From 31 October to 16 November, Nicholson’s Pubs will be launching its Autumn Beer Festival, showcasing a range of dark beers, including 13 ales from some of the UK’s best brewers, and three specialist beers created through a unique “Whose Beer Is It Anyway?” brewing process.
Festival beers will include Red Squirrel’s London Porter, Itchen Valley’s Dark Solstice and Wild Beer Co.’s Scarlet Fever, as well as the “Whose Beer Is It Anyway?” ales devised by the head brewers of Purity, Brains and Adnams.
Charged with producing a trio of “improvised brews”, the three brewers – Fergus Fitzgerald (Adnam’s), Bill Dobson (Brains) and Florent Vialan (Purity) – determined the characteristics of their beers by drawing lots at random from three pots, divided into Style, ABV Range and Hop Region. The three beers are currently being created by the respective breweries, with the finished products to be unveiled at the beginning of the festival.
The improvised brews will be available as individual pints or in a tasting stick of 1/3 pint glasses, with an online vote conducted to ascertain the most popular creation. The winning beer will then be announced at the end of the festival, before being re-‐brewed and made available for the rest of the winter.
The range of festival beers will be available on rotation in all Nicholson’s pubs in the UK and comprises:
- Red Squirrel, London Porter – 5.0%
- Itchen Valley, Dark Solstice – 5.0%
- Elland, 1872 Porter – 6.5%
- Otley, Saison Obscura – 5.5%
- Long Man, Old Man – 4.3%
- Saltaire, American Nut Brown – 4.7% GYB, Cropton Blackout – 5.0% Hilden, Irish Stout – 4.3%
- Purity, Saddleblack – 5.1%
- Elgoods, Black Dog Mild – 3.6%
- Wild Beer Co., Scarlet Fever – 4.8% Inveralmond, Pundie – 5.0%
- St. Austell, Nicholson’s Porter – 5.0%
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