Westerham Brewery Company Ltd

The Westerham Brewery Company is launching a single brew of a traditional India Pale Ale at 4.8%. Brewed only with pale ale malt and hopped with WGV and Bramling Cross, this golden ale is a rich blend of malt flavours and hops.

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A premium ale to commemorate the year 1965 when the Black Eagle Brewery closed, Winston Churchill passed away and Robert Wicks was born. Brewed to a similar recipe that Bill Wickett used for his last brew at the old brewery on 3rd March 1965.

Tasting Notes: Kent Northdown hops give a clean, refreshing full bodied flavour for which English ales are famous. Finished with Finchcocks’ Kent Goldings for flavour and aroma.

A strong ale, brewed to the 1938 strength and using the same ingredients as the original best selling bottled beer of the Black Eagle Brewery. Made with pale and crystal malts and huge charge of Kent Goldings hops.

Tasting Notes: Aroma: Port, Raisins, Molasses Taste: Complex Fruits, Smooth, Warming

Straw yellow lager hopped with Czech grown Saaz noble hops with a distinctive hop aroma and bitterness usually found in Bohemian pilsners.

Tasting Notes: Brewed with the finest English lager malt and fermented with a lager yeast and then cold conditioned for 4 weeks. Pilsners are traditionally quite bitter and this version is no different.

Exploding with Cascade hops, loaded into the Hop Rocket and launched. Light blue touch paper and stand well back. A true hop bomb!

Tasting Notes: Aroma: Hop Sack, Floral, Grapefruit Taste: Dry, Marmalade, Malty

A rich, full bodied best bitter in the traditional Kent style.

Tasting Notes: Finest Maris Otter pale ale malt and crystal malt for colour and richness. Hopped with local Kent Northdown and Finchcocks’ Whitbread Golding Variety and finished in the Hop Rocket with Progress hops from Scotney Castle and Goldings from Finchcocks hop garden for a full flavour and aroma. Also available in bottles.

First brewed in 2009 to the style and strength of the Black Eagle Brewery’s famous Double Stout 1938 gyles. Made with a blend of coloured and roasted malts.

Tasting Notes: Late hopped with Kent Goldings. The pumpclip design is inspired by the 1930s and 1940s bottle labels of the Black Eagle Brewery.

In the 1930s one of the Black Eagle Brewery’s bottled beers was a single stout named Family Stout. Westerham have reprised this Family Stout at the same strength of as the original.

Tasting Notes: Aroma: Chocolate, Coffee, Dried Fruits Taste: Mocha, Rounded, Sweet

A session beer made using hops exclusively from the Finchcocks hop garden in Kent.

Tasting Notes: Aroma: Sweet, Citrus, Fresh Hop Taste: Fruity, Peardrops, Dry Finish

A traditional Old Ale style beer made with pale ale malt, dark crystal and chocolate malts and 5 types of Kent hops.

Tasting Notes: The beer, which is a deep amber colour, has a fruity note and complex hop flavours. These are balanced by smooth caramel flavours from the malts. There is a slight sweetness that is balanced by a moderate but mellow bitterness.

A dark, malty bitter with nutty, roasted notes from the chocolate malt. This session bitter is hopped with Kent Target hops from the National Trust’s hop farm at Scotney Castle and Finchcocks’ Kent Goldings. A satisfying and flavoursome pint.

Tasting Notes: Aroma: Malty, Toffee, Floral Taste: Full Bodied, Zesty, Dry

A true India Pale Ale brewed with only Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt and no Crystal Malt. It is a deep golden ale with a thirst quenching bitterness.

Tasting Notes: Hopped with First Gold, Fuggles, Bramling Cross, Progress and Goldings. Quadruple hopped in the copper, Hop Rocket® and dry hopped.

A pale ale originally brewed exclusively for the National Trust using hops from their hop farm at Scotney Castle. The Target hops provide a clean beer with an earthy and fruity backbone of hops that go right through the long finish.

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Malty and smooth. Goes down smooth while hiking the English countryside.

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A best bitter originally brewed exclusively for the National Trust using hops from their hop farm at Scotney Castle. Deep mahogany colour from the crystal malt and wonderful lingering finish from the Target dry hops.

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Brewed in September to celebrate the hop harvest, this best bitter is hopped with undried green hops from the National Trust’s hop garden at Scotney Castle.

Tasting Notes: A mild tasting, mid gold best bitter, it has a wonderful sappy flavour of the undried green hops.

A Red Ale brewed with 7 malts. This rich ruby red ale is hopped with experimental hops found at the Finchcocks Hop Garden and grown exclusively at Scotney Castle.

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Spirit of Kent celebrates the Kent Spitfire, a Mark IX Spitfire housed at the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar.

Tasting Notes: Tasting notes by Adrian Tierney-Jones, author of the Big Book of Beer: “There was a distinct swing of the compass about the nose, as it touched all points citrus sweetness (mandarin), earthiness and pungent hop sack. The palate carried a refrain of similar mandarin sweetness (orange jelly for adults), a muscular earthiness (think big Burgundies), a slight note of almond and a dry bitter finish. A Spitfire garnishes the pump clip and I can think of no better analogy for this beer than the purring beauty of that aircraft’s Merlin engine when in full flight"

The perfect summer refresher. Our No 1 selling beer

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Available during the 2016 Six Nations Championships from 6 February – 19 March. A delicious quaffable ale made with 100% English Barley, 100% English hops grown in Kent and 100% English love of beer and rugby.

Tasting Notes: Aroma: Floral, Fruity, Citrus Taste: Hoppy, Balanced, Dry Finish

Taylor Walker 1730 Special Pale Ale - Authentic, distinctive and packed full of character – a true taste of historical London has been encapsulated with the launch of this ale.

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A true English IPA. The hops are Target and Progress grown from the National Trust’s Scotney Castle hop garden

Tasting Notes: “Westerham’s bottle-conditioned beer has a honey colour with spicy hops, wholemeal biscuits and plum fruit on the nose. Tart and peppery hops, chewy malt and ripe plum fruit fill the mouth while the finish is bitter and spicy. Hops dominate but there’s a fine balance of juicy malt sweetness and tangy fruit. Malt: high. Fruit: high. Hops: high.” Beer of the Month – November 2009 – Roger Protz

Traditionally floor-malted Maris Otter pale ale malt, crystal malt and Kentish hops combine with Fairtrade Demerara sugar to produce a deep golden ale. It is characterised by its mellow bitterness and long hoppy finish.

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