Real Ale in a Bottle

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WHAT IS REAL ALE? | WHAT IS REAL ALE IN A BOTTLE? | IS IT BETTER? | ARE THERE ANY OTHER ADVANTAGES? | IS IT NEW? | WHO BREWS REAL ALE IN A BOTTLE? | ARE THE BOTTLE VERSIONS OF WELL KNOWN CASK BEERS REAL ALE IN A BOTTLE? | IS IT JUST BRITISH? | AREN'T ALL FOREIGN BEERS LAGERS? | HOW CAN YOU RECOGNISE IT? | HOW TO POUR IT? | CAN THE SEDIMENT BE DRUNK? | WHERE CAN YOU BUY IT? | WHAT ARE THE BEST KNOWN EXAMPLES?

WHAT ARE THE BEST KNOWN EXAMPLES?

Worthington White Shield was the original India Pale Ale and has always been real ale in a bottle.  Despite a checkered recent past, the beer survives and continues to grow now it’s being brewed in Burton again.

Fuller's 1845, an award winning strong (6.3% abv) ale, is the best selling real ale in a bottle in Britain.  It was first brewed to celebrate 150 of the brewery.

 Gold Miner, brewed by the Freeminer Breweryc, is a beautifully hoppy and refreshing pale ale of 5% abv, available exclusively in many Co-op supermarkets.  It also features the most informative label of any bottled beer, with lots of background material, as well as full ingredients and nutritional information.

 Local examples include Beyond the Pale (4.2% abv) from Eastwood & Sanders of Elland and Tabatha (6% abv), a Belgian style blonde ale by the Anglo Dutch Brewery of Dewsbury.

 Seen less often, all bottle beers from Cropton Brewery, near Pickering, North Yorkshire, are real ales, being bottled in a labour intensive production line involving all brewery staff and anyone else available at the time.

 The better known and more widely available foreign bottle beers with yeast include: Duvel, Hoegaarden, Chimay, Westmalle (all Belgium), Anchor Steam Beer (USA) and Coopers Sparkling Ale (Australia).