Filed under: Yorkshire Dales Food, beer | Tags: ale, arms, beer, best, bitter, brewery, dark horse, elslack, hetton, skipton, tempest, Yorkshire
Following my recommendation of the wonderful creamy Hetton Pale Ale, I spotted Hetton Best Bitter in the Tempest Arms at Elslack when dropping off my Chutney Competition entry last night and thought it rude not to try it!
This is another great beer from the tiny Dark Horse Brewery at Hetton in the Yorkshire Dales near Skipton and well worth seeking out to try.
Hetton Best Bitter, 3.8% abv, Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton is a lovely pint, great condition was served in a branded glass and has a nice sharp dry bitter taste, a great mid brown colour, this is a real session beer that leaves you wanting more!
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- Hetton Best Bitter, Dark Horse Brewery
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- Hetton Best Bitter, Dark Horse Brewery
The Tempest Arms at Elslack is now firmly on my “must visit soon” list as they have a great selection of beers and a fantastic, varied menu of local produce including Bolton Abbey Lamb, Homemade Game Broth, Yorkshire Puddings as a starter, Game Pie, Breast of Partridge, Cornbeef Pie and Roast Belly Pork to name a meaty few.
Beer on tap at the Tempest at the time of my visit in October 2009 included :-
- Hetton Pale Ale, 4.2%, Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton, Skipton
- Wainwright, 4.1%, Thwaites Brewery, Blackburn
- Landlord, 4.3%, Timothy Taylors Brewery, Keighley
- Theakston Best Bitter, 3.8%, Theakston, Masham
- Hetton Best Bitter, 3.8%, Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton, Skipton
- Moorhouse’s Elslack, 4%, Moorhouse’s, Burnley
Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food, burgers | Tags: ale, beans, Beef, broad, broughton, bull, burger, chips, country, courgette, dripping, faggots, haworth, hellifield, hetton, highland, limestone, nigel, peas, puree, rabbit, real, scampi, Steak, whitby
I’d just like to say “the Rabbit Faggots at the Bull @ Broughton are really quite excellent”!
Rabbit Faggots
Following on from my previous post about Nigel Haworth’s latest pub enterprise we have just been for lunch and had excellent Wild Rabbit Faggots with Roast Courgette Purée, Tomato Juices £5.50 as a starter followed by the 100% Chargrilled Minced Hellifield Highland Beef Steak, English Muffin, Real Chips cooked in Dripping, Mustard Mayo, Tomato Relish and Pickles £9.75.
Other dishes tried in our luncheon party included the excellent Loose Birds Free-Range Chicken Coarse Liver Pâté, Golden Raisins, Cumberland Sauce, Toasted Homemade Bread £5.50
a very large plateful of Whitby Scampi in Beer Batter, Fresh Broad Beans and Peas (very green, seasonal, fresh and very delicious), Real Chips in Dripping, Lemon and Black Pepper Mayonnaise £14.50
and Limestone Country Beef Ribeye 8oz served with Real Chips cooked in Dripping, Garrick Farm Flat Mushroom,
Willowdene Watercress and Battered Onion Rings £17.50
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- Chicken Liver Pate
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- Hellifield Highland Steak Burger
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- Whitby Scampi
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- Limestone Country Rib Eye Steak
The Bull always looks busy at opening times and if possible I would go late rather than early to avoid a wait, saying that the staff are very personable and attentive and it really is no hardship having a quick drink whilst waiting for your table, choose from the excellent local selection of hand pulled Timothy Taylors, Copper Dragon or Hetton Pale Ale along with Peroni on draught, a comprehensive wine list is also available.
More info on the The Bull @ Broughton, Skipton, North Yorkshire website
Filed under: Events, Yorkshire Dales Food, beer | Tags: ale, appletreewick, batemans, beer, brakspear, brewery, bubblegum, craigmill, craven arms, dark horse brewery, festival, fullers, grassington, grozet, jane, peyton, tasting, Ventnor
Grassington Festival 2009 here in the Yorkshire Dales is now well under way with a varied choice of events from the arts, entertainment and even some food and drink events. Last nights event was “Beer Tasting with Jane Peyton” at the Craven Arms, Appletreewick out the back in the beautiful Cruck Barn. Jane is originally a local lass from Skipton but now living in London, Jane is an author, beer & wine tasting tutor, events producer and public speaker.
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- Jane Peyton Beer Tasting Tutor
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- Grassington Festival 2009
What did we learn?
How to taste beer of course and a little about beer ingredients and flavour, colour, aroma, taste, feel and head. We tasted and marked 6 beers and tried to guess if they originated from the North or South! the bees and results are shown below.
Jane was an excellent tutor and speaker and kept us amused throughout with gems of information and beer anecdotes, great fun and very informative.
The main ingredients of beer are water, hops, malted cereal and yeast.
Beer was the third alcoholic beverage to be invented, the simpler process of making Mead and Wine coming along first. The word Honeymoon is about beer! from the suggestion that to aid fertility you should drink Honey Beer for a month after your wedding.
The UK is the 5th biggest beer drinking nation by capita and whilst we import 99% of wine we produce 92% of our own beer!
Food and beer matching suggestions :-
Traditional Porter and Oyster or chocolate e.g. Fullers London Porter and chocolate, really brings out the flavour in good quality chocolate.
Smoked beer and bbq food, Chinese black bean sauce dishes and smoked food in general.
Fruity beer and cheese e.g. Brakspear Triple and Blue Wensleydale.
The six beers we tasted :-
- Hetton Pale Ale, Dark Horse Brewery, Hetton, Yorkshire Dales, ABV 4.4%
- Sand Rock from Ventnor in the Isle of Wight, a smoked ale, ABV 5.6%
- Combine Harvest, Batemans, Lincolnshire, a multigrained beer of malted oats, malted rye, and malted wheat, ABV 4.7%
- Grozet, Craigmill brewery, a fruity gooseberry ale with a hint of honey, Scotland, ABV 5.0%
- Triple, Brakspear, Oxfordshire, ABV 7.2% a triple fermented, triple hopped strong beer with a hint of Fruity Bubblegum, HubbaBubba maybe!
- London Porter, Fullers, Smooth, rich, and strong, ABV 5.4%
and the scores on the doors, not everyone appreciated the smoked beer therefore coming in at 6th place, some very close scoring put many of the beers on a par but the winner was the Brakspear Triple with that hint of bubblegum! looking forward to next years event already and I do have the Grassington Festival Champagne tasting still to look forward to and I won a prize – dinner for 2 at the Craven Arms so I will be back again soon!
Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: ale, arms, Beef, beer, chips, dinner, egg, fishcakes, gammon, litton, littondale, queens, roast
Went up to The Queens Arms in Littondale on the request of the eldest son for tea. He did want to try the George at Hubberholme but on telephone for opening hours established that it was fully booked. The Queens is a super little pub in one of the Yorkshire Dales hidden dales, lovely ride out over some of the great Dales roads especially if you go via Malham and Arncliffe.
The Food:- Well the gammon was good! but the rest of the meal and the beer was rather disappointing. Thing’s don’t appear to be quite the same at the Queens Arms, prices were very expensive and the quality of the food disappointing, fish cakes & roast beef dinner poor, vegetables & salad like something out of a 1980’s tv show but with 2010 prices. At least my gammon was OK!
The Beer:- Litton Ale: Pale brown in colour with a classic malt flavour. 3.8% abv. brewed on the premises, shall we say was having a rather off day! from what I have tasted it’s better in a bottle!
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- Gammon, Egg & Chips
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- Brown liquid purporting to be Litton Ale
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- The Queens Arms at Litton
Filed under: Beer Blogs, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: ale, bitter, brewery, bull, dark, fountain, fountaine, hetton, hook, horse, inn, linton, pale, pint, ring
Called in at the Fountaine Inn, Linton on the way back from Lunch at the Red Lion @ Burnsall for a nosey and a quick pint, pleased to find our local brew Hetton Pale Ale from the Dark Horse Brewery. It was served at a great temperature, fantastic condition and an all round quality pint.
I also nonchalantly walked over to the bull ring in the snug and swung it onto the hook first time, not wanting to spoil the effect I didn’t risk having another go !!
Hetton Pale Ale, Dark Horse Brewery
Filed under: Eating, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: aioli, ale, bubble, burnsall, deuchars, fish soup, hetton, IPA, lion, liver, main course, onions, pale, red, red cabbage, squeak, starter, Yorkshire Dales
I do enjoy a trip over to Burnsall but sadly don’t visit the Red Lion as much as I’d like, had an excuse for a trip over today and was very pleased we did.
First the Beer, Timothy Taylor’s Best Bitter or Caledonian Deuchars IPA (one of my favourites through habit when they used to serve it at The Lister Arms in Malham) of course I choose the Deuchars IPA for old time’s sake, good temperature, lovely creamy pint.
The food, for starter’s Fish Soup with Aioli & Gruyere, very meaty fish soup ! can you say that? I mean lot’s of nice fishy or seafoodie bits in this case, squid, mussels all sorts, lovely consistency and a nice floating crouton with a dollop of Aioli and sprinkling of Gruyere on top, yum. served with sundried tomato bread.
Main course, after much thought I plumped for the Liver & onions with bubble and squeak, another great choice on my part, various veg served with the other meals and included, butternut squash mash, dauphinoise potatoes, chips, red cabbage, carrots and cauliflower cheese, oh and a salad with the steak.
Other dishes on the menu included, rib eye steak, smoked haddock, poached egg and hollandaise (I went for this last time I was here!) 14oz rump steak, Hartlington Lamb, Pigeon & chorizo salad, game pie with herb dumpling crust and Haggis (but they had run out).
I was stuffed and couldn’t face a pud but other’s tried a lemon tart with lemon sorbet, an orange and chocolate mouse cake and the cheese and biscuit selection which all looked great and the cheese came with fruit cake as well!
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- Game Pie with Herb Dumpling
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- Potato Dauphinoise
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- Liver & Onions with Bubble & Squeak
Filed under: Eating, Food | Tags: ale, bacon, Beer Blogs, ben, breakfast, butter, cobbler, crab, eggs, fort, garlic, hops, langoustine, lorne, nevis, pie, salami, sausage, scallops, scotland, scottish, seafood, Steak, tagliatelli, venison, william
Spent a couple of days in Fort William in the Highlands of Scotland last week, tried a few restaurants and cafes before scaling Ben Nevis, variety and quality of food varied but included some great local produce, fresh seafood, crab & langoustines (Scotland has some of the best Seafood but most is exported!) Scottish beef and venison and of course the odd Scottish Breakfast here are a few photos of the better ones. Food at the Glenelg Inn, Kyle of Lochalsh was particularly good let down only by the tomatoes!
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- Scottish Breakfast 1 with lorne sausage
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- Scottish Breakfast 2
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- Fresh Scottish Langoustines in garlic butter
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- Fresh dressed Scottish Crab starter
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- Venison Salami
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- Beef and mushroom cobbler, roasted veg and mash
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- Tagliatelle with fresh Scottish Scallops in a fish reduction
Also tried a few local ales which is essential carbo loading the night before a big walk! Some of the beers I can remember include the following selection.
Latitude 3.6% abv.
Latitude Pale Ale is a straw-coloured session ale with a pronounced fruitiness and hoppiness. Brewed with best Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt and a little of our own Atlas Lager Malt, this beer exhibits a brilliant, crystal-clear pale straw colour
Fraoch – Heather Ale 4.1% abv
A light amber ale with floral peaty aroma, full malt character, a spicy herbal flavour and dry wine like finish.
Kelpie 4.4% abv
Rich chocolate ale with an aroma of sea breeze, a distinctive roast flavour and a crisp salty finish. Perfect with seafood and breads. (This was really not to my taste not sure seeweed is suited to brewing!)
Deuchars IPA 4.4% abv
An extremely tasty and refreshing, amber coloured session beer. Hops and fruit are very evident and are balanced by malt throughout. (an old favourite of mine)
Red Cuillin 4.2% abv
Smooth, malty and slightly nutty; lightly fuggles-hopped for aroma. Named after the famous hills of the Isle of Skye, Red Cuillin is a premium ale, which has won many awards. Like the hills, it is rounded and pleasing.
Caledonian 80/’ 4.1% abv
A predominantly malty, copper coloured beer, well balanced by hop and fruit; a complex Scottish heavy with the hop characteristics of best bitter.
