Posted: 13th November 2015
Enjoy a 100% Natural Festive Tipple
This Christmas, put away the port, forget the fizz, and raise a glass of beer to the festive season.
Britain’s oldest brewer Shepherd Neame has released this year’s vintage of its Christmas Ale, a full-bodied winter beer featuring a warming combination of fruits and spices.
The seasonal ale is brewed using 100% natural ingredients, drawing chalk-filtered mineral water from the artesian well deep below Shepherd Neame’s site, along with the finest malting barley and Kentish hops.
The seasonal ale boasts warming notes of fruits and spices, blending pale and crystal malts with Target and Challenger hops for bitterness, and Goldings hops for aroma.
In keeping with Shepherd Neame’s long heritage, the festive ale has a traditional packaging design, with a vintage, Dickensian-style bottle label and pump clip.
Head brewer Richard Frost said:
Christmas is about tradition, and as Britain’s oldest brewer we are very proud of the special beer we have created for the festive season. It is a glowing amber winter beer with a heady, fruity nose - the perfect accompaniment to the sticky pudding sweetness of festive fare.
Christmas Ale is available on draught (ABV 5.0%) during December. It is also available in 500ml bottles (ABV 7.0%) from the brewery’s shop - order your bottles here!