Christmas Greetings
The entire Humpty Dumpty family wishes you and yours a very merry Christmas and a Humpty New Year. The brewery will be open most days between now and New Year, although we will be closed Christmas and Boxing Day. We will have regular hours on the 23rd; we might close a bit early on the 24th, but we'll be there from 12-3 at least.
We hope you're enjoying a most festive season, made all the better with fine real ales from Humpty Dumpty Brewery. We look forward to seeing you in the New Year, and we'll be sure to bring the beer. We've just racked and bottled our Humpty Dumpty Porter (5.4%) and we'll have at least two new real ales coming in the next few months.
This year's new Christmas beer is a spiced Belgian style ale of 5.5%abv. We started with a classic English old ale grain bill and fermented it with a Belgian ale yeast at a slightly elevated temperature. The resulting beer is a full-bodied malty brown ale with a characteristic Belgian nose to it. We then added a special spice mixture to the beer to give it an aromatic highlight with a hint of vanilla that fades quickly, leaving behind a malty moreish finish.