Green Bullet

Adnams Green BulletGreen Bullet – handcrafted cask beer exclusive to M&B outlets

“Spicy, lemon, grassy aromas which follow through on the palate, good sweetness and mouthfeel from the malt to balance the lemon rind bitterness with a dry finish”. Fergus Fitzgerald, Master Brewer

Green Bullet is the name of a bittering hop variety that has a European heritage (Styrian Goldings). It was bred and released in New Zealand in 1972 as a triploid Alpha variety (which means it’s a sterile plant with high levels of bittering oil). Now, before we lose anyone with the technicalities, let’s explain why we’ve chosen to brew a beer using a single hop.

Most beers are brewed with more than one hop variety, and one or more malt styles, in order to create a wide breadth of flavour and aroma. In beer, we don’t often see a single hop variety used in isolation in this way. However, as in winemaking where wine can be made using a single grape variety, Fergus, together with M&B, thought it would be an interesting, and tasty, idea to try and test the conventions of the beer category by concentrating on one distinctive hop.

The Green Bullet hop is lemony and grassy, quite pronounced, with a fuller flavour than Styrian Goldings. We fermented it using our own yeast, but at cool temperatures for an ale (around 19 degrees Centigrade) and kept the malt base quite light by using a blend of mostly pale ale malt and some caramalt. Caramalt is similar to crystal malt, but it more lightly roasted so you don’t get the toffee notes, but still has fullness on the palate. The idea is to keep the beer relatively simple to showcase the lovely clean, fresh aromas and flavours of Green Bullet.

Watch Fergus’ video on Green Bullet here:

 

You can read more about the New Zealand hop variety Green Bullet here.

Green Bullet is available from early September for around three months, and you can taste our new beer directly from cask in the following Mitchells & Butlers outlets:

Nicholson’s

Vintage Inns

Village Pub & Kitchen

Premium Country Dining Group

Ember Inns

Green Bullet is also available in Castle and Tokyo pubs.

Green Bullet Reviews

The Ormskirk Baron rating [5/5] and audio review.

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  • Sarah Howe

    Glad to hear you enjoyed this beer. There are no plans to bottle it at this time.

  • Justin Mason

    Found Green Bullet on New Years Day at The Anchor in Walberswick and absolutely loved it. Any plans to bottle it? I think it it would be a perfect beer to add to your excellent International Beer range particularly with your fantastic American Style IPA.

  • Fergus Fitzgerald

    Hi John,
    Sorry Green bullet wasn’t to your taste, it’s actually gone down very well, however you’ll be happy to know that it is only out for a limited time and will finish at the end of November. Glad you like Broadside though and I suppose that’s the point of having a range.
     
    Cheers
     
    Fergus

  • seasidejohn

    I normally love your beer, in fact, Broadside both draught and in bottles is about as good as ale gets. However, Green Bullet was a grave disappointment to both me and my companion, both of us ale drinkers of many years standing. On the palate, the first impression is of a beer which doesn’t understand what it’s meant to be, neither a bitter (which it certainly is in the excessively long and rather palate numbing finish) or a light golden ale, which it looked like it might be in the rather gloomy confines of the Vintage Inn where we were.

    I still think Adnams is a great beer brand and excuse you for Green Bullet as a idea that should have been strangled at birth

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