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Purity Brewery: UBU Ale

UBU premium amber ale is quaintly named after purity brewery’s unfaithful companion, UBU the dog.

“god love him the dog is mad. But an inspiration to all who enjoy doing what they do and want to be love for being what they are”

The UBU label has a distinctive Typographic style with a sketched dog which will site well with younger drinkers and stand out on shelf. You can also spot it from above by there red star logo.

If you care to join them on face book their infamous dog ubu has his own face book group to join.

Opening UBU

UBU does Not have much fizz but it pours with a good head with a bit of encouragement.

UBU has a Lovely hoppy smell, it smells like it will be quite hoppy. This defiantly has a strong smell off cascade hops.

The head dies off UBU quite quickly leaving some residue on top of the amber colour beer.

Does UBU’s Bite Match the Bark?

The Ale has a good hoppy flavor at first which mellows out into, the smell that comes through when drinking is like sweet fruit bread, brown sugar, malt loaf.

The bittering is medium on the palette the malt is simple and clean. I like the lack of fuss that this beer comes with. Its a basic amber ale with a sort of normal pint thing about it, but with extra flavor especially as you drink it more and more.

Could UBU be Adictive?

This beer improves consistently with the amount of it you drink. As you get used to the taste it changes and almost matures in your mouth and it becomes more flavorsome and full. I think it must have some some nefarious additive agent in it!

Conclusion

I am a big fan of Beers with plenty of aroma hops and this is right up my street. UBU is a honest beer with honest flavors and for a pint to drink in a pub I would be chuffed if it was a regular on the pumps.

Purity Brewery Pure Gold ale is a premium ale made in a eco friendly way.

Green beer means beer made with as little impact on nature as possible, not to be confused with the drinks often made on St patrick’s day by adding green food colouring.

Purity Brewery Pure Gold Ale

The Official Line on Pure Gold

Talking to the brewers the say “We say it’s an easy drinking beer with a lovely dry and bitter finish”

What Pure Gold Smells Like

Pure Gold smells a little like tribute ale by st austell. It smells like a good traditional golden ale with a small hint of something like a continental lager.

Good Head?

Gold has a good head which is quite thick compared to mad goose.

Its quite gassy having either been gassed up with co2/nitrogen or being fermented a second time under pressure. It has alot of fizz for an ale, but this seems to help the head.

What does it taste like

This is a really nice beer, when drinking it and smelling it at the same time the lemon/lime zesty dry taste and the hops blend together seamlessly into a really nice citrus hop bitter taste.

The after taste is dominantly hops, but the taste doesn’t dominate your mouth if your know what I mean?

There is a definitely a slight sweet theme running throughout the beer when the zesty bitter hops aren’t there on your taste buds.

If i could change one thing about this it would be too let some of that gas go and leave it to warm up a little. This beer is probably best served slightly warmer than some others.

Pure Gold Review

To me Pure Gold is a almost a modern twist on a classic golden ale. It brings some of the fizz from modern lagers and adds it to the classic fuggles and goldings hops but even these are grown in exotic Slovenia soil.

Very Nice, very drinkable and a easy beer to drink especially on a warm evening. Its interesting to note the cask version is 3.8% while a bottle will come with 4.3 ABV, its is because it easier to sell bottled beer at higher ABVs. The brewer assures me they taste the same anyway.

Tasty Green Beer?

Recent chatting on the web had brought my attention to a brewery apparently selling “Carbon Neutral Beer” which turned out to be Adams Brewery. This idea of eco freindly Green beer peaked my interest and so I set about invesitgating the area.

Now! Ecology is something we should all involved in, if not interested in. I am keen on recycling, turning off the TV at the wall and taking phone chargers out of the sockets when not in use and I think responsable bussiness should take head too. We are porbably too late to save the environment totally but we would be daft if we didnt give a go, thats just ignorant!

Can You Make Green Beer at a Profit?

On a recent visit to Redscar Brewery I had seen water reclaimation in action and so I knew it was possable to be eco friendly and successful. However Purity Brewery take this to a whole new level!

At the very centre of thier work is a commitment to supporting the environment:

We have created our own unique Pond and Wetland system specifically developed as a means to treat our waste water. It is a totally sustainable eco-system which forms an interesting and varied ecological habitat that is developing into a wildlife sanctuary…

…Our spent grain is recycled for feed for the animals on the farm and spent hops are spread on the fields as fertiliser. We genuinely care about our planet and are constantly searching for new ways to help it.

Now thats what I call Green beer!

Can you make Tasty Green Beer?

Well this is the question I am only to happy to answer, and very soon I will answer it with great joy as I have two bottles of each of there beers and I intend to review them.

I know UBU is available is in Sainsburys but I got mine direct from the brewery as I might suggest you do. Help keep the micro-brew scene going and buy direct from the brewers.