Walsingham shrine has its own beer!

[Bradypus]

A story which a friend with links to the Anglican shrine at Walsingham pointed out to me today. The shrine has teamed up with a local brewery to create a beer named Pilgrim's Pale Ale. Ready well in time for the massive invasion of Student Cross during Holy Week whose members have been known to bend an elbow now and again.

Priests and pints: Religious landmark and brewery unite to launch pilgrim beer

A religious landmark which attracts thousands of pilgrims every year has begun a unique partnership with a neighbouring brewery.

www.edp24.co.uk

 

[SabsP]

A story which a friend with links to the Anglican shrine at Walsingham pointed out to me today. The shrine has teamed up with a local brewery to create a beer named Pilgrim's Pale Ale. Ready well in time for the massive invasion of Student Cross during Holy Week whose members have been known to bend an elbow now and again.

Priests and pints: Religious landmark and brewery unite to launch pilgrim beer

A religious landmark which attracts thousands of pilgrims every year has begun a unique partnership with a neighbouring brewery.

www.edp24.co.uk

And now it all comes to learning to tap the correct beercollar . Being a Belgian I have my ideas how the English tap their beer.
No seriously, splendid idea from the Shrine!

 

[Bradypus]

Being a Belgian I have my ideas how the English tap their beer.

I am living in hope that some Welsh brewery will eventually come up with a decent equivalent of lambic and gueuze

 

[SabsP]

I am living in hope that some Welsh brewery will eventually come up with a decent equivalent of lambic and gueuze

Long live yeast and bacteria!

Oh ,waiting for one of those extreme hot summer evenings here to drink a Boon Geuze.

Brouwerij Boon

www.boon.be

Ok, will stop hijacking this thread!

 

[Kanga]

I expect a slew of miracles. What an incentive to go on pilgrimage!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

You people are speaking a whole new language to me!
Give me a glass of wine or a gin and tonic and I'm a happy lady!

 

[Turga]

Give me a glass of wine or a gin and tonic and I'm a happy lady!

The more the merrier!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

The more the merrier!

Now THAT I understand...hic!

 

[timr]

Thanks everyone for this interesting information. Can I alert you to something tangentially related but probably of interest to some of you - the first English Trappist Beer, called Tynt Meadow? It is a new venture for the Trappist monks at Mount St Bernard in Coalville in Leicestershire.

I was able to catch up with a truly beautiful documentary film on their life last night, called Outside the City. It is an independently produced documentary, and the producer Nick Hamer was there to talk about his film.

If you can possibly get the chance to see it locally I urge you to do so. It was made over the space of a year, and the change from dairying to beer production occurred during that year, and it occupies a small part of the film. The film is a wonderful presentation of a way of life which is far removed from the materialism of the present day, and it is also a profound and hope-filled meditation on death.

Do check the trailer here:

I think the best way to find out about showings is to follow the film on Facebook.

And for information on the English Trappist beer: http://www.mountsaintbernard.org/tynt-meadow-ale

 

[JabbaPapa]

I really do hope for everyone's sanity that this is not just another tedious "craft" pseudo-IPA ...

When I was young, IPA (India Pale Ale) was just a term to designate Pale Ales brewed outside of England and Ireland, and yet good enough to be imported from abroad into these lands.

They were not "interesting", they were not "craft", they were just plain and simple low alcohol % beers refreshing to drink on a hot afternoon. (The Danish brewery Carlsberg did similar) The interest of a classical IPA was in the sort of subtlety that differentiates one simple pilsener from another simple pilsener.

It is the sort of beer that will immediately interest a sweaty and tired pilgrim when asking for una cerveza fría out there on the Meseta ...

Simple, refreshing, cool, and not "interesting".

As for the English Trappist Ale, I've yet to find it on sale anywhere, but I'm curious to sample it -- The American Trappist Spencer is good, both variants I've tasted, but too sweet & sugary for my own personal preference. I generally like my beers and ales bitter.

 

[Bradypus]

When I was young, IPA (India Pale Ale) was just a term to designate Pale Ales brewed outside of England and Ireland, and yet good enough to be imported from abroad into these lands.

Not quite how the term began. Originally they were beers brewed in the UK and which were exported to India while it was still under British rule. Usually quite highly hopped because they had some preservative quality to help the beer survive the journey in decent condition.

 

[timr]

I really do hope for everyone's sanity that this is not just another tedious "craft" pseudo-IPA ...

When I was young, IPA (India Pale Ale) was just a term to designate Pale Ales brewed outside of England and Ireland, and yet good enough to be imported from abroad into these lands.

They were not "interesting", they were not "craft", they were just plain and simple low alcohol % beers refreshing to drink on a hot afternoon. (The Danish brewery Carlsberg did similar) The interest of a classical IPA was in the sort of subtlety that differentiates one simple pilsener from another simple pilsener.

It is the sort of beer that will immediately interest a sweaty and tired pilgrim when asking for una cerveza fría out there on the Meseta ...

Simple, refreshing, cool, and not "interesting".

As for the English Trappist Ale, I've yet to find it on sale anywhere, but I'm curious to sample it -- The American Trappist Spencer is good, both variants I've tasted, but too sweet & sugary for my own personal preference. I generally like my beers and ales bitter.

I cannot comment on the Walsingham beer, but I don't think the Trappists have produced another tedious "craft" pseudo-IPA . I think our sanity is in good hands.

It is 7.4% according to the unopened bottle I am looking at - it was available at the film last night. There are quite a number of tasting reviews on youtube - you can find them easily, and in fact a few get a brief mention in the film as a sort of humorous diversion. It is dark brown/red "fruity, malty, sweet, biscuit, Christmas puddingy, malt loaf, Christmas cakey, very rich...." etc according to the pundits, who seem universally approving. A 'sipping beer'......so not at all the same as a cerveza on the meseta!

[Edited by me because I had been confused as to which beer might be a risk to our sanity ]

 

[SabsP]

I don't think it is another tedious "craft" pseudo-IPA . I think our sanity is in good hands.

It is 7.4% according to the unopened bottle I am looking at - it was available at the film last night. There are quite a number of tasting reviews on youtube - you can find them easily, and in fact a few get a brief mention in the film as a sort of humorous diversion. It is dark brown/red "fruity, malty, sweet, biscuit, Christmas puddingy, malt loaf, Christmas cakey, very rich...." etc according to the pundits, who seem universally approving. A 'sipping beer'......so not at all the same as a cerveza on the meseta!

Wow that sounds much alike a St.Bernardus from Watou here.
Very promising.

@JabbaPapa if you like certain Trappists I think you will love the Belgian Orval . A perfect combination of bitter and fruity.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I'm not a beer drinker, but when I'm with family members and they're drinking a craft IPA, I usually try a sip just to learn a little about the taste. My opinion is that they mostly remind me of pine needles mixed with grapefruit.

 

[SYates]

... My opinion is that they mostly remind me of pine needles mixed with grapefruit.

I normally have a less charitable opinion about the taste of ale, but I don't want to make any enemies here
BC SY