Pumps over the last couple of weeks.

It was our birthdays over the last couple of weeks and although most things went wrong over this time, we did manage to have a few new beers.

Fyne Ales, Vital Spark from Scotland

4.4% deep brown in colour with a nice head, fruit and malt aroma, the taste is a slightly watery malt.

Electric Bear, Howdy Ho from England

5.1% brown in colour with a nice head, not mutch aroma, the taste was interesting but ok.

Durham, Black Bishop from England

4.1% almost black in colour with a good head, nicee stout aroma and a slightly fizzy but nice stout taste.

Great Heck, Mercy from England

4.0% gold colour with a nice head, it was one of those hoppy beers, too hoppy for me.

Sonnet 43, The Raven Bourbon Milk Stout from England

4.3% black in colour with nice head, nice sweet aroma and a good sweet but stout taste.

Black Sheep

After the Theakston's Brewery was sold in the 1980's, (although is went back to the family in the 2000's) in 1992 Paul Theakston established the Black Sheep Brewery in the old Lightfoot Brewery premises. What is amazing to me is that I have never covered the Black Sheep Brewery beers properly on here before, I have done some in the past but never all together. So here goes, some of the labels may have changed but these are the ones I have and it is rather a long list.

By the way I do not think that I have covered the Theakston's Brewery either, so that will have to follow.

Black Sheep, Black Sheep Ale from England

 

4.4%, amber colour with a thin head, slight hop aroma, fairly bitter hoppy flavour, nice.

Black Sheep, Riggwelter from England

5.7% deep dark brown with a good head, strong but very nice dark Yorkshire ale.

Black Sheep, Golden Sheep from England

 

4.7%, gold colour with a thin head, sweet citrus hop aroma, slight fruit and bitter hop taste, nice beer.

Black Sheep, Yorkshire Square Ale from England

5.0% light amber with a thin head, malt aroma, dry citrus fruit and malt taste, very nice.

Black Sheep, Monty Pythons Holy Grail from England

 

4.7% gold colour with a thin head, citrus hop aroma, bitter citrus hop taste, obviously named after the great Monty Python film.

Black Sheep, Emmerdale from England

4.2% gold colour with a thin head, slight malty aroma, tastes like a cheap bitter, a gimmicky beer, for tourists. Named after the fictitious dale, the setting for the long running soap, Emmerdale (formerly Emmerdale Farm).

Black Sheep, Velo from England

 

4.2% clod colour with a nice head, hoppy aroma and fruity hop taste, not the best from Sheep but ok. it was produced for the Tour de France 2014.

Black Sheep, Ruddy Ram from England

4.0% dark brown in colour with a good head, chocolate and coffee aroma, taste is similar but ever so slightly thin.

Black Sheep, Golden Sheep from England

 

4.7%, gold colour with a thin head, sweet citrus hop aroma, slight fruit smooth bitter hop taste, nice beer.

Black Sheep, Blind Side from England

4.3% amber colour with a nice head, not much aroma but with a bitter woody taste.

There are more but they will have to wait.

Wensleydale Stout

First new beer on Saturday night was a stout, we had it with tapas and it went very well indeed. It was yet another Wensleydale beer and again bought in Leyburn.
Wensleydale, Black Dub from England.
4.4% black in colour with a thin head, the aroma is toffee and chocolate, taste is grain and slightly sweet chocolate, as I said it went well with the food. I am not a lover of stout but this was nice and it was the best of the Wensleydale beers I have had to date.