Beers
An ever-changing range of specialities bottled beers from around the globe are available, please ask for details.
- HEINEKEN - 33cl, 5% abv
Malted barley, water, hops and yeast blended together in a magical, pretty-green, glass vessel to produce one of the highest quality, most consistently reliable Netherlands brews. Heineken is a fine, light but flavoursome pilsner style with a fine history. Born in December 1863 by Gerard Heineken it has since then risen to become the second largest producer of beer in the world and the most famous beer internationally with over 80 brands many of which will feature amongst our monthly guest beers.
- TIGER - 33cl, 5% abv
There is nothing like an ice cold Tiger Beer, except an ice cold Tiger beer. Born in Asia in 1932 and brewed with some of the finest hops and malted barley and no additional additives, Tiger beer has spread all over the world to become one of the worlds favourites.
The beer is brewed solely in the Far East taking about 3 weeks to make the beer from its raw materials; it then travels around 11,000 km by boat to transport the exotic nectar from Singapore to Europe – just imagine!
By Way of Eastern sagacity Tiger do recommend that to enhance the drinking experience BEFORE drinking please effect removal of the special metal bottle-top – wise words indeed.
- COBRA - 33cl, 5% abv
Award-winning Cobra premium beer is brewed to an authentic Indian recipe using only the finest natural ingredients. A unique blend of barley malt and yeast with maize, hops and rice gives Cobra it’s distinctive, clean and extra smooth taste. It’s slightly reduced gaseousness ensures that it appeals to both ale drinkers and lager drinkers alike.
However, if you are picturing the grandeur of the days of the Raj and painted elephants washing in the wide majestic Ganges, straddled by half naked locals swigging on Cobra Beer - think again… Cobra Beer Ltd. was founded in 1989 by Karan Bilimoria in the UK who "wanted to produce a premium, high quality lager which would complement rather than fight against food."
- KING COBRA - 37.5cl, 8% abv
The world's first double fermented lager, King Cobra is a real quality, strong lager. It undergoes a second fermentation in Belgium’s Rodenbach Brewery to bring out the subtleties and character of its fine ingredients. This is smooth, velvety and full of finesse – almost Trappist in style but with the reduced fizzy-ness and lo… presented in a champagne-style bottle to let you now how sophisticated you have become.
- SOL - 33cl, 4.5% abv
Spanish for sun (clever), Sol was first brewed in Mexico in 1899 under the name ‘El Sol’. By 1924 this clear, refreshing beer had become an essential part of Mexico’s refreshment repertoire and was re-named simply Sol – perhaps lucky then that they didn’t go with naming it after the not-so-catchy brewery – Cuauhtémoc Montezuma!
Interestingly the label is and always has been the same and its unique, clear, long-necked bottle contains perhaps the quintessential golden, smooth and mellow Mexican lager-beer.
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- KING COBRA - 75cl, 8% abv
The King Cobra but brought to you in the slightly more romantic sharing 75cl size – perfect for bringing people together, the fuller flavour and increased softness on the palate make it ideal with richer foods.
- CARLSBERG’S JACOBSEN BRAMLEY WITT - 75cl, 4.6% abv
Brewed in Demark and named after Carlsberg’s Danish founder (Trish) JC Jacobsen this is a gorgeously aromatic, unfiltered wheat beer. Discreetly bitter with a refreshing hint of apple from the added juices of the Bramley and Belle de Boskoop apples plus tiny hint of fresh orange peel, cinnamon and cloves.
It is cloudy when poured with a good creamy head and the fine aromas and crisp, distinctive flavours create an almost perfect foil and wine-alternative to accompany fish and crustacean dishes.
- GROLSCH - 150cl, 5.0% abv
OK, it is big and we think it is clever, the oddly-named and oddly-enclosured but somehow comfortingly familiar swing-top Grolsch in the enthusiastically presented magnum-sized bottle. Is there a finer or more inspiring sight than a picture of a table of the worthy and the noted debating under the twinkling canopy of the mighty green one-and-a-half-litre swing-top bottles you might ask, (although not out aloud)?
- DUVELl - 75cl, 8.5% abv
To complete our quartet of 'presented pour deux' or beers to share, we have the multi-award winning, highly aromatic and complex, strong golden ale from Belgian – Duvel, (pronounced Doov'l by those in the know) a Flemish corruption, so we are told of the creators’ comment "The Devil of a Beer", an observation referring to the elaborate sequence of warm and cold fermentation and maturation that lasts for well-over 3 months.
This is a great food beer with strength, structure, weight and fruitiness to match, without damaging a wide range of dishes from the light and elegant right through to the big, rich and meaty.
- GAYMERS ORIGINAL CIDER - 33cls, 4.5% abv
Unusually Gaymers Cider originates from Norfolk in exotic Eastern England and an original production date can be confirmed as 1870 when William Gaymer was at last persuaded to fork-out enough wad to purchase his first hydraulic press.
Production was moved in the mid-nineties however, to Shepton Mallet in Somerset but it is still made according to traditional methods and recipes and is produced solely from English apples – served in a glass and over ice it has a particularly refreshing and smooth taste which we are assured 'is as good as it gets'.- GAYMERS ORIGINAL CIDER - 568cls, 4.5% abv
Unusually Gaymers Cider originates from Norfolk in exotic Eastern England and an original production date can be confirmed as 1870 when William Gaymer was at last persuaded to fork-out enough wad to purchase his first hydraulic press.
Production was moved in the mid-nineties however, to Shepton Mallet in Somerset but it is still made according to traditional methods and recipes and is produced solely from English apples – served in a glass and over ice it has a particularly refreshing and smooth taste which we are assured 'is as good as it gets'.