Little Vally Brewery Hebden's Wheat

hamsterboy

Hi All
Had two bottles of this last night as I had just discovered the range in my local offy.
Have to say, very very impressed.
A much different "wheat" experience than you'd get from the usual german suspects, also has hints of cinnamon and lemon
I can't wait to try the rest of the range, their Stoodley Stout.
A big plus for me was the official Vegan status, as well as being fully organic
Check out the rest of their range here

Regards

HB

p.s. Found it in Harvest Off Licence, Oranmore

BeerNut

I had their ginger ale, but wasn't a fan.

I'm always suspicious of any brewery that claims environmentally-friendly credentials. Beer making, especially small scale, is very wasteful of water (though not as bad as wine). Little Valley use organic hops from New Zealand so you have to ask yourself is the massive carbon footprint worth having a pesticide-free ingredient. I've certainly never noticed organic beers tasting any better than non-organic ones. More often it's the opposite because the hop production is compromised to meet organic standards.

I doubt there are many non-vegan bottled beers around. The use of isinglass is more of a concern when it comes to British cask ales.

oblivious

BeerNut wrote: »

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I doubt there are many non-vegan bottled beers around. The use of isinglass is more of a concern when it comes to British cask ales.

Apparent there are loads ,fuller, Badger's batmans all have bottle beers that is vegan friendly due to a combination of cold conditioning and filtration

Here is a list http://www.enchant.me.uk/Vegetarian_beers.html

BeerNut

oblivious wrote: »

Apparent there are loads

That's what I said. Circuitously

Isinglass is expensive. I'd say breweries only use it if they absolutely have to.

oblivious

BeerNut wrote: »

That's what I said. Circuitously

Isinglass is expensive. I'd say breweries only use it if they absolutely have to.

some make their own with acid treatment of the fish swim bladder, which is a good bit cheaper

mayordenis

Have to say I didn't like the wheat - but I honestly think their IPA is one of the top british IPA's - that I've had at least, I was always very hesitant with anything Vegan/Organic or any of that but it really was for a me a fantastic beer - The Stout was nice, the bitter average and as I said really didn't like the Wheat - can't too well remember the Blonde but don't think I was mad on it either but the IPA ticked pretty much all the boxes for me.