You can now pick up 

PINTS OF VEIW 

The Branch Magazine of Mansfield and Ahsfield CAMRA

Nottingham Camra Drinker

The Derby Camra Drinker

All free from The Hilcote Arms

The Winter Issues of all the above are now available to pick up from The Hilcote Arms

 

Going to the pub is part of social fabric of the nation.If people just visited there local just a couple of times a week even just for a (Latch-Lifter) pub jargon for price of a pint of beer it would help stop the decline of this Great British institution

Know your beer 

Ale

The worlds oldest beer style produced by warm or top fermentation. The term covers such styles as (in Britain Ireland and the US0

mild ,bitter,porter, stout, old ale and barley wine and in the low countries Abbey and Trappist ales and some types of Bock  or Bok

 

Bottle conditoned/bottle Fermented 

A beer bottled with live yeast that allows the beer to mature gain condition (SPARKLE) and extra alcohol in its glass container

 

Bitter 

A draught English pale ale that may range in colour from gold through amber to copper.The name indicates a generous amount of hop bitterness

 

Blond/blonde 

Term used i mainland Europe to indicate a light-coloured beer .The term is often used when a brewery produces brown and pale versions of the same or similar beers as in the case of leffe Blonde and brune

 

 Draught

Served from a bulk container and drawn to the bar Spelt Draft in the US

 

I P A

Short for India Pale Ale the first pale beer in the world associated with Burton - on Trent in English Midlands in the 19th century.First brewed for soldiers and civil servants based in India.It spawned  pale ale and bitter in England and even inspired the first lager brewers of Austria and Germany

 

Cask Ale

Also known as cask beer or real ale .A draught beer that undergoes a secondary fermentation in the cask in the pub cellar reaching maturity as a result of natural processes the style is mainly confined to Britain

 

Pilsner/Pilsener/Pils

Originally a golden hoppy lager brewed in the city of Pilsen in Bohemia now part of the  Czech Republic  a true Pilsner is usually around 4.5-5% A B V .In Germany Brewers either spell the word Pilsener or shorten it to Pils to avoid any suggestion  their beers come from Pilsen in the Czech Republic 

Lager

From the German meaning store or storage place similar to the English word for larder.Following primary  fermentation beer is cold conditioned in tanks where the temperature is held just above freezing as the yeast settles at the bottom of the tanks  a slow secondary fermentation takes place carbonation increases and a clean quenching spritzy beer results usually lacking the fruity esters associated with ale

 

Stout

once a generic English term for the strongest or stoutest beer produced in a brewery  with the rise of porter (qv) in the 18th century strong porters were known as stout porters .Over time the term was shortened to just stout indicating a strong jet - black beer made with highly roasted malts and roasted barley and generously hopped the style is most closely associated today with Ireland

 

Porter

A brown (later black) beer first brewed in London early in the 18th century .Called entire butt by brewers it acquired the name of porter due to its popularity with street market porters .The success of porter created the modern commercial brewing industry in England and later in Ireland The strongest porters were known as Stout (qv)

 

No - booze beer is ale the rage

This summer will be a record one for no and low alcohol beer experts predict. Non and Low popularity is booming with brewers and pubs creating and serving up great new options

The British beer and pub Association forcecasts the equivalent of 33million pints will have been sold in June and July up 20% from last year

The BBPA is calling for the definition of low alcohol beer to include 0.5% ABV options

 

 

Welcome to the Hilcote Arms, where we take pride in offering a selection of real ales from local breweries that will tantalize your taste buds. Our pub is featured in the Good Beer Guide for 2024 and 2025, a testament to our commitment to providing quality

brews

 

 

Good News From Dancing Duck Brewery

Here at the Hilcote Arms we have received correspondence from The Dancing Duck Brewery 

They are excited to announce the majority of there cask ales are Gluten  Free

The Majority of there beers didn't need anything doing to them because the temperatures of the brewing process alone naturally destroyed the gluten

The brewers have spent the last few months running tests to ensure that there beers meet the necessary standards

For the remaining few they have been tweaking small additions of a product called Dehaze which targets haze sensitive proteins including gluten