The Angel Beer Festival 2005 pics

From July 2007, we changed to adopt the Cyclops Tasting notes system. This was developed by Everards Brewery to provide a simple and easy to understand approach. This should provide a standard way to describe ales and enable the drinker to recognise similar tasting beers. The bitter and sweet scales are based on the measured Bitterness and Present Gravity (residual sugar) of the beer.

All ale drinkers may benefit now by the addition of a new Cyclops website that is listing tasting notes for all beers as they become accredited to the scheme. There are, so far, 209 breweries affiliated and tasting notes for over 1050 ales which may be found at http://www.cyclopsbeer.co.uk

Our Regular Ale is

Adnams Southwold Bitter 3.7%. See - Warm Amber. Smell - Weighty Hop. Taste - Dry, Moreish, Clean. Scorecard - Bitter 4 out of 5, Sweet 2 out of 5. The classic Southwold bitter and Adnams favourite - brimming with the fragrance of our finest hops and malt, it's dry yet refreshing, with a lingering bitter flavour. Brewed in Southwold, Suffolk.

December's ales include:

Adnams Old Ale

Archers Old Burt Black Sheep Ale Hartleys Cumbria Way
Howell's Frosty BellsMarstons Ugly Sisters
Orkney Dark Island St Austell H.S.D. Shepherd Neame Winter Hop Ale Tower Winter Spirit