson – the man who founded Wychwood and saved Brakspear – it is once again flourishing.

And while the launch of Hogstar lager last year has been instrumental in reviving its reputation, the beer that really made me sit up and take notice was Montezuma’s Revenge – a chocolate lager that I find curiously engaging.

Thompson’s desire to link up with local companies led to him entering discussions with local chocolate firm Montezuma’s to create a chocolate beer.

The joy, says Thompson, of working with people outside the industry was that they weren’t hidebound by the notion that a chocolate beer had to be dark – and the chocolate

The Hogs Back stand at Craft Beer Rising London 2014

lager was born. It is made through a process of distillation of the cocoa nibs to produce a pure essence, which is then added back into the beer, and it offers a clear chocolate flavour without any support from chocolatey malts. And while it’s very much a Marmite beer, I applaud that because, you know what,

that’s OK, so are lambics – you don’t have to please all the people all the time.

We will see more innovation from this brewery in 2015, although I think it’s missing a trick with a name like that by not making a bacon beer, but maybe that’s just because of my personal mantra that everything is better with the three Bs: bacon, butter and beer!

HART FAMILY BRE WERS Northamptonshire Based in a building built in 1833, oddly marooned on a retail park in Wellingborough, Hart Family Brewers is passionate about its local market but is likely to soon start sneaking out into the wider scene.

Now, I appreciate this may sound like someone who bets on the strength of a horse’s name, but what engaged me initially was the artwork on Opal, the brewery’s 5.5% German-ish wheat beer. After expressing admiration for the work of local

designer Tracey Sharp from Nothing But Lovely, Hart’s kindly sent me some and wow, what a beer! A standard 50/50 pale and wheat malt base is deliciously overlaid with a bittering base of Challenger hops and brightened at the end with a whole hunk of UK Cascade hops – giving an almost German/Belgian hybrid feel.

Rather sweetly, owners Rob and Sarah Hart (pictured) both studied geology at university, so it was only natural to them to name this cloudy beer Opal: a real gem it is too.

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ELGOOD’S Cambridgeshire When you think of Elgood’s it’s hard not to go straight to Black Dog, the brewery’s award-winning mild. And while I endorse every award that beer has won, Elgood’s is doing something exciting that not a lot of people know about… it’s brewing sours… in coolships… two of them! [Coolships are fermentation vessels traditionally used in Belgian brewing and now popular in US craft brewing – ed].

Yep, this most traditional of English breweries has two copper coolships that were, until a chance visit by an American importer three years ago, doing nothing.

Upon seeing the vessels, the importer set the brewery a challenge to brew in the Belgian lambic style, which it took up with gusto and now I can confidently say that

Elgood’s is brewing some of the best sours in the UK. Being in the middle of prime fruit-growing territory, the brewery is blessed with some fantastic wild yeasts and so is following in the footsteps of traditional Belgian lambic makers by simply allowing the wild yeasties and beasties to do their thing in the beer.

This is aided by another stroke of luck in the form of ancient oak planks from a tree that had to be cut down around 10 years ago and was left to sit in the grounds ever since, until the brewery decided to use them to clad the coolship fermentation area. After brewing, Elgood’s coolship beers are matured in former oak wine barrels and blended, and plans are afoot to use brandy or whisky barrels too and

MELISSA’S 2015 PREDICTIONS Back to balance Extreme beers will still excite, but the market will continue to swing back to more balanced beers.

Mega collabs In addition to 2015’s Rainbow Project – driven

by Ryan Witter-Merithew of Siren Brew, there will be some other big collabs.

Don’t forget Wetherspoon’s collaborative project is still in full swing too.

Cans With the country’s first mobile canning unit about to hit our shores

(themthatcan.com), we will see more canned beer.

Ethics With more young drinkers discovering beer, questions are being asked about the ethics of breweries. Those that don’t operate ethically may find themselves pushed out.

Panic in the boardrooms There will be at least two more sales of fairly large ‘craft’ brewers in 2015 as big beer buys in, rather than develops, highquality beer.

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store them in the brewery’s enormous underground cellar.

Continued innovation on the sour theme means that the original Elgood’s Coolship, which to me is just as refined as Belgian lambic Boon Mariage Parfait, is also being joined by a fruity little number with blackberries and raspberries, plus a dark sour – which plays to head brewer Alan Pateman’s passions for more opaque brews.

CBR NEWS

VEDE T T L AUNCHE S IPA Belgian beer brand Vedett – part of the Duvel portfolio – has launched Extra Ordinary IPA. The new beer is brewed with Simcoe and Cascade hops, with dry hopping from Centennial and Chinook.

The result is tropical citrus combined with floral, green and fresh aromas.

The taste has pronounced bitterness with hints of grapefruit. This gives the beer a thirst-quenching character, fuelled by velvety, malty undertones, giving way to sweeter caramel notes. Matthew Willson, Duvel’s UK general manager, said: “This addition offers discerning beer lovers even more choice. It’s great to pair with spicy food”.

Vedett Extra Ordinary IPA is available on Stand 3 at Craft Beer Rising London 2015.

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By Martyn Railton, director of Euroboozer WIRED ROGUE 1 8TALL 2 RODENBACH 3 SCHREMSER 4AMBER AMERICAN POPPY GRAND CRU BIO-ROGGEN I first drank this in a camper van in New Zealand in 2012.

India Red Ales are right up my street but this was the best I’d had.

The first ‘sour’ beer I tried and I was blown away. Sours are all the rage and this is the daddy of them all – it takes two years to mature.

This is usually the first beer I mention when people ask me for my favourite. It’s a rye beer made with 55% rye malt. It tastes like liquid bread with spicy vanilla ice cream!

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