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Itchen Valley Godfathers

ABV: 3.8%
Origin: New Alresford, Hampshire, England
Website: www.itchenvalley.com

Godfathers

This beer featured as a British Real Ale in a Bottle on the bottled beer review page in the current (May 2010) issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to members, who can also view it online. The magazine is also available in selected newsagents. For more beers featured in this article, see previous post.

From a brewery of similar vintage (to mentioned in previous post) but in another valley, near Alresford in Hampshire, comes Godfathers (3.8 per cent). This is the lightest beer in a range well presented with colourful labels, reflecting the parent company’s main business of supplying pub signs.

Brewed from pale and crystal barley malt, wheat malt, Progress, Goldings Variety, Goldings and Fuggles hops, this is a pale amber ale with a soft foamy off-white head. A fruity spiced aroma has a pear note, and there’s strawberry and peach on a creamy and lightly biscuity palate with a whiff of rubber. A cleansing swallow sets up a mild, gently dry finish with a faint roast touch. Overall a balanced and very pleasing beer.

Buy this beer from AlesbyMail.com as part of a special pack containing all the beers featured on my beer review page in BEER this month. BEER readers receive a special discount by entering the voucher code shown in the magazine.

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For more beers featured in this article, see next post.

Read more about this beer at ratebeer.com: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/itchen-valley-godfathers/5623/

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