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Over 50th Beers in 2006
Friday 15th is the day that Ray Welton will brew the 50th different beer this year. The beer will actually be ICE GOLD SPICE 5.1%, a rich spicy golden beer. As well as having to keep brewing all the different varieties, at least 1 a week, the brewery offers 6 regular beers.
The depth of this achievement can be measured by, the fact that all of the beers are individually brewed, (not like some breweries who mix beer to create a new one) and by the variety of different beers brewed. For instance:- Bitter (our standard drink), mild, stout, porter, golden, weiss beer, weizen beer, dunkel weizen, pilsner & even a spice beer for which the recipe was extracted from an account of a table ale that was brewed pre 1835. Also the different strengths vary from the acclaimed Pridenjoy at 2.8% to the strongest this year, which is Horsham Porter 8.1%.
If this is not enough, then Ray decided to start bottling the beer! The first examples of our Bottle Conditioned beers are available this Christmas, in the form of Wenceslegless 4.6% & Snowjoke 7.1%. In the new year we will install a bottle filling plant that will be able to fill 500 bottles per hour of our fantastic draught beer. Our intention is to have at least 2 regular beers in bottles; Old Cocky 4.3% & Old Harry 5.2%, both of which are massively popular in draught & the same beer will go into the bottles. We then will look to produce a different bottled beer each month with something very special for Christmas 2007.
As well as all of this going on Weltons has launched a new website, www.weltonsbeer.com. It features a resume of our brewing ethos & a gallery of all the year’s pumpclip artwork. You can also send in comments through the forum and upload pumpclips with suggestions for new beer names. We don’t guaranty we use them, but we can publish the ones that are publishable.
In 2006 we achieved substantial increase in sales of our flagship beer PRIDENJOY, it is a full bodied 2.8% abv beer which is consistently thought to be 4% abv in tastings we have had throughout the trade. In 2005 the beer writer Roger Protz wrote of it that “it is a most remarkable beer”. He then thought fit to include it in his book, “300 Beers To Try Before You Die”. Quite an accolade for such a low gravity beer. It is quite unique in the trade and is a serious attempt to provide a refreshing, healthy beer drink that doesn’t necessarily make you drunk. It is often available in JD Wetherspoons bars at Gatwick Airport, it is also available in a growing number of the Massive Pub group outlets throughout south London. www.massivepub.co.uk
