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Issue 141 Winter 2009-10

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INTERNATIONALLY-INSPIRED ADNAMS BEERS

Suffolk brewers Adnams are famous for producing award-winning cask ales such as Bitter, Broadside and Explorer but their new brewing plant in Southwold allows them to be more experimental in the beers that they produce.

There is a huge interest and awareness of foreign beers and beer styles. These beers are mostly available in bottle and some in keg, but cask beer is unique to Britain, and Adnams have decided to showcase the diversity of beers from around the world in a very British way - in cask.

They will brew these beers as closely as possible to the originals, endeavouring to use authentic raw materials where they have an impact on flavour. This will include using various different malted barleys, hops, sugars and certainly different yeast strains. However, Adnams will add their own distinctive stamp to these beer styles.

The first, available in cask in October 2009, is an Adnams style Kölsch Beer at 4.2% abv, brewed with a German top fermenting yeast, Munich and Pilsner malts and hopped with Spalt hops. This beer is fermented at a high temperature and then lagered to allow the beer to mellow and condition.

This will be followed by an Adnams style Belgian Abbey Ale at 5.0% abv in November, brewed with a Belgian yeast strain; Munich and Pilsner malts and hopped with Fuggles and Styrian Goldings. This will be a full-bodied pale gold beer, fruity and spicy aroma and palate and a low bitterness.