ISSUE 22

JULY 2014

Summer of beer and bikes!

riders in Keighley, pop in for a pint and help a good cause!

At the end of August we are ale suppliers to Bingley Live! A three-day music festival in Myrtle Park,

Bingley and then we start the run up to Saltaire Festival.

As an appetiser we are

hosting a Beer and Food Tasting evening at Don’t

Tell Titus, Saltaire, (see website for details) and then move on to the

highlight of the year,

Saltaire Brewery Beer Fest on the 12 and 13

September. This has

always been a great event and this year will be bigger and better than ever! We

have already started pre-ordering the best American keg beers.

Meanwhile our Famous Beer Club runs as usual across the summer

with ticketed gatherings, on the last Friday of July, August and

September.

Hopefully we will have time to brew some beer!

Have you heard the Tour de

France is coming to Yorkshire?

We love bikes and have joined

the party, hosting and

attending events in what is

shaping up to be a busy old

summer.

We are hosting a special

Grand Depart Beer Club on 4 July, with all guest Tour de

France themed beers. We

will have an amazing cycling experience where you can ride on rollers, in the

peloton, on the roads of Yorkshire! And there’s a free pint, if you come on a bike in full lycra racing gear.

If you are a cyclist, we’ll

have special Saltaire

Brewery Cycling shirts available, to help you stand out

in the crowd! Go on, be a Mamil!!

(Middle aged man in lycra!)

On Sunday 6 July we have a roadside bar in South Street,

Keighley (BD21 1DB), all proceeds

going to Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice. If you are watching the

For more information on

these events and more, visit

www.saltairebrewery.co.uk.

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JACOBS

WELL

If you know of any other pubs

which you feel deserve to be

featured, please email us at

info@saltairebrewery.co.uk

Inn Focus

The

Swan

Inn

The Swan Inn

16 Bishopgate Street

York

YO23 1JH

Tel: 01904 634968

Manager: Kerry Brown

The Swan is a thriving hub of

the Bishy Road community in

York occupying a prominent

position on the corner of

Bishopgate Street and

Clementhorpe, and is quite

simply one of the finest pubs in

the whole of York.

Winner of CAMRA's coveted

regional Pub of the Year award in 2009, The Swan is a classic street

corner local featuring a beautiful, unspoilt 1930s interior which has

earned it a rare place on CAMRA's National Inventory of

Historic Pubs. Formerly owned by Tetley's (which is still served) the pub still proudly displays the plaque declaring its status as a Tetley Heritage Inn.

The landlord is local resident Paul Crossman, who owns the business along with wife Sarah.

They employ a superb full-time manager, Kerry Brown, who is virtually always to be found on site (along with her two lovely golden retrievers Finlay and Tilly) making sure that the beers are

kept in tip top condition and that the ambience is always relaxed

and friendly.

This is a pub where you can

always expect a warm welcome from the excellent staff, and where, crucially, you are always

guaranteed a perfect pint.

You will find six hand pulled cask

ales on the bar including Saltaire Blonde 4.0% permanently. Plus there are always three more

guest ales which are very often sourced from our region's vast array of wonderful microbreweries.

To the rear is a charming beer

garden which is very popular in the summer, and includes a very comfortable covered and heated

smoking area.

At 9.00pm every Wednesday night you can enjoy their highly

entertaining quiz. It is popular so arrive early for a table!

Paul is now partner in a few

freehouses around York - The

Slip Inn, The Woolpack and The

Volunteer Arms (which

permanently stocks cask Saltaire

Pride, and Saltaire Gold on keg).

The hub of the Bishy Road community

The charming and inviting beer garden

“...beers are kept in tip top

condition and the ambience is

always relaxed and friendly”

Last issue we asked, “Where have you worn yours?” Visit our Facebook album to find out...

‘Hop #256’ 5%

“Should be a good vehicle to carry the intense hop flavours”

The ’C’ hops are those fruity, citrusy, resinous American hops; Columbus,

Centennial , Cascade, Chinook. Experimental hop #256 hasn’t been

named yet, but is getting some great write ups across the pond and we

are lucky to be one of the first UK breweries to get to work with it. We

know it is a ‘C’ hop, so a 5% pale ale should be a good vehicle to carry

the intense flavours of this new American hop.

Smoked Porter 6.0%

“A smooth and creamy porter. Soft , mild level of smoke.”

Following the success of our collaboration with Dark Star when we

produced ‘Bock’, we decided to work a recipe for a one-off brew with

our friends at Northern Monk. Although their Leeds brewery has yet to

open they have successfully ‘cuckoo’ brewed in several breweries and

are sharp lads when it comes to brewing. For this beer we had to import

special coloured and smoked Rauch malts from Bamberg , Germany. A

little malted oat adds mouthfeel and texture to a smooth and creamy

porter. We decided on a soft, mild level of smoke to make the beer

accessible and pleasing to a wide population of drinkers. It went down

well so it may not stay a one-off brew.

Our Brews Le IPA 5.6% - available in cask, or bottles from Booths

“This mongrel of an ale has turned out very drinkable!”

This is our return leg of the collaboration with Dark Star, the Sussex brewer, brewed to celebrate the arrival of the Tour de France in Yorkshire. Our joint idea was to brew an IPA using French hops and

adding a twist of coriander. Having sourced French Brewers Gold and Triskell hops it quickly became apparent why the French don’t do IPAs.

To the rescue, lashings of American Columbus and Simcoe hops, to boost the acidity and flavour. A couple of kilos of coriander linger in the

background to provide a hint of a French farmhouse style ale. Actually, this mongrel of an ale has turned out really drinkable! By the way, we

know the name isn’t grammatically correct, but it’s a tongue in cheek take on the Brewery team’s grasp of French.

The world of beer churns and

turns. Today pubs, bars, beer

shops and supermarkets are

packed with a choice that

would have seemed impossible

40 years ago at the dawn of the

British beer revolution.

The first edition of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide in 1974 listed around 40 breweries, most producing just mild and bitter and perhaps a strong ale for

Christmas. How times have changed! Now there are 1,200

breweries, with more coming on stream despite the high level of

pub closures.

And most of the new wave breweries – call them craft,

artisan or micro – have a mind-boggling range of beers on offer.

Change started in the 1980s when a handful of small brewers launched golden ales in an

attempt to wean younger

drinkers away from mainstream lagers on to beers with flavour.

Today just about every brewery in the country has a golden ale in its portfolio. But brewers have moved on. They have dug deep into ancient recipe books to

recreate genuine porters, stouts, IPAs, old ales and barley wines.

And they’re not just looking back. New styles of beer include the

addition of honey, herbs, spices,

chocolate, coffee and fruit. The

widespread use of hops from North America and Australasia

bring dynamic fresh flavours to beer and many modern interpretations of IPA, for

example, positively blossom with

citrus and tropical fruit character.

The latest, exhilarating trend is to

age beer in wooden casks from the Bourbon, whisky, wine and Cognac industries. The result is beer with stunning notes of oak, smoke, vanilla and strong alcohol.

Now get ready for the latest craze – sour beer, based on the Belgian lambic style of spontaneous fermentation. You

can bet your bottom euro there’s

a new style waiting just around the corner of the mash tun.

Beer Rant By Roger Protz, Editor of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide. His books include 300 Beers to Try Before You Die. www.protzonbeer.co.uk

Mixing it up! Beer cocktail recipes from mixologist, Nicholas Snape at The Fat Badger,

Harrogate.

RASPBERRY BLONDE BEER COCKTAIL

25 ml Shot Raspberry Vodka

75 ml Raspberry Blonde Beer

Dash of Crème De Mure

4 Fresh Raspberries

10 ml Agave Syrup

1 Bar spoon Egg White

Muddle the raspberries in a

shaker with the agave syrup then

add all the other ingredients.

Shake with ice and fine strain into a chilled martini glass.

Add a raspberry on the side of glass and add 2-3 hops on the foam top.

Our recent visit to the Fat

Badger in Harrogate resulted in

their cocktail mixologist, Nick,

coming up with some very

special recipes using our beers.

These delicious drinks are sure

to make any summer party

sizzle!

TRIPLE

CHOCOHOLIC

BEER COCKTAIL

25 ml Smirnoff Espresso

10 ml Dark Cacao

12.5 ml Kahlua

75 ml Chocoholic Beer

1 Bar spoon Egg White

Place all ingredients into a shaker then add ice. Shake hard for 20 seconds then fine strain into a

chilled martini glass.