Pipe Dreams - George Wright

The Ealing Beer festival always features beers from some of the best small breweries. One of these Breweries is the George Wright Brewery who only began brewing in 2003. However, the fact that the brewery is a new state of the art facility does not affect the quality of the produce! In fact Pipe Dreams (4.3% abv) won a silver medal in the Champion Beer of Britain awards for the style of Best Bitter in 2007. The beer is a hazy straw colour with a medium bitterness and a nice citrus aftertaste. The use of citrus laden hops such as the US varieties, Cascade, Amarillo, Chinook and Columbus seem to be in vogue with UK microbreweries, especially when added to summer ales. This is a trend that I hope will become more common in the future. Website here.