Beer for Enthusiasts
Chosen By Enthusiasts


       
Fine Ale Club Selection Boxes
& Tasting Notes 

Special Offer for August
receive a box of Hotel Chocolat extra special chocolates
for the first three people to order 2 selection boxes

Unless otherwise stated all prices are for a case of 12 x 500ml bottles.


 

                                        Contents                   Bottle Size & Price
   

Selection Box     30

 12x500 £24.00
 

       Experts   Fireside Selection

  2 each Nethergates Old Growler, Batemans XXXB, Hook Norton Old Hooky, Wold Top Mars Magic, Wooden Hand Cornish Buccaneer, Hopback Crop Circle
   

Selection Box       31

 12x500 £24.00

 

Old Pals Session Bitter Box

  2 each Wold Top Bitter, Nethergates Suffolk County, Cotleigh Golden Seahawk, Hook Norton Hooky Bitter, Humpty Dumpty Little Sharpie, Hopback Summer Lightning
   

Selection Box       32

 12x500 £24.00

 

Connoisseurs Stout & Porter

  3 each Hook Norton Double Stout, Humpty Dumpty Railway Porter, Nethergates Old Growler and Hopback Entire Stout
   

Selection Box       33

 12x500 £24.00

 

Easy Drinking Selection

  3 each Wold Top Bitter, Hook Norton Hooky Bitter, Nethergates Umbel Ale, Wold Top Wolds Way
   

Selection Box       34

 12x500 £25.00

 

Chairman's Selection

  2 each of 6 different beers chosen for you by the Chairman
    Coeliac Selection

  Selection Box        152

12x500  £21.00

 


 6 Fine Ale Club Against the Grain & 6 Ottakringer Gold  Fassl
   

Gift Voucher     157

12x500  £25.00


Birthday? Christmas? Leaving Present? Corporate Thank You?
coming up and you don't know what to buy
Surprise friends, relatives, colleagues or customers
with a Fine Ale Club Gift Voucher
and allow them to make their own choice from one of our selection boxes

     

Brewery

    Tasting Notes

Bottle Size & Price
 

Fine Ale Club  

   29 Everything's Gone Blank    13% ABV  12x275 £27.90

 

  
     
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 Vintage super heavyweight bottle conditioned pale ale.  Intense fruity flavour with malt predominant. Very smooth on the palate, believed to be the strongest beer brewed in the country. One for the real connoisseur! Not to be treated lightly
                     (soon to be available again)
 

Fine Ale Club

   113  Against the Grain             4.5% ABV  12x500 £24.00

          Britain's favourite Gluten Free Bitter (gluten 5.1ppm) smooth, creamy, good head and full flavoured. Indistinguishable from normal beer. Supplied to Harrods for their "Truly British" promotion in Autumn 2005 and blue rosette winner for taste at  the Chesterfield CAMRA festival February 2006
 
 

Ottakringer    

     59    Gold Fassl                          4.6% ABV  12x500 £18.50
          This very special Viennese style lager belies its light refreshing taste with a powerful aftertaste.  With low gluten of 4.5ppm it is also suitable for our coeliac members
 

 
 

N.B Please call 01206 734372 if you would like a full case of any of the beers shown below

Brewery

           Tasting Notes
 

Batemans

 XXXB 4.8% ABV
 

 

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 Brilliant blend of malt, hops and fruit with a bite that carries on into the aftertaste. A classic premium ale. Class winner at the 2000 exhibition
  Victory Ale 6.0% ABV
  Powerful, nutty flavour with a long hoppy finish.  Featured in Harrods "Truly British" promotion in Autumn 2005
  Combined Harvest 4.7% ABV
  Wheaty aroma, exceptionally smooth, unusual multi-grain beer, huge head. Could drink all night. a favourite with former lager drinkers.
  Dark Lord 5.0% ABV
  Dark ruby, porter style beer rich and spicy with a hint of citrus, Excellent with roast beef
  Summer Swallow 4.2% ABV
  Floral nose, crisp and clean sparkling golden beer with subtle bitterness
 

Hook Norton

 Double Stout 4.8% ABV
 

 

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 An exceptional dark red-brown stout, strong roast malt flavour, dry finish.  More character than Guinness we think
  Hooky Bitter 3.4% ABV
  Surprising strength of flavour, full of hops and malt, one to drink all night
  Old Hooky 4.6% ABV
  Well balanced and full bodied, very hoppy character with a long fruity finish
  Twelve Days 5.5% ABV
  Wonderfully complex dark ale, well aged in the bottle, strong malty finish and aftertaste. Vintage beers to celebrate Christmas and the New Year
  303 A.D. 4.0% ABV
  This very English beer with English malt and English hops is dry and crisp with a fruity finish. 303AD is supposed to be the year St George slew the Dragon!
  Hop Back Crop Circle 4.2% ABV
 

   

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 Super, crisp pale golden ale, very clean on the palate and a dry finish. A favourite of Phil Harding of Channel 4 "Time Team"
  Entire Stout 4.5% ABV
  Smooth, satisfying classic stout, long dry finish. A good accompaniment to a  tasty steak
  Summer Lightning 5.0% ABV
  Rich fruity pale premium best bitter, short hoppy finish
  Pickled Santa 6.0% ABV
  Powerful Christmas ale, with coriander, cinnamon and nutmeg added to English malt enhances this new addition from Hop Back
  Cotleigh Golden Seahawk 4.2% ABV
 




 

 Best bitter with a strong citrus bite and honey sweetness with a malty and citrus aroma
  Peregrine Porter 6.0% ABV
  Dark classic porter, sweet biscuit, liquorice and malt hints with long creamy finish.
  Barn Owl 4.5% ABV
  Crisp, malty premium bitter, Dark copper colour with bitter sweet finish
 

Humpty Dumpty

 Little Sharpie 3.8%  ABV
 

       

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Golden yellow bitter with light hoppy aroma and a clean finish
  Railway Sleeper 5.0% ABV
  Full bodied strong ale, with fruity nose. Good maltiness leaving long dry finish.
  Reedcutter 4.4% ABV
  Golden ale with pineapple hints, hops and fruit give a bitter sweet finish.
  Porter 6.0% ABV
  A London style porter with a total of 4 different malts giving a touch of liquorice spiciness and chocolate undertones.
  Nethergates    Old Growler 5.5% ABV
 

   

  

A superbly heavyweight all malt porter.  Champion winter ale of Gt Britain & Gold Medal winner at the National Brewery Exhibition 1999 and overall (All Classes) winner in 2003. Also champion beer at the Chicago World Beer Festival in March 2004
  Umbel Ale 3.8% ABV
  Traditionally brewed lighter beer, very refreshing and clean on the palate. Made with hops, malt and traces of coriander. Champion speciality ale and Gold medal winner from over 500 entries at the National Brewers Exhibition 2000
  Suffolk County Best Bitter 4.0% ABV
  THE classic English best bitter. Clear and smooth on the palate. Long hoppy finish.  Knocks Greene King IPA for six
 

Wold Top

 Wold Top Bitter 3.7% ABV
 

 

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 Crisp clean aromatic session bitter, unusually full flavour for a low gravity beer, with long hoppy finish
  Mars Magic Premium Ale 4.6% ABV
  Premium amber bitter, smooth and fruity with both hops and malt to the fore in another long lingering finish
  Wold Gold 4.8% ABV
  Another winner from Wold Top, crisp, fruity and satisfying creamy best bitter
  Wolds Way 3.2% ABV
  The refreshing fruity dryness of this pale ale makes a perfect end to the day
 

Wooden Hand

 Cornish Mutiny 4.8% ABV
 

   
   

 Smooth complex and fruity with burnt toffee undertones. Golden ale crisp and clean wonderful to sample with friends by an open fire
  Cornish Buccaneer 4.3% ABV
  Great 'Thursday Night' beer with plenty of hops, smoky and fruity at the same time.  Our tasting panel was bowled over
 

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