Solebay Celebratory Beer
Solebay Celebratory Beer was brewed to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Brewing at the Sole Bay brewery. We decided late one night that the beer should be based on the strong sparking Belgian style beers we were enjoying at the retirement do of our production manager and chief engineer, Bob Lee. These beers are often finished with a champagne yeast, as ale yeasts often struggle at this strength. We had planned to do the same but when we brewed the beer we found our yeast had created such fantastic flavours and fermented the beer so well it would have been impolite to introduce an outsider.
This beer was brewed with East Anglian Pilsner malted barley, Demerara and Muscavado sugar, lightly hopped with Nelson Sauvign. It is fermented solely with our own in-house yeast and a few sprigs of locally grown lavender were added at the end of the fermentation to add a small floral touch.
Available to buy online or in-store in a 750ml champagne bottle and presentation tube.
Brewed in November 2009, after the fermentation had finished we cooled the beer down and kept it here for 6 months to mature before it was bottled. The beer was left in contact with the yeast for most of the 6 months maturation as we wanted to pick up some of the bready character often associated with sparking wine and Champagne. We diligently checked the beer on a regular basis to determine when the beer was ready for bottling.
Solebay Celebratory Beer is hazy gold in colour with a good carbonation. It has aromas and flavours of honey, bread, bananas, pear drops, and bubblegum with a warming sweet luscious finish.
Solebay Celebratory Beer Reviews
The Ormskirk Baron rating and audio review.
Beer Reviews Blog review.
Adrian Tierney Jones beer writer and author of 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die tried a sample straight from the Fermenter and this is what he had to say;
Hi Fergus, tried the experimental beer at the weekend with a mate who was over — we thoroughly enjoyed it, chiming ringing grape-like notes that put me in mind of Riesling or even Gewurtztraminer; my mate found it slightly sweet but I thought it was excellent and as you said at the time it will be even more interesting with carbonation, shellfish platter would have been an ideal accompaniment, summer on the beach at Southwold tasting notes; bit like a triple, vinous, peach, sweet sugary petrol nose, parma violets, Riesling, bubblegum, complex.
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Sole Bay Celebration Beer was brewed to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Brewing at the Sole Bay brewery. We decided late one night that the beer should be based on the strong sparking Belgian style beers we were enjoying at the retirement do of our production manager and chief engineer, Bob Lee. These beers are often finished with a champagne yeast, as ale yeasts often struggle at this strength. We had planned to do the same but when we brewed the beer we found our yeast had created such fantastic flavours and fermented the beer so well it would have been impolite to introduce an outsider.
This beer was brewed with East Anglian Pilsner malted barley, Demerara and Muscavado sugar, lightly hopped with Nelson Sauvign. It is fermented solely with our own in-house yeast and a few sprigs of locally grown lavender were added at the end of the fermentation to add a small floral touch.
Brewed in November 2009, after the fermentation had finished we cooled the beer down and kept it here for 6 months to mature before it was bottled. The beer was left in contact with the yeast for most of the 6 months maturation as we wanted to pick up some of the bready character often associated with sparking wine and Champagne. We diligently checked the beer on a regular basis to determine when the beer was ready for bottling.
Sole Bay Celebration Beer is hazy gold in colour with a good carbonation. It has aromas and flavours of honey, bread, bananas, pear drops, and bubblegum with a warming sweet luscious finish.
Sole Bay Celebration Beer Reviews
The Ormskirk Baron rating and audio review.
http://theormskirkbaron.blogspot.com/2010/04/details-of-adnams-their-10-special-ale.html
Beer Reviews Blog review.
http://www.beerreviews.co.uk/beer/something-extra-special-from-adnams/
Adrian Tierney Jones (beer writer) tried a sample straight from the Fermenter and this is what he had to say;
“Hi Fergus
Tried the experimental beer at the weekend with a mate who was over — we
thoroughly enjoyed it, chiming ringing grape-like notes that put me in mind
of Riesling or even Gewurtztraminer; my mate found it slightly sweet but I
thought it was excellent and as you said at the time it will be even more
interesting with carbonation, shellfish platter would have been an ideal
accompaniment, summer on the beach at Southwold tasting notes; bit like a triple, vinous, peach, sweet sugary petrol nose, parma violets, Riesling, bubblegum, complex”.Sole Bay Celebration Beer was brewed to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Brewing at the Sole Bay brewery. We decided late one night that the beer should be based on the strong sparking Belgian style beers we were enjoying at the retirement do of our production manager and chief engineer, Bob Lee. These beers are often finished with a champagne yeast, as ale yeasts often struggle at this strength. We had planned to do the same but when we brewed the beer we found our yeast had created such fantastic flavours and fermented the beer so well it would have been impolite to introduce an outsider.
This beer was brewed with East Anglian Pilsner malted barley, Demerara and Muscavado sugar, lightly hopped with Nelson Sauvign. It is fermented solely with our own in-house yeast and a few sprigs of locally grown lavender were added at the end of the fermentation to add a small floral touch.
Brewed in November 2009, after the fermentation had finished we cooled the beer down and kept it here for 6 months to mature before it was bottled. The beer was left in contact with the yeast for most of the 6 months maturation as we wanted to pick up some of the bready character often associated with sparking wine and Champagne. We diligently checked the beer on a regular basis to determine when the beer was ready for bottling.
Sole Bay Celebration Beer is hazy gold in colour with a good carbonation. It has aromas and flavours of honey, bread, bananas, pear drops, and bubblegum with a warming sweet luscious finish.
Sole Bay Celebration Beer Reviews
The Ormskirk Baron rating and audio review.
http://theormskirkbaron.blogspot.com/2010/04/details-of-adnams-their-10-special-ale.html
Beer Reviews Blog review.
http://www.beerreviews.co.uk/beer/something-extra-special-from-adnams/
Adrian Tierney Jones (beer writer) tried a sample straight from the Fermenter and this is what he had to say;
“Hi Fergus
Tried the experimental beer at the weekend with a mate who was over — we
thoroughly enjoyed it, chiming ringing grape-like notes that put me in mind
of Riesling or even Gewurtztraminer; my mate found it slightly sweet but I
thought it was excellent and as you said at the time it will be even more
interesting with carbonation, shellfish platter would have been an ideal
accompaniment, summer on the beach at Southwold tasting notes; bit like a triple, vinous, peach, sweet sugary petrol nose, parma violets, Riesling, bubblegum, complex”.
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