Beers
Jarrow Bitter 3.8%
Jarrow Brewery
£2.50 per pint
A light golden session bitter with a delicate hop aroma and a lingering fruity finish.
Abbot Ale 5.0%
Greene King Brewery
£3.03 per pint
A full bodied, very distinctive beer with a bitter sweet aftertaste.
Oddfellows Bottle Conditioned Beer Menu
BLUEBIRD
The Conniston Brewery, Cumbria - 4.2% - 500ml
A copper coloured beer with a peppery, spicy and fruity hop nose. Pepper, spice and the zest of citrus continue in the clean, crisp taste and the dry, bitter finish. Past winner of the “Ultimate Fem’ ale” competition.
STOUT
The Titanic Brewery, Stoke - 4.5% - 500ml
A deep ruby beer with coffee and a whiff of liquorice in the biscuity nose. Bitter roasted grain leads in the mouth, but there is a slightly fruity, malty sweetness, too. Smokey coffee, nut and smooth roasted bitterness feature in the finish.
EVENSONG
The Durham Brewery, Bowburn - 5.0% - 500ml
A rich ruby ale with a soft aroma of citrus and berry fruits, along with gentle dark malt. The soft taste features a restrained fruitiness, a rounded bitterness and toasted malt emerging in the finish. 2005 “Bottled Beer of Britain”.
WHITE SHIELD
Worthington’s (Coors), Burton - 5.6% - 330ml
An Amber beer with a malty, fruity nose, including a hint of tropical fruit. The full taste features silky, nutty malt sweetness, solid hop bitterness and a light undercurrent of tropical fruit and almond. Bitter hops dominate the finish.
1845
Fullers Brewery, Chiswick - 6.3% - 500ml
A rich, dark amber beer with a glorious, fruity, malty nose, balanced by hints of sherry and golding hop. The very full, smooth, malty and fruity taste is quickly tempered by hop bitterness. Hops and bitter fruit feature in the lingering finish.
TEMPTATION
The Durham Brewery, Durham - 10.0% - 500ml
A very dark beer. Traces of mellow coffee, fruit and treacly malt enhance the slightly winey aroma. In the mouth, the beer is light and easy drinking, with sweet malt well to the fore ahead of coffee and fruity hop notes. Soft liquorice emerges in the sweet coffee finish.
RIVET CATCHER
The Jarrow Brewery - South Tyneside - 4.0%
A smooth satisfying golden bitter. Subtle fruity hops give the taste profile on the tongue and nose. Champion beer of the north east silver medalist at the Great British Beer Festival.
MCCONNELLS IRISH STOUT
The Jarrow Brewery - South Tyneside - 4.6%
A rich creamy stout with a long lingering liquorice and pale chocolate finish.
Bottle Conditioned Beer – Notes
We at Oddfellows are proud to present our close to unique, bottle conditioned ale selection. We believe, that although pasteurised beer is a triumph of consistency, and there are, after all, no bad beers, bottle conditioned ale has that little bit extra to make it special.
The selection that we have put together for your enjoyment represents the best of the best and includes ancient recipes, stouts, porters, traditional I.P.A.s and even a few of the more recently invented brews.
Some, such as Worthington’s White Shield, you may have heard of, whilst others are more scarce as they are produced by small craft brewers. Some are certified as vegetarian produce, whilst others are officially organic.
We have provided tasting notes for your delectation and to help you through the myriad of flavours that are available for your buds to discover.
The Oddfellows Bottle Conditioned Beer Menu is overleaf and includes ten usually available beers. However due to difficulties in the supply network this cannot always be promised.
As you will observe from the menu Durham Brewery is represented three times. As the North East’s sole producer of this type of product we feel that they should be supported. Durham actually produce more varieties so once you‘ve sampled their wares look out for Cloister, Evensong, Black Abbot and St Cuthbert which do guest at Oddfellows from time to time.
On occasions we do stock other guest beers – just ask at the bar for details.
For those who have never come across bottle conditioned beer (or real ale in a bottle) please read the following notes.
Bottle conditioned beer it is a living, working product and therefore needs a little extra attention before you can drink it.
Your bottle is served at a perfect ten degrees centigrade. To achieve best results you now need to pour it slowly and smoothly, in one continuous movement into your glass, taking care to leave the sediment and residue in the bottle.
Should any sediment escape this may cloud the beer slightly but please do not worry, the sediment is mostly comprised of yeast and natural proteins and is certainly not harmful.
You are now ready to begin sampling all that bottle conditioned ales have to offer- enjoy
