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Beers & Ales
Fine Light
abv 3.7%
Colour: Straw
Bitterness: Low
Flavour: A balanced session ale with a floral hoppy character from the WGV & East Kent Golding hops. Our most popular brew!
Allergens: Gluten
• Light Session Ale •
Best Dark
abv 4.1%
Colour: Chestnut Brown
Bitterness: Moderate
Flavour: A malty, full-bodied best bitter with high proportions of crystal malt giving hints of biscuit and caramel. The original Goacher’s Ale!
Allergens: Gluten
• Traditional Best Bitter •
Silver Star
abv 4.2%
Colour: Pale Straw
Bitterness: Moderate
Flavour: The taste of Summer! Our palest ale, with a crisp, clean palate and light, dry finish.
Allergens: Gluten
• Summer Seasonal Ale •
Gold Star
abv 5.1%
Colour: Golden
Bitterness: Moderate
Flavour: Dangerously drinkable! A traditional English hop character complemented by sweet malt undertones.
Allergens: Gluten
• Strong Pale Ale •
Real Mild
abv 3.4%
Colour: Deep Mahogany
Bitterness: Low
Flavour: True to style, full-flavoured with roasted black malts and chocolate notes.
Allergens: Gluten
• Traditional Dark Mild •
Old 1066
abv 6.7%
Colour: Tawny
Bitterness: Moderate
Flavour: Rich and fruity, ready to warm every winter since 1983!
Allergens: Gluten
• Strong Winter Ale •
Crown Imperial Stout
abv 4.5%
Colour: Black
Bitterness: Moderate
Flavour: Our replica of the true bottled Irish Stout has notes of roasted malts and coffee undertones, with a dry bitterness.
Allergens: Gluten
• Dry Irish Stout •
House Ale
abv 3.8%
Colour: Amber
Bitterness: Low/Moderate
Flavour: A traditional bitter that is malty and full-bodied with hoppy top notes.
Allergens: Gluten
• Amber Session Ale •
Green Hop
abv 3.9%
Colour: Gold
Bitterness: Low
Flavour: A fresh, clean, ale which lets the Kentish green hops shine through, giving a delicious fruity finish.
Allergens: Gluten
• Pale Fresh Delicious •
Brewed using only the finest ingredients
WATER
Often the most overlooked ingredient in brewing! Each of our beers have a specific water target value, which highlight characteristics that we look for based on the beer style. The quality of the brewing water used is crucial to consistency of flavours, therefore each batch is analysed and treated according to each recipe.
MALT
We choose only the best two row Maris Otter winter barley for use in all our ales, which is supplied to us by Warminster Maltings (Wiltshire) and Crisp Malt (Norfolk).
Warminster, as a traditional floor maltings, supply us with a specific low colour Maris Otter which allows our dangerously drinkable Gold Star to shine!
Crisp Malt, with their more modern malting techniques, supply us with the rest of our malts, including our coloured malts that give the stand out flavours in many of our beers.
HOPS
Our core range of ales have been crafted to use 100% Kentish hops, providing the traditional characteristics we are known for. In fact they are so local that when brewing green hop we collect the hops ourselves, from vine to Hop Back in a matter of hours!
We are lucky to work with three local farms within Kent who grow some of the finest hops for our range of ales.
Goldings – Clinch’s Farm – Ospringe, Faversham
Fuggles – Hukins Farm – St Michaels, Tenterden
WGV – GM Day & Sons – East Peckham, Tonbridge
YEAST
Last but not least, yeast!
Just as important as all the other ingredients is our house yeast, working throughout the fermentation to convert sugars into alcohol.
Our traditional recipes and processes help to form our house yeast, which we crop and re-pitch into subsequent brews, giving our beers their distinctive flavour!
This unique strain is also stored in a yeast bank, which can be re-cultured when needed, allowing us to replicate our signature flavour for many more years to come.