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SUMMARY:Old Peculier
DESCRIPTION:Today’s Beer of the Day judge is Mark Dredge\, beer writer and presenter. \nHis choice is the classic Theakston ale\, Old Peculier. He says: \n“I don’t think I’ve ever seen Old Peculier available on cask and not ordered it.  It’s one of the great British dark ales with its inviting aroma of chocolate\, dark malts\, cherries\, dark fruits and banana.  The body is lush and smooth\, with a delicious richness of malts that’s so satisfying to drink.  It’s an ultimate ale to drink in the pub on a cold evening. \nAbout Theakston Old Peculier \nTheakston Old Peculier is possibly one of the country’s most well-known and loved ales. The unique\, beautiful brew is often imitated but never matched and is sold literally all over the world. With countless awards to its credit\, it is something much admired by ale lovers and is the epitome of the greatest of the British brewing craft. \nIn the early years of the modern brewing era\, about two hundred years ago\, many brewers produced a dark\, strong ‘stock’ beer in the winter months\, to provide a base amount of fermented beer to add to beers brewed in the rather more volatile months of the summer. Old Peculier probably owes its origins to this. In the early years of its inception\, the beer would not have been branded by name as such\, but like most other beers from most breweries was probably referred to by the number of chalk crosses stamped on the wooden cask containing the beer. For many years even up to within living memory Old Peculier was represented on individual casks by four X’s\, XXXX. During late Victorian times\, the beer became affectionately referred to\, by locals\, as Yorkshire’s ‘Lunatic’s Broth’ referencing the unique flavour and strength characteristics of the beer and the possible effect of over-consumption! However it is thought that the nickname did not reflect well on the brewery or the town and so a more respectable name was required. \nThe town of Masham is most unusual from an ecclesiastical point of view unlike most churches in the country which are attached to the local diocese\, Masham was given a particular status\, a ‘Court of the Peculier’ as opposed to ‘Court of the Ordinary’. This relates back to medieval times where the ‘living’ of Masham was given to the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in York as repayment for the negotiated release by the Knights Templar from imprisonment in the Middle East during the Crusades\, of the owner of the ‘living’ of Masham\, Roger de Mowbray. The Archbishop\, however was not overjoyed with this arrangement as he was responsible for administrating the law and the journey to Masham involved travelling through thick forests inhabited by cut-throats and vagabonds. His solution was therefore to free Masham from ‘All the customs and claims of his Archdeacons and officials’ and the Peculier Court of Masham was established to administer the law. Peculier is the Norman French word meaning particular rather than odd. The Chairman of the court was known as the Official and had a seal to mark his approval or decision. There is no record of the original seal but the seal in use today was created by King George III in 1747 and is thought to be based on a much earlier original. \nSo reflecting the unique status of the town of Masham and that of Mr. Theakston’s much admired strong beer\, the name of Old Peculier was deemed a much more suitable solution. At first the spelling of Peculier was with an A rather than an E. This was done to politely draw a distinction between the Court and the beer but over time the spelling of Peculier with an E has become the established version \nUsing the finest of ingredients\, Theakston Old Peculier is the alchemy of the famous Theakston twin-strain yeast\, pure Yorkshire Dales water\, the finest malting barley\, top quality English hops and the alignment of the brewing vessels and processes in the Victorian tower brewery\, the home of Theakston’s in Masham since its foundation nearly 200 years ago. \nThe beer has wondrous qualities. The aroma of subtle fruity black cherry and banana overtones develops into a delightful\, warming\, fruity flavour\, with beautifully balanced sweetness tempered with a mixture of bitter hops blended with the majestic Fuggle fruit hop. Brewed at an original gravity of 10.57 degrees\, the original mashtun\, installed in the ‘new’ brewery in 1875\, creates from the mash\, the amount of fermentable and un-fermentable sugars to ensure that the correct balance of residual sweetness is retained at the splendid\, heart-warming 5.6% ABV. \nWhilst very well-known for many years\, locally\, Theakston Old Peculier’s national and international reputation began in the late 1960s with the re-discovered enthusiasm for traditional cask ale at a time when keg ale was all the rage. At the same time a campaigning group now numbering close to 200K members advocating a return to top fermented cask conditioned beer\, the Campaign for Real Ale adopted Theakston’s Old Peculier as an exemplar of how proper beer should be brewed and presented. The popularity of Old Peculier spread like wild fire and is now sold in countries in every continent of the planet (except Antarctica!). Indeed there is an ‘Old Peculier Appreciation Society based in California\, some years ago the Canadian Veterans International Rugby Team was called the Old Peculiers. We even have a UK based Hockey club called the Old Peculiers. \nToday\, Theakston Old Peculier is the title sponsor of the world’s leading Crime Writers Festival attracting the greatest crime writers to a four-day extravaganza staged in close by Harrogate \nFor nearly 200 years and throughout the ever changing market in which beer trends come and go\, Theakston Old Peculier surely is one of the Britain’s greatest brewing treasures and which can demonstrate beyond doubt passing the true test of time. \nThe beer: \nFull tasting notes : Theakston Old Peculier is a beautiful\, yet very simple beer\, brewed using a very generous blend of finest pale\, crystal and black malt with two bitter hops\, Progress and Challenger combined with the majestic and noble ‘Fuggle’ hop to produce a beer of awesome full-bodied flavour with subtle cherry and rich fruit overtones. It tasted superb when accompanied by rich stews\, strong cheeses and sweet puddings \nCyclops definition \nBitter 2\nSweet 3 \nSee Deep dark ruby\nSmell Fruity\, mellow\, warming\nTaste Rich\, full – bodied\, fruity \nStyle Premium ale 5.6% \nShort description: One of the world’s great beers – smooth\, strong and mellow \nDescriptor: The beer that made Masham famous – rich\, dark and smooth tasting\, with a character all of its own. Brewed using the traditional Fuggle hop\, Old Peculier is our best known beer and has a large and enthusiastic following all over Britain and around the world \n 
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/old-peculier/
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SUMMARY:Sussex Best
DESCRIPTION:Today’s Beer of the Day judge is Rebecca Pate\, Beer Sommelier and Cask Marque’s very own Social Media Manager. \nHer choice is legendary Sussex Best from Harvey’s Brewery. She said: \n“I’m delighted to be the one to nominate Harvey’s Best because it’s a popular beer with a legendary status. I was lucky enough to spend some time in Lewes this summer\, where I fell in love with this beer all over again. \nSussex Best is a balanced beer with a prominent hop character. At 4.0% ABV\, it makes for a easy-drinking beer that you can enjoy all afternoon long.” \nAbout Sussex Best\nA superbly balanced bitter with prominent hop character. Using a blend of four local hops\, water filtered through the Sussex Downs over 30 years\, and Harvey’s unique 60 year old yeast strain\, Harvey’s Best Bitter is the embodiment of Sussex. \nFind out more here.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/sussex-best/
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SUMMARY:Theakston Brewery
DESCRIPTION:Theakson Brewery has been chosen for today’s ‘Brewery of the Day’. \nTheakston is one of Britain’s oldest established family brewing companies and is famed throughout the country and overseas for its wide range of premium ales brewed in our historic Victorian tower brewery.  Their legendary Old Peculier beer is sold in many countries overseas and is widely admired as a world iconic beer. \nLocated in the Yorkshire Dales market town of Masham\, North Yorkshire and controlled and run by fifth generation\, direct family descendants of the founder\, Robert Theakston. They use Robert’s passion for quality ingredients and brewing as the guiding ethos that has ensured their company’s place at the pinnacle of the brewer’s art today. \nHaving an amazing history encompassing everything from world wars\, economic highs and lows\, takeovers and buy-backs throughout nearly two centuries of brewing\, today\, Theakston remain at the forefront of the craft beer revival with customers all over the UK. We play an active role in supporting arts\, sport and the local environment both in North Yorkshire and further afield. \nCooperage\nTheakston have employed coopers since the founding of the company in 1827 and today\, Theakston Old Peculier in hand crafted oak casks is regularly ordered by licensees and made available to them across the north of the country. Theakston are very proud of their coopering tradition and to be able to continue the history of coopering\, being one of the last remaining breweries in the UK to still have an in-house cooperage. \nFor many hundreds of years before metal casks were invented\, wooden casks were the only means by which not just liquids but also foodstuffs were transported\, not least within the brewing industry. But such has been the success of the introduction of the metal version that very few brewers today still retain a cooper. The reason for this is that to make an oak cask of precise content from non-standard widths of oak is a true craft which cannot be replicated by machine. The manufacture of metal casks contrastingly is an automated process.  Find out more here. \nFind out more by visiting Theakston’s website\, here.\nBook a brewery tour here.\nVisit their shop here.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/theakston-brewery/
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SUMMARY:Hook Norton Brewery
DESCRIPTION:Hook Norton have been chosen as our Brewery of the Day for day 5 of Cask Ale Week. \nBrewing since 1849\, Hook Norton Brewery has been in the same brewing family for 5 generations and continues to produce a wide range of award-winning cask\, keg and bottled beers from its 5-story Victorian Tower Brewery. \nHook Norton offer a selection of seasonal ales that complement the established core range\, creating complexity with naturally grown ingredients and water drawn from the wells beneath our brewery. \nThey are a proud\, passionate\, independent family owned brewery located in the Cotswold Hills. Every ale uses the finest ingredients\, is openly fermented and handcrafted to give each one a character of its own. Keeping tradition alive they deliver beer by dray using a team of four Shire horses. Read more about the Shire horses here. \nVisit Hook Norton’s website to find out more. \nEnjoy 10% OFF when you buy a case of Hooky ale. Use code: HNB1849. Order online here.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/hook-norton-brewery/
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SUMMARY:6X by Wadworth Brewery
DESCRIPTION:Today’s judge is Cask Marque’s newest team member\, Mark Tinsley. \nMark has chosen 6X\, which is Wadworth Brewery’s iconic ale.  First brewed on 5th December 1923. Wadworth are celebrating 6X’s centenary all year with events activities and prizes. \nThere’s a fun fact about how it got it’s name too…\nOriginally 6%\, Coopers would mark XXXXXX on the wooden casks to indicate the beer’s strength. One day a ‘lazy’ Cooper simply wrote ‘6’ followed by a single ‘X’ on the cask and that’s how it got its name! \nFind out more here. 
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/6x-by-wadworth-brewery/
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SUMMARY:Adnams
DESCRIPTION:Adnams is our Brewery of the Day on day 4 of Cask Ale Week. \nFounded by George and Ernest Adnams in 1872\, Adnams began as a Southwold brewery on the Suffolk coast and has been fiercely independent for the last 150 years. \nIn 2010\, Adnams became the first brewery in England to build a distillery on the same site. Its pioneering spirit has enabled Adnams to become a distinctive brewer\, distiller\, wine merchant\, retailer\, publican\, and hotelier. \nThey craft well-loved premium beers and spirits\, and work with some wonderful producers to bring you the best wines in the world. Their stores\, hotels\, pubs\, and inns reflect their individuality and the personality of their incredible teams. \nTheir famous cask beer include\, Ghostship\, Broadside and Southwold Bitter. \nFind out more by visiting – www.adnams.co.uk \nBook onto one of their famous brewery tours here. \nFind a pub and hotel to stay and visit here.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/adnams/
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SUMMARY:Timothy Taylor's
DESCRIPTION:Timothy Taylor’s Brewery are our Brewery of the Day for day two of Cask Ale Week. \nTimothy Taylor established the brewery in the centre of Keighley in 1858\, before moving to their present site in Knowle Spring in 1863. \nThe brewery remains in the Taylor family and is now the last independent brewery of its type left in West Yorkshire. This independence enables Taylor’s to survive as one of the few brewers still brewing true cask ales in the same way it has always done. \nTheir mission to take extra time\, care and pride in traditional\, hands-on brewing\, making no compromise when it comes to ingredients. All for that taste of Taylor’s. \nFind out more about their brewing process here. \nTake the virtual brewery tour here \nClick here to find out more about the Timothy Taylor’s brewers by clicking here. \nWant to WIN a money-can’t-buy brewery tour and meal for four people at Timothy Taylor’s tap room\, Taylors on the Green? Find out more by visiting here.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/timothy-taylors/
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SUMMARY:Arkell's 3B
DESCRIPTION:Today’s Beer of the Day is 3B by Arkell’s Brewery. \nBeer of of the Day judge for the first day of Cask Ale Week is Simon Martin\, Founder of the Real Ale Guide on YouTube. \nSimon says: \n“The reason I chose 3B is not only for it’s historical relevance to British cask ale\, but for taste” \n3B is Arkell’s best selling and oldest brand. They’ve been brewing it since 1910! A classic English best bitter\, originally known as Arkell’s Best Bitter Beer and affectionately known as BBB or 3B by customers ever since. A copper coloured ale with a pleasant fruity and malty nose. It has a lingering bittersweet flavour of balanced Maris Otter malt\, traditional Fuggles\, and Golding hops. ABV: 4%. \nFind out more by visiting here.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/arkells-3b/
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SUMMARY:Arkell's Brewery
DESCRIPTION:Arkell’s Brewery have been chosen as our Brewery of the Day for the first day of Cask Ale Week.  They are great ambassadors of cask and this year they are celebrating a remarkable 180th birthday. \nFounded by John Arkell in in 1843\, this family-owned brewery has remained true to its roots. The beer is still brewed in much the same way as it was when John Arkell first made it in 1843 and the brewery buildings seem untouched by the passing years. \nToday\, the Arkell family work at the brewery alongside generations of other local families\, brewing real ale and looking after nearly 100 pubs across Wiltshire\, Gloucestershire\, Oxfordshire\, Berkshire and Hampshire. \nArkell’s ales include award-winning beers such as Wiltshire Gold\, 3B\, and Hoperation IPA. Special ales are brewed regularly\, with Head Brewer\, Alex Arkell\, keeping the art of craft ale alive\, offering drinkers new tastes and flavours all hand made in their traditional brewery. \nTo find out more about them\, www.arkells.com\nTo book onto one of their brewery tours\, click here. \nArkell’s Ale Trail on the CaskFinder app \nHave you joined the Arkell’s 180th Anniversary Ale Trail on CaskFinder? Visit just over 80 pubs and WIN some fantastic prizes. Prizes include:- \nPrize for 10 scans – A limited edition 180th polo shirt\nPrize for 20 scans – Two packs of Arkell’s bottled beer\nPrize for 30 scans – An Arkell’s goody bag\nPrize for 50 scans – A one night’s stay in a double room at an Arkell’s managed pub\nPrize for 75 scans – A meal voucher for two\nPrize for 83 scans – A private brewery tour for five people hosted personally by Alex Arkell\, followed by a pub lunch and take home beer. \nClick here to download the CaskFinder app.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/arkells-brewery/
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