THE GARDENER'S CHRISTMAS BEERS - 1
SMITH'S ORGANIC APRICOT FRUIT BEER
With the growth in small specialist breweries in UK I decided this Christmas to treat myself to a range of different beers. Today I opened the first of my supply: "Organic Apricot" made by Samuel Smith, Tadcaster, Yorkshire. (Not a small brewery by any means, but one that is producing special beers as well as the normal types).
The beer is actually brewed for Smith's at the ancient Melbourn Brothers brewery in Stamford, Lincolnshire which uses old fashioned manual equipment in its brewing; a steam engine, built in 1910, powers all the mechanical apparatus. The beer has a primary and then a secondary fermentation using barley and wheat and various yeasts. The finished beer is transported to Smith's Tadcaster brewery where organic apricot juice is added and the product bottled. It comes in a 355ml bottled a strength of 5.1% volume of alcohol.
A pleasant beer with strong taste of dried apricots, very refreshing and certainly one I will hope to find in the shops during hot summer days.
With the growth in small specialist breweries in UK I decided this Christmas to treat myself to a range of different beers. Today I opened the first of my supply: "Organic Apricot" made by Samuel Smith, Tadcaster, Yorkshire. (Not a small brewery by any means, but one that is producing special beers as well as the normal types).
The beer is actually brewed for Smith's at the ancient Melbourn Brothers brewery in Stamford, Lincolnshire which uses old fashioned manual equipment in its brewing; a steam engine, built in 1910, powers all the mechanical apparatus. The beer has a primary and then a secondary fermentation using barley and wheat and various yeasts. The finished beer is transported to Smith's Tadcaster brewery where organic apricot juice is added and the product bottled. It comes in a 355ml bottled a strength of 5.1% volume of alcohol.
A pleasant beer with strong taste of dried apricots, very refreshing and certainly one I will hope to find in the shops during hot summer days.