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BREWERY NEWS CONTINUED<br />
ASCOT ALES<br />
Anastasia's Exile Stout<br />
won its category in the<br />
LocAle awards at<br />
Reading Beer Festival.<br />
This 5.0% stout won<br />
the category for beers of<br />
5% and above.<br />
BINGHAMS<br />
Binghams is featured in the<br />
summer edition of<br />
CAMRA’s quarterly<br />
“Beer” magazine with a<br />
comprehensive five page<br />
article. CAMRA members<br />
can access an online version<br />
through the CAMRA<br />
website if they missed it!<br />
Binghams’ latest special<br />
is Viennese Whirl, a<br />
5.0% Vienna Pale Ale<br />
brewed with Vienna Malt<br />
for a golden hue and a blend of Citra,<br />
Centennial and Chinook hops from<br />
America. The ever popular Hop Project continues<br />
with a 4.5% Extra Pale Ale called<br />
Wai-iti Cascade launched in June with these<br />
hops providing a stone fruits and citrus hop<br />
character.<br />
BOND BREWS<br />
The Bell and Bottle in Shinfield recently<br />
played host to a Bond brews tap takeover.<br />
Owner and brewer Dean Bond gave an<br />
entertaining talk about how he came to take<br />
up brewing, the process and ingredients<br />
used as well as how he chooses which types<br />
of beer to brew. All rounded off with a quiz,<br />
it was a very good evening. Mellow Velo, a<br />
Dean from Bond Brews and Chrissie<br />
from the Bell and Bottle at their<br />
tap takeover<br />
limited edition 3.6% mild, was in<br />
fine form and was our beer of the<br />
day.<br />
Another recent brew has been<br />
Bengal Tiger, an English Style India<br />
Pale Ale at 4.3% ABV. It was brewed<br />
with a nod to the original English<br />
style IPA with two types of malted<br />
barley. East Kent Golding hops provided<br />
the Bitterness, Goldings the<br />
aroma and it was dry-hopped for<br />
good measure.<br />
CHILTERN<br />
For a long time we've been following the<br />
progress of a special beer from Chiltern –<br />
their 2,000th gyle (a gyle is a specific brewing<br />
run, i.e. it was the 2,000th time that<br />
they'd brewed). It's easiest to let them<br />
describe it in their own words:<br />
“On 6 January last year we celebrated our<br />
2000th Gyle – or brew – and to mark the<br />
occasion we have produced MM, a new limited<br />
edition bottle-conditioned ale. We think<br />
it is something special – a real treat; a true<br />
classic IPA, light gold in colour with a fruity<br />
aroma and set off by a dry malt middle and<br />
Mine’s a <strong>Pint</strong><br />
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