Thursday, August 15, 2024

Spitfire ales

If you're interested in Spitfires, and made aware of Spitfire beer, you just can't not, can you?

Spitfire beers come from the Shepherd Neame brewery and there are two versions: Golden Ale and Amber Ale. Took us a bit of searching around to get both, but here they are on a sunny Saturday:





I'm not good with tasting notes for beer, so these come from the web.

Golden Ale:
vibrant fruity and flowery hop character balanced with sweet biscuit, caramel and toffee malts combining to deliver a soft bittersweet finish. sweet malt base built upon with delicate floral and pine aromas 

Amber Ale:
gorgeous orange marmalade flavour with sweet biscuits and caramel malts, this then leaves a peppery dry finish on the palate beautifully balanced, blood-orange tinted British bitter with an acutely aromatic allure. Hints of marmalade, red grapes and pepper are thrust from a springboard of warm, mellow malts.


My personal favourite from these two? Amber ale, as it has a bit more depth and character.

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