Beer & cider

• Sample drinks menu

• 6.50

  Hix Oyster Ale 500ml
  Hix's own brew - Winner of 2 stars at the Great Taste Awards 2009. From a long-established family brewery, Palmers in Bridport, Dorset, pours a pleasing deep brown, almost black colour and throws a fine-bubbled, long-lasting thick head. Quite smooth, with hazelnuts, cocoa and caramel, the dark malty flavours display a hint of sweetness. Real emphasis on fruit and nuts, and yet not too heavy or cloying on the palate 5.5%

• 6.50

  HIX India Pale Ale 500ml
  Hix's new Indian Pale Ale, again from Palmers in Bridport, Dorset. Full drinking, well balanced hops with classic English malted barley 4.2 %

• 6.50

  Harvistoun Schiehallion 500ml
  A Scottish Lager, delicately crafted, crisp, dry and
  Refreshing with a beautifully fresh,
  grapefruity taste 4.8 %
  

• 6.50

  Sharp's Chalky's Bite 330ml
  A fascinating Cornish beer with great complexity of flavour - emulating some of the best Belgian ales. Wild Cornish fennel and wheat added to it before being matured for three months. Should hit the spot with oysters and more complex foods such as mutton and well-aged meats 6.8%

• 6.75

  Innis & Gunn original oak aged beer 330ml
  A highly versatile beer, this is aged in American oak barrels to give the beer soft, sensuous caramel flavours with a twist of lemon on the finish. This a highly versatile food beer, excellent with anything seared or with caramelisation - roast suckling pig, roast grouse, devilled kidneys, chump chops 6.6%

• 6.50

  St Peter's Old Style Porter 500ml
  Stouts were originally called 'stout porters', drier and more roasted versions of the porters which sprang up in the 1720's to lubricate the market porters, who made London tick. Often aged for two years in massive oak vats, they were slightly vinous (sour) and sensuous with background chocolate flavours. Great with sensuous foods - oysters, smoked salmon, mutton, venison, grilled fish and steak 5.1%

• 6.00

  Dunkerton's Organic Cider 330ml
  Sophisticated medium sweet organic cider, strong in flavour, made from 100% pure juice of English cider apples - Foxwhelp, Sheepnose, Dabinett and Bakewell Seedling. All picked close to Dunkertons Cider Mill, Pembridge, Herefordshire 7%

• 5.75

  Burrow Hill Farm cider 500ml
  Medium dry. A blend of at least 11 varieties of vintage cider apples 6%

• 13.75

  Burrow Hill Kingston Black cider 750ml
  A dry, complex cider with a sharp fruit finish.

• 6.00

  Burrow Hill Perry
  A golden medium dry perry, with a delicate bouquet of pear, 6.3%

• 6.00

  West St. Mungo 330ml
  A lager brewed in strict adherence with the German Purity Law of 1516, the oldest food law in the world. West has selected only the finest German malt and the most noble hops to create a deceptively easy drinking, light golden lager.