Samphire Bitter is an easy-drinking light copper-colored bitter brewed with three varieties of hops. The classic aroma of Kent Golding hops give way to well balanced malt characteristics. A refreshing ale, clean and dry to taste.
Beer
Abigale Brewing Company
A new micro brewery launched on the outskirts of Ashford in 2010 by James Wraith.
Nailbourne
ABV 4.50%
Nailbourne is a copper-coloured bitter ale brewed with two varieties of hops. Fresh, hoppy aroma gives way to well balanced caramel and biscuit malt characteristics with hop bitterness on the palate. This is a robust ale, full of flavour and dry to taste.
Ridgeway
ABV 0.00%
Ridgeway is a blonde pale ale brewed with two varieties of hops. The fruity blackcurrant aroma of Kentish Bramling Cross hops give way to well balanced malt characteristics and soft hop bitterness on the palate.
Leas Lift Porter
ABV 4.70%
Be the first to try the best Porter you will ever drink. Chocolate, coffee, it is all about the malts. We brewed this beauty for you. Come and drink it by the gallon* or buy a case online from mid March or get a case from the festival.
Bring your daughter to the Porter (over 18's only).
*Always drink (responsibly).
Goachers Maidstone Ales
Maidstone has had a long tradition of commercial brewing dating back to before 1650. At the turn of this century century there were still four independent brewers operating in the town, but by 1972 the last of these had been taken over and ceased production.
In 1983 Phil and Debbie Goacher opened their own brewery in the Loose valley thus reviving the art of brewing in the county town after a break of eleven years.
The modern brewing plant was purpose built on site and constructed along classical lines, allowing for full mash brewing and open fermentation in stainless steel vessels. All Goacher's Ales are produced from 100% malted barley and whole Kentish hops without the addition of sugars or colouring of any kind.
We believe that our commitment to excellence and traditional methods produces ales of distinction and character much sought after in this increasingly standardized world.
Crown Imperial Stout
ABV 4.50%
Our attempt to replicate the flavour and character of the true bottled Irish stout. Brewed with roasted barley and extremely high levels of Kent Fuggles.
Gold Star Ale
ABV 5.10%
A true draught pale ale made with floor-malted low-colour Maris Otter malted barley and hopped with the finest East Kent aroma hops. Dangerously drinkable!
Real Mild Ale
ABV 3.40%
A full-flavoured dark mild brewed with chocolate and black malts and hopped with Kent fuggles. Produced originally to celebrate our 5th anniversary.
Kent Brewey
Kent Brewery is brewing with a mission to once again put Kent at the centre of the hop industry. For almost 500 years, Kent was synonymous with hops in Britain. It was the cradle of innovation - creating and producing the most popular hop varieties for over 200 years. In the 18th century, 77,000 acres of Kent were dedicated to growing hops, and Londoners would holiday here to take part in the annual harvest. Today, Kent's hop fields have been reduced to around 1000 acres, and it is no longer even the primary hop-growing county of England. Kent Brewery wants this to change.
Kent Brewery beers are different. Whether the style is traditional or modern, each beer contains our own twist. Kent beers are never mediocre, never bland, and never normal. Some may provide you with what you might have expected, but with that bit more that makes them extra special. Some will be completely unexpected and show how much more can be achieved from the art and craft of brewing.
Beyond The Pale
ABV 5.40%
A full-flavoured Golden Pale Ale with a powerful punch of hops. An extreme version of our Pale for incurable hop addicts.
Zingiber
ABV 4.10%
A blend of American hops with highlights of ginger. Refreshing and uplifting, light beer.
Ripple Steam Brewery
Our independent brewery was founded in 2011. We are three brewers and we hold over 100 years experience within the trade
This makes us feel very old [ and only one of us is !]
We actually call the old one the braxator – Which is Latin for brew master & he likes to feel important – which of course he is.
We are situated near the Kent coastline adjacent to a small hamlet & not far from the dramatic White Cliffs of Dover.
Ripple Steam Micro Brewery uses the finest quality English grown barley and wheat malts, together with distinctive hops internationally sourced. These have been tried and tested until we found a selection that suited our taste buds and those we know to succeed. We wanted to offer beers with a slightly quirky texture and taste and not directly compete with all the other great beers on offer today.
All our beers are brewed using a single variety hop (a bit like a single malt whisky) and while most of our beers are pale, our range will vary from the darkest of treacle stout to the lightest of pale ale.
Winter Ale
ABV 5.00%
This was Ripple Steams virgin brew. She is now successfully proven – A full bodied minx at 5% and not one to be ignored. She is smooth and tasty. If you close your eyes she will send you onto the deck of a trawler on a rough sea and make you feel as if you were on dry land and safely back in the arms of the one you love. This Winter Ale will warm the heart of any ardent beer drinker.
Go on – give it a go
Hop Fuzz
Small and new we don't know much more than this.
Golden Ale
ABV 4.50%
A Golden Ale so new the tasting notes are not even written yet.
Try it and write your own.
The Ramsgate Brewery - Gadds
Our Brewery began life in the back of a Ramsgate boozer full of louts and ne'er-do-wells, back in 2002, and we spent the following four years struggling away in the tight, smelly and smokey surroundings until we'd built up enough customers to break free. In 2006 we purchased a big shed and set-up again (properly this time), bigger, better and bolder than before, brewing fresh, tasty, local ale for fresh, tasty locals. And it worked.
Oatmeal Stout
ABV 4.60%
A stout is brewed with plenty of coloured malt to lend a pitch black colour, a full body and a roasty, toasty, chocolate mocca flavour. Oats give it a real smooth texture and this year I'm adding a teeny, tiny bit of vanilla pod, for roundness.
80 Shilling
ABV 4.60%
Everyone drinks hoppy, pale ales these days, and who can blame them? It is a fine and refreshing beer style after all, and the breadth of different sub-styles within the genre is enough to keep anyone interested for, well, quite a long time. However, and I dare not utter this out loud, I'm bored of them, bored bored bored bored bored. So it is with enthusiastic gusto that I'm brewing the very antithesis to IPA - Scottish Export, or 80 /- (shilling) ale.
This one is all about malt, and lots of it. Crystal malt provides a nutty, sweet red background, chocolate malt brings, well, a touch of silky smooth chocolate. Oats for smooth, wholesome goodness; melanoidinfor sweet aroma & some amber to dry the palate, lest the sweetness becomes cloying. Oh, and, of course, a minute twist of heavily, heavenlyBruichladdich peated malt to drag us up onto Rannoch Moor once again.
I put a few hops in too, just for balance, and nothing else.
It's cold and damp outside, warm & cosy in. These days are not IPA days, these days are 80/- days.
Canterbury Ales
Carefully crafted from the finest malted barley and whole hops available, The Canterbury Ales are a collection of cask conditioned ales brewed on the outskirts of Canterbury in Kent.
The Knights Tale
ABV 4.60%
A dark ruby bitter
Tasting notes: A dark and complex malt base with roast and toffee notes, and a classic "Fuggles" hop finish
Cider
The Kent Cider Company
Artisan cider makers. Producing ciders with depth, unique flavours and finishes. Flavours that offer an alternative to wine, flavours that represent the seasons, compliment different foods and can be enjoyed in their own right at home or in the pub. “A range of ciders that are rustic yet refined”
Spiced Cider
ABV 5.50%
Truly scrumptious sweet cider with lashings of fresh cinnamon, clove, ginger and star anise. Serve gently warmed as a relaxing treat on a cold evening, but equally delicious poured over ice with wedges of fresh orange.
Gala/Bramley
ABV 8.00%
The rich honeyed notes of the Gala come through in this refined, subtle blend.
A fantastic alternative to wine with any meal. Highly recommended pale cream cider.
Pear Cider
ABV 7.50%
REAL Pear Cider. A fragrant, cloudy cider made from Kent Comice Pears and a subtle dash of Bramley apple. Full of naturally sweet Pear flavour evoking the pure taste of the Kent harvest.
Bitersharp
ABV 8.00%
A fine cider with a gooseberry flush. Hints of Sauvignon Blanc with a bit of poke!!
Merry Moon Cider Company
Merry Moon Cider Company, Mersham, Kent
Lemon Moon
ABV 6.50%
We are very excited to have Merry Moons, Lemon Moon Cider. This fruit cider won best in show at the Canterbury CAMRA Beer Festival 2011.
Lunatickle
ABV 6.60%
A very crisp apple taste, very good in mouth, a little sweetness, but smooth as hell. Good building acid/tannin.