It's already late November, and we have been busy prepping ourselves for The Verdant Beer Trail, back in Brighton this coming weekend! To celebrate its fifth anniversary, we invited our good friends from Rivington Brewing Co to join us this year. Formerly known as The Independents Beer Crawl, this four-day event celebrates Brighton’s incredible independent venues, with 25 in total hosting a city-wide beer trail, from taprooms and pubs to bars and bottle shops. The aim of the trail is simple: to encourage beer lovers to discover new venues, try something fresh, and celebrate Brighton’s thriving independent scene. If you are heading down, then be sure to pick up your free trail card from any participating venue, collect stamps along your way and complete the trail to win merch and beer prizes from each brewery. Team Verdant and Rivington will be taking on the crawl on Thursday and Friday, and we look forward to seeing you there!
To mark the occasion we have teamed up with co-event collaborators Rivington Brewing Co to brew two new beers which be pouring fresh throughout the weekend!
Frist up we invite you to try Hill Hopping (Pale Ale 4.9%), which is exactly what you will be doing if you decide to take on the Verdant Beer Trail this weekend! Brighton has many steep streets and inclines, and the city spreads over the chalk slopes of the South Downs to the north, whilst chalk cliffs front the east. Several pubs on the trail are located on steep hills including Huas On The Hill on Southover Street where the climb up has been described as ‘ear popping’ by those in the know! Hill Hopping is a beautifully full, fluffy pale ale featuring a mix of Citra, Strata, Ekuanot hops, providing a soft citrus ride to heaven. Just make sure you are hopping downhill after a few!
Next we have Bright Yellow & Really Good (IPA 6.5%). As the name (might, maybe, just possibly) suggests this beer shines a lovely pale yellow, is dense to look at, with tropical hedgerow aromatics overflowing from the glass and will take you upon a tangerine tinted flavour road. It sure gets the mighty double thumbs up from us and Rivington.
