Green Jack takes advantage of the early flowering elders!

The early spring brings cheer to Suffolk drinkers as Green Jack Brewery brews Summer Dream our Elderflower Ale 3 weeks earlier than last year. We have brewed a special Elderflower Ale every summer since 1997 and this year is the earliest brew ever. Staff and supporters of the brewery have to pick 10 Kg of Elderflowers from the hedge rows and farm yards of Norfolk and Suffolk for every brew, a lot of hard work but wow factor of all those flowers in the beer makes it all worth while.

Summer Dream is a straw coloured light ale, hoppy with a thirst quenching dry finish and huge floral aroma from the elderflower. Winner of many awards last year saw Summer Dream win its biggest award so far being crowned Supreme Champion over 400 other beers at Peterborough Beer Festival (Great Britain’s second largest beer festival).

Brewed on Thursday 19th of May the beer will be rushed to our 3 pubs (The Locks Geldeston, The Triangle Tavern and Stanford Arms Lowestoft) for this years Elderflower Nouveau Day on Monday 30th of May when the beer will be available for only £2 per pint. What could be better than finishing the bank holiday weekend in the pub garden with a pint of Summer Dream.

For more information on Green Jack Brewery and Summer Dream
www.green-jack.com
Or ring Tim Dunford
01502 562863

Green Jack Mahseer IPA wins another award!

These type of awards I really love, these are the one that ‘Real’ people have nominated one of our beers as winner, Real Pubs that organise beer festivals for there customers not a massive beer festival where only a certain few people have the right to vote for what they think is a good ale.

This time Green Jacks Mahseer 5.0% IPA has won the grand title of ‘ Best of the Fest’ at The Kingston Arms, Cambridge

What they have done is introduce a monthly beer festival to promote ‘Real Ale’

QUOTE:As part of our promoting real ale, and to bring customers on board and to make them feel part of the real ale community, we have introduced an award scheme, the ‘Best of the Fest’. Yes, corny I know but it seems to have stuck!
We have no say over who wins, it’s purely down to customer votes. Our most recent beer festival saw another of our Best of the Fest awards take place, and the customers voted Green Jack’s Mahseer IPA the winner!
For more, click the following…
www.kingston-arms.co.uk
And specifically…
Beer Festival

Green Jack Brew Canary Premier

Story from the East Anglian Daily Press
The Canaries this week celebrated their second successive promotion, by securing a place in the Premier League.

To mark the team’s return to the big stage, Green Jack Brewery is brewing 100 firkins of Canary Premier.

Real ale fans will be able sample the 5pc pale ale at pubs across the region from the middle of the month.

And while gloating Canary fans toast their success, supporters of their arch rivals will be able to drown their sorrows after another disapponting season – when it goes on sale across Suffolk and at the Ipswich Beer Festival in August.

The new ale is a stronger version of Green Jack’s 3.8pc Canary Pale and the brewers, who are passionate Canaries fans, plan to use more hops in their latest beer than any other they have made. It will feature East Anglian pale malted winter barley and summit hops, and possibly American hops.

The new beer is the latest in a line of football-related ales brewed by Green Jack.

When Ipswich Town were relegated in 2002, it made an special ale called Oh So Blue – with a pump-clip image which featured a tractor (referring to their nickname the Tractor Boys) going downhill.

In September 2004, Green Jack launched a version of Canary Premier to mark Norwich City’s achievement in gaining promotion to the country’s top division. The brewery decided to repeat the stunt as a tribute to Canaries’ manager Paul Lambert and his team after they clinched promotion by beating Portsmouth 1-0 on Monday.

Tim Dunford, who owns the brewery, said: “Three of us here are huge Norwich fans and we thought brewing Canary Premier would help celebrate promotion and give us an excuse to experiment with hops.

“I think some Ipswich Town fans won’t even consider giving it a go.

“It’s all a bit tongue in cheek, though, and I am sure some will try it out and think it is fantastic.”

Brewer Daron Fowle said he was glad to be given the chance to brew Canary Premier and give City fans a chance to celebrate as their arch rivals languish in the Championship.

He was listening on the radio on Monday as the Canaries clinched promotion: “I was jumping all around the kitchen when we won. It was an incredible result. It was a better feeling than 2005 as it was so close this time around,” he said.

John Palmer, 62, is an adviser at the brewery and has supported Norwich for 50 years.

He said: “I have never seen such determined team spirit like this before. The manager was brilliant and so was our captain, Grant Holt. I hope Norwich City fans will enjoy Canary Premier.”

Green Jack Brewery was founded in 1993 in Oulton Broad and in 2003 it began brewing behind the Triangle Tavern in Lowestoft. It now has its main brewery at Argyll Place, off Love Road.

Please Pre-Order this Ales as there are only 100 firkins available