KVB Monthly Beer Box
Mar 26 Westerham Brewery
REVIVING A RICH BREWING HERITAGE
Established in 2004 the Westerham Brewery Company is proud to bring brewing back to the historic town of Westerham. With a rich brewing heritage, Westerham can once again be proud of locally brewed, top quality craft beers.
Producing exceptional craft beer for the local market, we support the initiative to reduce food miles in the supply chain. Many ‘national brands’ are transported long distances and suffer from poor storage and handling.
Westerham Brewery Company has revived many of the much-loved flavours of the old Black Eagle Brewery, which closed in 1965 following the catastrophic consolidation by the ‘Big Brewers’ in the 1950’s and 1960's.
WATER
The local water, which percolates through the Lower Greensand Ridge to the north of Westerham, is excellent for brewing pale bitter beers for which Westerham was once famous. The Vale of Holmesdale has over the years supported many breweries on account of the water including at one time two breweries in Westerham, the Swan and the Black Eagle. We have drilled down our own borehole 90m into the Hythe beds of the Lower Greensand.
The Session Box Contains 6 beers from the below, the Super Session will contain 12 beers. We will also throw in a snack! Shipped 1st week of the month
Audit Ale Kentish Strong Ale - ABV 6.2%
The Black Brewery in Westerham brewed Audit Ale throughout the early 20th century. Its fame was such that it was supplied to Clarence House for the beginning of the oyster season.
Audit Ale is a Kentish Strong Ale brewed with Greensand aquifer water, 100% Kent bred and grown hops, and the same recultured yeast from the Black Eagle Brewery as was used to ferment Westerham Ales up until the brewery's closure in 1965.
Double Stout Stout - ABV 5.1%
This Double Stout is brewed to the same strength as that brewed in 1938 with Pale Malt, Chocolate Malt and Black Malt. In the copper we use the finest Kent hops and late hop with West Kent Goldings. We also use the same yeast as used in Westerham Ales up until the brewery's closure in 1965.
Helles Belles Helles Lager - ABV 4.0%
A crisp, pale lager hopped with Hallertau Tradition from Germany. Our #1 best selling beer.
Bohemian Rhapsody Pilsner - ABV 5.0%
Straw yellow pilsner lager (that means lagered or matured for several weeks) hopped with Czech grown Žatec noble hops with a distinctive hop aroma and bitterness usually found in Bohemian pilsners.
Spirit of Kent XXX Pale Ale - ABV 4.0%
The Spirit of Kent is hopped with 9 Kent hops in a total of 9 separate additions. Most of the hops are picked and dried at the National Trust’s only hop garden at Scotney Castle in Lamberhurst, Kent by hop grower Ian Strang. Ian is one of a dwindling number of noble hop growers left in Kent.
British Bulldog Kentish Ale - ABV 4.3%
British Bulldog is a full bodied best bitter in the Kentish Ale style, packed full of Kent hops to give this ale its distinctive aroma and satisfying flavour. Recultured yeast from the original Black Eagle Brewery recreates the flavours of Westerham Ales as they were enjoyed by Sir Winston Churchill.
Viceroy IPA English IPA - ABV 5.0%
Viceroy India Pale Ale is brewed with Greensand aquifer water, English malted barley and the finest Kent grown hops. It is fermented with Westerham Brewery’s own heritage yeast culture to produce a fruity and hoppy India Pale Ale.
Hop Rocket SIPA West Coast Session IPA - ABV 4.3%
Loaded with 8 USA grown hops, this West Coast style session IPA delivers a huge payload of citrus and pine flavours.
1965 Kentish Ale - ABV 4.8%
Brewed to the same strength, the same recipe and the same yeast as the last beer of the Black Eagle Brewery that closed in 1965 after over 230 years of brewing. A rich, malty and hoppy Kentish Ale brewed with Greensand aquifer water, 100% Kent bred and grown hops and our heritage yeast strains.
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