The beer list for Sunderland Beer and Cider Festival 2018 @ THE POINT organised by Sunderland and South Tyneside CAMRA.
Final List. (Last updated 4th October)
Beers are subject to change upto event setup. The final list won’t be confirmed until Wednesday 3rd October
| Brewery | Name | ABV | Sponsor | Tasting Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atlas | Latitude | 3.6 | A light citrus taste with a smack of hops and grapefruit in the light bitter finish. | |
| 2 | Ayr | Jolly Beggars Best Bitter | 4.2 | A complex best bitter with plenty of character lingering malty aftertaste. | |
| 3 | Ayr | Otto & Griselda Pale Ale | 4.6 | Smooth and fruity pale with hop flavours of melon, strawberry and passion fruit. | |
| 4 | Beartown | Fiery Ginger Bear | 4.8 | Spice Garden | The flavours from the malt and hops blend with the added bite from the root ginger to produce a superbly quenching blonde. |
| 5 | Black Sheep | Milk Stout | 4.9 | Black Sheep | A silky, creamy stout with notes of chocolate, vanilla and coffee. Brewed with lactose and a robust malt blend, giving a sweetness that cuts against a light bitterness, brought together through an irresistible velvet texture |
| 6 | Black Sheep | Riggwelter | 5.9 | Black Sheep | A fruity bitter, with complex underlying tastes and hints of liquorice and pear drops leading to a long dry bitter finish. |
| 7 | Brinkburn St | Cinder Toffee Imperial Russian Stout [Matured in wood cask] | 11.0 | Brinkburn St | A rich chocolatey bitterness and toffee flavours meld with bourbon maltiness. Galena and Centennial hops add berry fruit and subtle citrus notes. |
| 8 | Brinkburn St | Citra Eldorado | 4.0 | Marine | Bright citrus notes with light malt and bitterness combine with aromas of mango and tropical fruit. Very easy drinking. |
| 9 | Broughton | Greenmantle Ale | 3.9 | A dark bitter sweet ale with a pleasant aftertaste. | |
| 10 | Broughton | Old Jock | 6.7 | Baldwins | Strong, sweet and fruity in the finish |
| 11 | Camerons | Phenology Belgian Saison | 5.0 | Camerons | Brewed in the style of a Belgian Saison with a soft malt character and spicy coriander and fruity orange flavours from the Belgian yeast used. |
| 12 | Camerons | Tooth & Claw Gyle #004 Breakfast Stout | 6.0 | Camerons | This stout is from Camerons new experimental Tooth & Claw nano brewery |
| 13 | Darwin | New England IPA | 5.4 | Darwin | A juicy and hazy New England IPA with tropical fruit flavours and passion fruit. |
| 14 | Darwin | Galapagos Stout | 6.0 | Darwin | A smooth chocolate stout brewed with oats to provide a solid body and bittersweet finish. |
| 15 | Derventio | Spartan IPA | 5.3 | Crisp, refreshing IPA with pale malt and continental hops | |
| 16 | Elland | White Prussian | 3.9 | A straw coloured, lightly flavoured ,easy drinking and refreshing lager style speciality beer. | |
| 17 | Hadrian Border | Grainger Ale [Gluten Free] | 4.6 | Steamboat | Gluten free, a pale coloured ale, well balanced with a refreshing finish. |
| 18 | Hambleton | Coco Pop Stout | 4.8 | A smooth chocolatey stout brewed with Coco Pops | |
| 19 | Hooded Ram | Mosaic Single Hop | 5.0 | A notable hoppy aroma gives an indication of what is to come. The hop-led taste is complemented with plenty of bitterness, and a touch of malt, all of which are well matched. | |
| 20 | Maxim | Double Maxim | 4.7 | Maxim | A fruity caramel, caramel,malty, and nutty taste with a hint of sweetness. |
| 21 | Maxim | Medusa IPA | 5.6 | Maxim | This double dry hopped American ale is brewed using 5 different hops to give it an abundance of dry tropical fruit. |
| 22 | Maxim | Smoked Porter | 5.2 | Maxim | A rich autumn porter big in dark roasted chocolate and coffee flavours blended with a lovely sweet smoked flavour from the use of smoked malt. |
| 23 | Mordue | Tomahawk Stout | 5.5 | Station House | A new beer, part of “Mash Sessions” range. |
| 24 | Oakham | Green Devil | 6.0 | This contemporary IPA explodes with amazing hop harvest aromas, packs in big tropical and citrus hop flavours before a crisp, refreshing finish. | |
| 25 | Roosters | Parts & Labour | 5.4 | Roosters | Bold, juicy citrus & tropical fruit aromas give way to a moderate level of bitterness in this hop-forward, well-balanced American Pale Ale. |
| 26 | Roosters | Pecking Order | 5.1 | Roosters | Brewed with the Green Cheek Beer Co. California, this 5 hop pale ale bursts with a combination of fruit flavours harvested from a blend of Amarillo, Comet, Mosaic, Pacifica and Pekko hops and dried local orange peel. |
| 27 | Roosters | Yankee | 4.3 | Roosters | A straw coloured beer with a delicate, fruity aroma leading to a well balanced taste of malt and hops with a slight evidence of sweetness, followed by a refreshing, fruity/bitter finish. |
| 28 | Settle | Attermire IPA | 4.2 | Floral hoppy aroma leading to citrus on the tongue. A bitter finish in this full bodied IPA. | |
| 29 | Stables | Silver Buckles | 4.4 | Stables | India Pale Ale. Light golden biscuit with a grapefruit finish. |
| 30 | Titanic | Iceberg | 4.1 | Houghton 41 | Yellow gold sparkling wheat beer with a flowery start leading to a great hop crescedo |
| 31 | Top Out | The Cone IPA [Hazy] | 6.8 | Steamboat | Named after the part of the hop plant used in brewing, this has an intense, complex hop profile: strong and bitter with lots of grapefruit notes. .A high strength India Pale Ale , strong, bitter and very hoppy! - Hazy |
| 32 | Windswept | 1806 Stout | 5.0 | This classic Scottish stout is rich in coffee flavour with a good roasted barley finish. | |
| RESERVE | Cotleigh | Barn Owl | 4.5 | Mid brown beer with well balanced malt and hop aroma; a smooth well balanced taste where hops dominate, balanced by malt. | |
| RESERVE | Fuzzy Duck | Ruby Duck | 5.3 | Dark ruby coloured beer with a rich full body and complex fruit flavours | |
| RESERVE | Green Jack | Mahseer IPA | 5.8 | A high strength India Pale Ale , strong, bitter and very hoppy! | |
| RESERVE | Hop Studio | Hop Studio Bitter | 3.9 | A traditional Yorkshire Bitter. Beautiful amber colour, a sweet malty nose, resinous & red berry hop flavours with a long balanced finish. | |
| RESERVE | Roosters | Baby Faced Assassin | 6.1 | Roosters | An IPA with aromas of mango, apricot, grapefruit & mandarin orange, along with a lasting, juicy, tropical fruit bitterness |
