Sharp’s, the award winning brewery in Cornwall, is set to delight discerning palates with the launch of the Connoisseurs Choice range of beers. The new premium range of beers is designed to profile the best ingredients and be the perfect partner to quality food.
The range demonstrates the skill of Sharp’s head brewer, Stuart Howe, for whom innovation in brewing is perpetual. With this first vintage, Stuart has designed and brewed three very different beers, each one born out of his passion for beer and love of aroma and flavour, balance and precision. Each year a new range will follow reflecting the diversity and beauty of what beer can be.
The Connoisseurs Choice 2011 range offers drinkers three unique beers, Quadrupel Ale 2011, Single Brew Reserve 2011 and Honey Spice Tripel 2011 available on Sharp’s webpage, select beer retailers and restaurants now. Quadrupel Ale at 10% ABV is dark ruby in colour with a full bittersweet fruitiness and warming finish while Single Brew Reserve 2011 at 4.5% ABV is a showcase for the noblest of hops, the Czech Saaz. The third in the range, Honey Spice Tripel 2011, at 10% ABV is an effervescent and refreshing beer with spice and fruit notes with a long dry finish.
Stuart continues, “The beers in this range are all distinct. I haven’t gone for a theme because the Connoisseur’s Choice range is designed to show the drinker the breadth of flavours and sensations available from beer. They are packed with enticing flavour, a partner to good food and something to savour. The flavours and sensations are intended to impress and astonish but not to alienate. All of the beers are designed to be balanced and complex remaining subtle where necessary.”
Sharp’s Brewery plans to run a competition through their Facebook page from June until September for Facebook users to submit their perfect beer and food matching recipes to be judged by high-profile chefs, Nathan Outlaw, Jack Stein and Alyn Williams. More details will follow soon.
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Full tasting notes
Quadrupel Ale at 10% ABV is dark ruby in colour with a full bittersweet fruitiness and warming finish. Produced with pale, crystal and chocolate malts that are combined with Centennial, Hallertauer and Aurora hops, the beer is then fermented with three strains of yeast and matured on fresh Simcoe hops for a month at -1oC, before finally being seeded with a fourth yeast strain and bottled conditioned. This painstaking production process leads to a beer perfect for savouring and contemplative relaxation and an ideal partner to mature cheeses and rich chocolate desserts.
Single Brew Reserve 2011 at 4.5% ABV is a showcase for the noblest of hops, the Czech Saaz. Whole cone Saaz, fresh from the harvest are used to dry hop the beer during maturation. Mid golden in colour, this ale has a fresh, herbal lemon aroma. In the mouth, light barley sugars give way to a perfumed bitterness. The finish is dry, clean and exquisitely appetising. Serve as an aperitif or pair with light dishes such as fresh salads or grilled white fish.
Honey Spice Tripel 2011, at 10% ABV is an effervescent and refreshing beer with spice and fruit notes with a long dry finish. The Tripel turned the experience of a 9+% ABV beer from one of satiation to one of refreshment with a hint of provocation. A specialist strain originating in a trappist monastery has been used to add its signature spice, fruit and tartness to the beer. Honey Spice Tripel is intended to have an intoxicating aroma of bubblegum and spice with subtle clove, banana and cherry liqueur notes. All the strings have been pulled with the recipe and process to ensure the flavour belies the beer’s mighty 10% ABV.
Notes to Editors
If you would like to speak to Sharp’s for more information, please contact:
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About Sharp’s Brewery Ltd
Founded in 1994, Sharp’s Brewery is a modern brewer of cask conditioned beer based at Rock in Cornwall and has grown rapidly to become the largest brewer of cask beer in the South West and the owner of one of the UK’s fastest growing cask beer brands, Doom Bar.
Sharp’s beer is brewed exclusively using just British malted barley, whole hop flowers, Sharp’s own yeast and Cornish water. The brewery at Rock is one of the UK’s most sustainable and is an industry leader with water to beer conversion ratio of just 2.8 litres per litre of beer.
2011 saw Head Brewer, Stuart Howe, crowned All Party Parliamentary Beer Group Brewer of the Year, Doom Bar and Monsieur Rock scoop Bronze Medals at the International Beer Challenge Awards and Sharp’s Special and Chalky’s Bite crowned in best pale ale categories at the World Beer Awards.
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