6X
(Wadworth's Flagship Premium Ale) 4.3% ABV
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Palate
Full bodied and distinctive, with complex bitter-sweet flavours in mouth.
Lingering dry malty finish with vanilla notes.
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Nose
Earthy hops, fruit and nutty malt aroma.
Comments
One of the South's most famous beers - a deep copper coloured ale of
enormous depth and complexity.
Availability
6X is available throughout the UK and also in 500 ml Can
and 550 ml Bottle.
Brewed from Pale Ale Malt (94%)
Crystal Malt (2%) and cane sugar (4%)
whole cone aroma hops - Fuggles in copper for bitterness (22
- 23 BUs) and character, Goldings in hop back for aroma. Primed with
liquid cane sugar for secondary fermentation in cask.
JCB
4.7% ABV
A quality Strong Premium beer crafted from an all malt grist containing
crystal roasted at high temperature combined with English aroma hops to
give a chewy bite, and a unique distinctive palate.
MALT 'N' HOPS
4.5% ABV
Tasting Notes for
Malt Hops
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Palate
Full rich malt in the mouth, hops start to dominate the big finish
with peppery citric notes balancing the rich malt
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Nose
Sweet and nutty malt aroma with balance of tart hops.
Comments
When visiting a hop farm in 1991, our Head Brewer pondered on the
merits of unkilned fresh hops as a unique brewing material. Malt
& Hops was first brewed in 1992 - In 1993 Michael Jackson wrote
in the lndependent Newspaper "The colour of ripe barley and
malty sweet to start, the beer delivers a surge of cleansing
flavours and a late finish of appetite arousing bitterness".
Others have since copied the
recipe, but "Malt & Hops" remains the original draught
"Fresh Harvest Ale'
HENRYS
IPA
3.6% ABV
Named after the Wadworth founder Henry Alfred Wadworth
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Palate
Malt dominates initially with dry hoppy finish and biscuity
after-palate.
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Nose
Floral hops aroma, with light fruit.
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Comments
Devizes and surrounding area local bitter. A light and refreshing deep
golden coloured ale.
Brewed from Pale Ale Malt (94%)
Crystal Malt (4%) and cane sugar (4%)
whole cone aroma hops - Fuggles in copper for bitterness (22
- 23 BUs) and character, Goldings in hop back for aroma. Primed
with liquid cane sugar for secondary fermentation in cask.
OUR
SEASONAL ALES
OLD FATHER TIMER 5.8% ABV
A strong Winter Ale available in December.
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Palate
Full malt and fruit in mouth, long finish full of hop bitterness with
banana and sultana fruit and hints of butterscotch.
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Nose
Ripe fruit & hops aromas.
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Comments
Aromatic winter beer, deep copper brown in colour. A classic strong
ale - Head Brewer recommends consumption next to log fire !
Brewed from Pale Ale Malt (94%)
Crystal Malt (2%) and cane sugar (4%)
whole cone aroma hops - Fuggles in copper for bitterness (22
- 23 BUs) and character, Goldings in hop back for aroma. Dry
hopping with Goldings at 2oz/brl and primed with liquid cane sugar for
secondary fermentation in cask.
SUMMERSAULT 4.0%
ABV
A refreshingly fragrant "Summer Ale" currently available for six
months of the year.
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Palate
Delicate, creamy malt and hops in the mouth; light refreshing
delicately hoppy finish.
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Nose
Fragrant, Piney, Saaz hop aroma with sweet malt.
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Comments
Very pale ale with a refined bitterness and some of the fragrant
character of a Czech lager. Summersault is brewed to be served chilled
to 48 - 50 F for additional refreshment. Our Brewers also prefer it on
"Northern" dispense through a sparkler where the hopping
regime provides a tight white creamy head which laces the glass
beautifully. Summersault is also available in 33cl bottle at the
slightly higher strength of 4.5% abv.
Brewed from 100% low kilned
Pipkin Ale Malt. Copper hops are English Fuggles, Saaz from the Czech
Republic and Styrian Goldings from the Savinga valley, Slovenia (28
BU’s). Fuggles and Saaz are also added in the hop back. 4 oz/brl.
Saaz are used as a dry hop.
BISHOPS TIPPLE
5.5% ABV
The Bishop's Tipple has been a legend amongst ale drinkers ever
since it was originally brewed to commemorate George Reindorp's
appointment as Bishop of Salisbury.
"This blessed beer at
5.5% ABC will be my undoing....It's so damnably refreshing, a
temptress with it's pale, golden hue and soft after palate from
those tantalising Saaz and Styrian Goldings hops giving the beer
that divine drinkability. I crave for the indulgence to once again
let that clean, golden liquid pass my lips... though I fear I will
forsake this beguiling tipple of mine all too soon."
The Bishop's Tipple is
brewed from 94% low colour malt from Optic barley and 6% cane sugar.
Bitterness units of 38-42 are obtained from substantial quantities
of Saaz and Styrian Goldings hops. One third of these are reserved
for the hopback plates for enhanced flavour and aroma.
Colour rating is 16.
OUR HISTORY
Founded in 1875, Wadworth and Company
Limited, of Devizes, boasts an enviable tradition in the brewing of fine
beers. The Northgate Brewery, with its impressive Victorian facade,
was designed and built by Henry Wadworth in 1885 and is still run as a
family business by his descendants. Many of the original brewing
techniques and closely guarded recipes are still employed today and to
preserve the high standards laid down by the founders, great care is
naturally taken to select only the finest malt, hops and yeast for the
brewing process. This ensures that customers can rely on
consistency and superb taste with all Wadworth products.
Wadworth and Company have a widespread
and well founded reputation for brewing exceptional beers. It
began in 1875 when the old Northgate brewery was purchased by Henry
Alfred Wadworth. At the age of 22 he already hade six years
brewing experience both as a pupil at a brewery in London and also as
manager of a small brewery at No. 8 Long Street in Devizes.
Henry was in partnership with his
life-long friend and brother in law John Smith Bartholomew. During
the next few years they perfected their particular method of brewing and
soon outgrew the facilities of their first premises.
The impact of Wadworth beer had effected
the local market quite dramatically and new custom built premised were
necessary to increase production. Thus a new brewery was
constructed over the site of a small sweet water well within 100 yards
from their first brewery and completed in 1885. The type of
building was typical of the period; electricity distribution had not
been developed and the only power assistance resulted in the fashion of
building a tall tower-type brewery using what power their was to lift
the ingredients of the brew to the top of the brewery and letting
gravity power apply thereafter in the various stages of brewing.
Henry designed his system of brewing into
the fabric of the new building and it must be said now, that Wadworth is
still brewing beer in accordance with Henry's design and in some cases
using the original equipment installed in 1885.
There was no male issue on Henry's side
of the partnership but there has been for his partner. John Smith
Bartholomew succeeded his father as Managing Director until 1929 when he
became Chairman on Henry Wadworth's death following a fall on his
horse. The present John C Bartholomew, grandson of the original
Bartholomew, succeeded his father in 1952; his son Charles has been
Chairman and Managing Director for the past few years. So today
Wadworth and Company continues to be a private company owned by the
Bartholomew family.
The red brick Victorian Tower Brewery is
a unique example of its type together with the original open copper
dating from 1885.
