have been made to our own recipes, using the very finest, traditional ingredients.For all of these beers we have mashed the finest British, Maris Otter barley malt. In the stouts we have also used chocolate malt and malted oats and our darker beers are coloured with crystal malts. All our malts come from Thos. Fawcett & Son Ltd. who have been malting in Castleford West Yorkshire since 1809.
We use whole hops which are vacuum packed to retain their freshness. We have used the English hops East Kent Goldings and Fuggles in our traditional English beers and in the American Pale Ale we have used Cascade hops.
We ferment our beers with Nottingham Ale Yeast. We pitch a new pack of yeast with each brew and this ensures a vigorous fermentation and comparatively low final gravities for a clean finish which is not too sweet even in the strong ales.
Our use of fine ingredients is complemented by our brewing methods. When the fermentation has reached its natural conclusion our beers are racked off the sediment three times (triple dropped) before bottling. They are then left to mature and naturally condition by secondary fermentation in the bottle. This develops the wonderful tastes and aromas which processed beers can never provide.
Most of our beers are packaged in bottles which we have used before. To make it easier to clean and sterilise them we tie on the labels.