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Cask Masters
Palmers brewery tell us how they’re celebrating
Cask Ale Week with a new seasonal beer
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Seasons Greetings
We produce four seasonal ales each year.…
almers has been brewing authentic
cask conditioned real ales in the
West Dorset market town of Bridport since
1794. We have never felt the need to describe
our ales as “craft” because they have never
been anything else. Each year thousands of
visitors join us to look round the historic
brewhouse, following the traditional process
from the raw ingredients to a few halves of
the final product. It is a process that in many
ways has changed very little in the last two
centuries. Where it has been updated, it has
always been in the pursuit of quality.
We live in a day and age where it is
fashionable to claim to be passionate. If
Palmers has a passion, it is for quality,
ensuring that every pint reaches our customers
in perfect condition. Investing in our storage,
transport, cellars and, most importantly, in
training the people who handle our ales from
the brewery to our licensees and their teams.
Cask Marque, the leading organisation that
monitors beer quality in UK pubs, recently
described us as “obsessive”, a compliment we
are happy to take.
Working with some of the top licensees in
the industry we are proud that many of our
54 pubs have been recognised as some of the
best in the country. Pubs that draw visitors
to the region from far and wide, visitors who
are in search of the best of local produce and a
genuine English product, cask ale.
Each summer we
produce Colmers
(which was our
first ever seasonal),
using Citra hops (a
popular American
variety) Last autumn we
produced
Trawlerman, a 4.4%
ABV dark ale
In the spring we
had Coast Path, a
3.6 ABV amber ale Big Gig is launches
on 25th September
to coincide with
Cask Ale Week.
It is brewed with
Chocolate Malt for
colour and is late
hopped with First
Gold and
Simcoe hops.
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