Saw this English brewery mentioned on the always interesting Pete Brown blog and if he is a fan then we should all be on the lookout.
Hardknott Brewery came into being when a publican named David Bailey decided he wanted to brew instead of serve and this is what was created:
Fusion – a 4% ginger beer that has had chilli added to the mix.
Dark Energy – a 4.9% ‘sort of a stout perhaps, dark and fruity dry hops’ in Dave’s words
Continuum – their 4% ‘standard’ beer, dry hopped in the cask
Infra-Red – a 6.2% IPA (apparently ‘hoppier than a bucket of frogs’)
And in bottle there’s Granite (Barley Wine style) and Aether Blaec (Islay whisky barrel-aged stout).