Clifford Champion Beer Festival 2011

The Beers

The 2011 Ales

SUPREME CHAMPIONS

Rudgate: Ruby Mild (CAMRA 2009)

Hop Back: Entire Stout (CAMRA Winter 2011)

Castle Rock: Harvest Pale (CAMRA GBBF 2010)

Elland: 1872 Porter (CAMRA Winter 2010)

YORKSHIRE FAVOURITES

Abbeydale Dr Morton’s: Hare Straightener

Brown Cow: Captain Oates

Brown Cow: GLUG Festival Special

Brown Cow: Thriller in Vanilla

Copper Dragon: Golden Pippin

Elland: Calendar Girl Festival Special

Ilkley: Save The Pub Festival Special

Ilkley: Mary Jane

Kirkstall: Siddy’s Outswinger Festival Special

Kirkstall: Three Swords

Leeds: Funfair

North Riding: Peasholm Pale Ale

Raw: Summer Solstice Ale

Roosters: Wild Mule

Rudgate: Battleaxe

Salamander: Whirly Gig

Summer Wine: Diablo

NEW WAVE

Dark Star: Hophead

Marble: Ginger

Thornbridge: Jaipur

BEST OF THE REST

Enville: Ale

Pictish: Siren

IN RESERVE

Elland: Beyond The Pale

Elland: Molly’s Toffee Jar Head Brewers Reserve

Ilkley: Black

Ilkley: Best

Siddy’s Outswinger

We can now reveal another specially brewed Festival Special - Siddy's Outswinger!

This years fourth Festival Special is brewed by our new sponsors at Kirkstall Brewery. The ale’s been created in honour of Ryan ‘Siddy’ Sidebottom - the Yorkshire born Cricketer who grew into a prolific bowler for England.

A unique pale hoppy bitter from a brand new brewery in Leeds who have already started winning beer of the festival awards.

Having sampled the ale, we look forward to seeing Ryan at the Festival!

Calendar Girl

Christine-team200 Christine Talbot of YTV's Calendar programme has launched her own festival special ale - aptly named Calendar Girl. It is being brewed by the Yorkshire real ale specialists, Elland Brewery.

It is a special, one off, golden coloured bitter with a crisp citrus hop flavour and aroma and a refreshing hoppy finish.

Committee members needed to taste it of course.

A special one off golden coloured bitter with a crisp citrus hop flavour and aroma and a refreshing hoppy finish.

Save the Pub Group backs Festival

We are delighted and proud that the all-party parliamentary "Save the Pub Group" are sponsoring a special Festival Ale brewed by Ilkley Brewery.

Greg Mulholland MP, who attended last year's event and is Chair of the Group, has recently reported:

‘In the last Parliament the Save the Pub Group was successful in persuading the Government to take seriously the threats facing Britain’s pubs. The Group will build on this success in the new Parliament by effective campaigning on a whole range of issues including beer taxation, planning law, and reform of the beer tie.

‘Early priorities for the Group include maintaining progress on reform of the beer tie, working with the new Government on the Decentralisation and Localism Bill which will introduce a Community Right to Buy for pubs threatened with closure and the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill which will ban the below cost sale of alcohol.’