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Ivy empowered with her crystal, augmented limbs, and newfound weaponry.
She is an amnesiac Vortixx who fled to Spherus Magna following the Battle of Bara Magna. Much of her memories were mysteriously lost after residing on the planet, with only a few facts on her species origin remaining intact. She has decided to roam the remaining deserts of the planet in search of artifacts and weaponry left behind by Great Beings and lost during the climatic battle. Eventually she augmented herself with two additional limbs, one that allows her to inject venom into her opponents and another that can fire lasers at opponents. Despite her lack of elemental powers, she is able to channel shadow and plasma abilities with her augmented crystal horns and can use her claws to inflict a venomous attack.
This is a redesign of her Early 2010s version. Additional lore on Ivy's past and her relationships are available in her toyhouse profile:
I decided to visit a favorite spot of mine and build a fort.
Elsewhere is such an amazing book that I discovered. Gabrielle Zevin is a fantastic writer. I took it upon myself to read one of her other books as well (Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac), which was also a great experience. I highly recommend either one - I cried so hard at the end of Elsewhere, that is all I will say.
[April 2nd, 2010]
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German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3668/2, 1928-1929. Photo: United Artists. Ronald Colman and Lily Damita in The Rescue (Herbert Brenon, 1929).
English gentleman-actor Ronald Colman (1891-1958) was a top box office draw in Hollywood films throughout the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. ‘The Man with the velvet voice’ was nominated for four Academy Awards. In 1948 he finally won the Oscar for his splendid portrayal of a tormented actor in A Double Life (1947).
Ronald Charles Colman was born in 1891 in Richmond, England. He was the fifth of six children of silk importer Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. Ronald was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton, where he discovered he enjoyed acting. When Ronald was 16 his father died of pneumonia, putting an end to the boy's plans to attend Cambridge and become an engineer. He went to work as a shipping clerk at the British Steamship Company. He also became a well-known amateur actor and was a member of the West Middlesex Dramatic Society (1908-1909). In 1909, he joined the London Scottish Regiment, a territorial army force, and he was sent to France at the outbreak of World War I. Colman took part in the First Battle of Ypres and was severely wounded at the battle at Messines in Belgium. The shrapnel wounds he took to his legs invalided him out of active service. In May 1915, decorated, discharged and depressed, he returned home with a limp that he would attempt to hide throughout the rest of his acting career. He tried to enter the consular service, but a chance encounter got him a small role in the London play The Maharanee of Arakan (1916). He dropped other plans and concentrated on the theatre. Producers soon noted the young actor with his striking good looks, rich voice and rare dignity, and Colman was rewarded with a succession of increasingly prominent parts. He worked with stage greats Gladys Cooper and Gerald du Maurier. He made extra money appearing in films like the two-reel silent comedy The Live Wire (Cecil Hepworth, 1917). The set was an old house with a negligible budget, and Colman doubled as the leading character and prop man. The film was never released though. Other silent British films were The Snow of the Desert (Walter West, 1919) with Violet Hopson and Stewart Rome, and The Black Spider (William Humphrey, 1920) with Mary Clare. The negatives of all of Colman's early British films have probably been destroyed during the 1941 London Blitz. After a brief courtship, he married actress Thelma Raye in 1919. The marriage was in trouble almost from the beginning. The two separated in 1923 but were not divorced until 1934.
In 1920 Ronald Colman set out for New York in hopes of finding greater fortune there than in war-depressed England. His American film debut was in the tawdry melodrama Handcuffs or Kisses? (George Archainbaud, 1920). He toured with Robert Warwick in 'The Dauntless Three', and subsequently toured with Fay Bainter in 'East is West'. After two years of impoverishment, he was cast in the Broadway hit play 'La Tendresse' (1922). Director Henry King spotted him and cast him as Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister (Henry King, 1923), filmed in Italy. The romantic tear-jerker was wildly popular and Colman was quickly proclaimed a new film star. This success led to a contract with prominent independent film producer Samuel Goldwyn, and in the following ten years, he became a very popular silent film star in both romantic and adventure films. Among his most successful films for Goldwyn were The Dark Angel (George Fitzmaurice, 1925) with Hungarian actress Vilma Bánky, Stella Dallas (Henry King, 1926), the Oscar Wilde adaptation Lady Windermere's Fan (Ernst Lubitsch, 1925) and The Winning of Barbara Worth (Henry King, 1926) with Gary Cooper. Colman's dark hair and eyes and his athletic and riding ability led reviewers to describe him as a ‘Valentino type’. He was often cast in similar, exotic roles. The film that cemented this position as a top star was Beau Geste (Herbert Brenon, 1926), Paramount's biggest hit of 1926. It was the rousing tale of three brothers (Colman, Neil Hamilton and Ralph Forbes), who join the Foreign Legion to escape the law. Beau Geste was full of mystery, desert action, intrigue and above all, brotherly loyalty. Colman's gentlemanly courage and quiet strength were showcased to perfection in the role of the oldest brother, Beau. The film is still referred to as possibly the greatest Foreign Legion film ever produced. Towards the end of the silent era, Colman was teamed again with Vilma Bánky under Samuel Goldwyn. The two would make a total of five films together and their popularity rivalled that of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
Although Ronald Colman was a huge success in silent films, with the coming of sound, his extraordinarily beautiful speaking voice made him even more important to the film industry. His first major talkie success was in 1930 when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for two roles - Condemned (Wesley Ruggles, 1929) with Lily Damita, and Bulldog Drummond (F. Richard Jones, 1929) with Joan Bennett. Thereafter he played a number of sophisticated, noble characters with enormous aplomb such as Clive of India (Richard Boleslawski, 1935) with Colin Clive, but he also swashbuckled expertly when called to do so in films like The Prisoner of Zenda (John Cromwell, 1937) with Madeleine Carroll. A falling out with Goldwyn in 1934 prompted Colman to avoid long-term contracts for the rest of his career. He became one of just a handful of top stars to successfully freelance, picking and choosing his assignments and studios. His notable films included the Charles Dickens adaptation A Tale of Two Cities (Jack Conway, 1935), the poetic classic Lost Horizon (Frank Capra, 1937), and If I Were King (Frank Lloyd, 1938) with Basil Rathbone as vagabond poet Francois Villon. During the war, he made two of his very best films - Talk of the Town (George Stevens, 1942) with Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, and the romantic tearjerker Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942), as an amnesiac victim, co-starring with the luminous Greer Garson. For his role in A Double Life (George Cukor, 1947), an actor playing Othello who comes to identify with the character, he won both the Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1947 and the Best Actor Oscar in 1948. Colman made many guest appearances on The Jack Benny Program on the radio, alongside his second wife, British stage and screen actress Benita Hume. Their comedy work as Benny's next-door neighbours led to their own radio comedy The Halls of Ivy from 1950 to 1952, and then on television from 1954 to 1955. Incidentally, he appeared in films, such as the romantic comedy Champagne for Caesar (Richard Whorf, 1950), and his final film The Story of Mankind (Irwin Allen, 1957) with Hedy Lamarr. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "a laughably wretched extravaganza from which Colman managed to emerge with his dignity and reputation intact." Ronald Colman died in 1958, aged 67, from a lung infection in Santa Barbara, California. He was survived by Benita Hume, and their daughter Juliet Benita Colman (1944). In 1975, Juliet published the biography 'Ronald Colman: A Very Private Person'.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Jim Beaver (IMDb), Julie Stowe (The Ronald Colman Pages), Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
20/06/2502 ..
"I think I managed to repair the ship, and I understand at least how it works..... nearly...
after 150 years of tries, I finally succeed !!
Now I can travel through time and space, trying to understand were do I come from, looking for memories,what humans are? am I alone? am I alive? Who am I ? "
extract of the diary of an amnesiac drôid alone and lost in space, trying to understand and remember its identity ..^^
So, here we are in the fine city of Norwich, with hundreds of beers to try, with not enough time and just the two hands.
In the end I went to just one session, as there were festivals at both The Birdcage and The Muderders.
Moultons Mild was very nice, as was The Fat Cat Brewery'd Porter.
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Acorn, Wombwell, South Yorkshire
Barnsley Bitter 3.8%
Well rounded, with a rich flavour, it retains a lasting bitter finish.
Old Moor Porter 4.8%
A full bodied victorian style porter with hints of liquorice. The initial bitterness gives way
to a smooth, mellow finish.
Adnams, Southwold, Suffolk
Prop Hop 4%
A delicious bitter with malt, biscuit and bready flavours, accompanied by subtle notes of
orange peel.
Extra 4.3%
Copper coloured ale with hoppy, floral and herbal aromas which follow through on the
palate.
Broadside Extra 6.5%
The bottled version but in cask, full malt flavour and a hint of marmite.
Tally Ho 7.2%
Tally Ho is dark Mahogany red in colour with a rich, fruity aroma and a heart warming
sweet raisin and biscuit palate.
Allendale, Hexham, Northumberland
Wagtail 3.8%
A floral aroma, hints of seville orange and spiced dried fruit, with biscuit and toffee
notes.
Pennine Pale 4%
Golden ale, brewed with a trio of American hops giving a full fruity aroma and flavour,
with a refreshing citrus finish
Ashover, Ashover, Derbyshire
Liquorice Alesort 4.5%
A rich black stout made with black malt and crystal rye, has root liquorice added in the
boil.
Rainbows End 4.5%
Rainbows End was the name of the café at the terminus of Ashover light railway, the
beer is pale and hopped with Cascade.
B & T, Shefford, Bedfordshire
Edwin Taylor's Extra Stout 4.5%
A stout with a strong roast flavour along with a hinr of coffee and red wine.
Shefford Plum Porter 4.5%
Fruity on the nose but a little smokiness to the flavour.
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Backyard, Walsall, West Midlands
Premium 4.5%
Premium bitter with a toffee, herbal nose and bitter-sweet nutty flavours.
Hell Bound 5.4%
Dark, rich brew. Full of bitter chocolate and fruit malt character.
Barrell&Sellers, South Elmham, Suffolk
Bitter 3.8%
Classic English ‘Best’ brewed with crystal malt and punchy hops to give a bitter fiinish.
Brown Ale 4.7%
Brewed with caramel & chocolate malt & 'blackcurrant' hops.
IPA 5.8%
Robust, amber, well hopped beer is brewed with pale & caramel malt.
Batemans, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire
XB 3.7%
Classic amber bitter brewed with English hops, very quaffable.
Gold 3.9%
A golden coloued refreshing beer brewed with lager malt and hinook and Cascade hops.
Salem Porter 4.7%
Full of fruit, hazelnuts, almonds, liquorice and spicy hops.
Beeston, Beeston, Norfolk
Afternoon Delight 3.7%
An easy drinking blonde ale with a slightly dry feel and hint of lemon.
Worth The Wait 4.2%
A golden beer, with a balance of hops to give a gentle bitterness & a refreshing citrus
hint.
Village Life 4.8%
Toasted malt flavours with plenty of body and a hint of orange rind and biscuit.
Old Stoatwobbler 6%
Strong, dark, luscious & notorious and mostly mine.. (Manic laugh)
Bexar County, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Poquito Pequeno 3.5%
Gentle fruity bittersweet base with a surprisingly bitter/sour finish.
Timanfaya 3.8%
Rausch Beer. Soured Brown ale.
Cambridge Common 4.1%
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Blindmans, Leighton, Somerset
Backstreet 4.2%
A mid brown smooth rounded ale, full of subtle toffee flavours.
Boudicca, Hoveton, Norfolk
Spiral Stout 4.6%
A spectrum of autumnal berries, coffee, dark chocolate, and a gentle, lingering dry roast
finish with a hint of smoke.
Brandon, Brandon, Suffolk
Dragonfire 4.5%
Pioneer hops and caramel malt makes this an easy session beer with a bit of a kick.
Oakenshield 5%
Strong and dark with a smooth smoky aftertaste.
Brass Castle, Malton, North Yorkshire
Bad Kitty 5.5%
Chocolate vanilla porter , what's not to like..
Burnout 5.8%
A complex dark ale with sweet roasted notes alongside coffee and liquorice.
Brentwood, Brentwood, Essex
Chestnut Stout 4%
A smooth, rounded, easy drinking stout, brewed with local chestnuts.
Shackleton 'The Boss' 4.5%
A full-bodied red premium bitter, well balanced and with rich malt flavours. Brewed by
Brentwood for Shackleton brewery.
Buffy's, Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk
Norfolk Terrier 3.8%
Slightly malty and smooth.
Beagle 4%
A Beagle is really quite a delightful beast. Loyal to the end. Golden and with
exceptionally good citrus notes courtesy of First Gold hops.
9X 9%
Robust ale with plenty of malty fruityness by not over powering.
Cairngorm, Aviemore, Highlands & Islands
Black Gold 4.2%
A Scottish stout with a wonderful rich dark colour and subtle bitterness giving way to
late sweetness and underlying roast barley hints.
Witches Cauldron 4.9%
A dark ruby red coloured ale with a hint of roast malt flavours and a pleasant sweet
aftertaste
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Caveman, Swanscombe, Kent
Citra 4.1%
A hoppy pale ale with a straightforward malt character but plenty of citrus flavours.
Cavedweller 5.8%
Chocolate and coffee notes come through in the malt and dark berry flavours from the
hops.
Celt Experience, Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
Iron Age 3.5%
A ruby coloured fruity beer full of robust and unique fruity hop characteristics and hints
of berry fruit.
Silures 4.6%
The beer is named after a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, occupying
approximately the counties of Monmouthshire & Breconshire.
Church End, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Grave Diggers 3.8%
Dark black and red in colour, with a complex mixture of chocolate and roast flavours.
Stout Coffin 4.6%
Notes of roasted malts creamy vanilla chocolate.
Colchester, Wakes Colne, Essex
Brazilian 4.6%
Coffee and vanilla porter. A firm favourite in the range.
Dancing Men, Happisburgh, Norfolk
Famous Norfolk Broads 3.8%
Quaffing bitter named after three regulars at the Hillhouse Inn.
Knight's Noggin 4.8%
Rich, heavily-malted porter-style beer packed with toasted toffee and chocolate notes.
Dark Star, Horsham, West Sussex
Hophead 3.8%
An extremely clean-drinking pale golden ale with a strong floral aroma.
Festival 5%
A chestnut bronze coloured bitter which is full of freshness and smooth mouthfeel.
East London, Lea Bridge, Gt London
Nightwatchman 4.5%
Chestnut brown coloured al with a smooth well hopped flavour.
Cowcatcher 4.8%
An American Pale Ale, generously hopped with Amarillo, Chinook, Simcoe and Citra.
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Elgood's, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Which Witch is Which 4.3%
Try saying that after a couple.
Plum Porter 4.4%
A distinctive black beer, it has an enticing fruit aroma, leading to a full-bodied, rich and
fruity flavour.
Winter Warmer(Oak Aged) 7.5%
Deep rich brown and has a very full fruity body. Oak aged.
Elmtree, Snetterton, Norfolk
80/- 4.5%
Restrained hops with full flavours of grain and malts coming through in a near perfect
balance.
Winter Solstice 4.6%
Winter Solstice is a dark Porter with delicate additions of Vanilla pods and Cinammon
bark.
Dark Horse 5%
Rich coffee and classic hops dominate the nose. Dark ripe fruit in the mouth and a
velvet smoothness compliment the strength in the body.
Fallen, Kippen, Stirlingshire
Chew Chew 6%
Salted caramel milk stout, brewed with dark belgian candi syrup, lactose and Hebridean
sea salt.
Platform C 6.3%
New world IPA bursting with hops from the Pacific North West, not overl bitter or sweet.
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Fat Cat, Norwich, Norfolk
Hell Cat 4.1%
A light, fruity beer, with plenty of body. The kick comes from New World hops, packed
with bright, citrus flavours.
Curly Cat 4.2%
A single hop variety, added at three stages of brewing and also in cask, a little fruity
hint of orange and, not too bitter.
Stout Cat 4.6%
A deep, dark beer. The characteristic sweet, rich flavour of roast malt and molasses is
well balanced with the pronounced hop flavour.
Cougar 4.7%
American hops and lager malt are usesd to produce this eminently quaffable beer.
Porter 4.9%
An old-fashioned Porter, rich brown, rather than Black malt lends a biscuit flavour, with
deep smooth dark-chocolate notes.
Marmalade 5.5%
A classic mid-brown coloured strong bitter, with a markedly bitter finish from the
generous use of Styrian hops, plus a hint of orange marmalde.
Felinfoel, Felinfoel, West Wales
Dragon Stout 4.1%
Double Dragon 4.2%
A full drinking premium Welsh ale, malty and subtly hopped with a rich colour and
smooth balanced character.
Felstar, Crix Green, Essex
Old Essex 3.9%
Deep amber traditional old ale with a rich malty taste.
In The Pink 5%
A natural fermented ale matured for 6 years with a very generous helping of cherries
and a few raspberries added for good measure then blended with a new fresh beer.
Five Points, Hackney, Gt London
Pale 4.4%
A fresh, zesty, aromatic pale ale brewed with malted barley, a little wheat, and Amarillo,
Centennial and Citra hops.
Railway Porter 4.8%
A Porter in the classic London style with our own twist. Aromas of chocolate and coffee
with hints of caramel.
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Fox, Heacham, Norfolk
Heacham Gold 3.9%
A pale yellow beer with a surprisingly malty nose. The sweetish taste is also malty yet
quickly becomes crisp and lightly citrus.
Grizzly Bear 4.8%
Pale golden ale with a citrusy fruit aroma and th a distinctly sweetish background.
Heacham Kriek 5.1%
Amber beer made with black cherries and four different hops. Floral aroma leads to a
bitter taste.
Fuller's, Chiswick, London
Olivers Island 3.8%
Delicate floral and citrus aromas with distinctive biscuity, grapefruit flavour, tropical
notes and refreshing zesty qualities.
1845 6.3%
A sweet, fruit cake aroma, a dark tawny colour and a dry finish that sings of spices and
raisin
Vintage 8.5%
Vintage Ale 2015 sees the balance of malt and hops deliver well-rounded, complex
flavours, with a fruitful aroma and a bitter finish.
Goddards, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Wight Squirrel 4.3%
A rich, russet-coloured full-flavoured, easy drinking Best Bitter. Brewed with a host of
Crystal Malts giving a smooth caramel taste.
Ducks Folly 5.2%
Amber coloured, traditionally brewed English ale.
Golden Triangle, Barford, Norfolk
Mosaic City 3.8%
A full tropical fruit taste with peach flavours abundant.
Simcoe City 3.8%
Very similar to the mosaic city but brewed with Simcoe hops.
Drink More Beer 3.9%
Amber coloured bitter with surprising depth, brewed to comemerate the life of the late
Wolfe Witham.
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Grain, Harleston, Norfolk
316 3.9%
Brewed with lager malt and ludicrously light on the palate, well balanced with a slight
hint of grapefruit.
Redwood 4.3%
A rich red premium bitter that beautifully balances roasted malts with sherbert
grapefruit hoppiness.
Pale 5%
IPA with a grassy hop aroma, balanced with a lingering bitterness.
Slate 6%
A deep, dark and rich smoked porter, brewed with a complex blend of malts.
Great Heck, Great Heck, North Yorkshire
Chopper 3.5%
Golden session ale with a surprisingly full body and a decent amount of hops giving rise
a mango/melon fruitiness.
Dave 3.8%
A smooth, very dark, velvety bitter with aslight burnt coffee taste.
Voodoo 4.3%
Chocolate and weetabix with smooth coffee flavours,
Amish Mash Wheat 4.7%
Golden coloured wheat beer with a multitiude of flavours and peppery hop bitterness.
Washington Red 4.7%
Amber coloured beer with a zesty mouthfeel and slighty dry mouthfeel.
Black Jesus 6.5%
Black Jesus is a black IPA brewed with American hops and special dehusked German
roasted malt.
Great Newsome, Winestead, East Yorkshire
Holderness Dark 3.4%
Light coffee feel with a hint of fruitiness and a bittersweet finish.
Ploughmans Pride 4.2%
Dark rich malty ale, brown ale like but with liquorice tones.
Green Dragon, Bungay, Suffolk
Gold 4.4%
Zesty golden ale with a slight lager feel.
Bridge St. Bitter 4.5%
Malty and juicy with bitter orange peel in the finish.
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Green Jack, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Canary 3.8%
Straw-coloured pale ale with a big flowery hop character.
Fruit Bat 5.5%
A distinct taste of plums and fruit cake gives way to a slight piney bitterness.
Baltic Trader 10.5%
Extra Strong Imperial Stout with smooth rich roasted coffee & vanilla flavours.
Harveys, Lewes, East Sussex
Old 4.5%
A dark, full-bodied beer combining sweetness and strength to produce a exceptionally
smooth palate.
Bonfire Boy 5.8%
A dark amber beer with a full malty palate and a slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste. A small
quantity of black malt is used to impart the suggestion of smoke.
Prince of Denmark 7.5%
A complex beer with aromas of leather, chocolate and liquorice, with a lingering taste,
based on traditional recipes from the 18th Century.
Harwich Town, Harwich, Essex
EPA 3.8%
Good hoppy flavour, with hints of pineapple and grapefruit.
Tyrwhitts Tipple 4.5%
Pale malt, dark crystal and caramalt and then Columbus hops brwed especially for us.
Hexhamshire, Hexham, Northumberland
Devils Elbow 3.6%
Named after a waterfall on the West Dipton Burn, Devil’s Elbow is a smooth ale with a
rounded malty taste.
Devils Water 4.2%
A malty dark ale with a fruity range of flavours, named after a local burn.
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Humpty Dumpty, Reedham, Norfolk
Little Sharpie 3.8%
A delicate hop aroma leads to a light clean tasting finish.
Swallowtail 4%
A refreshing pale amber thirst quenching ale with a lively hop finish.
Hop Harvest Gold 4.5%
A golden ale brewed with fresh new hops every time.
Black Mill IPA 5%
A Cascadian style black beer brewed with 4 different American Hop varieties
Railway Sleeper 5%
A sweet plummy fruitiness blankets an underlying malty bitterness. Full and rich in
flavour.
Hydes, Manchester, Gt Manchester
Spicer Santium 4.5%
Brewed using American farmed hop ‘SANTIAM’ which gives a definite Herbal and floral
overtone.
Munchen 5%
Bavrian straw blonde ’Helles’ style beer, crafted from Pilsen malt and the noble
Hallertau, Mittlefruh and Hersbrucher hops.
Ilkley, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Ruby Jane 4%
Complex biscuit layers of flavour and a soft bitterness from the hops.
Scary Spice 5.5%
Influenced by flavours and spices from the East, a pumpkin beer with a difference.
Jo C's, Barsham, Norfolk
Norfolk Kiwi 3.8%
Easy-drinking session bitter with distinct kiwi flavour and aroma
Bitter Old Bustard 4.3%
Russet coloured ale carries warm nutty biscuit flavours coming through a smooth malt
body.
Knot another IPA 5%
A golden, hoppy, true-to-style IPA, brewed using Norfolk-grown Maris Otter barley with
a good blast of British Bodicea hops to provide a flavoursome finish.
Kelham Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
25th Anniversary 6.8%
An IPA using a blend of 5 of the finest American hop varieties, which gives an l aroma
and flavour of Tropical fruits and spices.
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Lacons, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Encore 3.8%
Pale amber hued beer, with delicate fruit aromas, comfortably balancing a dry pine and
citrus flavour.
Festival Special 3.8%
Burnished amber, this full bodied session ale carries dominant tropical fruit/berries in
aroma, followed by tart citrus on the palate. Pleasing nutty flavours are finished by a
dusting of bitterness
Pale 3.9%
An aroma of crisp fruitiness with distinct flavours of melon and grapefruit.
Extra Stout 4.5%
Valiant stone fruits are balanced by blackcurrant and a hint of citrus. The finish is both
smooth and dry.
Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancashire
Elderflower Twist 3.8%
A light coloured beer brewed using elderflowers and elderberries and the very delicate
Kallertauer Hop.
Red 4.8%
Robust, spicy & fruity, culminating in a very moreish finish.
Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Pale 3.8%
Light and hoppy with delicate floral notes and a well balanced finish.
Midnight Bell 4.8%
Roast and chocolate malts combine to give a full bodied, complex character to this rich
and robust ale
Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Borrowers Bitter 3.6%
Named after the classic series of children’s book written by Mary Norton.This is a midbrown,
easy drinking session ale brewed with five different English hops
Smoking Angel 4.5%
German Rauchmaltz smoked over beech wood in the Bamberg area of Germany is used
inthis dark porter style beer.
Long Man, Polegate, East Sussex
Old Man 4.3%
Soft malt notes of coffee and chocolate that combine with a pleasant light hoppiness to
create a rich, full tasting Old Ale.
APA 4.8%
A triple-hopped APA has a pleasant citrus fruit aroma and characteristic robust
bitterness.
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Magpie, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Dark Potion 5.8%
Apothecary inspired, botanically infused Black IPA. Dandelion and Burdock ..
Mauldons, Sudbury, Suffolk
Micawbers Mild 3.5%
This traditional beer has a full round flavour with a slight but distinctive bitter finish.
Mid Autumn Gold 4.2%
An amber coloured beer with a fine balance of malt and hops for a full bodied flavour.
Black Adder 5.3%
A dark bitter stout. Roast and nut aromas with a fruity balance of hops and dark malt
provide an excellent, lingering finish.
Maxim, Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear
Wards Best Bitter 4%
Classic ale from the past with a distinctive malty aftertaste that lingers on the palate.
Maximus 6%
Easy to drink, dark ruby in colour, smooth, sweet, with a hint of liquorice.
Mile Tree, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Crescent 4%
Mid-brown with a red hue to the body, malty and fruity, with a slight bitter finish
Larksong 4.5%
Light malty aroma with the slightest suggestion of oak and berry.
Festival Special 5.4%
Spicy aroma, with cinnamon, clove, bramble and liquorice. Sweet taste, very fruity, like
a beer version of a mulled wine.
Milestone, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Classic Mild 4.1%
Light sweet flavour with ripe berries, toasty bread, burnt caramel, and plum notes.
Olde English 4.9%
Full bodied winter warmer with a pleasing nutty finish.
Moonshine, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
Harvest Moon Mild 3.9%
Slightly sweet with plenty of character. Smooth fruit notes combining with coffee and
chocolate flavours.
Raspberry Porter 4.5%
Night Watch Porter infused with locally grown rapberries to give it a nice mellow fruity
finish.
Raspberry Wheat 4.5%
Part of the 13 moons series of monthly specials.
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Moor, Bridgwater, Somerset
Envy 4.2%
A green hopped beer omfined wih a natural haze with subtle hints of vanilla and herbs.
Illusion 4.4%
Imperial Black Ale as it is known in the USA, very flavoursome for its strength, peppery
and earthy with citrus overtones leading to a mellow finish.
Stout 5%
Not as roasty as some stouts with hints of chocolate and balckberry.
So' hop 5.7%
A pronounced floral and tropical quality to the beer, with honey and elderflower in the
nose.
Nethergate, Pentlow, Essex
Black Shadow 3.5%
A typical old fashioned dark mild, but with a surprisingly fresh bitterness.
Suffolk County 4%
A biscuity malt dominates the warm well rounded roasted background, with a punching
bitterness.
Umbel Magna 5%
The addition of coriander to the Old Growler wort completes the original 1750s recipe
for this distinctive dark beer.
Nobby's, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
Best 3.8%
A session bitter with good hop character.
Festival Special 4.7%
A dark ale with hints of Christmas pudding spice and warming seasonal cheer.
Norfolk Brewhouse, Hindringham, Norfolk
Golden 4%
A fresh citrus aroma and fruity hop character leads into the refreshing, crisp, dry finish.
Dark Mild 4.5%
This dark mild has a subtle blackcurrant aroma, full-bodied with a rich, fruity, sweet
finish.
Gold IPA 5%
A well hopped IPA combining USA and UK hops to deliver a fruity IPA which builds in
bitterness leading to a crisp, dry finish.
Cellar Bration Ale 6%
A ruby red ale brewed in collaboration with leading food and drink writer Melissa Cole.
Fresh cherries, Norfolk honey and mint are added to the brew, as well as sweet and
bitter orange peel.
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Nottingham, Radford, Nottinghamshire
Rock Mild 3.8%
Smooth and dark with a biscuity flavour.
EPA 4.2%
Well balanced smooth ale with a light fragrant hop finish
Oakleaf, Gosport, Hampshire
Quercus Folium 4%
Quercus Folium is Latin for oakleaf, a traditional hoppy bitter with a malty aftertaste and
slight sweetness.
I Can't Believe It's Not Bitter 4.9%
Clean and crisp with a fruity aftertaste. The use of Saaz hops gives this lager a citrus
finish that lingers on.
Old Chimneys, Market Weston, Suffolk
Amber Porter 4.8%
This beer, unusually pale for a porter, is based on a Tolly Cobbold recipe that was
availble from 1785 to 1827.
Good King Henry 9.6%
Chocolate coffee flavours abound with a hint of liquorice and black berry fruit, deep and
awesome.
Red Admiral 11.4%
Red Admiral is an oak aged barley wine with added liqueur whisky. As well as wood
and whisky, there are hints of honey, vanilla, orange marmalade, walnut and raisins.
Classic.
Opa Hay's, Aldeby, Norfolk
Engel's Best 4%
A triple hopped aromatic beer, a very old fashioned traditional ale.
Meister Pils 4.8%
A Pilsner style beer made with continental style yeast, light in colour and a hoppy aroma.
Liquid Bread 5.2%
Bavarian Style wheat beer with a distinct aroma of cloves and banana.
Otley, Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Thai Bo 4.6%
Infused with Lemongrass, lime leaf and galangal it has been described as having the
aromas of a Thai green curry in a glass.
O9 4.8%
Honey and wheat aroma. Flavours of fresh herb, honey and some notes of citrus.
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Palmers, Bridport, Dorset
Copper Ale 3.7%
Copper-coloured session ale, good citrus fruit with a hoppy aroma.
Tally Ho 5.5%
First brewed in the 1940s. A rich fruit cake flavour dominates in this dark strong old ale.
Panther, Reepham, Norfolk
Ginger 3.7%
This ginger wheat beer is fiery with a distinct ginger flavour and with subtle lemon
flavour notes.
Honey 4%
A full bodied ale with a floral honey flavour nicely balnced between the sweetness of the
honey and the malt finish.
Black 4.5%
A roasted malty chocolate and caramel aroma goes to nice earthy finish with a hint of
liquorice.
Pheasantry, East Markham, Nottinghamshire
BB 3.8%
A smooth tasting copper coloured beer, with medium bitterness and a light spicy aroma.
Smoking Rauch 4.8%
Reddish amber beer which starts sweet and then follows a lingering spicy smokiness.
Pictish, Rochdale, Lancashire
Alchemists 4.3%
A refreshing, straw coloured ale with crisp malt flavours and a robust hoppy finish.
Chinook 4.9%
Single hopped beer, pale and clean malt dominated by orange peel and fruity, bitter
hops.
Quartz, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire
MO50 5%
Brewed for the Maris Otter 50 years celebration, pale and very smmoth, with a slight
fizz in the mouthfeel.
Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Kent
No. 7 3.8%
Easy drinking pale session bitter with good balance.
Gadds No. 5 4.4%
A traditional Kentish Best bitter, the aroma is toffee malt and a red berry flavoured
finish.
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Raw, Staveley, Derbyshire
Dark Peak 4.5%
Award winning stout smooth with slight bitterness.
Edge 4.5%
Pale ale brewed using pale and Munich malt, balanced bitterness and a citrus aroma.
Red Squirrel, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Milk Stout 4%
Complex flavours reminiscent of dark chocolate and coffee, balanced by a hoppy
bitterness and a dry smooth silky finish.
APA 4.3%
Fairly bitter pale ale with aromas of grapefruit and pine and slighty sweet finish.
Redemption, Enfield, Gt London
Trinity 3%
Brewed with three malts and three hops. Generous late hopping provides Seville orange
aromas and the initial malt sweetness is dominated by citrus flavours.
Pale Ale 3.8%
Light and well ballanced in the mouth with grain feel along with cirus hop notes.
Fellowship Porter 5.1%
A dark brown coloured London Porter with chocolate, coffee, liquorice and dry roasted
malt flavours complimented with hints of dark fruit.
Redwillow, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Headless 3.9%
Aromas of light lemon barley water with a clean citrus finish. Easy drinking.
Smokeless 5.7%
Asmooth smoked porter, with a robust malt backbone. This is infused with Chipotles to
give even more smokiness and a subtle hint of heat.
Robinsons, Stockport, Cheshire
Unicorn 4.2%
Complex with a long dry finish and citrus fruit notes.
Old Tom 8.5%
Old Tom is dark, rich and warming with a cherry brandy like colour and character
named after the brewery cat in 1899.
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S&P, Horsford, Norfolk
Topaz Blonde 3.7%
Topaz hops provide this golden beer with a fruity citrus aroma, grapefruit taste and a
crisp, dry finish.
Afterglow 3.9%
Amber ale with a distinctive flavour of chalenger hops.
Between the Posts 3.9%
A new golden ale, flavoured with NZ Dr Rudi hops.
Saffron, Bishop Storford, Essex
Saffron Blonde 4.3%
Good balance of citrus and smooth malty flavours with a crisp finish, and a lingering
strawberry nose.
Henham Honey 4.6%
Delicate balance of bitterness, malt, spicy fruit and honey aromas.
Silent Night 5.2%
Ruby Port and pure red grape juice along with Fuggles and Bramling Cross hops create
a soft fruity and spice finish.
Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire
Elderflower Blonde 4%
A refreshing blonde ale infused with the delicate flavour of elderflower.
Hazelnut Coffee Porter 4%
Like Cadburys fruit and nut but with more nuts and fruitiness.
Siren, Finchampstead, Berkshire
Half Mast 2.8%
Quarter IPA, Heavily hopped but with low bitterness and notes of mango and grapefruit.
Undercurrent 4.5%
Spicy, grassy aromas and a taste of grapefruit and apricot an nice nutty maltiness.
St Peter's, South Elmham, Suffolk
Best Bitter 3.7%
A full-bodied ale with distinctive fruity caramel notes.
Ruby Red Ale 4.3%
A rich, red ale with subtle malt undertones and a distinctive spicy hop aroma.
Boo 5.3%
Cream Stout 6.5%
Aromatic, strong, dark chocolate cream stout with a satisfying bittersweet aftertaste.
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Stumptail, Great Dunham, Norfolk
Amber 4.8%
Based on a Victorian recipe, rich roast grain balanced with Goldngs hops.
Pale 4.9%
Traditional pale ale spiced with Goldings and a sprinkling of new world hops for extra
zest.
Summer Wine, Honley, West Yorkshire
Resistance 3.7%
tbc
Teleporter 5%
A Rich Dark Porter brewed with 10 different malts giving a sweet roast richness that is
balanced with just enough hop character.
Taylor's, Attleborough, Norfolk
No1 3.8%
A copper-coloured ale made with a blend of two traditional hops.
Dog Tooth 4%
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Dropped Stitched 4.5%
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Ticketybrew, Stalybridge, Gt Manchester
Munchner 4.5%
Amber lager, well rounded with a rich malty nose and dry pithy finish.
Rose Wheat 4.5%
Unique aroma of roses leading to a floral mouthfeel then a kick of spicy ginger.
Tipples, Acle, Norfolk
Hanged Monk 3.8%
Roasted malt, dry coffee & smoke aromas, some dark fruit with ahint of bitterness.
Longshore 3.8%
A light bitter with a good pale amber colour, a nice balanced malty flavour.
Lady Evelyn 4.1%
Pale, straw coloured ale with a long dryish finish and a floral hop aroma.
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Tombstone, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Arizona 3.9%
Light amber ale, malty, hoppy with a touch of citrus.
Texas Jack 4%
Chestnut red ruby coloured ale with a good flavour and a twist of plums.
Gunslinger 4.3%
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Cherokee 4.5%
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Triple FFF, Four Marks, Hampshire
Rock Lobster 4.5%
A chestnut-brown best bitter with a mellow hop aroma, smooth malt and subtle fruit
flavours. No matching towels though.
Jabberwocky 5%
Subtle hints of dark chocolate and liquorice but with a fresh pine aroma in this black IPA.
Turpin's, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Meditation 4.3%
A pale ale with citrus aromas and a low-medium hop and biscuit flavour.
Cambridge Black 4.6%
A combination of coffee, coca and dark chocolate can be found in this quaffable stout.
Two Rivers, Denver, Norfolk
Kiwi Kick 4%
A dry, biscuity malt flavour is followed by a tart citrusy hop flavour, grapefruit, lime and
a hint of spice.
Porters Pride 5.2%
Dark almost black beer with a bittersweet malt taste, chocolate and coffee, nutty and a
touch of woodiness.
Tydd Steam, Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire
Barn Ale 3.9%
Zesty bitterness and a lingering citrus finish.
Piston Bitter 4.4%
Hints of caramel and slight fruitness from a English style bitter.
Amnesiac 4.9%
Hopped with unique Nelson Sauvin hops giving a soft white wine background and
crushed gooseberry aroma.
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Wantsum, Canterbury, Kent
Black Prince 3.9%
A rich, full bodied Kent mild slightly bitter in the finish.
Imperium 4%
A deep amber best bitter, smooth biscuit malts and rich hoppy nose.
Waveney, Earsham, Norfolk
Lightweight 3.9%
Some hints of toffee, bread, mild earth. Light in body very drinkable.
Welterweight 4.2%
Golden amber coloured bitter with ahint of pears and berries.
Rocky Myrobalan 4.6%
Hedgerow plums ( yellow Myrobalan ) are added to this beer to produce a unique ale.
Welbeck Abbey, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
Red Feather 3.9%
Good malty bitter with a touch of fruit and caramel.
Kaiser 4.1%
Crisp, dry, biscuity lager malt flavours are perfectly balanced with sweet, honey like
floral hops.
Wharfe Bank, Otley, West Yorkshire
Washburn 3.7%
Copper-coloured Yorkshire Bitter with a subtle fruit aroma.
Camfell Flame 4.4%
Copper ruby colour bitter with roasted coffee notes.
Whim, Hartington, Derbyshire
Arbor Light 3.6%
Brewed using German lager hops. Light in colour, sharp and very clean.
Hartington Bitter 4%
Pale golden beer with not to much citrus nose, but hints of apple and pear in the
mouthfeel.
White Horse, Stanford In The Vale, Oxfordshire
Black Beauty 3.9%
Dark brown almost ruby coloured mild with toasty toffe undertones.
Oxford Blue 4.3%
Malty, raisiny, spicy aroma, with a hint of figs and cinnamon in the taste.
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Williams, Alloa, Central Scotland
Black 4.2%
Smooth coffee and chocolate undertones are complemented by the addition of late
harvest cone hops, giving a lovely blackcurrant aroma.
March of the Penguins 4.9%
Rich roasty coffee taste with dark maltiness.
Winter's, Norwich, Norfolk
Cloudburst 3.7%
A full flavoured easy drinking session beer with slight soft summer fruit taste.
Geniuss 4.1%
Deep ruby red coloured beer with a dark fruit and malty molasses backdrop.
Golden 4.1%
A refreshing yellow golden ale with nicely balanced malt, hop and light tangy citrus
flavours.
On The Beer City! 4.4%
Pale golden yellow coloured beer with plenty of citrus fruit and grassy with a mild
background malt flavour.
Wolf, Attleborough, Norfolk
Edith Cavell 3.7%
Tastes stronger than it is , with a malty toast aroma and a slight fruity zing to the
mouthfeel.
Golden Jackal 3.7%
Citrusy hops reign over this Golden Ale building a leafy and fruity hop finish to balance
out the malt.
Lupus Lupus 4.2%
Slight mango and zest through a mostly malt nose and a biscuit finish.
Granny Wouldn't Like It 4.8%
A rich, malty beer. It has masses of flavor and a slightly sweet finish.
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Woodforde's, Woodbastwick, Norfolk
Wherry 3.8%
A slight floral and hoppy nose but the taste is milder and has a biscuity sweetness.
Sundew 4.1%
Subtle golden beer - pale in colour and light on the palate with the distinctive hoppy
finish.
Nelsons Revenge 4.5%
A full-bodied pale amber beer with the rich flavour of Dundee cake. Sultana fruitiness is
balanced by a hoppy bitterness.
Tap and Go 5%
Copper-coloured beer has been brewed to celebrate the Rugby World Cup, in the style
of a classic IPA, yet with a powerful hoppy twist, characterised by citrus notes and hints
of herbs, pepper and pine.
Redcracker 7%
A special version of Headcracker infused with raspberries. Strong full-bodied pale barley
wine. Warm raspberry and apricot notes.
XT, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
4 3.8%
An amber beer with a special Belgian malt and a fruity mix of American and European
hops
XPA 5.9%
An IPA brewed with crisp, clean extra pale malts and numerous North American
flavouring and aromatic hop additions.
Yetman's, Bayfield, Norfolk
Amber 4.2%
A light, crisp beer with a fruity hoppy nose and amber colour.
Green 4.8%
Strongish, with a fruity sweetness and dark colour.
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Overall Beers Of The Festival
1 Beeston Worth The Wait
2 Brass Castle Bad Kitty
3 Boudicca Spiral Stout
Category winners:
Mild
1 Great Newsome Holderness Dark
2 Nethergate Black Shadow
3 Moonshine Harvest Moon Mild
Bitter
1 Jo C's Norfolk Kiwi
2 Wolf Edith Cavell
3 Lacons Pale
Best Bitter
1 Mile Tree Larksong
2 Jo C's Bitter Old Bustard
3 Felinfoel Double Dragon
Strong Bitter/IPA
1 Green Jack Fruit Bat
2 Adnams Broadside Extra
3 Great Heck Black Jesus
Stouts and Porters
1 Brass Castle Bad Kitty
2 Boudicca Spiral Stout
3 Elmtree Winter Solstice
Speciality
1 Moonshine Raspberry Wheat
2 Felstar In The Pink
3 Waveney Rocky Myrobalan
Golden
1 Beeston Worth The Wait
2 Golden Triangle Simcoe City
3 Green Jack Canary
Cider
Monk & Disorderly
Perry
Pickled Pig Wills Perry
Foreign
Huyghe Delirium Tremens
Eckhart writes, “God is a being who always lives in the innermost. Therefore the spirit is always searching within. But the will goes outward toward what it loves.
-Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times by Matthew Fox
Dollars & Cents - Video (Radiohead - Amnesiac)
Starring Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen, Paul Hahn, J. Edward McKinley, Tom Daly, Don Lamond, Arline Hunter. Directed by Ib Melchior.
The first spaceship to Mars, presumed lost, is found in space and brought back to Earth by remote control. Only two from an initial crew of four are still alive, but one is unconscious due to an attached alien growth, while the other is traumatized, blocking out all memory of what happened. In hopes to save the unconscious crewman, the amnesiac is interrogated back into remembering. Those in charge thereby learn of the terrible dangers awaiting anyone venturing into the spooky, ruddy stillness of the very alien Martian ecosystem. Written by statmanjeff
www.dailymotion.com/video/xmsqw5_the-angry-red-planet_sho...
One of my earliest memories of THE ANGRY RED PLANET was seeing it through a five year-old's eyes on WPIX's (a local New York station for anyone reading this who is not from the New York area) SCIENCE FICTION THEATER on Saturday afternoons at 12:00 P.M. I can remember staring in wonder at the weird color designs of the Martian landscape plus being in absolute awe of the bizarre rat-bat-spider-crab creation. Well 27 years later, I am STILL in awe of the Martian landscape and the rat-bat-spider-crab creation. Yes friends, Sidney Pink's THE ANGRY RED PLANET has made its debut on DVD as part of MGM's "Midnight Movies" series and EVERY true fan of American International Pictures' science fiction films should have this under the Christmas tree for this upcoming holiday!!!
The plot is easy enough to follow. The first spaceship to Mars returns to Earth with two of the original four astronauts as survivors. The survivors in question are Dr. Iris Ryan (Nora Hayden) and her boyfriend/ship's captain Colonel Tom O'Banion (Gerald Mohr). The other hapless astronauts who perish before they can get back to Earth include Professor Theodore Gettel (Les Tremayne) and Dr. Sam Jacobs (Jack Kruschen).
Upon her return, Dr. Ryan is hospitalized with a severe case of shock. It seems that her conscious mind has blocked out much of the frightening journey and, to add to the trouble, an unknown blob-like substance has attached itself to Colonel O'Banion's arm and is slowing eating away at the tissues of the comatose astronaut. In order to save O'Banion, Professor Weiner (J. Edward McKinley) and other doctors decide that Dr. Ryan must remember the frightening events of her journey if they are to find out what this substance is, how O'Banion came in contact with it, and most importantly, how to destroy it.
Through mind-altering drugs, the doctors are able to glimpse into Dr. Ryan's memory and what they hear is a bizarre tale that features a month long space flight, the strange shadows and reddish hue of the planet's surface with a still atmosphere which lacks wind. In addition, there are various giant monsters (including the aforementioned rat-bat-spider-crab beast or as Dr. Jacobs puts it... "King Kong's older brother.") like the huge protoplasm-like beast with a rotating eyeball, a vicious man/woman eating plant, and a huge being (which looks like a twisted gingerbread man out of a reddish nightmare) which seems to be the dominant species and whose "people" make it very clear to the astronauts that they are intruders and are NOT welcome on the red planet. What happens to Colonel O'Banion? How do Gettel and Jacobs meet their unfortunate deaths? What warning is given to Earth from Mars? All these plus many more questions will be answered when you get to your local video/DVD store and get this crazy, but fun little science fiction flick in your collection today!!!!
THE ANGRY RED PLANET was released by American International Pictures in 1959 and like all AlP films, this one had a very small budget and was shot (according to the notes in the back of the DVD cover) in ten days. When one takes all this into account, one can not help being amazed that the film looks as good as it does (remember that we are talking about a time BEFORE computer generated special effects). The four lead actors are known mostly for character roles in films ranging from A-list directors to Z-grade hacks. For example, Les Tremayne appeared earlier that same year in Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST and would later work for Billy Wilder in 1966's THE FORTUNE COOKIE. However, he would also go on to appear in Larry Buchanan's laughable remake of THE SHE-CREATURE entitled CREATURES OF DESTRUCTION in 1967. Jack Kruschen was an always dependable character actor who worked with Tremayne earlier in George Pal's 1953 Martian epic, THE WAR OF THE WORLDS for Paramount. One year after THE ANGRY RED PLANET, Kruschen did a memorable character role as Jack Lemmon's nosy doctor/neighbor in Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT. Gerald Mohr worked in the cheap 1959 film TERROR IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE and in 1968 worked with the legendary William Wyler in the Barbra Streisand musical, FUNNY GIRL. Only Nora Hayden seemed to lack major acting experience and it does show in her delivery of some of the lines, but she is a VERY likable person on screen, so many of her scenes are fairly decent.
"Cinemagic" was in fact a typical 1950s "invention" which was really nothing, but film producers needed to lure people away from their television sets somehow. In this film, it DOES help disguise some of the budgetary limitations. For example, the design of the Martian landscape is in fact a series of paintings and the rat-bat-spider-crab monster is indeed a marionette. The bright red colors though do help conceal some of this (but NOT all of it). Paul Dunlap's eerie electronic score also helps create the mood of the "Cinemagic" sequences as well. Also, the fact that the story is being told through the drugged memory of a shocked astronaut helps explain the "unreal" world, which we see on screen (almost like some of the "expressionistic" designs of silent horror films like THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI).
The DVD itself is a full screen transfer and for a film MORE than 40 years old and from an independent, low budget studio, it survives on DVD remarkably well. The color (especially the "Cinemagic" Mars sequences) is excellent and vibrant. The film is also free of major scratches and cuts. In fact, the DVD is so clear that you can now see the wires of the monster marionette where in older prints, there was just enough static to somewhat obscure them. The Dolby Digital sound is available in English only while the subtitles are available in French and Spanish. The only other special feature is the original 1959 theatrical trailer in which the narrator raves about "Cinemagic."
All in all, THE ANGRY RED PLANET is a charming and fun-filled 82 minutes. Watching it reminds one of the 1950s comic books about journeys to Mars and other planets. It is a story told with such sincerity and innocence that one falls right back into an easier time of drive-ins, double features, AlP, etc.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
So, here we are in the fine city of Norwich, with hundreds of beers to try, with not enough time and just the two hands.
In the end I went to just one session, as there were festivals at both The Birdcage and The Muderders.
Moultons Mild was very nice, as was The Fat Cat Brewery'd Porter.
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Acorn, Wombwell, South Yorkshire
Barnsley Bitter 3.8%
Well rounded, with a rich flavour, it retains a lasting bitter finish.
Old Moor Porter 4.8%
A full bodied victorian style porter with hints of liquorice. The initial bitterness gives way
to a smooth, mellow finish.
Adnams, Southwold, Suffolk
Prop Hop 4%
A delicious bitter with malt, biscuit and bready flavours, accompanied by subtle notes of
orange peel.
Extra 4.3%
Copper coloured ale with hoppy, floral and herbal aromas which follow through on the
palate.
Broadside Extra 6.5%
The bottled version but in cask, full malt flavour and a hint of marmite.
Tally Ho 7.2%
Tally Ho is dark Mahogany red in colour with a rich, fruity aroma and a heart warming
sweet raisin and biscuit palate.
Allendale, Hexham, Northumberland
Wagtail 3.8%
A floral aroma, hints of seville orange and spiced dried fruit, with biscuit and toffee
notes.
Pennine Pale 4%
Golden ale, brewed with a trio of American hops giving a full fruity aroma and flavour,
with a refreshing citrus finish
Ashover, Ashover, Derbyshire
Liquorice Alesort 4.5%
A rich black stout made with black malt and crystal rye, has root liquorice added in the
boil.
Rainbows End 4.5%
Rainbows End was the name of the café at the terminus of Ashover light railway, the
beer is pale and hopped with Cascade.
B & T, Shefford, Bedfordshire
Edwin Taylor's Extra Stout 4.5%
A stout with a strong roast flavour along with a hinr of coffee and red wine.
Shefford Plum Porter 4.5%
Fruity on the nose but a little smokiness to the flavour.
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Backyard, Walsall, West Midlands
Premium 4.5%
Premium bitter with a toffee, herbal nose and bitter-sweet nutty flavours.
Hell Bound 5.4%
Dark, rich brew. Full of bitter chocolate and fruit malt character.
Barrell&Sellers, South Elmham, Suffolk
Bitter 3.8%
Classic English ‘Best’ brewed with crystal malt and punchy hops to give a bitter fiinish.
Brown Ale 4.7%
Brewed with caramel & chocolate malt & 'blackcurrant' hops.
IPA 5.8%
Robust, amber, well hopped beer is brewed with pale & caramel malt.
Batemans, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire
XB 3.7%
Classic amber bitter brewed with English hops, very quaffable.
Gold 3.9%
A golden coloued refreshing beer brewed with lager malt and hinook and Cascade hops.
Salem Porter 4.7%
Full of fruit, hazelnuts, almonds, liquorice and spicy hops.
Beeston, Beeston, Norfolk
Afternoon Delight 3.7%
An easy drinking blonde ale with a slightly dry feel and hint of lemon.
Worth The Wait 4.2%
A golden beer, with a balance of hops to give a gentle bitterness & a refreshing citrus
hint.
Village Life 4.8%
Toasted malt flavours with plenty of body and a hint of orange rind and biscuit.
Old Stoatwobbler 6%
Strong, dark, luscious & notorious and mostly mine.. (Manic laugh)
Bexar County, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Poquito Pequeno 3.5%
Gentle fruity bittersweet base with a surprisingly bitter/sour finish.
Timanfaya 3.8%
Rausch Beer. Soured Brown ale.
Cambridge Common 4.1%
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Blindmans, Leighton, Somerset
Backstreet 4.2%
A mid brown smooth rounded ale, full of subtle toffee flavours.
Boudicca, Hoveton, Norfolk
Spiral Stout 4.6%
A spectrum of autumnal berries, coffee, dark chocolate, and a gentle, lingering dry roast
finish with a hint of smoke.
Brandon, Brandon, Suffolk
Dragonfire 4.5%
Pioneer hops and caramel malt makes this an easy session beer with a bit of a kick.
Oakenshield 5%
Strong and dark with a smooth smoky aftertaste.
Brass Castle, Malton, North Yorkshire
Bad Kitty 5.5%
Chocolate vanilla porter , what's not to like..
Burnout 5.8%
A complex dark ale with sweet roasted notes alongside coffee and liquorice.
Brentwood, Brentwood, Essex
Chestnut Stout 4%
A smooth, rounded, easy drinking stout, brewed with local chestnuts.
Shackleton 'The Boss' 4.5%
A full-bodied red premium bitter, well balanced and with rich malt flavours. Brewed by
Brentwood for Shackleton brewery.
Buffy's, Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk
Norfolk Terrier 3.8%
Slightly malty and smooth.
Beagle 4%
A Beagle is really quite a delightful beast. Loyal to the end. Golden and with
exceptionally good citrus notes courtesy of First Gold hops.
9X 9%
Robust ale with plenty of malty fruityness by not over powering.
Cairngorm, Aviemore, Highlands & Islands
Black Gold 4.2%
A Scottish stout with a wonderful rich dark colour and subtle bitterness giving way to
late sweetness and underlying roast barley hints.
Witches Cauldron 4.9%
A dark ruby red coloured ale with a hint of roast malt flavours and a pleasant sweet
aftertaste
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Caveman, Swanscombe, Kent
Citra 4.1%
A hoppy pale ale with a straightforward malt character but plenty of citrus flavours.
Cavedweller 5.8%
Chocolate and coffee notes come through in the malt and dark berry flavours from the
hops.
Celt Experience, Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
Iron Age 3.5%
A ruby coloured fruity beer full of robust and unique fruity hop characteristics and hints
of berry fruit.
Silures 4.6%
The beer is named after a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, occupying
approximately the counties of Monmouthshire & Breconshire.
Church End, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Grave Diggers 3.8%
Dark black and red in colour, with a complex mixture of chocolate and roast flavours.
Stout Coffin 4.6%
Notes of roasted malts creamy vanilla chocolate.
Colchester, Wakes Colne, Essex
Brazilian 4.6%
Coffee and vanilla porter. A firm favourite in the range.
Dancing Men, Happisburgh, Norfolk
Famous Norfolk Broads 3.8%
Quaffing bitter named after three regulars at the Hillhouse Inn.
Knight's Noggin 4.8%
Rich, heavily-malted porter-style beer packed with toasted toffee and chocolate notes.
Dark Star, Horsham, West Sussex
Hophead 3.8%
An extremely clean-drinking pale golden ale with a strong floral aroma.
Festival 5%
A chestnut bronze coloured bitter which is full of freshness and smooth mouthfeel.
East London, Lea Bridge, Gt London
Nightwatchman 4.5%
Chestnut brown coloured al with a smooth well hopped flavour.
Cowcatcher 4.8%
An American Pale Ale, generously hopped with Amarillo, Chinook, Simcoe and Citra.
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Elgood's, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Which Witch is Which 4.3%
Try saying that after a couple.
Plum Porter 4.4%
A distinctive black beer, it has an enticing fruit aroma, leading to a full-bodied, rich and
fruity flavour.
Winter Warmer(Oak Aged) 7.5%
Deep rich brown and has a very full fruity body. Oak aged.
Elmtree, Snetterton, Norfolk
80/- 4.5%
Restrained hops with full flavours of grain and malts coming through in a near perfect
balance.
Winter Solstice 4.6%
Winter Solstice is a dark Porter with delicate additions of Vanilla pods and Cinammon
bark.
Dark Horse 5%
Rich coffee and classic hops dominate the nose. Dark ripe fruit in the mouth and a
velvet smoothness compliment the strength in the body.
Fallen, Kippen, Stirlingshire
Chew Chew 6%
Salted caramel milk stout, brewed with dark belgian candi syrup, lactose and Hebridean
sea salt.
Platform C 6.3%
New world IPA bursting with hops from the Pacific North West, not overl bitter or sweet.
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Fat Cat, Norwich, Norfolk
Hell Cat 4.1%
A light, fruity beer, with plenty of body. The kick comes from New World hops, packed
with bright, citrus flavours.
Curly Cat 4.2%
A single hop variety, added at three stages of brewing and also in cask, a little fruity
hint of orange and, not too bitter.
Stout Cat 4.6%
A deep, dark beer. The characteristic sweet, rich flavour of roast malt and molasses is
well balanced with the pronounced hop flavour.
Cougar 4.7%
American hops and lager malt are usesd to produce this eminently quaffable beer.
Porter 4.9%
An old-fashioned Porter, rich brown, rather than Black malt lends a biscuit flavour, with
deep smooth dark-chocolate notes.
Marmalade 5.5%
A classic mid-brown coloured strong bitter, with a markedly bitter finish from the
generous use of Styrian hops, plus a hint of orange marmalde.
Felinfoel, Felinfoel, West Wales
Dragon Stout 4.1%
Double Dragon 4.2%
A full drinking premium Welsh ale, malty and subtly hopped with a rich colour and
smooth balanced character.
Felstar, Crix Green, Essex
Old Essex 3.9%
Deep amber traditional old ale with a rich malty taste.
In The Pink 5%
A natural fermented ale matured for 6 years with a very generous helping of cherries
and a few raspberries added for good measure then blended with a new fresh beer.
Five Points, Hackney, Gt London
Pale 4.4%
A fresh, zesty, aromatic pale ale brewed with malted barley, a little wheat, and Amarillo,
Centennial and Citra hops.
Railway Porter 4.8%
A Porter in the classic London style with our own twist. Aromas of chocolate and coffee
with hints of caramel.
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Fox, Heacham, Norfolk
Heacham Gold 3.9%
A pale yellow beer with a surprisingly malty nose. The sweetish taste is also malty yet
quickly becomes crisp and lightly citrus.
Grizzly Bear 4.8%
Pale golden ale with a citrusy fruit aroma and th a distinctly sweetish background.
Heacham Kriek 5.1%
Amber beer made with black cherries and four different hops. Floral aroma leads to a
bitter taste.
Fuller's, Chiswick, London
Olivers Island 3.8%
Delicate floral and citrus aromas with distinctive biscuity, grapefruit flavour, tropical
notes and refreshing zesty qualities.
1845 6.3%
A sweet, fruit cake aroma, a dark tawny colour and a dry finish that sings of spices and
raisin
Vintage 8.5%
Vintage Ale 2015 sees the balance of malt and hops deliver well-rounded, complex
flavours, with a fruitful aroma and a bitter finish.
Goddards, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Wight Squirrel 4.3%
A rich, russet-coloured full-flavoured, easy drinking Best Bitter. Brewed with a host of
Crystal Malts giving a smooth caramel taste.
Ducks Folly 5.2%
Amber coloured, traditionally brewed English ale.
Golden Triangle, Barford, Norfolk
Mosaic City 3.8%
A full tropical fruit taste with peach flavours abundant.
Simcoe City 3.8%
Very similar to the mosaic city but brewed with Simcoe hops.
Drink More Beer 3.9%
Amber coloured bitter with surprising depth, brewed to comemerate the life of the late
Wolfe Witham.
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Grain, Harleston, Norfolk
316 3.9%
Brewed with lager malt and ludicrously light on the palate, well balanced with a slight
hint of grapefruit.
Redwood 4.3%
A rich red premium bitter that beautifully balances roasted malts with sherbert
grapefruit hoppiness.
Pale 5%
IPA with a grassy hop aroma, balanced with a lingering bitterness.
Slate 6%
A deep, dark and rich smoked porter, brewed with a complex blend of malts.
Great Heck, Great Heck, North Yorkshire
Chopper 3.5%
Golden session ale with a surprisingly full body and a decent amount of hops giving rise
a mango/melon fruitiness.
Dave 3.8%
A smooth, very dark, velvety bitter with aslight burnt coffee taste.
Voodoo 4.3%
Chocolate and weetabix with smooth coffee flavours,
Amish Mash Wheat 4.7%
Golden coloured wheat beer with a multitiude of flavours and peppery hop bitterness.
Washington Red 4.7%
Amber coloured beer with a zesty mouthfeel and slighty dry mouthfeel.
Black Jesus 6.5%
Black Jesus is a black IPA brewed with American hops and special dehusked German
roasted malt.
Great Newsome, Winestead, East Yorkshire
Holderness Dark 3.4%
Light coffee feel with a hint of fruitiness and a bittersweet finish.
Ploughmans Pride 4.2%
Dark rich malty ale, brown ale like but with liquorice tones.
Green Dragon, Bungay, Suffolk
Gold 4.4%
Zesty golden ale with a slight lager feel.
Bridge St. Bitter 4.5%
Malty and juicy with bitter orange peel in the finish.
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Green Jack, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Canary 3.8%
Straw-coloured pale ale with a big flowery hop character.
Fruit Bat 5.5%
A distinct taste of plums and fruit cake gives way to a slight piney bitterness.
Baltic Trader 10.5%
Extra Strong Imperial Stout with smooth rich roasted coffee & vanilla flavours.
Harveys, Lewes, East Sussex
Old 4.5%
A dark, full-bodied beer combining sweetness and strength to produce a exceptionally
smooth palate.
Bonfire Boy 5.8%
A dark amber beer with a full malty palate and a slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste. A small
quantity of black malt is used to impart the suggestion of smoke.
Prince of Denmark 7.5%
A complex beer with aromas of leather, chocolate and liquorice, with a lingering taste,
based on traditional recipes from the 18th Century.
Harwich Town, Harwich, Essex
EPA 3.8%
Good hoppy flavour, with hints of pineapple and grapefruit.
Tyrwhitts Tipple 4.5%
Pale malt, dark crystal and caramalt and then Columbus hops brwed especially for us.
Hexhamshire, Hexham, Northumberland
Devils Elbow 3.6%
Named after a waterfall on the West Dipton Burn, Devil’s Elbow is a smooth ale with a
rounded malty taste.
Devils Water 4.2%
A malty dark ale with a fruity range of flavours, named after a local burn.
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Humpty Dumpty, Reedham, Norfolk
Little Sharpie 3.8%
A delicate hop aroma leads to a light clean tasting finish.
Swallowtail 4%
A refreshing pale amber thirst quenching ale with a lively hop finish.
Hop Harvest Gold 4.5%
A golden ale brewed with fresh new hops every time.
Black Mill IPA 5%
A Cascadian style black beer brewed with 4 different American Hop varieties
Railway Sleeper 5%
A sweet plummy fruitiness blankets an underlying malty bitterness. Full and rich in
flavour.
Hydes, Manchester, Gt Manchester
Spicer Santium 4.5%
Brewed using American farmed hop ‘SANTIAM’ which gives a definite Herbal and floral
overtone.
Munchen 5%
Bavrian straw blonde ’Helles’ style beer, crafted from Pilsen malt and the noble
Hallertau, Mittlefruh and Hersbrucher hops.
Ilkley, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Ruby Jane 4%
Complex biscuit layers of flavour and a soft bitterness from the hops.
Scary Spice 5.5%
Influenced by flavours and spices from the East, a pumpkin beer with a difference.
Jo C's, Barsham, Norfolk
Norfolk Kiwi 3.8%
Easy-drinking session bitter with distinct kiwi flavour and aroma
Bitter Old Bustard 4.3%
Russet coloured ale carries warm nutty biscuit flavours coming through a smooth malt
body.
Knot another IPA 5%
A golden, hoppy, true-to-style IPA, brewed using Norfolk-grown Maris Otter barley with
a good blast of British Bodicea hops to provide a flavoursome finish.
Kelham Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
25th Anniversary 6.8%
An IPA using a blend of 5 of the finest American hop varieties, which gives an l aroma
and flavour of Tropical fruits and spices.
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Lacons, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Encore 3.8%
Pale amber hued beer, with delicate fruit aromas, comfortably balancing a dry pine and
citrus flavour.
Festival Special 3.8%
Burnished amber, this full bodied session ale carries dominant tropical fruit/berries in
aroma, followed by tart citrus on the palate. Pleasing nutty flavours are finished by a
dusting of bitterness
Pale 3.9%
An aroma of crisp fruitiness with distinct flavours of melon and grapefruit.
Extra Stout 4.5%
Valiant stone fruits are balanced by blackcurrant and a hint of citrus. The finish is both
smooth and dry.
Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancashire
Elderflower Twist 3.8%
A light coloured beer brewed using elderflowers and elderberries and the very delicate
Kallertauer Hop.
Red 4.8%
Robust, spicy & fruity, culminating in a very moreish finish.
Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Pale 3.8%
Light and hoppy with delicate floral notes and a well balanced finish.
Midnight Bell 4.8%
Roast and chocolate malts combine to give a full bodied, complex character to this rich
and robust ale
Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Borrowers Bitter 3.6%
Named after the classic series of children’s book written by Mary Norton.This is a midbrown,
easy drinking session ale brewed with five different English hops
Smoking Angel 4.5%
German Rauchmaltz smoked over beech wood in the Bamberg area of Germany is used
inthis dark porter style beer.
Long Man, Polegate, East Sussex
Old Man 4.3%
Soft malt notes of coffee and chocolate that combine with a pleasant light hoppiness to
create a rich, full tasting Old Ale.
APA 4.8%
A triple-hopped APA has a pleasant citrus fruit aroma and characteristic robust
bitterness.
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Magpie, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Dark Potion 5.8%
Apothecary inspired, botanically infused Black IPA. Dandelion and Burdock ..
Mauldons, Sudbury, Suffolk
Micawbers Mild 3.5%
This traditional beer has a full round flavour with a slight but distinctive bitter finish.
Mid Autumn Gold 4.2%
An amber coloured beer with a fine balance of malt and hops for a full bodied flavour.
Black Adder 5.3%
A dark bitter stout. Roast and nut aromas with a fruity balance of hops and dark malt
provide an excellent, lingering finish.
Maxim, Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear
Wards Best Bitter 4%
Classic ale from the past with a distinctive malty aftertaste that lingers on the palate.
Maximus 6%
Easy to drink, dark ruby in colour, smooth, sweet, with a hint of liquorice.
Mile Tree, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Crescent 4%
Mid-brown with a red hue to the body, malty and fruity, with a slight bitter finish
Larksong 4.5%
Light malty aroma with the slightest suggestion of oak and berry.
Festival Special 5.4%
Spicy aroma, with cinnamon, clove, bramble and liquorice. Sweet taste, very fruity, like
a beer version of a mulled wine.
Milestone, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Classic Mild 4.1%
Light sweet flavour with ripe berries, toasty bread, burnt caramel, and plum notes.
Olde English 4.9%
Full bodied winter warmer with a pleasing nutty finish.
Moonshine, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
Harvest Moon Mild 3.9%
Slightly sweet with plenty of character. Smooth fruit notes combining with coffee and
chocolate flavours.
Raspberry Porter 4.5%
Night Watch Porter infused with locally grown rapberries to give it a nice mellow fruity
finish.
Raspberry Wheat 4.5%
Part of the 13 moons series of monthly specials.
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Moor, Bridgwater, Somerset
Envy 4.2%
A green hopped beer omfined wih a natural haze with subtle hints of vanilla and herbs.
Illusion 4.4%
Imperial Black Ale as it is known in the USA, very flavoursome for its strength, peppery
and earthy with citrus overtones leading to a mellow finish.
Stout 5%
Not as roasty as some stouts with hints of chocolate and balckberry.
So' hop 5.7%
A pronounced floral and tropical quality to the beer, with honey and elderflower in the
nose.
Nethergate, Pentlow, Essex
Black Shadow 3.5%
A typical old fashioned dark mild, but with a surprisingly fresh bitterness.
Suffolk County 4%
A biscuity malt dominates the warm well rounded roasted background, with a punching
bitterness.
Umbel Magna 5%
The addition of coriander to the Old Growler wort completes the original 1750s recipe
for this distinctive dark beer.
Nobby's, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
Best 3.8%
A session bitter with good hop character.
Festival Special 4.7%
A dark ale with hints of Christmas pudding spice and warming seasonal cheer.
Norfolk Brewhouse, Hindringham, Norfolk
Golden 4%
A fresh citrus aroma and fruity hop character leads into the refreshing, crisp, dry finish.
Dark Mild 4.5%
This dark mild has a subtle blackcurrant aroma, full-bodied with a rich, fruity, sweet
finish.
Gold IPA 5%
A well hopped IPA combining USA and UK hops to deliver a fruity IPA which builds in
bitterness leading to a crisp, dry finish.
Cellar Bration Ale 6%
A ruby red ale brewed in collaboration with leading food and drink writer Melissa Cole.
Fresh cherries, Norfolk honey and mint are added to the brew, as well as sweet and
bitter orange peel.
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Nottingham, Radford, Nottinghamshire
Rock Mild 3.8%
Smooth and dark with a biscuity flavour.
EPA 4.2%
Well balanced smooth ale with a light fragrant hop finish
Oakleaf, Gosport, Hampshire
Quercus Folium 4%
Quercus Folium is Latin for oakleaf, a traditional hoppy bitter with a malty aftertaste and
slight sweetness.
I Can't Believe It's Not Bitter 4.9%
Clean and crisp with a fruity aftertaste. The use of Saaz hops gives this lager a citrus
finish that lingers on.
Old Chimneys, Market Weston, Suffolk
Amber Porter 4.8%
This beer, unusually pale for a porter, is based on a Tolly Cobbold recipe that was
availble from 1785 to 1827.
Good King Henry 9.6%
Chocolate coffee flavours abound with a hint of liquorice and black berry fruit, deep and
awesome.
Red Admiral 11.4%
Red Admiral is an oak aged barley wine with added liqueur whisky. As well as wood
and whisky, there are hints of honey, vanilla, orange marmalade, walnut and raisins.
Classic.
Opa Hay's, Aldeby, Norfolk
Engel's Best 4%
A triple hopped aromatic beer, a very old fashioned traditional ale.
Meister Pils 4.8%
A Pilsner style beer made with continental style yeast, light in colour and a hoppy aroma.
Liquid Bread 5.2%
Bavarian Style wheat beer with a distinct aroma of cloves and banana.
Otley, Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Thai Bo 4.6%
Infused with Lemongrass, lime leaf and galangal it has been described as having the
aromas of a Thai green curry in a glass.
O9 4.8%
Honey and wheat aroma. Flavours of fresh herb, honey and some notes of citrus.
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Palmers, Bridport, Dorset
Copper Ale 3.7%
Copper-coloured session ale, good citrus fruit with a hoppy aroma.
Tally Ho 5.5%
First brewed in the 1940s. A rich fruit cake flavour dominates in this dark strong old ale.
Panther, Reepham, Norfolk
Ginger 3.7%
This ginger wheat beer is fiery with a distinct ginger flavour and with subtle lemon
flavour notes.
Honey 4%
A full bodied ale with a floral honey flavour nicely balnced between the sweetness of the
honey and the malt finish.
Black 4.5%
A roasted malty chocolate and caramel aroma goes to nice earthy finish with a hint of
liquorice.
Pheasantry, East Markham, Nottinghamshire
BB 3.8%
A smooth tasting copper coloured beer, with medium bitterness and a light spicy aroma.
Smoking Rauch 4.8%
Reddish amber beer which starts sweet and then follows a lingering spicy smokiness.
Pictish, Rochdale, Lancashire
Alchemists 4.3%
A refreshing, straw coloured ale with crisp malt flavours and a robust hoppy finish.
Chinook 4.9%
Single hopped beer, pale and clean malt dominated by orange peel and fruity, bitter
hops.
Quartz, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire
MO50 5%
Brewed for the Maris Otter 50 years celebration, pale and very smmoth, with a slight
fizz in the mouthfeel.
Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Kent
No. 7 3.8%
Easy drinking pale session bitter with good balance.
Gadds No. 5 4.4%
A traditional Kentish Best bitter, the aroma is toffee malt and a red berry flavoured
finish.
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Raw, Staveley, Derbyshire
Dark Peak 4.5%
Award winning stout smooth with slight bitterness.
Edge 4.5%
Pale ale brewed using pale and Munich malt, balanced bitterness and a citrus aroma.
Red Squirrel, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Milk Stout 4%
Complex flavours reminiscent of dark chocolate and coffee, balanced by a hoppy
bitterness and a dry smooth silky finish.
APA 4.3%
Fairly bitter pale ale with aromas of grapefruit and pine and slighty sweet finish.
Redemption, Enfield, Gt London
Trinity 3%
Brewed with three malts and three hops. Generous late hopping provides Seville orange
aromas and the initial malt sweetness is dominated by citrus flavours.
Pale Ale 3.8%
Light and well ballanced in the mouth with grain feel along with cirus hop notes.
Fellowship Porter 5.1%
A dark brown coloured London Porter with chocolate, coffee, liquorice and dry roasted
malt flavours complimented with hints of dark fruit.
Redwillow, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Headless 3.9%
Aromas of light lemon barley water with a clean citrus finish. Easy drinking.
Smokeless 5.7%
Asmooth smoked porter, with a robust malt backbone. This is infused with Chipotles to
give even more smokiness and a subtle hint of heat.
Robinsons, Stockport, Cheshire
Unicorn 4.2%
Complex with a long dry finish and citrus fruit notes.
Old Tom 8.5%
Old Tom is dark, rich and warming with a cherry brandy like colour and character
named after the brewery cat in 1899.
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S&P, Horsford, Norfolk
Topaz Blonde 3.7%
Topaz hops provide this golden beer with a fruity citrus aroma, grapefruit taste and a
crisp, dry finish.
Afterglow 3.9%
Amber ale with a distinctive flavour of chalenger hops.
Between the Posts 3.9%
A new golden ale, flavoured with NZ Dr Rudi hops.
Saffron, Bishop Storford, Essex
Saffron Blonde 4.3%
Good balance of citrus and smooth malty flavours with a crisp finish, and a lingering
strawberry nose.
Henham Honey 4.6%
Delicate balance of bitterness, malt, spicy fruit and honey aromas.
Silent Night 5.2%
Ruby Port and pure red grape juice along with Fuggles and Bramling Cross hops create
a soft fruity and spice finish.
Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire
Elderflower Blonde 4%
A refreshing blonde ale infused with the delicate flavour of elderflower.
Hazelnut Coffee Porter 4%
Like Cadburys fruit and nut but with more nuts and fruitiness.
Siren, Finchampstead, Berkshire
Half Mast 2.8%
Quarter IPA, Heavily hopped but with low bitterness and notes of mango and grapefruit.
Undercurrent 4.5%
Spicy, grassy aromas and a taste of grapefruit and apricot an nice nutty maltiness.
St Peter's, South Elmham, Suffolk
Best Bitter 3.7%
A full-bodied ale with distinctive fruity caramel notes.
Ruby Red Ale 4.3%
A rich, red ale with subtle malt undertones and a distinctive spicy hop aroma.
Boo 5.3%
Cream Stout 6.5%
Aromatic, strong, dark chocolate cream stout with a satisfying bittersweet aftertaste.
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Stumptail, Great Dunham, Norfolk
Amber 4.8%
Based on a Victorian recipe, rich roast grain balanced with Goldngs hops.
Pale 4.9%
Traditional pale ale spiced with Goldings and a sprinkling of new world hops for extra
zest.
Summer Wine, Honley, West Yorkshire
Resistance 3.7%
tbc
Teleporter 5%
A Rich Dark Porter brewed with 10 different malts giving a sweet roast richness that is
balanced with just enough hop character.
Taylor's, Attleborough, Norfolk
No1 3.8%
A copper-coloured ale made with a blend of two traditional hops.
Dog Tooth 4%
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Dropped Stitched 4.5%
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Ticketybrew, Stalybridge, Gt Manchester
Munchner 4.5%
Amber lager, well rounded with a rich malty nose and dry pithy finish.
Rose Wheat 4.5%
Unique aroma of roses leading to a floral mouthfeel then a kick of spicy ginger.
Tipples, Acle, Norfolk
Hanged Monk 3.8%
Roasted malt, dry coffee & smoke aromas, some dark fruit with ahint of bitterness.
Longshore 3.8%
A light bitter with a good pale amber colour, a nice balanced malty flavour.
Lady Evelyn 4.1%
Pale, straw coloured ale with a long dryish finish and a floral hop aroma.
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Tombstone, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Arizona 3.9%
Light amber ale, malty, hoppy with a touch of citrus.
Texas Jack 4%
Chestnut red ruby coloured ale with a good flavour and a twist of plums.
Gunslinger 4.3%
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Cherokee 4.5%
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Triple FFF, Four Marks, Hampshire
Rock Lobster 4.5%
A chestnut-brown best bitter with a mellow hop aroma, smooth malt and subtle fruit
flavours. No matching towels though.
Jabberwocky 5%
Subtle hints of dark chocolate and liquorice but with a fresh pine aroma in this black IPA.
Turpin's, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Meditation 4.3%
A pale ale with citrus aromas and a low-medium hop and biscuit flavour.
Cambridge Black 4.6%
A combination of coffee, coca and dark chocolate can be found in this quaffable stout.
Two Rivers, Denver, Norfolk
Kiwi Kick 4%
A dry, biscuity malt flavour is followed by a tart citrusy hop flavour, grapefruit, lime and
a hint of spice.
Porters Pride 5.2%
Dark almost black beer with a bittersweet malt taste, chocolate and coffee, nutty and a
touch of woodiness.
Tydd Steam, Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire
Barn Ale 3.9%
Zesty bitterness and a lingering citrus finish.
Piston Bitter 4.4%
Hints of caramel and slight fruitness from a English style bitter.
Amnesiac 4.9%
Hopped with unique Nelson Sauvin hops giving a soft white wine background and
crushed gooseberry aroma.
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Wantsum, Canterbury, Kent
Black Prince 3.9%
A rich, full bodied Kent mild slightly bitter in the finish.
Imperium 4%
A deep amber best bitter, smooth biscuit malts and rich hoppy nose.
Waveney, Earsham, Norfolk
Lightweight 3.9%
Some hints of toffee, bread, mild earth. Light in body very drinkable.
Welterweight 4.2%
Golden amber coloured bitter with ahint of pears and berries.
Rocky Myrobalan 4.6%
Hedgerow plums ( yellow Myrobalan ) are added to this beer to produce a unique ale.
Welbeck Abbey, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
Red Feather 3.9%
Good malty bitter with a touch of fruit and caramel.
Kaiser 4.1%
Crisp, dry, biscuity lager malt flavours are perfectly balanced with sweet, honey like
floral hops.
Wharfe Bank, Otley, West Yorkshire
Washburn 3.7%
Copper-coloured Yorkshire Bitter with a subtle fruit aroma.
Camfell Flame 4.4%
Copper ruby colour bitter with roasted coffee notes.
Whim, Hartington, Derbyshire
Arbor Light 3.6%
Brewed using German lager hops. Light in colour, sharp and very clean.
Hartington Bitter 4%
Pale golden beer with not to much citrus nose, but hints of apple and pear in the
mouthfeel.
White Horse, Stanford In The Vale, Oxfordshire
Black Beauty 3.9%
Dark brown almost ruby coloured mild with toasty toffe undertones.
Oxford Blue 4.3%
Malty, raisiny, spicy aroma, with a hint of figs and cinnamon in the taste.
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Williams, Alloa, Central Scotland
Black 4.2%
Smooth coffee and chocolate undertones are complemented by the addition of late
harvest cone hops, giving a lovely blackcurrant aroma.
March of the Penguins 4.9%
Rich roasty coffee taste with dark maltiness.
Winter's, Norwich, Norfolk
Cloudburst 3.7%
A full flavoured easy drinking session beer with slight soft summer fruit taste.
Geniuss 4.1%
Deep ruby red coloured beer with a dark fruit and malty molasses backdrop.
Golden 4.1%
A refreshing yellow golden ale with nicely balanced malt, hop and light tangy citrus
flavours.
On The Beer City! 4.4%
Pale golden yellow coloured beer with plenty of citrus fruit and grassy with a mild
background malt flavour.
Wolf, Attleborough, Norfolk
Edith Cavell 3.7%
Tastes stronger than it is , with a malty toast aroma and a slight fruity zing to the
mouthfeel.
Golden Jackal 3.7%
Citrusy hops reign over this Golden Ale building a leafy and fruity hop finish to balance
out the malt.
Lupus Lupus 4.2%
Slight mango and zest through a mostly malt nose and a biscuit finish.
Granny Wouldn't Like It 4.8%
A rich, malty beer. It has masses of flavor and a slightly sweet finish.
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Woodforde's, Woodbastwick, Norfolk
Wherry 3.8%
A slight floral and hoppy nose but the taste is milder and has a biscuity sweetness.
Sundew 4.1%
Subtle golden beer - pale in colour and light on the palate with the distinctive hoppy
finish.
Nelsons Revenge 4.5%
A full-bodied pale amber beer with the rich flavour of Dundee cake. Sultana fruitiness is
balanced by a hoppy bitterness.
Tap and Go 5%
Copper-coloured beer has been brewed to celebrate the Rugby World Cup, in the style
of a classic IPA, yet with a powerful hoppy twist, characterised by citrus notes and hints
of herbs, pepper and pine.
Redcracker 7%
A special version of Headcracker infused with raspberries. Strong full-bodied pale barley
wine. Warm raspberry and apricot notes.
XT, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
4 3.8%
An amber beer with a special Belgian malt and a fruity mix of American and European
hops
XPA 5.9%
An IPA brewed with crisp, clean extra pale malts and numerous North American
flavouring and aromatic hop additions.
Yetman's, Bayfield, Norfolk
Amber 4.2%
A light, crisp beer with a fruity hoppy nose and amber colour.
Green 4.8%
Strongish, with a fruity sweetness and dark colour.
Colonel Steve Austin, after suffering a blow to the head that caused him to develop amnesia, is being reintroduced to his bionic identity by Oscar Goldman in an isolated conference room at O.S.I. headquarters.
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An amnesiac Toa of Air, Artek struggles to find who he is and where he came from. He joined the Order after they rescued him from the hands of Skakdi and hopes to find his past while working within the Order.
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German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 2079/2, 1927-1928. Photo: United Artists. Ronald Colman in The Magic Flame (Henry King, 1927).
English gentleman-actor Ronald Colman (1891 - 1958) was a top box office draw in Hollywood films throughout the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. ‘The Man with the Velvet Voice’ was nominated for four Academy Awards. In 1948 he finally won the Oscar for his splendid portrayal of a tormented actor in A Double Life.
Ronald Charles Colman was born in 1891 in Richmond, England. He was the son of silk importer Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. Ronald was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton, where he discovered he enjoyed acting. When Ronald was 16 his father died, putting an end to the boy's plans to attend Cambridge and become an engineer. He went to work as a shipping clerk at the British Steamship Company. He also became a well-known amateur actor and was a member of the West Middlesex Dramatic Society in 1908-1909. He joined the London Scottish Regiment in 1909 and was among the first of the Territorial Army to fight in World War I. On 31 October 1914 at the Battle of Messines Colman was seriously wounded by shrapnel in his leg, which gave him a limp that he would attempt to hide throughout the rest of his acting career. He was invalided from the service in 1916. Upon his recovery, he tried to enter the consular service, but a chance encounter got him a small role in a London play. He dropped other plans and concentrated on the theatre and was rewarded with a succession of increasingly prominent parts. He worked with stage greats Gladys Cooper and Gerald DuMaurier and made extra money appearing in films like the two-reel comedy The Live Wire (1917, Cecil Hepworth), The Snow of the Desert (1919, Walter West) and The Black Spider (1920, William Humphrey). In 1919, after a brief courtship, he married an actress named Thelma Raye. The marriage was in trouble almost from the beginning. The two separated in 1923 but were not divorced until 1934.
In 1920 RonaldColman set out for New York in hopes of finding greater fortune there than in war- depressed England. He toured with Robert Warwick in The Dauntless Three, and subsequently toured with Fay Bainter in East is West. After two years of impoverishment, he was cast in the Broadway hit play La Tendresse (1922). Director Henry King spotted him in the show and cast him as Lillian Gish's leading man in his film The White Sister (1923, Henry King). The romantic tear-jerker was wildly popular and Colman was quickly proclaimed a new film star. This success led to a contract with prominent independent film producer Samuel Goldwyn, and in the following ten years, he became a very popular silent film star in both romantic and adventure films. Among his most successful films for Godwyn were The Dark Angel (1925, George Fitzmaurice), Stella Dallas (1926, Henry King), and The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926, Henry King). His dark hair and eyes and his athletic and riding ability led reviewers to describe him as a ‘Valentino type’. He was often cast in similar, exotic roles. The film that cemented this position as a top star was Beau Geste (1926, Herbert Brenon), the rousing tale of three brothers who join the Foreign Legion to escape the law. Beau Geste was full of mystery, desert action, intrigue and above all, brotherly loyalty. Colman's gentlemanly courage and quiet strength were showcased to perfection in the role of the oldest brother, Beau. The film was one of the top money-makers of the silent era and is still referred to as possibly the greatest Foreign Legion film ever produced. Towards the end of the silent era, Colman was teamed with Hungarian actress Vilma Bánky under Samuel Goldwyn and the two were a popular movie team rivalling Greta Garbo & John Gilbert.
Although Ronald Colman was a huge success in silent films, with the coming of sound, his extraordinarily beautiful speaking voice made him even more important to the film industry. His first major talkie success was in 1930 when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for two roles - Condemned (1929, Wesley Ruggles) and Bulldog Drummond (1929, F. Richard Jones). Thereafter he played several sophisticated thoughtful characters of integrity with enormous aplomb, but also swashbuckled expertly when called to do so in films like The Prisoner of Zenda (1937, John Cromwell). During the 1930s, he appeared in several notable films including Raffles, The Masquerader, Clive of India, A Tale of Two Cities (1935, Jack Conway), Under Two Flags (1936, Frank Lloyd), the poetic Lost Horizon (1937, Frank Capra), and If I Were King (1938, Frank Lloyd). During the war he made two of his very best films - Talk of the Town (1942, George Stevens), with Cary Grant and Jean Arthur; and the romantic tearjerker Random Harvest (1942, Mervyn LeRoy), as an amnesiac victim, co-starring with the luminous Greer Garson. For his role of Anthony John in A Double Life (1947, George Cukor), an actor playing Othello who comes to identify with the character he won both the Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1947 and the Best Actor Oscar in 1948. Beginning in 1945, Colman made many guest appearances on The Jack Benny Program on radio, alongside his second wife, British stage and screen actress Benita Hume. Their comedy work as Benny's next-door neighbors led to their own radio comedy The Halls of Ivy from 1950 to 1952, and then on television from 1954 to 1955. Ronald Colman died in 1958, aged 67, from a lung infection in Santa Barbara, California. He was survived by his Benita Hume, and their daughter Juliet Benita Colman (1944).
Sources: Jim Beaver (IMDb), Julie Stowe (The Ronald Colman Pages), Wikipedia and IMDb.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
FLEX– The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival– presents Spacey Space, a selection of some of their favorite entries from past festivals. The selection of these particular works was inspired by the theme of one of the festivals most popular programs of the 2009 competitive festival. While capturing the broad scope of work submitted each year to the festival, the individual works contained in this program all manage to share a common interest in exploring the notion of space–both inner and outer.
While some of these works implore us to pull from the void in order to recognize and remember that which appears lost–be it forgotten people, memories, ideas, yet others reveal what is already there, and unseen to the naked eye– electrons, devices of control and isolation, and ghosts. By exploring the expanses of inner and outer space, the phantom zones existing beside us and within us, these pieces demand of us a closer inspection of the unseen, the in between, and the forgotten.
Energie! by Thorsten Fleisch
(Germany, 2007, 6 minutes, DVD)
From a more technical point of view, the TV/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electron in the cathode ray tube. For Energie! and uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approximately 30,000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization.
Thorsten Fleisch’s experimentation of materials in his work results in a heightened state of awareness of unseen elements and captured ephemera. He began experimenting with super 8 film in high school. He went on to study with Peter Kubelka at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt where he began working with 16mm film.
Day/Night (Devil’s Millhopper) by Andres Arocha
(USA, 2009, 5 minutes, 16mm)
Enter a space. A one hundred feet deep hole dwarfs invaders with visions of immeasurably tall trees in an almost pristine natural setting. How do you see it? Inspired by the grandeur of nature, Day/Night (Devil’s Millhopper) limits itself to this setting and explores it through different eyes.
Spaceghost by Laurie Jo Reynolds
(USA, 2007, 26 minutes, DVD)
Space Ghost compares the experiences of astronauts and prisoners, using popular depictions of space travel to illustrate the physical and existential aspects of incarceration: sensory deprivation, the perception of time as chaotic and indistinguishable, the displacement of losing face-to-face contact, and the sense of existing in a different but parallel universe with family and loved ones.
Laurie Jo Reynolds is an artist, educator, and activist. In addition to being an advocate for prisoners’ rights, she is also involved with creative collaborative projects for prisoners and ex-offenders. She teaches at Columbia College and Loyola University in Chicago
Rosewell by Bill Brown
(USA, 1994, 23 minutes, 16mm)
A space kid borrows dad’s UFO for a joyride, but winds up crashing near Roswell, New Mexico. An amnesiac filmmaker goes looking for answers.
Bill Brown makes movies about ghosts that masquerade as movies about landscapes– or maybe it’s the other way around. He studied filmmaking at Harvard University, and received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
All Through the Night by Michael Robinson
(USa, 2008, 4 minutes, DVD)
A charred visitation with an icy language of control; there is no room for love.
Since the year 2000, Michael Robinson has created a body of film, video and photography work exploring the poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated experience. Originally from upstate NY, he holds a BFA from Ithaca College, and a MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Phantogram by Kerry Laitala
(USA, 2008, 6 minutes, 16mm)
A communication between the maker, pure light, and the shadow?graphic spirits of cinema. A telegram from the dead using the medium of film. Slippery shimmers slide across the celluloid strip, to embed themselves on the consciousness of the viewers.
Kerry Laitala is an experimental filmmaker from San Francisco whose handcrafted films are masterful, tactile, manipulations of celluloid. She studied film and photography at Massachusetts College of Art, and has a masters degree from the San Francisco Art Institution.
It Will Die Out in the Mind by Deborah Stratman
(USA, 2006, 4 minutes, DVD)
A short meditation on the possibility of spiritual existence and the paranormal in our information age. Texts are lifted from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker in which Stalker’s daughter redeems his otherwise doomed spiritual journey. She offers him something more expansive and less explicable than logic or technology as the conceptual pillar of the human spirit.
The title is taken from a passage about the time from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed:
Stavrogin: …in the Apocalypse the angel swears that there’ll be no more time.
Kirillov: I know. It’s quite true, it’s said very clearly ad exactly. When the whole of man has achieved happiness, there won’t be any time, because it won’t be needed. It’s perfectly true.
Stavrogin: Where will they put it then?
Kirillov: They won’t put it anywhere. Time isn’t a thing, it’s an idea. It’ll die out in the mind.
Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based filmmaker who leaves town a lot. Her films blur the lines between experimental and documentary genres, and she frequently works in other media including photography, sound, drawing and architectural intervention. Deborah teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Cal Arts.
FLEX–the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival–has sought to provide a year-round home for the exhibition of experimental cinema from around the world since 2004. Our hope is that this annual event can serve as an important venue for artists to share their work, while also allowing local audiences a unique opportunity to see significant works that do not have a regular home elsewhere in the State.
Started by experimental filmmaker and University of Florida professor Roger Beebe in Gainesville, Florida, FLEX has earned itself a reputation for quality programing and events. In addition to the alternating festivals, one competitive and the other invitational, FLEX regularly presents film-centric events. These other events, like gong shows featuring industrial and educational films, Cinema Under the Stars- 16mm movie classics screened outside, and Silent Films, Loud Music- local musicians score music to silent films, all serve to promote the communal experience of film viewing.
Between splitting her time mining the internet for the most gruesome pics for her psychology lab job and working at Gainesville’s finest independent video store, Alisson Bittiker, once the FLEX chair wrangler, is now the Managing Director of FLEX. Dreams, of constant stress, work, and no pay, really do come true. She studied photography and video at the University of Florida.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
Starring Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen, Paul Hahn, J. Edward McKinley, Tom Daly, Don Lamond, Arline Hunter. Directed by Ib Melchior.
The first spaceship to Mars, presumed lost, is found in space and brought back to Earth by remote control. Only two from an initial crew of four are still alive, but one is unconscious due to an attached alien growth, while the other is traumatized, blocking out all memory of what happened. In hopes to save the unconscious crewman, the amnesiac is interrogated back into remembering. Those in charge thereby learn of the terrible dangers awaiting anyone venturing into the spooky, ruddy stillness of the very alien Martian ecosystem. Written by statmanjeff
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One of my earliest memories of THE ANGRY RED PLANET was seeing it through a five year-old's eyes on WPIX's (a local New York station for anyone reading this who is not from the New York area) SCIENCE FICTION THEATER on Saturday afternoons at 12:00 P.M. I can remember staring in wonder at the weird color designs of the Martian landscape plus being in absolute awe of the bizarre rat-bat-spider-crab creation. Well 27 years later, I am STILL in awe of the Martian landscape and the rat-bat-spider-crab creation. Yes friends, Sidney Pink's THE ANGRY RED PLANET has made its debut on DVD as part of MGM's "Midnight Movies" series and EVERY true fan of American International Pictures' science fiction films should have this under the Christmas tree for this upcoming holiday!!!
The plot is easy enough to follow. The first spaceship to Mars returns to Earth with two of the original four astronauts as survivors. The survivors in question are Dr. Iris Ryan (Nora Hayden) and her boyfriend/ship's captain Colonel Tom O'Banion (Gerald Mohr). The other hapless astronauts who perish before they can get back to Earth include Professor Theodore Gettel (Les Tremayne) and Dr. Sam Jacobs (Jack Kruschen).
Upon her return, Dr. Ryan is hospitalized with a severe case of shock. It seems that her conscious mind has blocked out much of the frightening journey and, to add to the trouble, an unknown blob-like substance has attached itself to Colonel O'Banion's arm and is slowing eating away at the tissues of the comatose astronaut. In order to save O'Banion, Professor Weiner (J. Edward McKinley) and other doctors decide that Dr. Ryan must remember the frightening events of her journey if they are to find out what this substance is, how O'Banion came in contact with it, and most importantly, how to destroy it.
Through mind-altering drugs, the doctors are able to glimpse into Dr. Ryan's memory and what they hear is a bizarre tale that features a month long space flight, the strange shadows and reddish hue of the planet's surface with a still atmosphere which lacks wind. In addition, there are various giant monsters (including the aforementioned rat-bat-spider-crab beast or as Dr. Jacobs puts it... "King Kong's older brother.") like the huge protoplasm-like beast with a rotating eyeball, a vicious man/woman eating plant, and a huge being (which looks like a twisted gingerbread man out of a reddish nightmare) which seems to be the dominant species and whose "people" make it very clear to the astronauts that they are intruders and are NOT welcome on the red planet. What happens to Colonel O'Banion? How do Gettel and Jacobs meet their unfortunate deaths? What warning is given to Earth from Mars? All these plus many more questions will be answered when you get to your local video/DVD store and get this crazy, but fun little science fiction flick in your collection today!!!!
THE ANGRY RED PLANET was released by American International Pictures in 1959 and like all AlP films, this one had a very small budget and was shot (according to the notes in the back of the DVD cover) in ten days. When one takes all this into account, one can not help being amazed that the film looks as good as it does (remember that we are talking about a time BEFORE computer generated special effects). The four lead actors are known mostly for character roles in films ranging from A-list directors to Z-grade hacks. For example, Les Tremayne appeared earlier that same year in Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST and would later work for Billy Wilder in 1966's THE FORTUNE COOKIE. However, he would also go on to appear in Larry Buchanan's laughable remake of THE SHE-CREATURE entitled CREATURES OF DESTRUCTION in 1967. Jack Kruschen was an always dependable character actor who worked with Tremayne earlier in George Pal's 1953 Martian epic, THE WAR OF THE WORLDS for Paramount. One year after THE ANGRY RED PLANET, Kruschen did a memorable character role as Jack Lemmon's nosy doctor/neighbor in Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT. Gerald Mohr worked in the cheap 1959 film TERROR IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE and in 1968 worked with the legendary William Wyler in the Barbra Streisand musical, FUNNY GIRL. Only Nora Hayden seemed to lack major acting experience and it does show in her delivery of some of the lines, but she is a VERY likable person on screen, so many of her scenes are fairly decent.
"Cinemagic" was in fact a typical 1950s "invention" which was really nothing, but film producers needed to lure people away from their television sets somehow. In this film, it DOES help disguise some of the budgetary limitations. For example, the design of the Martian landscape is in fact a series of paintings and the rat-bat-spider-crab monster is indeed a marionette. The bright red colors though do help conceal some of this (but NOT all of it). Paul Dunlap's eerie electronic score also helps create the mood of the "Cinemagic" sequences as well. Also, the fact that the story is being told through the drugged memory of a shocked astronaut helps explain the "unreal" world, which we see on screen (almost like some of the "expressionistic" designs of silent horror films like THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI).
The DVD itself is a full screen transfer and for a film MORE than 40 years old and from an independent, low budget studio, it survives on DVD remarkably well. The color (especially the "Cinemagic" Mars sequences) is excellent and vibrant. The film is also free of major scratches and cuts. In fact, the DVD is so clear that you can now see the wires of the monster marionette where in older prints, there was just enough static to somewhat obscure them. The Dolby Digital sound is available in English only while the subtitles are available in French and Spanish. The only other special feature is the original 1959 theatrical trailer in which the narrator raves about "Cinemagic."
All in all, THE ANGRY RED PLANET is a charming and fun-filled 82 minutes. Watching it reminds one of the 1950s comic books about journeys to Mars and other planets. It is a story told with such sincerity and innocence that one falls right back into an easier time of drive-ins, double features, AlP, etc.
Mortal Recoil: Total Recall – The Life of Meaning in the Carnal Nation ~
If you are an immortal being living through a succession of mortal lifetimes, why can’t you remember your past? If we’re all in control of our own destinies, how and why have we decided to forget?
Where do you go when you’re asleep? How do you ‘go to sleep’? Are you the same person when you wake up? Can you remember who you were yesterday? How much of your own childhood do you remember? How much of last month – last year?
Have you ever experienced anything you wanted to forget? Have you ever wished you could start your life all over – with a blank slate?
If I want to remember my previous lives, I must explore memory itself to pass through the waters of forgetfulness and reach the dawn of illumination. I must expand and refine my recollections of this life, sorting truth from accretion and memory from fantasy. I must divine for truth as a dowser divines for hidden water or minerals.
I must learn how to tell truth from falsehood, illusion and self-delusion – and continually practice this art, by being my harshest critic and taskmaster and my most compassionate mentor and friend. I must develop a very sensitive bullshit detector and an expansive sense of empathy for the blind sleepwalkers all around me.
I can’t expect the world to make much impression on me if I’m living a half-waking dream all my life – if the reality revealed by my senses is always passing me by, drowned out by the incessant commentary always running through my mind. I have to be certain I’m awake to know I’m not dreaming a vivid fantasy.
I have to be here now if I want to actually experience my life. I have to be mindful of what’s really happening inside me and all around me. To do that, I have to stop my thoughts, or alternately separate my self from the eternal chatter of the surface veneer of my identity – the acculturated monkey mind and emotions that have grown with me since I was swimming in my mother’s womb.
I have to find a deeper wellspring within, beyond the unending entertainments that distract me from life itself. I have to silence the chatter or remove myself from its internal influence, by locating my self in the centre of the eternal cyclone of thought and emotion.
I have to know who it is who goes to sleep and wakes up every night and every day.
I have to know the true meaning of the word ‘meditation’, which has nothing whatever to do with thinking. I have to find out who it is that’s doing all the thinking – or being distracted by it!
I have to open my mind to all the things that the purblind natives of this dawning New Millennium deny and exclude from their blinkered tunneled visions – the realities filtered out by hidebound neo-feudal cultures that stubbornly refuse to observe anomalies, discrepancies and outright disproof of their common beliefs and quaint ‘scientific’ notions.
If I want to have a life I have to walk away from the screen when I finish reading this and explore reality – if my memory span extends that far!
If I am not the sum of my thoughts, beliefs, habits and culture, then what am I? What is within me that survives to carry on?
Am I a projection into this four dimensional TimeSpace, a partial expression of an expanded being, who simultaneously dwells throughout many other dimensions as well? Am I part of something and someone that dwells in all the hyperspaces and parallel continua that we know exist (in implicate, interconnected conjunction with the reality we can see, hear, feel, smell and taste with our terrestrial time-bound senses), from the observations of physics and the realities implicit in geometry? And from the subtle magic of synchronicity and coincidence…
When you realise your mind isn’t yours and your consciousness isn’t confined to the cave of your skull, it’s easy to see how an apparently finite, mortal, death-bound being could in fact be a virtual extension of something else entirely. You can access all these realms and dimensions by expanding y/our consciousness. And paradoxically, this is facilitated by concentrating on the smallest things – or nothing at all.
Staying alive and aware is a continual weaning process. Potty training only ends in infancy in primitive societies full of throwaway people with short lives and attention spans, whose purpose is simply to maintain a dreaming gene-pool. Gaining complete control of your breathing, digestive system, heartbeat, brain activity, fertility and all other physical parameters is well within the capabilities of most children. It’s the way out of the matrix.
Almost all those who could have taught us how to escape the prisons of our cultures by exploring our own nature were burned at the stake or stoned to death by our superstitious grandparents or forebears – but the techniques are implicit in the forms and functions of our bodies; a true seeker will always find a way, and will be helped along by the indivisible invisible hands of those who’ve preceded you, if your mind and heart are in the right place. In a universe where memory is truly ineradicable, lost techniques and memories can be recovered and resurrected.
In our primitive superstition-ridden cultures of the early New Millennium – in which people are automatically taught to be suspicious and afraid of their own bodies and sexuality – most humans don’t even know where their physical organs are located after a decade of ‘education’. How can we expect to have any idea of what we are when we’re encouraged not to look at (or touch) our selves or each other? How can we find our true nature (or even nature itself) if we allow ourselves to be continually distracted by bullshit and melodrama? Will we find ourselves in a sitcom or ‘reality’ show? Do clothes make the woman? How’s the attention span going?
If you want to be cleansed of unpleasant memories or the pitiful painful results of an unexamined life and self-destructive lifestyle, an easy way is to cut off all your sensory inputs. You can do this by staying in a sensory deprivation chamber, by taking opiates, by going to sleep or by dying. If you remain in a sensory deprivation chamber for a couple of weeks your mind will be washed clean – unless you’re particularly adept at meditation – and a womb makes an excellent sensory deprivation chamber, washing you in the warm waters of forgetfulness for months.
Some philosophers suggest that if people knew they were immortal, we’d all automatically be aware of the laws of karma and dharma and practice the Golden Rule. But immortality is no impediment to free will. We all have many of the same motivations to be creative, honourable and compassionate or cruel, uncaring and destructive, whether we have a small single life or a big multiplex one. Regardless of whether you’re immortal or not, the same ethical questions apply; and either way, you can’t leave yourself behind and wherever you go, there you are, for as long as you are you. It’s an excellent motivation for changing the things in yourself you aren’t comfortable with – and a terrible lesson for would-be suicides.
In the folklore of forgetfulness, the amnesiac is compelled to relive aspects of the events they have forgotten; he who forgets the lessons of his story is condemned to repeat them. Until full waking memory relinks the past with the future, the amnesiac is trapped in a cycle of repetition – and hell is often defined as repetition.
Yet immortality provides a wider and deeper perspective into the connectedness of all things and beings, and this does make a fundamental difference to our beliefs, motives and actions. In the absolute centre of the cyclone, I am you, and we are Divine.
Who are you again? Are you distracted yet? What’s that over there?
Your parents and grandparents were happy and satisfied to be lied to and cheated by those who still get away with stealing the wealth and knowledge of the Earth (and everywhere else) for themselves – are you?
Turn on. Tune in. Opt OUT! Find like-minded friends and work with them to free the world and free our Mind…
@ hermetic.blog.com/2008/03/4/ by R. Ayana
So, here we are in the fine city of Norwich, with hundreds of beers to try, with not enough time and just the two hands.
In the end I went to just one session, as there were festivals at both The Birdcage and The Muderders.
Moultons Mild was very nice, as was The Fat Cat Brewery'd Porter.
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Acorn, Wombwell, South Yorkshire
Barnsley Bitter 3.8%
Well rounded, with a rich flavour, it retains a lasting bitter finish.
Old Moor Porter 4.8%
A full bodied victorian style porter with hints of liquorice. The initial bitterness gives way
to a smooth, mellow finish.
Adnams, Southwold, Suffolk
Prop Hop 4%
A delicious bitter with malt, biscuit and bready flavours, accompanied by subtle notes of
orange peel.
Extra 4.3%
Copper coloured ale with hoppy, floral and herbal aromas which follow through on the
palate.
Broadside Extra 6.5%
The bottled version but in cask, full malt flavour and a hint of marmite.
Tally Ho 7.2%
Tally Ho is dark Mahogany red in colour with a rich, fruity aroma and a heart warming
sweet raisin and biscuit palate.
Allendale, Hexham, Northumberland
Wagtail 3.8%
A floral aroma, hints of seville orange and spiced dried fruit, with biscuit and toffee
notes.
Pennine Pale 4%
Golden ale, brewed with a trio of American hops giving a full fruity aroma and flavour,
with a refreshing citrus finish
Ashover, Ashover, Derbyshire
Liquorice Alesort 4.5%
A rich black stout made with black malt and crystal rye, has root liquorice added in the
boil.
Rainbows End 4.5%
Rainbows End was the name of the café at the terminus of Ashover light railway, the
beer is pale and hopped with Cascade.
B & T, Shefford, Bedfordshire
Edwin Taylor's Extra Stout 4.5%
A stout with a strong roast flavour along with a hinr of coffee and red wine.
Shefford Plum Porter 4.5%
Fruity on the nose but a little smokiness to the flavour.
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Backyard, Walsall, West Midlands
Premium 4.5%
Premium bitter with a toffee, herbal nose and bitter-sweet nutty flavours.
Hell Bound 5.4%
Dark, rich brew. Full of bitter chocolate and fruit malt character.
Barrell&Sellers, South Elmham, Suffolk
Bitter 3.8%
Classic English ‘Best’ brewed with crystal malt and punchy hops to give a bitter fiinish.
Brown Ale 4.7%
Brewed with caramel & chocolate malt & 'blackcurrant' hops.
IPA 5.8%
Robust, amber, well hopped beer is brewed with pale & caramel malt.
Batemans, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire
XB 3.7%
Classic amber bitter brewed with English hops, very quaffable.
Gold 3.9%
A golden coloued refreshing beer brewed with lager malt and hinook and Cascade hops.
Salem Porter 4.7%
Full of fruit, hazelnuts, almonds, liquorice and spicy hops.
Beeston, Beeston, Norfolk
Afternoon Delight 3.7%
An easy drinking blonde ale with a slightly dry feel and hint of lemon.
Worth The Wait 4.2%
A golden beer, with a balance of hops to give a gentle bitterness & a refreshing citrus
hint.
Village Life 4.8%
Toasted malt flavours with plenty of body and a hint of orange rind and biscuit.
Old Stoatwobbler 6%
Strong, dark, luscious & notorious and mostly mine.. (Manic laugh)
Bexar County, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Poquito Pequeno 3.5%
Gentle fruity bittersweet base with a surprisingly bitter/sour finish.
Timanfaya 3.8%
Rausch Beer. Soured Brown ale.
Cambridge Common 4.1%
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Blindmans, Leighton, Somerset
Backstreet 4.2%
A mid brown smooth rounded ale, full of subtle toffee flavours.
Boudicca, Hoveton, Norfolk
Spiral Stout 4.6%
A spectrum of autumnal berries, coffee, dark chocolate, and a gentle, lingering dry roast
finish with a hint of smoke.
Brandon, Brandon, Suffolk
Dragonfire 4.5%
Pioneer hops and caramel malt makes this an easy session beer with a bit of a kick.
Oakenshield 5%
Strong and dark with a smooth smoky aftertaste.
Brass Castle, Malton, North Yorkshire
Bad Kitty 5.5%
Chocolate vanilla porter , what's not to like..
Burnout 5.8%
A complex dark ale with sweet roasted notes alongside coffee and liquorice.
Brentwood, Brentwood, Essex
Chestnut Stout 4%
A smooth, rounded, easy drinking stout, brewed with local chestnuts.
Shackleton 'The Boss' 4.5%
A full-bodied red premium bitter, well balanced and with rich malt flavours. Brewed by
Brentwood for Shackleton brewery.
Buffy's, Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk
Norfolk Terrier 3.8%
Slightly malty and smooth.
Beagle 4%
A Beagle is really quite a delightful beast. Loyal to the end. Golden and with
exceptionally good citrus notes courtesy of First Gold hops.
9X 9%
Robust ale with plenty of malty fruityness by not over powering.
Cairngorm, Aviemore, Highlands & Islands
Black Gold 4.2%
A Scottish stout with a wonderful rich dark colour and subtle bitterness giving way to
late sweetness and underlying roast barley hints.
Witches Cauldron 4.9%
A dark ruby red coloured ale with a hint of roast malt flavours and a pleasant sweet
aftertaste
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Caveman, Swanscombe, Kent
Citra 4.1%
A hoppy pale ale with a straightforward malt character but plenty of citrus flavours.
Cavedweller 5.8%
Chocolate and coffee notes come through in the malt and dark berry flavours from the
hops.
Celt Experience, Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
Iron Age 3.5%
A ruby coloured fruity beer full of robust and unique fruity hop characteristics and hints
of berry fruit.
Silures 4.6%
The beer is named after a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, occupying
approximately the counties of Monmouthshire & Breconshire.
Church End, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Grave Diggers 3.8%
Dark black and red in colour, with a complex mixture of chocolate and roast flavours.
Stout Coffin 4.6%
Notes of roasted malts creamy vanilla chocolate.
Colchester, Wakes Colne, Essex
Brazilian 4.6%
Coffee and vanilla porter. A firm favourite in the range.
Dancing Men, Happisburgh, Norfolk
Famous Norfolk Broads 3.8%
Quaffing bitter named after three regulars at the Hillhouse Inn.
Knight's Noggin 4.8%
Rich, heavily-malted porter-style beer packed with toasted toffee and chocolate notes.
Dark Star, Horsham, West Sussex
Hophead 3.8%
An extremely clean-drinking pale golden ale with a strong floral aroma.
Festival 5%
A chestnut bronze coloured bitter which is full of freshness and smooth mouthfeel.
East London, Lea Bridge, Gt London
Nightwatchman 4.5%
Chestnut brown coloured al with a smooth well hopped flavour.
Cowcatcher 4.8%
An American Pale Ale, generously hopped with Amarillo, Chinook, Simcoe and Citra.
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Elgood's, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Which Witch is Which 4.3%
Try saying that after a couple.
Plum Porter 4.4%
A distinctive black beer, it has an enticing fruit aroma, leading to a full-bodied, rich and
fruity flavour.
Winter Warmer(Oak Aged) 7.5%
Deep rich brown and has a very full fruity body. Oak aged.
Elmtree, Snetterton, Norfolk
80/- 4.5%
Restrained hops with full flavours of grain and malts coming through in a near perfect
balance.
Winter Solstice 4.6%
Winter Solstice is a dark Porter with delicate additions of Vanilla pods and Cinammon
bark.
Dark Horse 5%
Rich coffee and classic hops dominate the nose. Dark ripe fruit in the mouth and a
velvet smoothness compliment the strength in the body.
Fallen, Kippen, Stirlingshire
Chew Chew 6%
Salted caramel milk stout, brewed with dark belgian candi syrup, lactose and Hebridean
sea salt.
Platform C 6.3%
New world IPA bursting with hops from the Pacific North West, not overl bitter or sweet.
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Fat Cat, Norwich, Norfolk
Hell Cat 4.1%
A light, fruity beer, with plenty of body. The kick comes from New World hops, packed
with bright, citrus flavours.
Curly Cat 4.2%
A single hop variety, added at three stages of brewing and also in cask, a little fruity
hint of orange and, not too bitter.
Stout Cat 4.6%
A deep, dark beer. The characteristic sweet, rich flavour of roast malt and molasses is
well balanced with the pronounced hop flavour.
Cougar 4.7%
American hops and lager malt are usesd to produce this eminently quaffable beer.
Porter 4.9%
An old-fashioned Porter, rich brown, rather than Black malt lends a biscuit flavour, with
deep smooth dark-chocolate notes.
Marmalade 5.5%
A classic mid-brown coloured strong bitter, with a markedly bitter finish from the
generous use of Styrian hops, plus a hint of orange marmalde.
Felinfoel, Felinfoel, West Wales
Dragon Stout 4.1%
Double Dragon 4.2%
A full drinking premium Welsh ale, malty and subtly hopped with a rich colour and
smooth balanced character.
Felstar, Crix Green, Essex
Old Essex 3.9%
Deep amber traditional old ale with a rich malty taste.
In The Pink 5%
A natural fermented ale matured for 6 years with a very generous helping of cherries
and a few raspberries added for good measure then blended with a new fresh beer.
Five Points, Hackney, Gt London
Pale 4.4%
A fresh, zesty, aromatic pale ale brewed with malted barley, a little wheat, and Amarillo,
Centennial and Citra hops.
Railway Porter 4.8%
A Porter in the classic London style with our own twist. Aromas of chocolate and coffee
with hints of caramel.
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Fox, Heacham, Norfolk
Heacham Gold 3.9%
A pale yellow beer with a surprisingly malty nose. The sweetish taste is also malty yet
quickly becomes crisp and lightly citrus.
Grizzly Bear 4.8%
Pale golden ale with a citrusy fruit aroma and th a distinctly sweetish background.
Heacham Kriek 5.1%
Amber beer made with black cherries and four different hops. Floral aroma leads to a
bitter taste.
Fuller's, Chiswick, London
Olivers Island 3.8%
Delicate floral and citrus aromas with distinctive biscuity, grapefruit flavour, tropical
notes and refreshing zesty qualities.
1845 6.3%
A sweet, fruit cake aroma, a dark tawny colour and a dry finish that sings of spices and
raisin
Vintage 8.5%
Vintage Ale 2015 sees the balance of malt and hops deliver well-rounded, complex
flavours, with a fruitful aroma and a bitter finish.
Goddards, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Wight Squirrel 4.3%
A rich, russet-coloured full-flavoured, easy drinking Best Bitter. Brewed with a host of
Crystal Malts giving a smooth caramel taste.
Ducks Folly 5.2%
Amber coloured, traditionally brewed English ale.
Golden Triangle, Barford, Norfolk
Mosaic City 3.8%
A full tropical fruit taste with peach flavours abundant.
Simcoe City 3.8%
Very similar to the mosaic city but brewed with Simcoe hops.
Drink More Beer 3.9%
Amber coloured bitter with surprising depth, brewed to comemerate the life of the late
Wolfe Witham.
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Grain, Harleston, Norfolk
316 3.9%
Brewed with lager malt and ludicrously light on the palate, well balanced with a slight
hint of grapefruit.
Redwood 4.3%
A rich red premium bitter that beautifully balances roasted malts with sherbert
grapefruit hoppiness.
Pale 5%
IPA with a grassy hop aroma, balanced with a lingering bitterness.
Slate 6%
A deep, dark and rich smoked porter, brewed with a complex blend of malts.
Great Heck, Great Heck, North Yorkshire
Chopper 3.5%
Golden session ale with a surprisingly full body and a decent amount of hops giving rise
a mango/melon fruitiness.
Dave 3.8%
A smooth, very dark, velvety bitter with aslight burnt coffee taste.
Voodoo 4.3%
Chocolate and weetabix with smooth coffee flavours,
Amish Mash Wheat 4.7%
Golden coloured wheat beer with a multitiude of flavours and peppery hop bitterness.
Washington Red 4.7%
Amber coloured beer with a zesty mouthfeel and slighty dry mouthfeel.
Black Jesus 6.5%
Black Jesus is a black IPA brewed with American hops and special dehusked German
roasted malt.
Great Newsome, Winestead, East Yorkshire
Holderness Dark 3.4%
Light coffee feel with a hint of fruitiness and a bittersweet finish.
Ploughmans Pride 4.2%
Dark rich malty ale, brown ale like but with liquorice tones.
Green Dragon, Bungay, Suffolk
Gold 4.4%
Zesty golden ale with a slight lager feel.
Bridge St. Bitter 4.5%
Malty and juicy with bitter orange peel in the finish.
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Green Jack, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Canary 3.8%
Straw-coloured pale ale with a big flowery hop character.
Fruit Bat 5.5%
A distinct taste of plums and fruit cake gives way to a slight piney bitterness.
Baltic Trader 10.5%
Extra Strong Imperial Stout with smooth rich roasted coffee & vanilla flavours.
Harveys, Lewes, East Sussex
Old 4.5%
A dark, full-bodied beer combining sweetness and strength to produce a exceptionally
smooth palate.
Bonfire Boy 5.8%
A dark amber beer with a full malty palate and a slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste. A small
quantity of black malt is used to impart the suggestion of smoke.
Prince of Denmark 7.5%
A complex beer with aromas of leather, chocolate and liquorice, with a lingering taste,
based on traditional recipes from the 18th Century.
Harwich Town, Harwich, Essex
EPA 3.8%
Good hoppy flavour, with hints of pineapple and grapefruit.
Tyrwhitts Tipple 4.5%
Pale malt, dark crystal and caramalt and then Columbus hops brwed especially for us.
Hexhamshire, Hexham, Northumberland
Devils Elbow 3.6%
Named after a waterfall on the West Dipton Burn, Devil’s Elbow is a smooth ale with a
rounded malty taste.
Devils Water 4.2%
A malty dark ale with a fruity range of flavours, named after a local burn.
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Humpty Dumpty, Reedham, Norfolk
Little Sharpie 3.8%
A delicate hop aroma leads to a light clean tasting finish.
Swallowtail 4%
A refreshing pale amber thirst quenching ale with a lively hop finish.
Hop Harvest Gold 4.5%
A golden ale brewed with fresh new hops every time.
Black Mill IPA 5%
A Cascadian style black beer brewed with 4 different American Hop varieties
Railway Sleeper 5%
A sweet plummy fruitiness blankets an underlying malty bitterness. Full and rich in
flavour.
Hydes, Manchester, Gt Manchester
Spicer Santium 4.5%
Brewed using American farmed hop ‘SANTIAM’ which gives a definite Herbal and floral
overtone.
Munchen 5%
Bavrian straw blonde ’Helles’ style beer, crafted from Pilsen malt and the noble
Hallertau, Mittlefruh and Hersbrucher hops.
Ilkley, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Ruby Jane 4%
Complex biscuit layers of flavour and a soft bitterness from the hops.
Scary Spice 5.5%
Influenced by flavours and spices from the East, a pumpkin beer with a difference.
Jo C's, Barsham, Norfolk
Norfolk Kiwi 3.8%
Easy-drinking session bitter with distinct kiwi flavour and aroma
Bitter Old Bustard 4.3%
Russet coloured ale carries warm nutty biscuit flavours coming through a smooth malt
body.
Knot another IPA 5%
A golden, hoppy, true-to-style IPA, brewed using Norfolk-grown Maris Otter barley with
a good blast of British Bodicea hops to provide a flavoursome finish.
Kelham Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
25th Anniversary 6.8%
An IPA using a blend of 5 of the finest American hop varieties, which gives an l aroma
and flavour of Tropical fruits and spices.
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Lacons, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Encore 3.8%
Pale amber hued beer, with delicate fruit aromas, comfortably balancing a dry pine and
citrus flavour.
Festival Special 3.8%
Burnished amber, this full bodied session ale carries dominant tropical fruit/berries in
aroma, followed by tart citrus on the palate. Pleasing nutty flavours are finished by a
dusting of bitterness
Pale 3.9%
An aroma of crisp fruitiness with distinct flavours of melon and grapefruit.
Extra Stout 4.5%
Valiant stone fruits are balanced by blackcurrant and a hint of citrus. The finish is both
smooth and dry.
Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancashire
Elderflower Twist 3.8%
A light coloured beer brewed using elderflowers and elderberries and the very delicate
Kallertauer Hop.
Red 4.8%
Robust, spicy & fruity, culminating in a very moreish finish.
Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Pale 3.8%
Light and hoppy with delicate floral notes and a well balanced finish.
Midnight Bell 4.8%
Roast and chocolate malts combine to give a full bodied, complex character to this rich
and robust ale
Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Borrowers Bitter 3.6%
Named after the classic series of children’s book written by Mary Norton.This is a midbrown,
easy drinking session ale brewed with five different English hops
Smoking Angel 4.5%
German Rauchmaltz smoked over beech wood in the Bamberg area of Germany is used
inthis dark porter style beer.
Long Man, Polegate, East Sussex
Old Man 4.3%
Soft malt notes of coffee and chocolate that combine with a pleasant light hoppiness to
create a rich, full tasting Old Ale.
APA 4.8%
A triple-hopped APA has a pleasant citrus fruit aroma and characteristic robust
bitterness.
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Magpie, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Dark Potion 5.8%
Apothecary inspired, botanically infused Black IPA. Dandelion and Burdock ..
Mauldons, Sudbury, Suffolk
Micawbers Mild 3.5%
This traditional beer has a full round flavour with a slight but distinctive bitter finish.
Mid Autumn Gold 4.2%
An amber coloured beer with a fine balance of malt and hops for a full bodied flavour.
Black Adder 5.3%
A dark bitter stout. Roast and nut aromas with a fruity balance of hops and dark malt
provide an excellent, lingering finish.
Maxim, Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear
Wards Best Bitter 4%
Classic ale from the past with a distinctive malty aftertaste that lingers on the palate.
Maximus 6%
Easy to drink, dark ruby in colour, smooth, sweet, with a hint of liquorice.
Mile Tree, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Crescent 4%
Mid-brown with a red hue to the body, malty and fruity, with a slight bitter finish
Larksong 4.5%
Light malty aroma with the slightest suggestion of oak and berry.
Festival Special 5.4%
Spicy aroma, with cinnamon, clove, bramble and liquorice. Sweet taste, very fruity, like
a beer version of a mulled wine.
Milestone, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Classic Mild 4.1%
Light sweet flavour with ripe berries, toasty bread, burnt caramel, and plum notes.
Olde English 4.9%
Full bodied winter warmer with a pleasing nutty finish.
Moonshine, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
Harvest Moon Mild 3.9%
Slightly sweet with plenty of character. Smooth fruit notes combining with coffee and
chocolate flavours.
Raspberry Porter 4.5%
Night Watch Porter infused with locally grown rapberries to give it a nice mellow fruity
finish.
Raspberry Wheat 4.5%
Part of the 13 moons series of monthly specials.
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Moor, Bridgwater, Somerset
Envy 4.2%
A green hopped beer omfined wih a natural haze with subtle hints of vanilla and herbs.
Illusion 4.4%
Imperial Black Ale as it is known in the USA, very flavoursome for its strength, peppery
and earthy with citrus overtones leading to a mellow finish.
Stout 5%
Not as roasty as some stouts with hints of chocolate and balckberry.
So' hop 5.7%
A pronounced floral and tropical quality to the beer, with honey and elderflower in the
nose.
Nethergate, Pentlow, Essex
Black Shadow 3.5%
A typical old fashioned dark mild, but with a surprisingly fresh bitterness.
Suffolk County 4%
A biscuity malt dominates the warm well rounded roasted background, with a punching
bitterness.
Umbel Magna 5%
The addition of coriander to the Old Growler wort completes the original 1750s recipe
for this distinctive dark beer.
Nobby's, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
Best 3.8%
A session bitter with good hop character.
Festival Special 4.7%
A dark ale with hints of Christmas pudding spice and warming seasonal cheer.
Norfolk Brewhouse, Hindringham, Norfolk
Golden 4%
A fresh citrus aroma and fruity hop character leads into the refreshing, crisp, dry finish.
Dark Mild 4.5%
This dark mild has a subtle blackcurrant aroma, full-bodied with a rich, fruity, sweet
finish.
Gold IPA 5%
A well hopped IPA combining USA and UK hops to deliver a fruity IPA which builds in
bitterness leading to a crisp, dry finish.
Cellar Bration Ale 6%
A ruby red ale brewed in collaboration with leading food and drink writer Melissa Cole.
Fresh cherries, Norfolk honey and mint are added to the brew, as well as sweet and
bitter orange peel.
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Nottingham, Radford, Nottinghamshire
Rock Mild 3.8%
Smooth and dark with a biscuity flavour.
EPA 4.2%
Well balanced smooth ale with a light fragrant hop finish
Oakleaf, Gosport, Hampshire
Quercus Folium 4%
Quercus Folium is Latin for oakleaf, a traditional hoppy bitter with a malty aftertaste and
slight sweetness.
I Can't Believe It's Not Bitter 4.9%
Clean and crisp with a fruity aftertaste. The use of Saaz hops gives this lager a citrus
finish that lingers on.
Old Chimneys, Market Weston, Suffolk
Amber Porter 4.8%
This beer, unusually pale for a porter, is based on a Tolly Cobbold recipe that was
availble from 1785 to 1827.
Good King Henry 9.6%
Chocolate coffee flavours abound with a hint of liquorice and black berry fruit, deep and
awesome.
Red Admiral 11.4%
Red Admiral is an oak aged barley wine with added liqueur whisky. As well as wood
and whisky, there are hints of honey, vanilla, orange marmalade, walnut and raisins.
Classic.
Opa Hay's, Aldeby, Norfolk
Engel's Best 4%
A triple hopped aromatic beer, a very old fashioned traditional ale.
Meister Pils 4.8%
A Pilsner style beer made with continental style yeast, light in colour and a hoppy aroma.
Liquid Bread 5.2%
Bavarian Style wheat beer with a distinct aroma of cloves and banana.
Otley, Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Thai Bo 4.6%
Infused with Lemongrass, lime leaf and galangal it has been described as having the
aromas of a Thai green curry in a glass.
O9 4.8%
Honey and wheat aroma. Flavours of fresh herb, honey and some notes of citrus.
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Palmers, Bridport, Dorset
Copper Ale 3.7%
Copper-coloured session ale, good citrus fruit with a hoppy aroma.
Tally Ho 5.5%
First brewed in the 1940s. A rich fruit cake flavour dominates in this dark strong old ale.
Panther, Reepham, Norfolk
Ginger 3.7%
This ginger wheat beer is fiery with a distinct ginger flavour and with subtle lemon
flavour notes.
Honey 4%
A full bodied ale with a floral honey flavour nicely balnced between the sweetness of the
honey and the malt finish.
Black 4.5%
A roasted malty chocolate and caramel aroma goes to nice earthy finish with a hint of
liquorice.
Pheasantry, East Markham, Nottinghamshire
BB 3.8%
A smooth tasting copper coloured beer, with medium bitterness and a light spicy aroma.
Smoking Rauch 4.8%
Reddish amber beer which starts sweet and then follows a lingering spicy smokiness.
Pictish, Rochdale, Lancashire
Alchemists 4.3%
A refreshing, straw coloured ale with crisp malt flavours and a robust hoppy finish.
Chinook 4.9%
Single hopped beer, pale and clean malt dominated by orange peel and fruity, bitter
hops.
Quartz, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire
MO50 5%
Brewed for the Maris Otter 50 years celebration, pale and very smmoth, with a slight
fizz in the mouthfeel.
Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Kent
No. 7 3.8%
Easy drinking pale session bitter with good balance.
Gadds No. 5 4.4%
A traditional Kentish Best bitter, the aroma is toffee malt and a red berry flavoured
finish.
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Raw, Staveley, Derbyshire
Dark Peak 4.5%
Award winning stout smooth with slight bitterness.
Edge 4.5%
Pale ale brewed using pale and Munich malt, balanced bitterness and a citrus aroma.
Red Squirrel, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Milk Stout 4%
Complex flavours reminiscent of dark chocolate and coffee, balanced by a hoppy
bitterness and a dry smooth silky finish.
APA 4.3%
Fairly bitter pale ale with aromas of grapefruit and pine and slighty sweet finish.
Redemption, Enfield, Gt London
Trinity 3%
Brewed with three malts and three hops. Generous late hopping provides Seville orange
aromas and the initial malt sweetness is dominated by citrus flavours.
Pale Ale 3.8%
Light and well ballanced in the mouth with grain feel along with cirus hop notes.
Fellowship Porter 5.1%
A dark brown coloured London Porter with chocolate, coffee, liquorice and dry roasted
malt flavours complimented with hints of dark fruit.
Redwillow, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Headless 3.9%
Aromas of light lemon barley water with a clean citrus finish. Easy drinking.
Smokeless 5.7%
Asmooth smoked porter, with a robust malt backbone. This is infused with Chipotles to
give even more smokiness and a subtle hint of heat.
Robinsons, Stockport, Cheshire
Unicorn 4.2%
Complex with a long dry finish and citrus fruit notes.
Old Tom 8.5%
Old Tom is dark, rich and warming with a cherry brandy like colour and character
named after the brewery cat in 1899.
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S&P, Horsford, Norfolk
Topaz Blonde 3.7%
Topaz hops provide this golden beer with a fruity citrus aroma, grapefruit taste and a
crisp, dry finish.
Afterglow 3.9%
Amber ale with a distinctive flavour of chalenger hops.
Between the Posts 3.9%
A new golden ale, flavoured with NZ Dr Rudi hops.
Saffron, Bishop Storford, Essex
Saffron Blonde 4.3%
Good balance of citrus and smooth malty flavours with a crisp finish, and a lingering
strawberry nose.
Henham Honey 4.6%
Delicate balance of bitterness, malt, spicy fruit and honey aromas.
Silent Night 5.2%
Ruby Port and pure red grape juice along with Fuggles and Bramling Cross hops create
a soft fruity and spice finish.
Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire
Elderflower Blonde 4%
A refreshing blonde ale infused with the delicate flavour of elderflower.
Hazelnut Coffee Porter 4%
Like Cadburys fruit and nut but with more nuts and fruitiness.
Siren, Finchampstead, Berkshire
Half Mast 2.8%
Quarter IPA, Heavily hopped but with low bitterness and notes of mango and grapefruit.
Undercurrent 4.5%
Spicy, grassy aromas and a taste of grapefruit and apricot an nice nutty maltiness.
St Peter's, South Elmham, Suffolk
Best Bitter 3.7%
A full-bodied ale with distinctive fruity caramel notes.
Ruby Red Ale 4.3%
A rich, red ale with subtle malt undertones and a distinctive spicy hop aroma.
Boo 5.3%
Cream Stout 6.5%
Aromatic, strong, dark chocolate cream stout with a satisfying bittersweet aftertaste.
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Stumptail, Great Dunham, Norfolk
Amber 4.8%
Based on a Victorian recipe, rich roast grain balanced with Goldngs hops.
Pale 4.9%
Traditional pale ale spiced with Goldings and a sprinkling of new world hops for extra
zest.
Summer Wine, Honley, West Yorkshire
Resistance 3.7%
tbc
Teleporter 5%
A Rich Dark Porter brewed with 10 different malts giving a sweet roast richness that is
balanced with just enough hop character.
Taylor's, Attleborough, Norfolk
No1 3.8%
A copper-coloured ale made with a blend of two traditional hops.
Dog Tooth 4%
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Dropped Stitched 4.5%
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Ticketybrew, Stalybridge, Gt Manchester
Munchner 4.5%
Amber lager, well rounded with a rich malty nose and dry pithy finish.
Rose Wheat 4.5%
Unique aroma of roses leading to a floral mouthfeel then a kick of spicy ginger.
Tipples, Acle, Norfolk
Hanged Monk 3.8%
Roasted malt, dry coffee & smoke aromas, some dark fruit with ahint of bitterness.
Longshore 3.8%
A light bitter with a good pale amber colour, a nice balanced malty flavour.
Lady Evelyn 4.1%
Pale, straw coloured ale with a long dryish finish and a floral hop aroma.
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Tombstone, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Arizona 3.9%
Light amber ale, malty, hoppy with a touch of citrus.
Texas Jack 4%
Chestnut red ruby coloured ale with a good flavour and a twist of plums.
Gunslinger 4.3%
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Cherokee 4.5%
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Triple FFF, Four Marks, Hampshire
Rock Lobster 4.5%
A chestnut-brown best bitter with a mellow hop aroma, smooth malt and subtle fruit
flavours. No matching towels though.
Jabberwocky 5%
Subtle hints of dark chocolate and liquorice but with a fresh pine aroma in this black IPA.
Turpin's, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Meditation 4.3%
A pale ale with citrus aromas and a low-medium hop and biscuit flavour.
Cambridge Black 4.6%
A combination of coffee, coca and dark chocolate can be found in this quaffable stout.
Two Rivers, Denver, Norfolk
Kiwi Kick 4%
A dry, biscuity malt flavour is followed by a tart citrusy hop flavour, grapefruit, lime and
a hint of spice.
Porters Pride 5.2%
Dark almost black beer with a bittersweet malt taste, chocolate and coffee, nutty and a
touch of woodiness.
Tydd Steam, Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire
Barn Ale 3.9%
Zesty bitterness and a lingering citrus finish.
Piston Bitter 4.4%
Hints of caramel and slight fruitness from a English style bitter.
Amnesiac 4.9%
Hopped with unique Nelson Sauvin hops giving a soft white wine background and
crushed gooseberry aroma.
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Wantsum, Canterbury, Kent
Black Prince 3.9%
A rich, full bodied Kent mild slightly bitter in the finish.
Imperium 4%
A deep amber best bitter, smooth biscuit malts and rich hoppy nose.
Waveney, Earsham, Norfolk
Lightweight 3.9%
Some hints of toffee, bread, mild earth. Light in body very drinkable.
Welterweight 4.2%
Golden amber coloured bitter with ahint of pears and berries.
Rocky Myrobalan 4.6%
Hedgerow plums ( yellow Myrobalan ) are added to this beer to produce a unique ale.
Welbeck Abbey, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
Red Feather 3.9%
Good malty bitter with a touch of fruit and caramel.
Kaiser 4.1%
Crisp, dry, biscuity lager malt flavours are perfectly balanced with sweet, honey like
floral hops.
Wharfe Bank, Otley, West Yorkshire
Washburn 3.7%
Copper-coloured Yorkshire Bitter with a subtle fruit aroma.
Camfell Flame 4.4%
Copper ruby colour bitter with roasted coffee notes.
Whim, Hartington, Derbyshire
Arbor Light 3.6%
Brewed using German lager hops. Light in colour, sharp and very clean.
Hartington Bitter 4%
Pale golden beer with not to much citrus nose, but hints of apple and pear in the
mouthfeel.
White Horse, Stanford In The Vale, Oxfordshire
Black Beauty 3.9%
Dark brown almost ruby coloured mild with toasty toffe undertones.
Oxford Blue 4.3%
Malty, raisiny, spicy aroma, with a hint of figs and cinnamon in the taste.
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Williams, Alloa, Central Scotland
Black 4.2%
Smooth coffee and chocolate undertones are complemented by the addition of late
harvest cone hops, giving a lovely blackcurrant aroma.
March of the Penguins 4.9%
Rich roasty coffee taste with dark maltiness.
Winter's, Norwich, Norfolk
Cloudburst 3.7%
A full flavoured easy drinking session beer with slight soft summer fruit taste.
Geniuss 4.1%
Deep ruby red coloured beer with a dark fruit and malty molasses backdrop.
Golden 4.1%
A refreshing yellow golden ale with nicely balanced malt, hop and light tangy citrus
flavours.
On The Beer City! 4.4%
Pale golden yellow coloured beer with plenty of citrus fruit and grassy with a mild
background malt flavour.
Wolf, Attleborough, Norfolk
Edith Cavell 3.7%
Tastes stronger than it is , with a malty toast aroma and a slight fruity zing to the
mouthfeel.
Golden Jackal 3.7%
Citrusy hops reign over this Golden Ale building a leafy and fruity hop finish to balance
out the malt.
Lupus Lupus 4.2%
Slight mango and zest through a mostly malt nose and a biscuit finish.
Granny Wouldn't Like It 4.8%
A rich, malty beer. It has masses of flavor and a slightly sweet finish.
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Woodforde's, Woodbastwick, Norfolk
Wherry 3.8%
A slight floral and hoppy nose but the taste is milder and has a biscuity sweetness.
Sundew 4.1%
Subtle golden beer - pale in colour and light on the palate with the distinctive hoppy
finish.
Nelsons Revenge 4.5%
A full-bodied pale amber beer with the rich flavour of Dundee cake. Sultana fruitiness is
balanced by a hoppy bitterness.
Tap and Go 5%
Copper-coloured beer has been brewed to celebrate the Rugby World Cup, in the style
of a classic IPA, yet with a powerful hoppy twist, characterised by citrus notes and hints
of herbs, pepper and pine.
Redcracker 7%
A special version of Headcracker infused with raspberries. Strong full-bodied pale barley
wine. Warm raspberry and apricot notes.
XT, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
4 3.8%
An amber beer with a special Belgian malt and a fruity mix of American and European
hops
XPA 5.9%
An IPA brewed with crisp, clean extra pale malts and numerous North American
flavouring and aromatic hop additions.
Yetman's, Bayfield, Norfolk
Amber 4.2%
A light, crisp beer with a fruity hoppy nose and amber colour.
Green 4.8%
Strongish, with a fruity sweetness and dark colour.
So, here we are in the fine city of Norwich, with hundreds of beers to try, with not enough time and just the two hands.
In the end I went to just one session, as there were festivals at both The Birdcage and The Muderders.
Moultons Mild was very nice, as was The Fat Cat Brewery'd Porter.
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Acorn, Wombwell, South Yorkshire
Barnsley Bitter 3.8%
Well rounded, with a rich flavour, it retains a lasting bitter finish.
Old Moor Porter 4.8%
A full bodied victorian style porter with hints of liquorice. The initial bitterness gives way
to a smooth, mellow finish.
Adnams, Southwold, Suffolk
Prop Hop 4%
A delicious bitter with malt, biscuit and bready flavours, accompanied by subtle notes of
orange peel.
Extra 4.3%
Copper coloured ale with hoppy, floral and herbal aromas which follow through on the
palate.
Broadside Extra 6.5%
The bottled version but in cask, full malt flavour and a hint of marmite.
Tally Ho 7.2%
Tally Ho is dark Mahogany red in colour with a rich, fruity aroma and a heart warming
sweet raisin and biscuit palate.
Allendale, Hexham, Northumberland
Wagtail 3.8%
A floral aroma, hints of seville orange and spiced dried fruit, with biscuit and toffee
notes.
Pennine Pale 4%
Golden ale, brewed with a trio of American hops giving a full fruity aroma and flavour,
with a refreshing citrus finish
Ashover, Ashover, Derbyshire
Liquorice Alesort 4.5%
A rich black stout made with black malt and crystal rye, has root liquorice added in the
boil.
Rainbows End 4.5%
Rainbows End was the name of the café at the terminus of Ashover light railway, the
beer is pale and hopped with Cascade.
B & T, Shefford, Bedfordshire
Edwin Taylor's Extra Stout 4.5%
A stout with a strong roast flavour along with a hinr of coffee and red wine.
Shefford Plum Porter 4.5%
Fruity on the nose but a little smokiness to the flavour.
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Backyard, Walsall, West Midlands
Premium 4.5%
Premium bitter with a toffee, herbal nose and bitter-sweet nutty flavours.
Hell Bound 5.4%
Dark, rich brew. Full of bitter chocolate and fruit malt character.
Barrell&Sellers, South Elmham, Suffolk
Bitter 3.8%
Classic English ‘Best’ brewed with crystal malt and punchy hops to give a bitter fiinish.
Brown Ale 4.7%
Brewed with caramel & chocolate malt & 'blackcurrant' hops.
IPA 5.8%
Robust, amber, well hopped beer is brewed with pale & caramel malt.
Batemans, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire
XB 3.7%
Classic amber bitter brewed with English hops, very quaffable.
Gold 3.9%
A golden coloued refreshing beer brewed with lager malt and hinook and Cascade hops.
Salem Porter 4.7%
Full of fruit, hazelnuts, almonds, liquorice and spicy hops.
Beeston, Beeston, Norfolk
Afternoon Delight 3.7%
An easy drinking blonde ale with a slightly dry feel and hint of lemon.
Worth The Wait 4.2%
A golden beer, with a balance of hops to give a gentle bitterness & a refreshing citrus
hint.
Village Life 4.8%
Toasted malt flavours with plenty of body and a hint of orange rind and biscuit.
Old Stoatwobbler 6%
Strong, dark, luscious & notorious and mostly mine.. (Manic laugh)
Bexar County, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Poquito Pequeno 3.5%
Gentle fruity bittersweet base with a surprisingly bitter/sour finish.
Timanfaya 3.8%
Rausch Beer. Soured Brown ale.
Cambridge Common 4.1%
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Blindmans, Leighton, Somerset
Backstreet 4.2%
A mid brown smooth rounded ale, full of subtle toffee flavours.
Boudicca, Hoveton, Norfolk
Spiral Stout 4.6%
A spectrum of autumnal berries, coffee, dark chocolate, and a gentle, lingering dry roast
finish with a hint of smoke.
Brandon, Brandon, Suffolk
Dragonfire 4.5%
Pioneer hops and caramel malt makes this an easy session beer with a bit of a kick.
Oakenshield 5%
Strong and dark with a smooth smoky aftertaste.
Brass Castle, Malton, North Yorkshire
Bad Kitty 5.5%
Chocolate vanilla porter , what's not to like..
Burnout 5.8%
A complex dark ale with sweet roasted notes alongside coffee and liquorice.
Brentwood, Brentwood, Essex
Chestnut Stout 4%
A smooth, rounded, easy drinking stout, brewed with local chestnuts.
Shackleton 'The Boss' 4.5%
A full-bodied red premium bitter, well balanced and with rich malt flavours. Brewed by
Brentwood for Shackleton brewery.
Buffy's, Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk
Norfolk Terrier 3.8%
Slightly malty and smooth.
Beagle 4%
A Beagle is really quite a delightful beast. Loyal to the end. Golden and with
exceptionally good citrus notes courtesy of First Gold hops.
9X 9%
Robust ale with plenty of malty fruityness by not over powering.
Cairngorm, Aviemore, Highlands & Islands
Black Gold 4.2%
A Scottish stout with a wonderful rich dark colour and subtle bitterness giving way to
late sweetness and underlying roast barley hints.
Witches Cauldron 4.9%
A dark ruby red coloured ale with a hint of roast malt flavours and a pleasant sweet
aftertaste
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Caveman, Swanscombe, Kent
Citra 4.1%
A hoppy pale ale with a straightforward malt character but plenty of citrus flavours.
Cavedweller 5.8%
Chocolate and coffee notes come through in the malt and dark berry flavours from the
hops.
Celt Experience, Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
Iron Age 3.5%
A ruby coloured fruity beer full of robust and unique fruity hop characteristics and hints
of berry fruit.
Silures 4.6%
The beer is named after a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, occupying
approximately the counties of Monmouthshire & Breconshire.
Church End, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Grave Diggers 3.8%
Dark black and red in colour, with a complex mixture of chocolate and roast flavours.
Stout Coffin 4.6%
Notes of roasted malts creamy vanilla chocolate.
Colchester, Wakes Colne, Essex
Brazilian 4.6%
Coffee and vanilla porter. A firm favourite in the range.
Dancing Men, Happisburgh, Norfolk
Famous Norfolk Broads 3.8%
Quaffing bitter named after three regulars at the Hillhouse Inn.
Knight's Noggin 4.8%
Rich, heavily-malted porter-style beer packed with toasted toffee and chocolate notes.
Dark Star, Horsham, West Sussex
Hophead 3.8%
An extremely clean-drinking pale golden ale with a strong floral aroma.
Festival 5%
A chestnut bronze coloured bitter which is full of freshness and smooth mouthfeel.
East London, Lea Bridge, Gt London
Nightwatchman 4.5%
Chestnut brown coloured al with a smooth well hopped flavour.
Cowcatcher 4.8%
An American Pale Ale, generously hopped with Amarillo, Chinook, Simcoe and Citra.
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Elgood's, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Which Witch is Which 4.3%
Try saying that after a couple.
Plum Porter 4.4%
A distinctive black beer, it has an enticing fruit aroma, leading to a full-bodied, rich and
fruity flavour.
Winter Warmer(Oak Aged) 7.5%
Deep rich brown and has a very full fruity body. Oak aged.
Elmtree, Snetterton, Norfolk
80/- 4.5%
Restrained hops with full flavours of grain and malts coming through in a near perfect
balance.
Winter Solstice 4.6%
Winter Solstice is a dark Porter with delicate additions of Vanilla pods and Cinammon
bark.
Dark Horse 5%
Rich coffee and classic hops dominate the nose. Dark ripe fruit in the mouth and a
velvet smoothness compliment the strength in the body.
Fallen, Kippen, Stirlingshire
Chew Chew 6%
Salted caramel milk stout, brewed with dark belgian candi syrup, lactose and Hebridean
sea salt.
Platform C 6.3%
New world IPA bursting with hops from the Pacific North West, not overl bitter or sweet.
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Fat Cat, Norwich, Norfolk
Hell Cat 4.1%
A light, fruity beer, with plenty of body. The kick comes from New World hops, packed
with bright, citrus flavours.
Curly Cat 4.2%
A single hop variety, added at three stages of brewing and also in cask, a little fruity
hint of orange and, not too bitter.
Stout Cat 4.6%
A deep, dark beer. The characteristic sweet, rich flavour of roast malt and molasses is
well balanced with the pronounced hop flavour.
Cougar 4.7%
American hops and lager malt are usesd to produce this eminently quaffable beer.
Porter 4.9%
An old-fashioned Porter, rich brown, rather than Black malt lends a biscuit flavour, with
deep smooth dark-chocolate notes.
Marmalade 5.5%
A classic mid-brown coloured strong bitter, with a markedly bitter finish from the
generous use of Styrian hops, plus a hint of orange marmalde.
Felinfoel, Felinfoel, West Wales
Dragon Stout 4.1%
Double Dragon 4.2%
A full drinking premium Welsh ale, malty and subtly hopped with a rich colour and
smooth balanced character.
Felstar, Crix Green, Essex
Old Essex 3.9%
Deep amber traditional old ale with a rich malty taste.
In The Pink 5%
A natural fermented ale matured for 6 years with a very generous helping of cherries
and a few raspberries added for good measure then blended with a new fresh beer.
Five Points, Hackney, Gt London
Pale 4.4%
A fresh, zesty, aromatic pale ale brewed with malted barley, a little wheat, and Amarillo,
Centennial and Citra hops.
Railway Porter 4.8%
A Porter in the classic London style with our own twist. Aromas of chocolate and coffee
with hints of caramel.
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Fox, Heacham, Norfolk
Heacham Gold 3.9%
A pale yellow beer with a surprisingly malty nose. The sweetish taste is also malty yet
quickly becomes crisp and lightly citrus.
Grizzly Bear 4.8%
Pale golden ale with a citrusy fruit aroma and th a distinctly sweetish background.
Heacham Kriek 5.1%
Amber beer made with black cherries and four different hops. Floral aroma leads to a
bitter taste.
Fuller's, Chiswick, London
Olivers Island 3.8%
Delicate floral and citrus aromas with distinctive biscuity, grapefruit flavour, tropical
notes and refreshing zesty qualities.
1845 6.3%
A sweet, fruit cake aroma, a dark tawny colour and a dry finish that sings of spices and
raisin
Vintage 8.5%
Vintage Ale 2015 sees the balance of malt and hops deliver well-rounded, complex
flavours, with a fruitful aroma and a bitter finish.
Goddards, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Wight Squirrel 4.3%
A rich, russet-coloured full-flavoured, easy drinking Best Bitter. Brewed with a host of
Crystal Malts giving a smooth caramel taste.
Ducks Folly 5.2%
Amber coloured, traditionally brewed English ale.
Golden Triangle, Barford, Norfolk
Mosaic City 3.8%
A full tropical fruit taste with peach flavours abundant.
Simcoe City 3.8%
Very similar to the mosaic city but brewed with Simcoe hops.
Drink More Beer 3.9%
Amber coloured bitter with surprising depth, brewed to comemerate the life of the late
Wolfe Witham.
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Grain, Harleston, Norfolk
316 3.9%
Brewed with lager malt and ludicrously light on the palate, well balanced with a slight
hint of grapefruit.
Redwood 4.3%
A rich red premium bitter that beautifully balances roasted malts with sherbert
grapefruit hoppiness.
Pale 5%
IPA with a grassy hop aroma, balanced with a lingering bitterness.
Slate 6%
A deep, dark and rich smoked porter, brewed with a complex blend of malts.
Great Heck, Great Heck, North Yorkshire
Chopper 3.5%
Golden session ale with a surprisingly full body and a decent amount of hops giving rise
a mango/melon fruitiness.
Dave 3.8%
A smooth, very dark, velvety bitter with aslight burnt coffee taste.
Voodoo 4.3%
Chocolate and weetabix with smooth coffee flavours,
Amish Mash Wheat 4.7%
Golden coloured wheat beer with a multitiude of flavours and peppery hop bitterness.
Washington Red 4.7%
Amber coloured beer with a zesty mouthfeel and slighty dry mouthfeel.
Black Jesus 6.5%
Black Jesus is a black IPA brewed with American hops and special dehusked German
roasted malt.
Great Newsome, Winestead, East Yorkshire
Holderness Dark 3.4%
Light coffee feel with a hint of fruitiness and a bittersweet finish.
Ploughmans Pride 4.2%
Dark rich malty ale, brown ale like but with liquorice tones.
Green Dragon, Bungay, Suffolk
Gold 4.4%
Zesty golden ale with a slight lager feel.
Bridge St. Bitter 4.5%
Malty and juicy with bitter orange peel in the finish.
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Green Jack, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Canary 3.8%
Straw-coloured pale ale with a big flowery hop character.
Fruit Bat 5.5%
A distinct taste of plums and fruit cake gives way to a slight piney bitterness.
Baltic Trader 10.5%
Extra Strong Imperial Stout with smooth rich roasted coffee & vanilla flavours.
Harveys, Lewes, East Sussex
Old 4.5%
A dark, full-bodied beer combining sweetness and strength to produce a exceptionally
smooth palate.
Bonfire Boy 5.8%
A dark amber beer with a full malty palate and a slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste. A small
quantity of black malt is used to impart the suggestion of smoke.
Prince of Denmark 7.5%
A complex beer with aromas of leather, chocolate and liquorice, with a lingering taste,
based on traditional recipes from the 18th Century.
Harwich Town, Harwich, Essex
EPA 3.8%
Good hoppy flavour, with hints of pineapple and grapefruit.
Tyrwhitts Tipple 4.5%
Pale malt, dark crystal and caramalt and then Columbus hops brwed especially for us.
Hexhamshire, Hexham, Northumberland
Devils Elbow 3.6%
Named after a waterfall on the West Dipton Burn, Devil’s Elbow is a smooth ale with a
rounded malty taste.
Devils Water 4.2%
A malty dark ale with a fruity range of flavours, named after a local burn.
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Humpty Dumpty, Reedham, Norfolk
Little Sharpie 3.8%
A delicate hop aroma leads to a light clean tasting finish.
Swallowtail 4%
A refreshing pale amber thirst quenching ale with a lively hop finish.
Hop Harvest Gold 4.5%
A golden ale brewed with fresh new hops every time.
Black Mill IPA 5%
A Cascadian style black beer brewed with 4 different American Hop varieties
Railway Sleeper 5%
A sweet plummy fruitiness blankets an underlying malty bitterness. Full and rich in
flavour.
Hydes, Manchester, Gt Manchester
Spicer Santium 4.5%
Brewed using American farmed hop ‘SANTIAM’ which gives a definite Herbal and floral
overtone.
Munchen 5%
Bavrian straw blonde ’Helles’ style beer, crafted from Pilsen malt and the noble
Hallertau, Mittlefruh and Hersbrucher hops.
Ilkley, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Ruby Jane 4%
Complex biscuit layers of flavour and a soft bitterness from the hops.
Scary Spice 5.5%
Influenced by flavours and spices from the East, a pumpkin beer with a difference.
Jo C's, Barsham, Norfolk
Norfolk Kiwi 3.8%
Easy-drinking session bitter with distinct kiwi flavour and aroma
Bitter Old Bustard 4.3%
Russet coloured ale carries warm nutty biscuit flavours coming through a smooth malt
body.
Knot another IPA 5%
A golden, hoppy, true-to-style IPA, brewed using Norfolk-grown Maris Otter barley with
a good blast of British Bodicea hops to provide a flavoursome finish.
Kelham Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
25th Anniversary 6.8%
An IPA using a blend of 5 of the finest American hop varieties, which gives an l aroma
and flavour of Tropical fruits and spices.
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Lacons, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Encore 3.8%
Pale amber hued beer, with delicate fruit aromas, comfortably balancing a dry pine and
citrus flavour.
Festival Special 3.8%
Burnished amber, this full bodied session ale carries dominant tropical fruit/berries in
aroma, followed by tart citrus on the palate. Pleasing nutty flavours are finished by a
dusting of bitterness
Pale 3.9%
An aroma of crisp fruitiness with distinct flavours of melon and grapefruit.
Extra Stout 4.5%
Valiant stone fruits are balanced by blackcurrant and a hint of citrus. The finish is both
smooth and dry.
Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancashire
Elderflower Twist 3.8%
A light coloured beer brewed using elderflowers and elderberries and the very delicate
Kallertauer Hop.
Red 4.8%
Robust, spicy & fruity, culminating in a very moreish finish.
Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Pale 3.8%
Light and hoppy with delicate floral notes and a well balanced finish.
Midnight Bell 4.8%
Roast and chocolate malts combine to give a full bodied, complex character to this rich
and robust ale
Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Borrowers Bitter 3.6%
Named after the classic series of children’s book written by Mary Norton.This is a midbrown,
easy drinking session ale brewed with five different English hops
Smoking Angel 4.5%
German Rauchmaltz smoked over beech wood in the Bamberg area of Germany is used
inthis dark porter style beer.
Long Man, Polegate, East Sussex
Old Man 4.3%
Soft malt notes of coffee and chocolate that combine with a pleasant light hoppiness to
create a rich, full tasting Old Ale.
APA 4.8%
A triple-hopped APA has a pleasant citrus fruit aroma and characteristic robust
bitterness.
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Magpie, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Dark Potion 5.8%
Apothecary inspired, botanically infused Black IPA. Dandelion and Burdock ..
Mauldons, Sudbury, Suffolk
Micawbers Mild 3.5%
This traditional beer has a full round flavour with a slight but distinctive bitter finish.
Mid Autumn Gold 4.2%
An amber coloured beer with a fine balance of malt and hops for a full bodied flavour.
Black Adder 5.3%
A dark bitter stout. Roast and nut aromas with a fruity balance of hops and dark malt
provide an excellent, lingering finish.
Maxim, Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear
Wards Best Bitter 4%
Classic ale from the past with a distinctive malty aftertaste that lingers on the palate.
Maximus 6%
Easy to drink, dark ruby in colour, smooth, sweet, with a hint of liquorice.
Mile Tree, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Crescent 4%
Mid-brown with a red hue to the body, malty and fruity, with a slight bitter finish
Larksong 4.5%
Light malty aroma with the slightest suggestion of oak and berry.
Festival Special 5.4%
Spicy aroma, with cinnamon, clove, bramble and liquorice. Sweet taste, very fruity, like
a beer version of a mulled wine.
Milestone, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Classic Mild 4.1%
Light sweet flavour with ripe berries, toasty bread, burnt caramel, and plum notes.
Olde English 4.9%
Full bodied winter warmer with a pleasing nutty finish.
Moonshine, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
Harvest Moon Mild 3.9%
Slightly sweet with plenty of character. Smooth fruit notes combining with coffee and
chocolate flavours.
Raspberry Porter 4.5%
Night Watch Porter infused with locally grown rapberries to give it a nice mellow fruity
finish.
Raspberry Wheat 4.5%
Part of the 13 moons series of monthly specials.
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Moor, Bridgwater, Somerset
Envy 4.2%
A green hopped beer omfined wih a natural haze with subtle hints of vanilla and herbs.
Illusion 4.4%
Imperial Black Ale as it is known in the USA, very flavoursome for its strength, peppery
and earthy with citrus overtones leading to a mellow finish.
Stout 5%
Not as roasty as some stouts with hints of chocolate and balckberry.
So' hop 5.7%
A pronounced floral and tropical quality to the beer, with honey and elderflower in the
nose.
Nethergate, Pentlow, Essex
Black Shadow 3.5%
A typical old fashioned dark mild, but with a surprisingly fresh bitterness.
Suffolk County 4%
A biscuity malt dominates the warm well rounded roasted background, with a punching
bitterness.
Umbel Magna 5%
The addition of coriander to the Old Growler wort completes the original 1750s recipe
for this distinctive dark beer.
Nobby's, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
Best 3.8%
A session bitter with good hop character.
Festival Special 4.7%
A dark ale with hints of Christmas pudding spice and warming seasonal cheer.
Norfolk Brewhouse, Hindringham, Norfolk
Golden 4%
A fresh citrus aroma and fruity hop character leads into the refreshing, crisp, dry finish.
Dark Mild 4.5%
This dark mild has a subtle blackcurrant aroma, full-bodied with a rich, fruity, sweet
finish.
Gold IPA 5%
A well hopped IPA combining USA and UK hops to deliver a fruity IPA which builds in
bitterness leading to a crisp, dry finish.
Cellar Bration Ale 6%
A ruby red ale brewed in collaboration with leading food and drink writer Melissa Cole.
Fresh cherries, Norfolk honey and mint are added to the brew, as well as sweet and
bitter orange peel.
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Nottingham, Radford, Nottinghamshire
Rock Mild 3.8%
Smooth and dark with a biscuity flavour.
EPA 4.2%
Well balanced smooth ale with a light fragrant hop finish
Oakleaf, Gosport, Hampshire
Quercus Folium 4%
Quercus Folium is Latin for oakleaf, a traditional hoppy bitter with a malty aftertaste and
slight sweetness.
I Can't Believe It's Not Bitter 4.9%
Clean and crisp with a fruity aftertaste. The use of Saaz hops gives this lager a citrus
finish that lingers on.
Old Chimneys, Market Weston, Suffolk
Amber Porter 4.8%
This beer, unusually pale for a porter, is based on a Tolly Cobbold recipe that was
availble from 1785 to 1827.
Good King Henry 9.6%
Chocolate coffee flavours abound with a hint of liquorice and black berry fruit, deep and
awesome.
Red Admiral 11.4%
Red Admiral is an oak aged barley wine with added liqueur whisky. As well as wood
and whisky, there are hints of honey, vanilla, orange marmalade, walnut and raisins.
Classic.
Opa Hay's, Aldeby, Norfolk
Engel's Best 4%
A triple hopped aromatic beer, a very old fashioned traditional ale.
Meister Pils 4.8%
A Pilsner style beer made with continental style yeast, light in colour and a hoppy aroma.
Liquid Bread 5.2%
Bavarian Style wheat beer with a distinct aroma of cloves and banana.
Otley, Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Thai Bo 4.6%
Infused with Lemongrass, lime leaf and galangal it has been described as having the
aromas of a Thai green curry in a glass.
O9 4.8%
Honey and wheat aroma. Flavours of fresh herb, honey and some notes of citrus.
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Palmers, Bridport, Dorset
Copper Ale 3.7%
Copper-coloured session ale, good citrus fruit with a hoppy aroma.
Tally Ho 5.5%
First brewed in the 1940s. A rich fruit cake flavour dominates in this dark strong old ale.
Panther, Reepham, Norfolk
Ginger 3.7%
This ginger wheat beer is fiery with a distinct ginger flavour and with subtle lemon
flavour notes.
Honey 4%
A full bodied ale with a floral honey flavour nicely balnced between the sweetness of the
honey and the malt finish.
Black 4.5%
A roasted malty chocolate and caramel aroma goes to nice earthy finish with a hint of
liquorice.
Pheasantry, East Markham, Nottinghamshire
BB 3.8%
A smooth tasting copper coloured beer, with medium bitterness and a light spicy aroma.
Smoking Rauch 4.8%
Reddish amber beer which starts sweet and then follows a lingering spicy smokiness.
Pictish, Rochdale, Lancashire
Alchemists 4.3%
A refreshing, straw coloured ale with crisp malt flavours and a robust hoppy finish.
Chinook 4.9%
Single hopped beer, pale and clean malt dominated by orange peel and fruity, bitter
hops.
Quartz, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire
MO50 5%
Brewed for the Maris Otter 50 years celebration, pale and very smmoth, with a slight
fizz in the mouthfeel.
Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Kent
No. 7 3.8%
Easy drinking pale session bitter with good balance.
Gadds No. 5 4.4%
A traditional Kentish Best bitter, the aroma is toffee malt and a red berry flavoured
finish.
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Raw, Staveley, Derbyshire
Dark Peak 4.5%
Award winning stout smooth with slight bitterness.
Edge 4.5%
Pale ale brewed using pale and Munich malt, balanced bitterness and a citrus aroma.
Red Squirrel, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Milk Stout 4%
Complex flavours reminiscent of dark chocolate and coffee, balanced by a hoppy
bitterness and a dry smooth silky finish.
APA 4.3%
Fairly bitter pale ale with aromas of grapefruit and pine and slighty sweet finish.
Redemption, Enfield, Gt London
Trinity 3%
Brewed with three malts and three hops. Generous late hopping provides Seville orange
aromas and the initial malt sweetness is dominated by citrus flavours.
Pale Ale 3.8%
Light and well ballanced in the mouth with grain feel along with cirus hop notes.
Fellowship Porter 5.1%
A dark brown coloured London Porter with chocolate, coffee, liquorice and dry roasted
malt flavours complimented with hints of dark fruit.
Redwillow, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Headless 3.9%
Aromas of light lemon barley water with a clean citrus finish. Easy drinking.
Smokeless 5.7%
Asmooth smoked porter, with a robust malt backbone. This is infused with Chipotles to
give even more smokiness and a subtle hint of heat.
Robinsons, Stockport, Cheshire
Unicorn 4.2%
Complex with a long dry finish and citrus fruit notes.
Old Tom 8.5%
Old Tom is dark, rich and warming with a cherry brandy like colour and character
named after the brewery cat in 1899.
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S&P, Horsford, Norfolk
Topaz Blonde 3.7%
Topaz hops provide this golden beer with a fruity citrus aroma, grapefruit taste and a
crisp, dry finish.
Afterglow 3.9%
Amber ale with a distinctive flavour of chalenger hops.
Between the Posts 3.9%
A new golden ale, flavoured with NZ Dr Rudi hops.
Saffron, Bishop Storford, Essex
Saffron Blonde 4.3%
Good balance of citrus and smooth malty flavours with a crisp finish, and a lingering
strawberry nose.
Henham Honey 4.6%
Delicate balance of bitterness, malt, spicy fruit and honey aromas.
Silent Night 5.2%
Ruby Port and pure red grape juice along with Fuggles and Bramling Cross hops create
a soft fruity and spice finish.
Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire
Elderflower Blonde 4%
A refreshing blonde ale infused with the delicate flavour of elderflower.
Hazelnut Coffee Porter 4%
Like Cadburys fruit and nut but with more nuts and fruitiness.
Siren, Finchampstead, Berkshire
Half Mast 2.8%
Quarter IPA, Heavily hopped but with low bitterness and notes of mango and grapefruit.
Undercurrent 4.5%
Spicy, grassy aromas and a taste of grapefruit and apricot an nice nutty maltiness.
St Peter's, South Elmham, Suffolk
Best Bitter 3.7%
A full-bodied ale with distinctive fruity caramel notes.
Ruby Red Ale 4.3%
A rich, red ale with subtle malt undertones and a distinctive spicy hop aroma.
Boo 5.3%
Cream Stout 6.5%
Aromatic, strong, dark chocolate cream stout with a satisfying bittersweet aftertaste.
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Stumptail, Great Dunham, Norfolk
Amber 4.8%
Based on a Victorian recipe, rich roast grain balanced with Goldngs hops.
Pale 4.9%
Traditional pale ale spiced with Goldings and a sprinkling of new world hops for extra
zest.
Summer Wine, Honley, West Yorkshire
Resistance 3.7%
tbc
Teleporter 5%
A Rich Dark Porter brewed with 10 different malts giving a sweet roast richness that is
balanced with just enough hop character.
Taylor's, Attleborough, Norfolk
No1 3.8%
A copper-coloured ale made with a blend of two traditional hops.
Dog Tooth 4%
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Dropped Stitched 4.5%
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Ticketybrew, Stalybridge, Gt Manchester
Munchner 4.5%
Amber lager, well rounded with a rich malty nose and dry pithy finish.
Rose Wheat 4.5%
Unique aroma of roses leading to a floral mouthfeel then a kick of spicy ginger.
Tipples, Acle, Norfolk
Hanged Monk 3.8%
Roasted malt, dry coffee & smoke aromas, some dark fruit with ahint of bitterness.
Longshore 3.8%
A light bitter with a good pale amber colour, a nice balanced malty flavour.
Lady Evelyn 4.1%
Pale, straw coloured ale with a long dryish finish and a floral hop aroma.
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Tombstone, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Arizona 3.9%
Light amber ale, malty, hoppy with a touch of citrus.
Texas Jack 4%
Chestnut red ruby coloured ale with a good flavour and a twist of plums.
Gunslinger 4.3%
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Cherokee 4.5%
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Triple FFF, Four Marks, Hampshire
Rock Lobster 4.5%
A chestnut-brown best bitter with a mellow hop aroma, smooth malt and subtle fruit
flavours. No matching towels though.
Jabberwocky 5%
Subtle hints of dark chocolate and liquorice but with a fresh pine aroma in this black IPA.
Turpin's, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Meditation 4.3%
A pale ale with citrus aromas and a low-medium hop and biscuit flavour.
Cambridge Black 4.6%
A combination of coffee, coca and dark chocolate can be found in this quaffable stout.
Two Rivers, Denver, Norfolk
Kiwi Kick 4%
A dry, biscuity malt flavour is followed by a tart citrusy hop flavour, grapefruit, lime and
a hint of spice.
Porters Pride 5.2%
Dark almost black beer with a bittersweet malt taste, chocolate and coffee, nutty and a
touch of woodiness.
Tydd Steam, Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire
Barn Ale 3.9%
Zesty bitterness and a lingering citrus finish.
Piston Bitter 4.4%
Hints of caramel and slight fruitness from a English style bitter.
Amnesiac 4.9%
Hopped with unique Nelson Sauvin hops giving a soft white wine background and
crushed gooseberry aroma.
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Wantsum, Canterbury, Kent
Black Prince 3.9%
A rich, full bodied Kent mild slightly bitter in the finish.
Imperium 4%
A deep amber best bitter, smooth biscuit malts and rich hoppy nose.
Waveney, Earsham, Norfolk
Lightweight 3.9%
Some hints of toffee, bread, mild earth. Light in body very drinkable.
Welterweight 4.2%
Golden amber coloured bitter with ahint of pears and berries.
Rocky Myrobalan 4.6%
Hedgerow plums ( yellow Myrobalan ) are added to this beer to produce a unique ale.
Welbeck Abbey, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
Red Feather 3.9%
Good malty bitter with a touch of fruit and caramel.
Kaiser 4.1%
Crisp, dry, biscuity lager malt flavours are perfectly balanced with sweet, honey like
floral hops.
Wharfe Bank, Otley, West Yorkshire
Washburn 3.7%
Copper-coloured Yorkshire Bitter with a subtle fruit aroma.
Camfell Flame 4.4%
Copper ruby colour bitter with roasted coffee notes.
Whim, Hartington, Derbyshire
Arbor Light 3.6%
Brewed using German lager hops. Light in colour, sharp and very clean.
Hartington Bitter 4%
Pale golden beer with not to much citrus nose, but hints of apple and pear in the
mouthfeel.
White Horse, Stanford In The Vale, Oxfordshire
Black Beauty 3.9%
Dark brown almost ruby coloured mild with toasty toffe undertones.
Oxford Blue 4.3%
Malty, raisiny, spicy aroma, with a hint of figs and cinnamon in the taste.
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Williams, Alloa, Central Scotland
Black 4.2%
Smooth coffee and chocolate undertones are complemented by the addition of late
harvest cone hops, giving a lovely blackcurrant aroma.
March of the Penguins 4.9%
Rich roasty coffee taste with dark maltiness.
Winter's, Norwich, Norfolk
Cloudburst 3.7%
A full flavoured easy drinking session beer with slight soft summer fruit taste.
Geniuss 4.1%
Deep ruby red coloured beer with a dark fruit and malty molasses backdrop.
Golden 4.1%
A refreshing yellow golden ale with nicely balanced malt, hop and light tangy citrus
flavours.
On The Beer City! 4.4%
Pale golden yellow coloured beer with plenty of citrus fruit and grassy with a mild
background malt flavour.
Wolf, Attleborough, Norfolk
Edith Cavell 3.7%
Tastes stronger than it is , with a malty toast aroma and a slight fruity zing to the
mouthfeel.
Golden Jackal 3.7%
Citrusy hops reign over this Golden Ale building a leafy and fruity hop finish to balance
out the malt.
Lupus Lupus 4.2%
Slight mango and zest through a mostly malt nose and a biscuit finish.
Granny Wouldn't Like It 4.8%
A rich, malty beer. It has masses of flavor and a slightly sweet finish.
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Woodforde's, Woodbastwick, Norfolk
Wherry 3.8%
A slight floral and hoppy nose but the taste is milder and has a biscuity sweetness.
Sundew 4.1%
Subtle golden beer - pale in colour and light on the palate with the distinctive hoppy
finish.
Nelsons Revenge 4.5%
A full-bodied pale amber beer with the rich flavour of Dundee cake. Sultana fruitiness is
balanced by a hoppy bitterness.
Tap and Go 5%
Copper-coloured beer has been brewed to celebrate the Rugby World Cup, in the style
of a classic IPA, yet with a powerful hoppy twist, characterised by citrus notes and hints
of herbs, pepper and pine.
Redcracker 7%
A special version of Headcracker infused with raspberries. Strong full-bodied pale barley
wine. Warm raspberry and apricot notes.
XT, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
4 3.8%
An amber beer with a special Belgian malt and a fruity mix of American and European
hops
XPA 5.9%
An IPA brewed with crisp, clean extra pale malts and numerous North American
flavouring and aromatic hop additions.
Yetman's, Bayfield, Norfolk
Amber 4.2%
A light, crisp beer with a fruity hoppy nose and amber colour.
Green 4.8%
Strongish, with a fruity sweetness and dark colour.
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Overall Beers Of The Festival
1 Beeston Worth The Wait
2 Brass Castle Bad Kitty
3 Boudicca Spiral Stout
Category winners:
Mild
1 Great Newsome Holderness Dark
2 Nethergate Black Shadow
3 Moonshine Harvest Moon Mild
Bitter
1 Jo C's Norfolk Kiwi
2 Wolf Edith Cavell
3 Lacons Pale
Best Bitter
1 Mile Tree Larksong
2 Jo C's Bitter Old Bustard
3 Felinfoel Double Dragon
Strong Bitter/IPA
1 Green Jack Fruit Bat
2 Adnams Broadside Extra
3 Great Heck Black Jesus
Stouts and Porters
1 Brass Castle Bad Kitty
2 Boudicca Spiral Stout
3 Elmtree Winter Solstice
Speciality
1 Moonshine Raspberry Wheat
2 Felstar In The Pink
3 Waveney Rocky Myrobalan
Golden
1 Beeston Worth The Wait
2 Golden Triangle Simcoe City
3 Green Jack Canary
Cider
Monk & Disorderly
Perry
Pickled Pig Wills Perry
Foreign
Huyghe Delirium Tremens
Mortal Recoil: Total Recall – The Life of Meaning in the Carnal Nation ~
If you are an immortal being living through a succession of mortal lifetimes, why can’t you remember your past? If we’re all in control of our own destinies, how and why have we decided to forget?
Where do you go when you’re asleep? How do you ‘go to sleep’? Are you the same person when you wake up? Can you remember who you were yesterday? How much of your own childhood do you remember? How much of last month – last year?
Have you ever experienced anything you wanted to forget? Have you ever wished you could start your life all over – with a blank slate?
If I want to remember my previous lives, I must explore memory itself to pass through the waters of forgetfulness and reach the dawn of illumination. I must expand and refine my recollections of this life, sorting truth from accretion and memory from fantasy. I must divine for truth as a dowser divines for hidden water or minerals.
I must learn how to tell truth from falsehood, illusion and self-delusion – and continually practice this art, by being my harshest critic and taskmaster and my most compassionate mentor and friend. I must develop a very sensitive bullshit detector and an expansive sense of empathy for the blind sleepwalkers all around me.
I can’t expect the world to make much impression on me if I’m living a half-waking dream all my life – if the reality revealed by my senses is always passing me by, drowned out by the incessant commentary always running through my mind. I have to be certain I’m awake to know I’m not dreaming a vivid fantasy.
I have to be here now if I want to actually experience my life. I have to be mindful of what’s really happening inside me and all around me. To do that, I have to stop my thoughts, or alternately separate my self from the eternal chatter of the surface veneer of my identity – the acculturated monkey mind and emotions that have grown with me since I was swimming in my mother’s womb.
I have to find a deeper wellspring within, beyond the unending entertainments that distract me from life itself. I have to silence the chatter or remove myself from its internal influence, by locating my self in the centre of the eternal cyclone of thought and emotion.
I have to know who it is who goes to sleep and wakes up every night and every day.
I have to know the true meaning of the word ‘meditation’, which has nothing whatever to do with thinking. I have to find out who it is that’s doing all the thinking – or being distracted by it!
I have to open my mind to all the things that the purblind natives of this dawning New Millennium deny and exclude from their blinkered tunneled visions – the realities filtered out by hidebound neo-feudal cultures that stubbornly refuse to observe anomalies, discrepancies and outright disproof of their common beliefs and quaint ‘scientific’ notions.
If I want to have a life I have to walk away from the screen when I finish reading this and explore reality – if my memory span extends that far!
If I am not the sum of my thoughts, beliefs, habits and culture, then what am I? What is within me that survives to carry on?
Am I a projection into this four dimensional TimeSpace, a partial expression of an expanded being, who simultaneously dwells throughout many other dimensions as well? Am I part of something and someone that dwells in all the hyperspaces and parallel continua that we know exist (in implicate, interconnected conjunction with the reality we can see, hear, feel, smell and taste with our terrestrial time-bound senses), from the observations of physics and the realities implicit in geometry? And from the subtle magic of synchronicity and coincidence…
When you realise your mind isn’t yours and your consciousness isn’t confined to the cave of your skull, it’s easy to see how an apparently finite, mortal, death-bound being could in fact be a virtual extension of something else entirely. You can access all these realms and dimensions by expanding y/our consciousness. And paradoxically, this is facilitated by concentrating on the smallest things – or nothing at all.
Staying alive and aware is a continual weaning process. Potty training only ends in infancy in primitive societies full of throwaway people with short lives and attention spans, whose purpose is simply to maintain a dreaming gene-pool. Gaining complete control of your breathing, digestive system, heartbeat, brain activity, fertility and all other physical parameters is well within the capabilities of most children. It’s the way out of the matrix.
Almost all those who could have taught us how to escape the prisons of our cultures by exploring our own nature were burned at the stake or stoned to death by our superstitious grandparents or forebears – but the techniques are implicit in the forms and functions of our bodies; a true seeker will always find a way, and will be helped along by the indivisible invisible hands of those who’ve preceded you, if your mind and heart are in the right place. In a universe where memory is truly ineradicable, lost techniques and memories can be recovered and resurrected.
In our primitive superstition-ridden cultures of the early New Millennium – in which people are automatically taught to be suspicious and afraid of their own bodies and sexuality – most humans don’t even know where their physical organs are located after a decade of ‘education’. How can we expect to have any idea of what we are when we’re encouraged not to look at (or touch) our selves or each other? How can we find our true nature (or even nature itself) if we allow ourselves to be continually distracted by bullshit and melodrama? Will we find ourselves in a sitcom or ‘reality’ show? Do clothes make the woman? How’s the attention span going?
If you want to be cleansed of unpleasant memories or the pitiful painful results of an unexamined life and self-destructive lifestyle, an easy way is to cut off all your sensory inputs. You can do this by staying in a sensory deprivation chamber, by taking opiates, by going to sleep or by dying. If you remain in a sensory deprivation chamber for a couple of weeks your mind will be washed clean – unless you’re particularly adept at meditation – and a womb makes an excellent sensory deprivation chamber, washing you in the warm waters of forgetfulness for months.
Some philosophers suggest that if people knew they were immortal, we’d all automatically be aware of the laws of karma and dharma and practice the Golden Rule. But immortality is no impediment to free will. We all have many of the same motivations to be creative, honourable and compassionate or cruel, uncaring and destructive, whether we have a small single life or a big multiplex one. Regardless of whether you’re immortal or not, the same ethical questions apply; and either way, you can’t leave yourself behind and wherever you go, there you are, for as long as you are you. It’s an excellent motivation for changing the things in yourself you aren’t comfortable with – and a terrible lesson for would-be suicides.
In the folklore of forgetfulness, the amnesiac is compelled to relive aspects of the events they have forgotten; he who forgets the lessons of his story is condemned to repeat them. Until full waking memory relinks the past with the future, the amnesiac is trapped in a cycle of repetition – and hell is often defined as repetition.
Yet immortality provides a wider and deeper perspective into the connectedness of all things and beings, and this does make a fundamental difference to our beliefs, motives and actions. In the absolute centre of the cyclone, I am you, and we are Divine.
Who are you again? Are you distracted yet? What’s that over there?
Your parents and grandparents were happy and satisfied to be lied to and cheated by those who still get away with stealing the wealth and knowledge of the Earth (and everywhere else) for themselves – are you?
Turn on. Tune in. Opt OUT! Find like-minded friends and work with them to free the world and free our Mind…
@ hermetic.blog.com/2008/03/4/ by Ram Ayana
So, here we are in the fine city of Norwich, with hundreds of beers to try, with not enough time and just the two hands.
In the end I went to just one session, as there were festivals at both The Birdcage and The Muderders.
Moultons Mild was very nice, as was The Fat Cat Brewery'd Porter.
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Acorn, Wombwell, South Yorkshire
Barnsley Bitter 3.8%
Well rounded, with a rich flavour, it retains a lasting bitter finish.
Old Moor Porter 4.8%
A full bodied victorian style porter with hints of liquorice. The initial bitterness gives way
to a smooth, mellow finish.
Adnams, Southwold, Suffolk
Prop Hop 4%
A delicious bitter with malt, biscuit and bready flavours, accompanied by subtle notes of
orange peel.
Extra 4.3%
Copper coloured ale with hoppy, floral and herbal aromas which follow through on the
palate.
Broadside Extra 6.5%
The bottled version but in cask, full malt flavour and a hint of marmite.
Tally Ho 7.2%
Tally Ho is dark Mahogany red in colour with a rich, fruity aroma and a heart warming
sweet raisin and biscuit palate.
Allendale, Hexham, Northumberland
Wagtail 3.8%
A floral aroma, hints of seville orange and spiced dried fruit, with biscuit and toffee
notes.
Pennine Pale 4%
Golden ale, brewed with a trio of American hops giving a full fruity aroma and flavour,
with a refreshing citrus finish
Ashover, Ashover, Derbyshire
Liquorice Alesort 4.5%
A rich black stout made with black malt and crystal rye, has root liquorice added in the
boil.
Rainbows End 4.5%
Rainbows End was the name of the café at the terminus of Ashover light railway, the
beer is pale and hopped with Cascade.
B & T, Shefford, Bedfordshire
Edwin Taylor's Extra Stout 4.5%
A stout with a strong roast flavour along with a hinr of coffee and red wine.
Shefford Plum Porter 4.5%
Fruity on the nose but a little smokiness to the flavour.
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Backyard, Walsall, West Midlands
Premium 4.5%
Premium bitter with a toffee, herbal nose and bitter-sweet nutty flavours.
Hell Bound 5.4%
Dark, rich brew. Full of bitter chocolate and fruit malt character.
Barrell&Sellers, South Elmham, Suffolk
Bitter 3.8%
Classic English ‘Best’ brewed with crystal malt and punchy hops to give a bitter fiinish.
Brown Ale 4.7%
Brewed with caramel & chocolate malt & 'blackcurrant' hops.
IPA 5.8%
Robust, amber, well hopped beer is brewed with pale & caramel malt.
Batemans, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire
XB 3.7%
Classic amber bitter brewed with English hops, very quaffable.
Gold 3.9%
A golden coloued refreshing beer brewed with lager malt and hinook and Cascade hops.
Salem Porter 4.7%
Full of fruit, hazelnuts, almonds, liquorice and spicy hops.
Beeston, Beeston, Norfolk
Afternoon Delight 3.7%
An easy drinking blonde ale with a slightly dry feel and hint of lemon.
Worth The Wait 4.2%
A golden beer, with a balance of hops to give a gentle bitterness & a refreshing citrus
hint.
Village Life 4.8%
Toasted malt flavours with plenty of body and a hint of orange rind and biscuit.
Old Stoatwobbler 6%
Strong, dark, luscious & notorious and mostly mine.. (Manic laugh)
Bexar County, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Poquito Pequeno 3.5%
Gentle fruity bittersweet base with a surprisingly bitter/sour finish.
Timanfaya 3.8%
Rausch Beer. Soured Brown ale.
Cambridge Common 4.1%
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Blindmans, Leighton, Somerset
Backstreet 4.2%
A mid brown smooth rounded ale, full of subtle toffee flavours.
Boudicca, Hoveton, Norfolk
Spiral Stout 4.6%
A spectrum of autumnal berries, coffee, dark chocolate, and a gentle, lingering dry roast
finish with a hint of smoke.
Brandon, Brandon, Suffolk
Dragonfire 4.5%
Pioneer hops and caramel malt makes this an easy session beer with a bit of a kick.
Oakenshield 5%
Strong and dark with a smooth smoky aftertaste.
Brass Castle, Malton, North Yorkshire
Bad Kitty 5.5%
Chocolate vanilla porter , what's not to like..
Burnout 5.8%
A complex dark ale with sweet roasted notes alongside coffee and liquorice.
Brentwood, Brentwood, Essex
Chestnut Stout 4%
A smooth, rounded, easy drinking stout, brewed with local chestnuts.
Shackleton 'The Boss' 4.5%
A full-bodied red premium bitter, well balanced and with rich malt flavours. Brewed by
Brentwood for Shackleton brewery.
Buffy's, Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk
Norfolk Terrier 3.8%
Slightly malty and smooth.
Beagle 4%
A Beagle is really quite a delightful beast. Loyal to the end. Golden and with
exceptionally good citrus notes courtesy of First Gold hops.
9X 9%
Robust ale with plenty of malty fruityness by not over powering.
Cairngorm, Aviemore, Highlands & Islands
Black Gold 4.2%
A Scottish stout with a wonderful rich dark colour and subtle bitterness giving way to
late sweetness and underlying roast barley hints.
Witches Cauldron 4.9%
A dark ruby red coloured ale with a hint of roast malt flavours and a pleasant sweet
aftertaste
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Caveman, Swanscombe, Kent
Citra 4.1%
A hoppy pale ale with a straightforward malt character but plenty of citrus flavours.
Cavedweller 5.8%
Chocolate and coffee notes come through in the malt and dark berry flavours from the
hops.
Celt Experience, Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
Iron Age 3.5%
A ruby coloured fruity beer full of robust and unique fruity hop characteristics and hints
of berry fruit.
Silures 4.6%
The beer is named after a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, occupying
approximately the counties of Monmouthshire & Breconshire.
Church End, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Grave Diggers 3.8%
Dark black and red in colour, with a complex mixture of chocolate and roast flavours.
Stout Coffin 4.6%
Notes of roasted malts creamy vanilla chocolate.
Colchester, Wakes Colne, Essex
Brazilian 4.6%
Coffee and vanilla porter. A firm favourite in the range.
Dancing Men, Happisburgh, Norfolk
Famous Norfolk Broads 3.8%
Quaffing bitter named after three regulars at the Hillhouse Inn.
Knight's Noggin 4.8%
Rich, heavily-malted porter-style beer packed with toasted toffee and chocolate notes.
Dark Star, Horsham, West Sussex
Hophead 3.8%
An extremely clean-drinking pale golden ale with a strong floral aroma.
Festival 5%
A chestnut bronze coloured bitter which is full of freshness and smooth mouthfeel.
East London, Lea Bridge, Gt London
Nightwatchman 4.5%
Chestnut brown coloured al with a smooth well hopped flavour.
Cowcatcher 4.8%
An American Pale Ale, generously hopped with Amarillo, Chinook, Simcoe and Citra.
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Elgood's, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Which Witch is Which 4.3%
Try saying that after a couple.
Plum Porter 4.4%
A distinctive black beer, it has an enticing fruit aroma, leading to a full-bodied, rich and
fruity flavour.
Winter Warmer(Oak Aged) 7.5%
Deep rich brown and has a very full fruity body. Oak aged.
Elmtree, Snetterton, Norfolk
80/- 4.5%
Restrained hops with full flavours of grain and malts coming through in a near perfect
balance.
Winter Solstice 4.6%
Winter Solstice is a dark Porter with delicate additions of Vanilla pods and Cinammon
bark.
Dark Horse 5%
Rich coffee and classic hops dominate the nose. Dark ripe fruit in the mouth and a
velvet smoothness compliment the strength in the body.
Fallen, Kippen, Stirlingshire
Chew Chew 6%
Salted caramel milk stout, brewed with dark belgian candi syrup, lactose and Hebridean
sea salt.
Platform C 6.3%
New world IPA bursting with hops from the Pacific North West, not overl bitter or sweet.
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Fat Cat, Norwich, Norfolk
Hell Cat 4.1%
A light, fruity beer, with plenty of body. The kick comes from New World hops, packed
with bright, citrus flavours.
Curly Cat 4.2%
A single hop variety, added at three stages of brewing and also in cask, a little fruity
hint of orange and, not too bitter.
Stout Cat 4.6%
A deep, dark beer. The characteristic sweet, rich flavour of roast malt and molasses is
well balanced with the pronounced hop flavour.
Cougar 4.7%
American hops and lager malt are usesd to produce this eminently quaffable beer.
Porter 4.9%
An old-fashioned Porter, rich brown, rather than Black malt lends a biscuit flavour, with
deep smooth dark-chocolate notes.
Marmalade 5.5%
A classic mid-brown coloured strong bitter, with a markedly bitter finish from the
generous use of Styrian hops, plus a hint of orange marmalde.
Felinfoel, Felinfoel, West Wales
Dragon Stout 4.1%
Double Dragon 4.2%
A full drinking premium Welsh ale, malty and subtly hopped with a rich colour and
smooth balanced character.
Felstar, Crix Green, Essex
Old Essex 3.9%
Deep amber traditional old ale with a rich malty taste.
In The Pink 5%
A natural fermented ale matured for 6 years with a very generous helping of cherries
and a few raspberries added for good measure then blended with a new fresh beer.
Five Points, Hackney, Gt London
Pale 4.4%
A fresh, zesty, aromatic pale ale brewed with malted barley, a little wheat, and Amarillo,
Centennial and Citra hops.
Railway Porter 4.8%
A Porter in the classic London style with our own twist. Aromas of chocolate and coffee
with hints of caramel.
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Fox, Heacham, Norfolk
Heacham Gold 3.9%
A pale yellow beer with a surprisingly malty nose. The sweetish taste is also malty yet
quickly becomes crisp and lightly citrus.
Grizzly Bear 4.8%
Pale golden ale with a citrusy fruit aroma and th a distinctly sweetish background.
Heacham Kriek 5.1%
Amber beer made with black cherries and four different hops. Floral aroma leads to a
bitter taste.
Fuller's, Chiswick, London
Olivers Island 3.8%
Delicate floral and citrus aromas with distinctive biscuity, grapefruit flavour, tropical
notes and refreshing zesty qualities.
1845 6.3%
A sweet, fruit cake aroma, a dark tawny colour and a dry finish that sings of spices and
raisin
Vintage 8.5%
Vintage Ale 2015 sees the balance of malt and hops deliver well-rounded, complex
flavours, with a fruitful aroma and a bitter finish.
Goddards, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Wight Squirrel 4.3%
A rich, russet-coloured full-flavoured, easy drinking Best Bitter. Brewed with a host of
Crystal Malts giving a smooth caramel taste.
Ducks Folly 5.2%
Amber coloured, traditionally brewed English ale.
Golden Triangle, Barford, Norfolk
Mosaic City 3.8%
A full tropical fruit taste with peach flavours abundant.
Simcoe City 3.8%
Very similar to the mosaic city but brewed with Simcoe hops.
Drink More Beer 3.9%
Amber coloured bitter with surprising depth, brewed to comemerate the life of the late
Wolfe Witham.
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Grain, Harleston, Norfolk
316 3.9%
Brewed with lager malt and ludicrously light on the palate, well balanced with a slight
hint of grapefruit.
Redwood 4.3%
A rich red premium bitter that beautifully balances roasted malts with sherbert
grapefruit hoppiness.
Pale 5%
IPA with a grassy hop aroma, balanced with a lingering bitterness.
Slate 6%
A deep, dark and rich smoked porter, brewed with a complex blend of malts.
Great Heck, Great Heck, North Yorkshire
Chopper 3.5%
Golden session ale with a surprisingly full body and a decent amount of hops giving rise
a mango/melon fruitiness.
Dave 3.8%
A smooth, very dark, velvety bitter with aslight burnt coffee taste.
Voodoo 4.3%
Chocolate and weetabix with smooth coffee flavours,
Amish Mash Wheat 4.7%
Golden coloured wheat beer with a multitiude of flavours and peppery hop bitterness.
Washington Red 4.7%
Amber coloured beer with a zesty mouthfeel and slighty dry mouthfeel.
Black Jesus 6.5%
Black Jesus is a black IPA brewed with American hops and special dehusked German
roasted malt.
Great Newsome, Winestead, East Yorkshire
Holderness Dark 3.4%
Light coffee feel with a hint of fruitiness and a bittersweet finish.
Ploughmans Pride 4.2%
Dark rich malty ale, brown ale like but with liquorice tones.
Green Dragon, Bungay, Suffolk
Gold 4.4%
Zesty golden ale with a slight lager feel.
Bridge St. Bitter 4.5%
Malty and juicy with bitter orange peel in the finish.
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Green Jack, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Canary 3.8%
Straw-coloured pale ale with a big flowery hop character.
Fruit Bat 5.5%
A distinct taste of plums and fruit cake gives way to a slight piney bitterness.
Baltic Trader 10.5%
Extra Strong Imperial Stout with smooth rich roasted coffee & vanilla flavours.
Harveys, Lewes, East Sussex
Old 4.5%
A dark, full-bodied beer combining sweetness and strength to produce a exceptionally
smooth palate.
Bonfire Boy 5.8%
A dark amber beer with a full malty palate and a slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste. A small
quantity of black malt is used to impart the suggestion of smoke.
Prince of Denmark 7.5%
A complex beer with aromas of leather, chocolate and liquorice, with a lingering taste,
based on traditional recipes from the 18th Century.
Harwich Town, Harwich, Essex
EPA 3.8%
Good hoppy flavour, with hints of pineapple and grapefruit.
Tyrwhitts Tipple 4.5%
Pale malt, dark crystal and caramalt and then Columbus hops brwed especially for us.
Hexhamshire, Hexham, Northumberland
Devils Elbow 3.6%
Named after a waterfall on the West Dipton Burn, Devil’s Elbow is a smooth ale with a
rounded malty taste.
Devils Water 4.2%
A malty dark ale with a fruity range of flavours, named after a local burn.
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Humpty Dumpty, Reedham, Norfolk
Little Sharpie 3.8%
A delicate hop aroma leads to a light clean tasting finish.
Swallowtail 4%
A refreshing pale amber thirst quenching ale with a lively hop finish.
Hop Harvest Gold 4.5%
A golden ale brewed with fresh new hops every time.
Black Mill IPA 5%
A Cascadian style black beer brewed with 4 different American Hop varieties
Railway Sleeper 5%
A sweet plummy fruitiness blankets an underlying malty bitterness. Full and rich in
flavour.
Hydes, Manchester, Gt Manchester
Spicer Santium 4.5%
Brewed using American farmed hop ‘SANTIAM’ which gives a definite Herbal and floral
overtone.
Munchen 5%
Bavrian straw blonde ’Helles’ style beer, crafted from Pilsen malt and the noble
Hallertau, Mittlefruh and Hersbrucher hops.
Ilkley, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Ruby Jane 4%
Complex biscuit layers of flavour and a soft bitterness from the hops.
Scary Spice 5.5%
Influenced by flavours and spices from the East, a pumpkin beer with a difference.
Jo C's, Barsham, Norfolk
Norfolk Kiwi 3.8%
Easy-drinking session bitter with distinct kiwi flavour and aroma
Bitter Old Bustard 4.3%
Russet coloured ale carries warm nutty biscuit flavours coming through a smooth malt
body.
Knot another IPA 5%
A golden, hoppy, true-to-style IPA, brewed using Norfolk-grown Maris Otter barley with
a good blast of British Bodicea hops to provide a flavoursome finish.
Kelham Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
25th Anniversary 6.8%
An IPA using a blend of 5 of the finest American hop varieties, which gives an l aroma
and flavour of Tropical fruits and spices.
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Lacons, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Encore 3.8%
Pale amber hued beer, with delicate fruit aromas, comfortably balancing a dry pine and
citrus flavour.
Festival Special 3.8%
Burnished amber, this full bodied session ale carries dominant tropical fruit/berries in
aroma, followed by tart citrus on the palate. Pleasing nutty flavours are finished by a
dusting of bitterness
Pale 3.9%
An aroma of crisp fruitiness with distinct flavours of melon and grapefruit.
Extra Stout 4.5%
Valiant stone fruits are balanced by blackcurrant and a hint of citrus. The finish is both
smooth and dry.
Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancashire
Elderflower Twist 3.8%
A light coloured beer brewed using elderflowers and elderberries and the very delicate
Kallertauer Hop.
Red 4.8%
Robust, spicy & fruity, culminating in a very moreish finish.
Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Pale 3.8%
Light and hoppy with delicate floral notes and a well balanced finish.
Midnight Bell 4.8%
Roast and chocolate malts combine to give a full bodied, complex character to this rich
and robust ale
Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Borrowers Bitter 3.6%
Named after the classic series of children’s book written by Mary Norton.This is a midbrown,
easy drinking session ale brewed with five different English hops
Smoking Angel 4.5%
German Rauchmaltz smoked over beech wood in the Bamberg area of Germany is used
inthis dark porter style beer.
Long Man, Polegate, East Sussex
Old Man 4.3%
Soft malt notes of coffee and chocolate that combine with a pleasant light hoppiness to
create a rich, full tasting Old Ale.
APA 4.8%
A triple-hopped APA has a pleasant citrus fruit aroma and characteristic robust
bitterness.
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Magpie, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Dark Potion 5.8%
Apothecary inspired, botanically infused Black IPA. Dandelion and Burdock ..
Mauldons, Sudbury, Suffolk
Micawbers Mild 3.5%
This traditional beer has a full round flavour with a slight but distinctive bitter finish.
Mid Autumn Gold 4.2%
An amber coloured beer with a fine balance of malt and hops for a full bodied flavour.
Black Adder 5.3%
A dark bitter stout. Roast and nut aromas with a fruity balance of hops and dark malt
provide an excellent, lingering finish.
Maxim, Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear
Wards Best Bitter 4%
Classic ale from the past with a distinctive malty aftertaste that lingers on the palate.
Maximus 6%
Easy to drink, dark ruby in colour, smooth, sweet, with a hint of liquorice.
Mile Tree, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Crescent 4%
Mid-brown with a red hue to the body, malty and fruity, with a slight bitter finish
Larksong 4.5%
Light malty aroma with the slightest suggestion of oak and berry.
Festival Special 5.4%
Spicy aroma, with cinnamon, clove, bramble and liquorice. Sweet taste, very fruity, like
a beer version of a mulled wine.
Milestone, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Classic Mild 4.1%
Light sweet flavour with ripe berries, toasty bread, burnt caramel, and plum notes.
Olde English 4.9%
Full bodied winter warmer with a pleasing nutty finish.
Moonshine, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
Harvest Moon Mild 3.9%
Slightly sweet with plenty of character. Smooth fruit notes combining with coffee and
chocolate flavours.
Raspberry Porter 4.5%
Night Watch Porter infused with locally grown rapberries to give it a nice mellow fruity
finish.
Raspberry Wheat 4.5%
Part of the 13 moons series of monthly specials.
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Moor, Bridgwater, Somerset
Envy 4.2%
A green hopped beer omfined wih a natural haze with subtle hints of vanilla and herbs.
Illusion 4.4%
Imperial Black Ale as it is known in the USA, very flavoursome for its strength, peppery
and earthy with citrus overtones leading to a mellow finish.
Stout 5%
Not as roasty as some stouts with hints of chocolate and balckberry.
So' hop 5.7%
A pronounced floral and tropical quality to the beer, with honey and elderflower in the
nose.
Nethergate, Pentlow, Essex
Black Shadow 3.5%
A typical old fashioned dark mild, but with a surprisingly fresh bitterness.
Suffolk County 4%
A biscuity malt dominates the warm well rounded roasted background, with a punching
bitterness.
Umbel Magna 5%
The addition of coriander to the Old Growler wort completes the original 1750s recipe
for this distinctive dark beer.
Nobby's, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
Best 3.8%
A session bitter with good hop character.
Festival Special 4.7%
A dark ale with hints of Christmas pudding spice and warming seasonal cheer.
Norfolk Brewhouse, Hindringham, Norfolk
Golden 4%
A fresh citrus aroma and fruity hop character leads into the refreshing, crisp, dry finish.
Dark Mild 4.5%
This dark mild has a subtle blackcurrant aroma, full-bodied with a rich, fruity, sweet
finish.
Gold IPA 5%
A well hopped IPA combining USA and UK hops to deliver a fruity IPA which builds in
bitterness leading to a crisp, dry finish.
Cellar Bration Ale 6%
A ruby red ale brewed in collaboration with leading food and drink writer Melissa Cole.
Fresh cherries, Norfolk honey and mint are added to the brew, as well as sweet and
bitter orange peel.
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Nottingham, Radford, Nottinghamshire
Rock Mild 3.8%
Smooth and dark with a biscuity flavour.
EPA 4.2%
Well balanced smooth ale with a light fragrant hop finish
Oakleaf, Gosport, Hampshire
Quercus Folium 4%
Quercus Folium is Latin for oakleaf, a traditional hoppy bitter with a malty aftertaste and
slight sweetness.
I Can't Believe It's Not Bitter 4.9%
Clean and crisp with a fruity aftertaste. The use of Saaz hops gives this lager a citrus
finish that lingers on.
Old Chimneys, Market Weston, Suffolk
Amber Porter 4.8%
This beer, unusually pale for a porter, is based on a Tolly Cobbold recipe that was
availble from 1785 to 1827.
Good King Henry 9.6%
Chocolate coffee flavours abound with a hint of liquorice and black berry fruit, deep and
awesome.
Red Admiral 11.4%
Red Admiral is an oak aged barley wine with added liqueur whisky. As well as wood
and whisky, there are hints of honey, vanilla, orange marmalade, walnut and raisins.
Classic.
Opa Hay's, Aldeby, Norfolk
Engel's Best 4%
A triple hopped aromatic beer, a very old fashioned traditional ale.
Meister Pils 4.8%
A Pilsner style beer made with continental style yeast, light in colour and a hoppy aroma.
Liquid Bread 5.2%
Bavarian Style wheat beer with a distinct aroma of cloves and banana.
Otley, Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Thai Bo 4.6%
Infused with Lemongrass, lime leaf and galangal it has been described as having the
aromas of a Thai green curry in a glass.
O9 4.8%
Honey and wheat aroma. Flavours of fresh herb, honey and some notes of citrus.
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Palmers, Bridport, Dorset
Copper Ale 3.7%
Copper-coloured session ale, good citrus fruit with a hoppy aroma.
Tally Ho 5.5%
First brewed in the 1940s. A rich fruit cake flavour dominates in this dark strong old ale.
Panther, Reepham, Norfolk
Ginger 3.7%
This ginger wheat beer is fiery with a distinct ginger flavour and with subtle lemon
flavour notes.
Honey 4%
A full bodied ale with a floral honey flavour nicely balnced between the sweetness of the
honey and the malt finish.
Black 4.5%
A roasted malty chocolate and caramel aroma goes to nice earthy finish with a hint of
liquorice.
Pheasantry, East Markham, Nottinghamshire
BB 3.8%
A smooth tasting copper coloured beer, with medium bitterness and a light spicy aroma.
Smoking Rauch 4.8%
Reddish amber beer which starts sweet and then follows a lingering spicy smokiness.
Pictish, Rochdale, Lancashire
Alchemists 4.3%
A refreshing, straw coloured ale with crisp malt flavours and a robust hoppy finish.
Chinook 4.9%
Single hopped beer, pale and clean malt dominated by orange peel and fruity, bitter
hops.
Quartz, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire
MO50 5%
Brewed for the Maris Otter 50 years celebration, pale and very smmoth, with a slight
fizz in the mouthfeel.
Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Kent
No. 7 3.8%
Easy drinking pale session bitter with good balance.
Gadds No. 5 4.4%
A traditional Kentish Best bitter, the aroma is toffee malt and a red berry flavoured
finish.
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Raw, Staveley, Derbyshire
Dark Peak 4.5%
Award winning stout smooth with slight bitterness.
Edge 4.5%
Pale ale brewed using pale and Munich malt, balanced bitterness and a citrus aroma.
Red Squirrel, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Milk Stout 4%
Complex flavours reminiscent of dark chocolate and coffee, balanced by a hoppy
bitterness and a dry smooth silky finish.
APA 4.3%
Fairly bitter pale ale with aromas of grapefruit and pine and slighty sweet finish.
Redemption, Enfield, Gt London
Trinity 3%
Brewed with three malts and three hops. Generous late hopping provides Seville orange
aromas and the initial malt sweetness is dominated by citrus flavours.
Pale Ale 3.8%
Light and well ballanced in the mouth with grain feel along with cirus hop notes.
Fellowship Porter 5.1%
A dark brown coloured London Porter with chocolate, coffee, liquorice and dry roasted
malt flavours complimented with hints of dark fruit.
Redwillow, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Headless 3.9%
Aromas of light lemon barley water with a clean citrus finish. Easy drinking.
Smokeless 5.7%
Asmooth smoked porter, with a robust malt backbone. This is infused with Chipotles to
give even more smokiness and a subtle hint of heat.
Robinsons, Stockport, Cheshire
Unicorn 4.2%
Complex with a long dry finish and citrus fruit notes.
Old Tom 8.5%
Old Tom is dark, rich and warming with a cherry brandy like colour and character
named after the brewery cat in 1899.
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S&P, Horsford, Norfolk
Topaz Blonde 3.7%
Topaz hops provide this golden beer with a fruity citrus aroma, grapefruit taste and a
crisp, dry finish.
Afterglow 3.9%
Amber ale with a distinctive flavour of chalenger hops.
Between the Posts 3.9%
A new golden ale, flavoured with NZ Dr Rudi hops.
Saffron, Bishop Storford, Essex
Saffron Blonde 4.3%
Good balance of citrus and smooth malty flavours with a crisp finish, and a lingering
strawberry nose.
Henham Honey 4.6%
Delicate balance of bitterness, malt, spicy fruit and honey aromas.
Silent Night 5.2%
Ruby Port and pure red grape juice along with Fuggles and Bramling Cross hops create
a soft fruity and spice finish.
Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire
Elderflower Blonde 4%
A refreshing blonde ale infused with the delicate flavour of elderflower.
Hazelnut Coffee Porter 4%
Like Cadburys fruit and nut but with more nuts and fruitiness.
Siren, Finchampstead, Berkshire
Half Mast 2.8%
Quarter IPA, Heavily hopped but with low bitterness and notes of mango and grapefruit.
Undercurrent 4.5%
Spicy, grassy aromas and a taste of grapefruit and apricot an nice nutty maltiness.
St Peter's, South Elmham, Suffolk
Best Bitter 3.7%
A full-bodied ale with distinctive fruity caramel notes.
Ruby Red Ale 4.3%
A rich, red ale with subtle malt undertones and a distinctive spicy hop aroma.
Boo 5.3%
Cream Stout 6.5%
Aromatic, strong, dark chocolate cream stout with a satisfying bittersweet aftertaste.
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Stumptail, Great Dunham, Norfolk
Amber 4.8%
Based on a Victorian recipe, rich roast grain balanced with Goldngs hops.
Pale 4.9%
Traditional pale ale spiced with Goldings and a sprinkling of new world hops for extra
zest.
Summer Wine, Honley, West Yorkshire
Resistance 3.7%
tbc
Teleporter 5%
A Rich Dark Porter brewed with 10 different malts giving a sweet roast richness that is
balanced with just enough hop character.
Taylor's, Attleborough, Norfolk
No1 3.8%
A copper-coloured ale made with a blend of two traditional hops.
Dog Tooth 4%
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Dropped Stitched 4.5%
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Ticketybrew, Stalybridge, Gt Manchester
Munchner 4.5%
Amber lager, well rounded with a rich malty nose and dry pithy finish.
Rose Wheat 4.5%
Unique aroma of roses leading to a floral mouthfeel then a kick of spicy ginger.
Tipples, Acle, Norfolk
Hanged Monk 3.8%
Roasted malt, dry coffee & smoke aromas, some dark fruit with ahint of bitterness.
Longshore 3.8%
A light bitter with a good pale amber colour, a nice balanced malty flavour.
Lady Evelyn 4.1%
Pale, straw coloured ale with a long dryish finish and a floral hop aroma.
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Tombstone, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Arizona 3.9%
Light amber ale, malty, hoppy with a touch of citrus.
Texas Jack 4%
Chestnut red ruby coloured ale with a good flavour and a twist of plums.
Gunslinger 4.3%
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Cherokee 4.5%
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Triple FFF, Four Marks, Hampshire
Rock Lobster 4.5%
A chestnut-brown best bitter with a mellow hop aroma, smooth malt and subtle fruit
flavours. No matching towels though.
Jabberwocky 5%
Subtle hints of dark chocolate and liquorice but with a fresh pine aroma in this black IPA.
Turpin's, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Meditation 4.3%
A pale ale with citrus aromas and a low-medium hop and biscuit flavour.
Cambridge Black 4.6%
A combination of coffee, coca and dark chocolate can be found in this quaffable stout.
Two Rivers, Denver, Norfolk
Kiwi Kick 4%
A dry, biscuity malt flavour is followed by a tart citrusy hop flavour, grapefruit, lime and
a hint of spice.
Porters Pride 5.2%
Dark almost black beer with a bittersweet malt taste, chocolate and coffee, nutty and a
touch of woodiness.
Tydd Steam, Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire
Barn Ale 3.9%
Zesty bitterness and a lingering citrus finish.
Piston Bitter 4.4%
Hints of caramel and slight fruitness from a English style bitter.
Amnesiac 4.9%
Hopped with unique Nelson Sauvin hops giving a soft white wine background and
crushed gooseberry aroma.
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Wantsum, Canterbury, Kent
Black Prince 3.9%
A rich, full bodied Kent mild slightly bitter in the finish.
Imperium 4%
A deep amber best bitter, smooth biscuit malts and rich hoppy nose.
Waveney, Earsham, Norfolk
Lightweight 3.9%
Some hints of toffee, bread, mild earth. Light in body very drinkable.
Welterweight 4.2%
Golden amber coloured bitter with ahint of pears and berries.
Rocky Myrobalan 4.6%
Hedgerow plums ( yellow Myrobalan ) are added to this beer to produce a unique ale.
Welbeck Abbey, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
Red Feather 3.9%
Good malty bitter with a touch of fruit and caramel.
Kaiser 4.1%
Crisp, dry, biscuity lager malt flavours are perfectly balanced with sweet, honey like
floral hops.
Wharfe Bank, Otley, West Yorkshire
Washburn 3.7%
Copper-coloured Yorkshire Bitter with a subtle fruit aroma.
Camfell Flame 4.4%
Copper ruby colour bitter with roasted coffee notes.
Whim, Hartington, Derbyshire
Arbor Light 3.6%
Brewed using German lager hops. Light in colour, sharp and very clean.
Hartington Bitter 4%
Pale golden beer with not to much citrus nose, but hints of apple and pear in the
mouthfeel.
White Horse, Stanford In The Vale, Oxfordshire
Black Beauty 3.9%
Dark brown almost ruby coloured mild with toasty toffe undertones.
Oxford Blue 4.3%
Malty, raisiny, spicy aroma, with a hint of figs and cinnamon in the taste.
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Williams, Alloa, Central Scotland
Black 4.2%
Smooth coffee and chocolate undertones are complemented by the addition of late
harvest cone hops, giving a lovely blackcurrant aroma.
March of the Penguins 4.9%
Rich roasty coffee taste with dark maltiness.
Winter's, Norwich, Norfolk
Cloudburst 3.7%
A full flavoured easy drinking session beer with slight soft summer fruit taste.
Geniuss 4.1%
Deep ruby red coloured beer with a dark fruit and malty molasses backdrop.
Golden 4.1%
A refreshing yellow golden ale with nicely balanced malt, hop and light tangy citrus
flavours.
On The Beer City! 4.4%
Pale golden yellow coloured beer with plenty of citrus fruit and grassy with a mild
background malt flavour.
Wolf, Attleborough, Norfolk
Edith Cavell 3.7%
Tastes stronger than it is , with a malty toast aroma and a slight fruity zing to the
mouthfeel.
Golden Jackal 3.7%
Citrusy hops reign over this Golden Ale building a leafy and fruity hop finish to balance
out the malt.
Lupus Lupus 4.2%
Slight mango and zest through a mostly malt nose and a biscuit finish.
Granny Wouldn't Like It 4.8%
A rich, malty beer. It has masses of flavor and a slightly sweet finish.
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Woodforde's, Woodbastwick, Norfolk
Wherry 3.8%
A slight floral and hoppy nose but the taste is milder and has a biscuity sweetness.
Sundew 4.1%
Subtle golden beer - pale in colour and light on the palate with the distinctive hoppy
finish.
Nelsons Revenge 4.5%
A full-bodied pale amber beer with the rich flavour of Dundee cake. Sultana fruitiness is
balanced by a hoppy bitterness.
Tap and Go 5%
Copper-coloured beer has been brewed to celebrate the Rugby World Cup, in the style
of a classic IPA, yet with a powerful hoppy twist, characterised by citrus notes and hints
of herbs, pepper and pine.
Redcracker 7%
A special version of Headcracker infused with raspberries. Strong full-bodied pale barley
wine. Warm raspberry and apricot notes.
XT, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
4 3.8%
An amber beer with a special Belgian malt and a fruity mix of American and European
hops
XPA 5.9%
An IPA brewed with crisp, clean extra pale malts and numerous North American
flavouring and aromatic hop additions.
Yetman's, Bayfield, Norfolk
Amber 4.2%
A light, crisp beer with a fruity hoppy nose and amber colour.
Green 4.8%
Strongish, with a fruity sweetness and dark colour.
So, here we are in the fine city of Norwich, with hundreds of beers to try, with not enough time and just the two hands.
In the end I went to just one session, as there were festivals at both The Birdcage and The Muderders.
Moultons Mild was very nice, as was The Fat Cat Brewery'd Porter.
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Acorn, Wombwell, South Yorkshire
Barnsley Bitter 3.8%
Well rounded, with a rich flavour, it retains a lasting bitter finish.
Old Moor Porter 4.8%
A full bodied victorian style porter with hints of liquorice. The initial bitterness gives way
to a smooth, mellow finish.
Adnams, Southwold, Suffolk
Prop Hop 4%
A delicious bitter with malt, biscuit and bready flavours, accompanied by subtle notes of
orange peel.
Extra 4.3%
Copper coloured ale with hoppy, floral and herbal aromas which follow through on the
palate.
Broadside Extra 6.5%
The bottled version but in cask, full malt flavour and a hint of marmite.
Tally Ho 7.2%
Tally Ho is dark Mahogany red in colour with a rich, fruity aroma and a heart warming
sweet raisin and biscuit palate.
Allendale, Hexham, Northumberland
Wagtail 3.8%
A floral aroma, hints of seville orange and spiced dried fruit, with biscuit and toffee
notes.
Pennine Pale 4%
Golden ale, brewed with a trio of American hops giving a full fruity aroma and flavour,
with a refreshing citrus finish
Ashover, Ashover, Derbyshire
Liquorice Alesort 4.5%
A rich black stout made with black malt and crystal rye, has root liquorice added in the
boil.
Rainbows End 4.5%
Rainbows End was the name of the café at the terminus of Ashover light railway, the
beer is pale and hopped with Cascade.
B & T, Shefford, Bedfordshire
Edwin Taylor's Extra Stout 4.5%
A stout with a strong roast flavour along with a hinr of coffee and red wine.
Shefford Plum Porter 4.5%
Fruity on the nose but a little smokiness to the flavour.
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Backyard, Walsall, West Midlands
Premium 4.5%
Premium bitter with a toffee, herbal nose and bitter-sweet nutty flavours.
Hell Bound 5.4%
Dark, rich brew. Full of bitter chocolate and fruit malt character.
Barrell&Sellers, South Elmham, Suffolk
Bitter 3.8%
Classic English ‘Best’ brewed with crystal malt and punchy hops to give a bitter fiinish.
Brown Ale 4.7%
Brewed with caramel & chocolate malt & 'blackcurrant' hops.
IPA 5.8%
Robust, amber, well hopped beer is brewed with pale & caramel malt.
Batemans, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire
XB 3.7%
Classic amber bitter brewed with English hops, very quaffable.
Gold 3.9%
A golden coloued refreshing beer brewed with lager malt and hinook and Cascade hops.
Salem Porter 4.7%
Full of fruit, hazelnuts, almonds, liquorice and spicy hops.
Beeston, Beeston, Norfolk
Afternoon Delight 3.7%
An easy drinking blonde ale with a slightly dry feel and hint of lemon.
Worth The Wait 4.2%
A golden beer, with a balance of hops to give a gentle bitterness & a refreshing citrus
hint.
Village Life 4.8%
Toasted malt flavours with plenty of body and a hint of orange rind and biscuit.
Old Stoatwobbler 6%
Strong, dark, luscious & notorious and mostly mine.. (Manic laugh)
Bexar County, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Poquito Pequeno 3.5%
Gentle fruity bittersweet base with a surprisingly bitter/sour finish.
Timanfaya 3.8%
Rausch Beer. Soured Brown ale.
Cambridge Common 4.1%
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Blindmans, Leighton, Somerset
Backstreet 4.2%
A mid brown smooth rounded ale, full of subtle toffee flavours.
Boudicca, Hoveton, Norfolk
Spiral Stout 4.6%
A spectrum of autumnal berries, coffee, dark chocolate, and a gentle, lingering dry roast
finish with a hint of smoke.
Brandon, Brandon, Suffolk
Dragonfire 4.5%
Pioneer hops and caramel malt makes this an easy session beer with a bit of a kick.
Oakenshield 5%
Strong and dark with a smooth smoky aftertaste.
Brass Castle, Malton, North Yorkshire
Bad Kitty 5.5%
Chocolate vanilla porter , what's not to like..
Burnout 5.8%
A complex dark ale with sweet roasted notes alongside coffee and liquorice.
Brentwood, Brentwood, Essex
Chestnut Stout 4%
A smooth, rounded, easy drinking stout, brewed with local chestnuts.
Shackleton 'The Boss' 4.5%
A full-bodied red premium bitter, well balanced and with rich malt flavours. Brewed by
Brentwood for Shackleton brewery.
Buffy's, Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk
Norfolk Terrier 3.8%
Slightly malty and smooth.
Beagle 4%
A Beagle is really quite a delightful beast. Loyal to the end. Golden and with
exceptionally good citrus notes courtesy of First Gold hops.
9X 9%
Robust ale with plenty of malty fruityness by not over powering.
Cairngorm, Aviemore, Highlands & Islands
Black Gold 4.2%
A Scottish stout with a wonderful rich dark colour and subtle bitterness giving way to
late sweetness and underlying roast barley hints.
Witches Cauldron 4.9%
A dark ruby red coloured ale with a hint of roast malt flavours and a pleasant sweet
aftertaste
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Caveman, Swanscombe, Kent
Citra 4.1%
A hoppy pale ale with a straightforward malt character but plenty of citrus flavours.
Cavedweller 5.8%
Chocolate and coffee notes come through in the malt and dark berry flavours from the
hops.
Celt Experience, Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
Iron Age 3.5%
A ruby coloured fruity beer full of robust and unique fruity hop characteristics and hints
of berry fruit.
Silures 4.6%
The beer is named after a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, occupying
approximately the counties of Monmouthshire & Breconshire.
Church End, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Grave Diggers 3.8%
Dark black and red in colour, with a complex mixture of chocolate and roast flavours.
Stout Coffin 4.6%
Notes of roasted malts creamy vanilla chocolate.
Colchester, Wakes Colne, Essex
Brazilian 4.6%
Coffee and vanilla porter. A firm favourite in the range.
Dancing Men, Happisburgh, Norfolk
Famous Norfolk Broads 3.8%
Quaffing bitter named after three regulars at the Hillhouse Inn.
Knight's Noggin 4.8%
Rich, heavily-malted porter-style beer packed with toasted toffee and chocolate notes.
Dark Star, Horsham, West Sussex
Hophead 3.8%
An extremely clean-drinking pale golden ale with a strong floral aroma.
Festival 5%
A chestnut bronze coloured bitter which is full of freshness and smooth mouthfeel.
East London, Lea Bridge, Gt London
Nightwatchman 4.5%
Chestnut brown coloured al with a smooth well hopped flavour.
Cowcatcher 4.8%
An American Pale Ale, generously hopped with Amarillo, Chinook, Simcoe and Citra.
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Elgood's, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Which Witch is Which 4.3%
Try saying that after a couple.
Plum Porter 4.4%
A distinctive black beer, it has an enticing fruit aroma, leading to a full-bodied, rich and
fruity flavour.
Winter Warmer(Oak Aged) 7.5%
Deep rich brown and has a very full fruity body. Oak aged.
Elmtree, Snetterton, Norfolk
80/- 4.5%
Restrained hops with full flavours of grain and malts coming through in a near perfect
balance.
Winter Solstice 4.6%
Winter Solstice is a dark Porter with delicate additions of Vanilla pods and Cinammon
bark.
Dark Horse 5%
Rich coffee and classic hops dominate the nose. Dark ripe fruit in the mouth and a
velvet smoothness compliment the strength in the body.
Fallen, Kippen, Stirlingshire
Chew Chew 6%
Salted caramel milk stout, brewed with dark belgian candi syrup, lactose and Hebridean
sea salt.
Platform C 6.3%
New world IPA bursting with hops from the Pacific North West, not overl bitter or sweet.
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Fat Cat, Norwich, Norfolk
Hell Cat 4.1%
A light, fruity beer, with plenty of body. The kick comes from New World hops, packed
with bright, citrus flavours.
Curly Cat 4.2%
A single hop variety, added at three stages of brewing and also in cask, a little fruity
hint of orange and, not too bitter.
Stout Cat 4.6%
A deep, dark beer. The characteristic sweet, rich flavour of roast malt and molasses is
well balanced with the pronounced hop flavour.
Cougar 4.7%
American hops and lager malt are usesd to produce this eminently quaffable beer.
Porter 4.9%
An old-fashioned Porter, rich brown, rather than Black malt lends a biscuit flavour, with
deep smooth dark-chocolate notes.
Marmalade 5.5%
A classic mid-brown coloured strong bitter, with a markedly bitter finish from the
generous use of Styrian hops, plus a hint of orange marmalde.
Felinfoel, Felinfoel, West Wales
Dragon Stout 4.1%
Double Dragon 4.2%
A full drinking premium Welsh ale, malty and subtly hopped with a rich colour and
smooth balanced character.
Felstar, Crix Green, Essex
Old Essex 3.9%
Deep amber traditional old ale with a rich malty taste.
In The Pink 5%
A natural fermented ale matured for 6 years with a very generous helping of cherries
and a few raspberries added for good measure then blended with a new fresh beer.
Five Points, Hackney, Gt London
Pale 4.4%
A fresh, zesty, aromatic pale ale brewed with malted barley, a little wheat, and Amarillo,
Centennial and Citra hops.
Railway Porter 4.8%
A Porter in the classic London style with our own twist. Aromas of chocolate and coffee
with hints of caramel.
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Fox, Heacham, Norfolk
Heacham Gold 3.9%
A pale yellow beer with a surprisingly malty nose. The sweetish taste is also malty yet
quickly becomes crisp and lightly citrus.
Grizzly Bear 4.8%
Pale golden ale with a citrusy fruit aroma and th a distinctly sweetish background.
Heacham Kriek 5.1%
Amber beer made with black cherries and four different hops. Floral aroma leads to a
bitter taste.
Fuller's, Chiswick, London
Olivers Island 3.8%
Delicate floral and citrus aromas with distinctive biscuity, grapefruit flavour, tropical
notes and refreshing zesty qualities.
1845 6.3%
A sweet, fruit cake aroma, a dark tawny colour and a dry finish that sings of spices and
raisin
Vintage 8.5%
Vintage Ale 2015 sees the balance of malt and hops deliver well-rounded, complex
flavours, with a fruitful aroma and a bitter finish.
Goddards, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Wight Squirrel 4.3%
A rich, russet-coloured full-flavoured, easy drinking Best Bitter. Brewed with a host of
Crystal Malts giving a smooth caramel taste.
Ducks Folly 5.2%
Amber coloured, traditionally brewed English ale.
Golden Triangle, Barford, Norfolk
Mosaic City 3.8%
A full tropical fruit taste with peach flavours abundant.
Simcoe City 3.8%
Very similar to the mosaic city but brewed with Simcoe hops.
Drink More Beer 3.9%
Amber coloured bitter with surprising depth, brewed to comemerate the life of the late
Wolfe Witham.
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Grain, Harleston, Norfolk
316 3.9%
Brewed with lager malt and ludicrously light on the palate, well balanced with a slight
hint of grapefruit.
Redwood 4.3%
A rich red premium bitter that beautifully balances roasted malts with sherbert
grapefruit hoppiness.
Pale 5%
IPA with a grassy hop aroma, balanced with a lingering bitterness.
Slate 6%
A deep, dark and rich smoked porter, brewed with a complex blend of malts.
Great Heck, Great Heck, North Yorkshire
Chopper 3.5%
Golden session ale with a surprisingly full body and a decent amount of hops giving rise
a mango/melon fruitiness.
Dave 3.8%
A smooth, very dark, velvety bitter with aslight burnt coffee taste.
Voodoo 4.3%
Chocolate and weetabix with smooth coffee flavours,
Amish Mash Wheat 4.7%
Golden coloured wheat beer with a multitiude of flavours and peppery hop bitterness.
Washington Red 4.7%
Amber coloured beer with a zesty mouthfeel and slighty dry mouthfeel.
Black Jesus 6.5%
Black Jesus is a black IPA brewed with American hops and special dehusked German
roasted malt.
Great Newsome, Winestead, East Yorkshire
Holderness Dark 3.4%
Light coffee feel with a hint of fruitiness and a bittersweet finish.
Ploughmans Pride 4.2%
Dark rich malty ale, brown ale like but with liquorice tones.
Green Dragon, Bungay, Suffolk
Gold 4.4%
Zesty golden ale with a slight lager feel.
Bridge St. Bitter 4.5%
Malty and juicy with bitter orange peel in the finish.
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Green Jack, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Canary 3.8%
Straw-coloured pale ale with a big flowery hop character.
Fruit Bat 5.5%
A distinct taste of plums and fruit cake gives way to a slight piney bitterness.
Baltic Trader 10.5%
Extra Strong Imperial Stout with smooth rich roasted coffee & vanilla flavours.
Harveys, Lewes, East Sussex
Old 4.5%
A dark, full-bodied beer combining sweetness and strength to produce a exceptionally
smooth palate.
Bonfire Boy 5.8%
A dark amber beer with a full malty palate and a slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste. A small
quantity of black malt is used to impart the suggestion of smoke.
Prince of Denmark 7.5%
A complex beer with aromas of leather, chocolate and liquorice, with a lingering taste,
based on traditional recipes from the 18th Century.
Harwich Town, Harwich, Essex
EPA 3.8%
Good hoppy flavour, with hints of pineapple and grapefruit.
Tyrwhitts Tipple 4.5%
Pale malt, dark crystal and caramalt and then Columbus hops brwed especially for us.
Hexhamshire, Hexham, Northumberland
Devils Elbow 3.6%
Named after a waterfall on the West Dipton Burn, Devil’s Elbow is a smooth ale with a
rounded malty taste.
Devils Water 4.2%
A malty dark ale with a fruity range of flavours, named after a local burn.
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Humpty Dumpty, Reedham, Norfolk
Little Sharpie 3.8%
A delicate hop aroma leads to a light clean tasting finish.
Swallowtail 4%
A refreshing pale amber thirst quenching ale with a lively hop finish.
Hop Harvest Gold 4.5%
A golden ale brewed with fresh new hops every time.
Black Mill IPA 5%
A Cascadian style black beer brewed with 4 different American Hop varieties
Railway Sleeper 5%
A sweet plummy fruitiness blankets an underlying malty bitterness. Full and rich in
flavour.
Hydes, Manchester, Gt Manchester
Spicer Santium 4.5%
Brewed using American farmed hop ‘SANTIAM’ which gives a definite Herbal and floral
overtone.
Munchen 5%
Bavrian straw blonde ’Helles’ style beer, crafted from Pilsen malt and the noble
Hallertau, Mittlefruh and Hersbrucher hops.
Ilkley, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Ruby Jane 4%
Complex biscuit layers of flavour and a soft bitterness from the hops.
Scary Spice 5.5%
Influenced by flavours and spices from the East, a pumpkin beer with a difference.
Jo C's, Barsham, Norfolk
Norfolk Kiwi 3.8%
Easy-drinking session bitter with distinct kiwi flavour and aroma
Bitter Old Bustard 4.3%
Russet coloured ale carries warm nutty biscuit flavours coming through a smooth malt
body.
Knot another IPA 5%
A golden, hoppy, true-to-style IPA, brewed using Norfolk-grown Maris Otter barley with
a good blast of British Bodicea hops to provide a flavoursome finish.
Kelham Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
25th Anniversary 6.8%
An IPA using a blend of 5 of the finest American hop varieties, which gives an l aroma
and flavour of Tropical fruits and spices.
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Lacons, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Encore 3.8%
Pale amber hued beer, with delicate fruit aromas, comfortably balancing a dry pine and
citrus flavour.
Festival Special 3.8%
Burnished amber, this full bodied session ale carries dominant tropical fruit/berries in
aroma, followed by tart citrus on the palate. Pleasing nutty flavours are finished by a
dusting of bitterness
Pale 3.9%
An aroma of crisp fruitiness with distinct flavours of melon and grapefruit.
Extra Stout 4.5%
Valiant stone fruits are balanced by blackcurrant and a hint of citrus. The finish is both
smooth and dry.
Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancashire
Elderflower Twist 3.8%
A light coloured beer brewed using elderflowers and elderberries and the very delicate
Kallertauer Hop.
Red 4.8%
Robust, spicy & fruity, culminating in a very moreish finish.
Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Pale 3.8%
Light and hoppy with delicate floral notes and a well balanced finish.
Midnight Bell 4.8%
Roast and chocolate malts combine to give a full bodied, complex character to this rich
and robust ale
Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Borrowers Bitter 3.6%
Named after the classic series of children’s book written by Mary Norton.This is a midbrown,
easy drinking session ale brewed with five different English hops
Smoking Angel 4.5%
German Rauchmaltz smoked over beech wood in the Bamberg area of Germany is used
inthis dark porter style beer.
Long Man, Polegate, East Sussex
Old Man 4.3%
Soft malt notes of coffee and chocolate that combine with a pleasant light hoppiness to
create a rich, full tasting Old Ale.
APA 4.8%
A triple-hopped APA has a pleasant citrus fruit aroma and characteristic robust
bitterness.
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Magpie, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Dark Potion 5.8%
Apothecary inspired, botanically infused Black IPA. Dandelion and Burdock ..
Mauldons, Sudbury, Suffolk
Micawbers Mild 3.5%
This traditional beer has a full round flavour with a slight but distinctive bitter finish.
Mid Autumn Gold 4.2%
An amber coloured beer with a fine balance of malt and hops for a full bodied flavour.
Black Adder 5.3%
A dark bitter stout. Roast and nut aromas with a fruity balance of hops and dark malt
provide an excellent, lingering finish.
Maxim, Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear
Wards Best Bitter 4%
Classic ale from the past with a distinctive malty aftertaste that lingers on the palate.
Maximus 6%
Easy to drink, dark ruby in colour, smooth, sweet, with a hint of liquorice.
Mile Tree, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Crescent 4%
Mid-brown with a red hue to the body, malty and fruity, with a slight bitter finish
Larksong 4.5%
Light malty aroma with the slightest suggestion of oak and berry.
Festival Special 5.4%
Spicy aroma, with cinnamon, clove, bramble and liquorice. Sweet taste, very fruity, like
a beer version of a mulled wine.
Milestone, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Classic Mild 4.1%
Light sweet flavour with ripe berries, toasty bread, burnt caramel, and plum notes.
Olde English 4.9%
Full bodied winter warmer with a pleasing nutty finish.
Moonshine, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
Harvest Moon Mild 3.9%
Slightly sweet with plenty of character. Smooth fruit notes combining with coffee and
chocolate flavours.
Raspberry Porter 4.5%
Night Watch Porter infused with locally grown rapberries to give it a nice mellow fruity
finish.
Raspberry Wheat 4.5%
Part of the 13 moons series of monthly specials.
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Moor, Bridgwater, Somerset
Envy 4.2%
A green hopped beer omfined wih a natural haze with subtle hints of vanilla and herbs.
Illusion 4.4%
Imperial Black Ale as it is known in the USA, very flavoursome for its strength, peppery
and earthy with citrus overtones leading to a mellow finish.
Stout 5%
Not as roasty as some stouts with hints of chocolate and balckberry.
So' hop 5.7%
A pronounced floral and tropical quality to the beer, with honey and elderflower in the
nose.
Nethergate, Pentlow, Essex
Black Shadow 3.5%
A typical old fashioned dark mild, but with a surprisingly fresh bitterness.
Suffolk County 4%
A biscuity malt dominates the warm well rounded roasted background, with a punching
bitterness.
Umbel Magna 5%
The addition of coriander to the Old Growler wort completes the original 1750s recipe
for this distinctive dark beer.
Nobby's, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
Best 3.8%
A session bitter with good hop character.
Festival Special 4.7%
A dark ale with hints of Christmas pudding spice and warming seasonal cheer.
Norfolk Brewhouse, Hindringham, Norfolk
Golden 4%
A fresh citrus aroma and fruity hop character leads into the refreshing, crisp, dry finish.
Dark Mild 4.5%
This dark mild has a subtle blackcurrant aroma, full-bodied with a rich, fruity, sweet
finish.
Gold IPA 5%
A well hopped IPA combining USA and UK hops to deliver a fruity IPA which builds in
bitterness leading to a crisp, dry finish.
Cellar Bration Ale 6%
A ruby red ale brewed in collaboration with leading food and drink writer Melissa Cole.
Fresh cherries, Norfolk honey and mint are added to the brew, as well as sweet and
bitter orange peel.
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Nottingham, Radford, Nottinghamshire
Rock Mild 3.8%
Smooth and dark with a biscuity flavour.
EPA 4.2%
Well balanced smooth ale with a light fragrant hop finish
Oakleaf, Gosport, Hampshire
Quercus Folium 4%
Quercus Folium is Latin for oakleaf, a traditional hoppy bitter with a malty aftertaste and
slight sweetness.
I Can't Believe It's Not Bitter 4.9%
Clean and crisp with a fruity aftertaste. The use of Saaz hops gives this lager a citrus
finish that lingers on.
Old Chimneys, Market Weston, Suffolk
Amber Porter 4.8%
This beer, unusually pale for a porter, is based on a Tolly Cobbold recipe that was
availble from 1785 to 1827.
Good King Henry 9.6%
Chocolate coffee flavours abound with a hint of liquorice and black berry fruit, deep and
awesome.
Red Admiral 11.4%
Red Admiral is an oak aged barley wine with added liqueur whisky. As well as wood
and whisky, there are hints of honey, vanilla, orange marmalade, walnut and raisins.
Classic.
Opa Hay's, Aldeby, Norfolk
Engel's Best 4%
A triple hopped aromatic beer, a very old fashioned traditional ale.
Meister Pils 4.8%
A Pilsner style beer made with continental style yeast, light in colour and a hoppy aroma.
Liquid Bread 5.2%
Bavarian Style wheat beer with a distinct aroma of cloves and banana.
Otley, Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Thai Bo 4.6%
Infused with Lemongrass, lime leaf and galangal it has been described as having the
aromas of a Thai green curry in a glass.
O9 4.8%
Honey and wheat aroma. Flavours of fresh herb, honey and some notes of citrus.
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Palmers, Bridport, Dorset
Copper Ale 3.7%
Copper-coloured session ale, good citrus fruit with a hoppy aroma.
Tally Ho 5.5%
First brewed in the 1940s. A rich fruit cake flavour dominates in this dark strong old ale.
Panther, Reepham, Norfolk
Ginger 3.7%
This ginger wheat beer is fiery with a distinct ginger flavour and with subtle lemon
flavour notes.
Honey 4%
A full bodied ale with a floral honey flavour nicely balnced between the sweetness of the
honey and the malt finish.
Black 4.5%
A roasted malty chocolate and caramel aroma goes to nice earthy finish with a hint of
liquorice.
Pheasantry, East Markham, Nottinghamshire
BB 3.8%
A smooth tasting copper coloured beer, with medium bitterness and a light spicy aroma.
Smoking Rauch 4.8%
Reddish amber beer which starts sweet and then follows a lingering spicy smokiness.
Pictish, Rochdale, Lancashire
Alchemists 4.3%
A refreshing, straw coloured ale with crisp malt flavours and a robust hoppy finish.
Chinook 4.9%
Single hopped beer, pale and clean malt dominated by orange peel and fruity, bitter
hops.
Quartz, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire
MO50 5%
Brewed for the Maris Otter 50 years celebration, pale and very smmoth, with a slight
fizz in the mouthfeel.
Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Kent
No. 7 3.8%
Easy drinking pale session bitter with good balance.
Gadds No. 5 4.4%
A traditional Kentish Best bitter, the aroma is toffee malt and a red berry flavoured
finish.
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Raw, Staveley, Derbyshire
Dark Peak 4.5%
Award winning stout smooth with slight bitterness.
Edge 4.5%
Pale ale brewed using pale and Munich malt, balanced bitterness and a citrus aroma.
Red Squirrel, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Milk Stout 4%
Complex flavours reminiscent of dark chocolate and coffee, balanced by a hoppy
bitterness and a dry smooth silky finish.
APA 4.3%
Fairly bitter pale ale with aromas of grapefruit and pine and slighty sweet finish.
Redemption, Enfield, Gt London
Trinity 3%
Brewed with three malts and three hops. Generous late hopping provides Seville orange
aromas and the initial malt sweetness is dominated by citrus flavours.
Pale Ale 3.8%
Light and well ballanced in the mouth with grain feel along with cirus hop notes.
Fellowship Porter 5.1%
A dark brown coloured London Porter with chocolate, coffee, liquorice and dry roasted
malt flavours complimented with hints of dark fruit.
Redwillow, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Headless 3.9%
Aromas of light lemon barley water with a clean citrus finish. Easy drinking.
Smokeless 5.7%
Asmooth smoked porter, with a robust malt backbone. This is infused with Chipotles to
give even more smokiness and a subtle hint of heat.
Robinsons, Stockport, Cheshire
Unicorn 4.2%
Complex with a long dry finish and citrus fruit notes.
Old Tom 8.5%
Old Tom is dark, rich and warming with a cherry brandy like colour and character
named after the brewery cat in 1899.
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S&P, Horsford, Norfolk
Topaz Blonde 3.7%
Topaz hops provide this golden beer with a fruity citrus aroma, grapefruit taste and a
crisp, dry finish.
Afterglow 3.9%
Amber ale with a distinctive flavour of chalenger hops.
Between the Posts 3.9%
A new golden ale, flavoured with NZ Dr Rudi hops.
Saffron, Bishop Storford, Essex
Saffron Blonde 4.3%
Good balance of citrus and smooth malty flavours with a crisp finish, and a lingering
strawberry nose.
Henham Honey 4.6%
Delicate balance of bitterness, malt, spicy fruit and honey aromas.
Silent Night 5.2%
Ruby Port and pure red grape juice along with Fuggles and Bramling Cross hops create
a soft fruity and spice finish.
Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire
Elderflower Blonde 4%
A refreshing blonde ale infused with the delicate flavour of elderflower.
Hazelnut Coffee Porter 4%
Like Cadburys fruit and nut but with more nuts and fruitiness.
Siren, Finchampstead, Berkshire
Half Mast 2.8%
Quarter IPA, Heavily hopped but with low bitterness and notes of mango and grapefruit.
Undercurrent 4.5%
Spicy, grassy aromas and a taste of grapefruit and apricot an nice nutty maltiness.
St Peter's, South Elmham, Suffolk
Best Bitter 3.7%
A full-bodied ale with distinctive fruity caramel notes.
Ruby Red Ale 4.3%
A rich, red ale with subtle malt undertones and a distinctive spicy hop aroma.
Boo 5.3%
Cream Stout 6.5%
Aromatic, strong, dark chocolate cream stout with a satisfying bittersweet aftertaste.
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Stumptail, Great Dunham, Norfolk
Amber 4.8%
Based on a Victorian recipe, rich roast grain balanced with Goldngs hops.
Pale 4.9%
Traditional pale ale spiced with Goldings and a sprinkling of new world hops for extra
zest.
Summer Wine, Honley, West Yorkshire
Resistance 3.7%
tbc
Teleporter 5%
A Rich Dark Porter brewed with 10 different malts giving a sweet roast richness that is
balanced with just enough hop character.
Taylor's, Attleborough, Norfolk
No1 3.8%
A copper-coloured ale made with a blend of two traditional hops.
Dog Tooth 4%
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Dropped Stitched 4.5%
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Ticketybrew, Stalybridge, Gt Manchester
Munchner 4.5%
Amber lager, well rounded with a rich malty nose and dry pithy finish.
Rose Wheat 4.5%
Unique aroma of roses leading to a floral mouthfeel then a kick of spicy ginger.
Tipples, Acle, Norfolk
Hanged Monk 3.8%
Roasted malt, dry coffee & smoke aromas, some dark fruit with ahint of bitterness.
Longshore 3.8%
A light bitter with a good pale amber colour, a nice balanced malty flavour.
Lady Evelyn 4.1%
Pale, straw coloured ale with a long dryish finish and a floral hop aroma.
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Tombstone, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Arizona 3.9%
Light amber ale, malty, hoppy with a touch of citrus.
Texas Jack 4%
Chestnut red ruby coloured ale with a good flavour and a twist of plums.
Gunslinger 4.3%
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Cherokee 4.5%
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Triple FFF, Four Marks, Hampshire
Rock Lobster 4.5%
A chestnut-brown best bitter with a mellow hop aroma, smooth malt and subtle fruit
flavours. No matching towels though.
Jabberwocky 5%
Subtle hints of dark chocolate and liquorice but with a fresh pine aroma in this black IPA.
Turpin's, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Meditation 4.3%
A pale ale with citrus aromas and a low-medium hop and biscuit flavour.
Cambridge Black 4.6%
A combination of coffee, coca and dark chocolate can be found in this quaffable stout.
Two Rivers, Denver, Norfolk
Kiwi Kick 4%
A dry, biscuity malt flavour is followed by a tart citrusy hop flavour, grapefruit, lime and
a hint of spice.
Porters Pride 5.2%
Dark almost black beer with a bittersweet malt taste, chocolate and coffee, nutty and a
touch of woodiness.
Tydd Steam, Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire
Barn Ale 3.9%
Zesty bitterness and a lingering citrus finish.
Piston Bitter 4.4%
Hints of caramel and slight fruitness from a English style bitter.
Amnesiac 4.9%
Hopped with unique Nelson Sauvin hops giving a soft white wine background and
crushed gooseberry aroma.
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Wantsum, Canterbury, Kent
Black Prince 3.9%
A rich, full bodied Kent mild slightly bitter in the finish.
Imperium 4%
A deep amber best bitter, smooth biscuit malts and rich hoppy nose.
Waveney, Earsham, Norfolk
Lightweight 3.9%
Some hints of toffee, bread, mild earth. Light in body very drinkable.
Welterweight 4.2%
Golden amber coloured bitter with ahint of pears and berries.
Rocky Myrobalan 4.6%
Hedgerow plums ( yellow Myrobalan ) are added to this beer to produce a unique ale.
Welbeck Abbey, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
Red Feather 3.9%
Good malty bitter with a touch of fruit and caramel.
Kaiser 4.1%
Crisp, dry, biscuity lager malt flavours are perfectly balanced with sweet, honey like
floral hops.
Wharfe Bank, Otley, West Yorkshire
Washburn 3.7%
Copper-coloured Yorkshire Bitter with a subtle fruit aroma.
Camfell Flame 4.4%
Copper ruby colour bitter with roasted coffee notes.
Whim, Hartington, Derbyshire
Arbor Light 3.6%
Brewed using German lager hops. Light in colour, sharp and very clean.
Hartington Bitter 4%
Pale golden beer with not to much citrus nose, but hints of apple and pear in the
mouthfeel.
White Horse, Stanford In The Vale, Oxfordshire
Black Beauty 3.9%
Dark brown almost ruby coloured mild with toasty toffe undertones.
Oxford Blue 4.3%
Malty, raisiny, spicy aroma, with a hint of figs and cinnamon in the taste.
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Williams, Alloa, Central Scotland
Black 4.2%
Smooth coffee and chocolate undertones are complemented by the addition of late
harvest cone hops, giving a lovely blackcurrant aroma.
March of the Penguins 4.9%
Rich roasty coffee taste with dark maltiness.
Winter's, Norwich, Norfolk
Cloudburst 3.7%
A full flavoured easy drinking session beer with slight soft summer fruit taste.
Geniuss 4.1%
Deep ruby red coloured beer with a dark fruit and malty molasses backdrop.
Golden 4.1%
A refreshing yellow golden ale with nicely balanced malt, hop and light tangy citrus
flavours.
On The Beer City! 4.4%
Pale golden yellow coloured beer with plenty of citrus fruit and grassy with a mild
background malt flavour.
Wolf, Attleborough, Norfolk
Edith Cavell 3.7%
Tastes stronger than it is , with a malty toast aroma and a slight fruity zing to the
mouthfeel.
Golden Jackal 3.7%
Citrusy hops reign over this Golden Ale building a leafy and fruity hop finish to balance
out the malt.
Lupus Lupus 4.2%
Slight mango and zest through a mostly malt nose and a biscuit finish.
Granny Wouldn't Like It 4.8%
A rich, malty beer. It has masses of flavor and a slightly sweet finish.
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Woodforde's, Woodbastwick, Norfolk
Wherry 3.8%
A slight floral and hoppy nose but the taste is milder and has a biscuity sweetness.
Sundew 4.1%
Subtle golden beer - pale in colour and light on the palate with the distinctive hoppy
finish.
Nelsons Revenge 4.5%
A full-bodied pale amber beer with the rich flavour of Dundee cake. Sultana fruitiness is
balanced by a hoppy bitterness.
Tap and Go 5%
Copper-coloured beer has been brewed to celebrate the Rugby World Cup, in the style
of a classic IPA, yet with a powerful hoppy twist, characterised by citrus notes and hints
of herbs, pepper and pine.
Redcracker 7%
A special version of Headcracker infused with raspberries. Strong full-bodied pale barley
wine. Warm raspberry and apricot notes.
XT, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
4 3.8%
An amber beer with a special Belgian malt and a fruity mix of American and European
hops
XPA 5.9%
An IPA brewed with crisp, clean extra pale malts and numerous North American
flavouring and aromatic hop additions.
Yetman's, Bayfield, Norfolk
Amber 4.2%
A light, crisp beer with a fruity hoppy nose and amber colour.
Green 4.8%
Strongish, with a fruity sweetness and dark colour.
So, here we are in the fine city of Norwich, with hundreds of beers to try, with not enough time and just the two hands.
In the end I went to just one session, as there were festivals at both The Birdcage and The Muderders.
Moultons Mild was very nice, as was The Fat Cat Brewery'd Porter.
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Acorn, Wombwell, South Yorkshire
Barnsley Bitter 3.8%
Well rounded, with a rich flavour, it retains a lasting bitter finish.
Old Moor Porter 4.8%
A full bodied victorian style porter with hints of liquorice. The initial bitterness gives way
to a smooth, mellow finish.
Adnams, Southwold, Suffolk
Prop Hop 4%
A delicious bitter with malt, biscuit and bready flavours, accompanied by subtle notes of
orange peel.
Extra 4.3%
Copper coloured ale with hoppy, floral and herbal aromas which follow through on the
palate.
Broadside Extra 6.5%
The bottled version but in cask, full malt flavour and a hint of marmite.
Tally Ho 7.2%
Tally Ho is dark Mahogany red in colour with a rich, fruity aroma and a heart warming
sweet raisin and biscuit palate.
Allendale, Hexham, Northumberland
Wagtail 3.8%
A floral aroma, hints of seville orange and spiced dried fruit, with biscuit and toffee
notes.
Pennine Pale 4%
Golden ale, brewed with a trio of American hops giving a full fruity aroma and flavour,
with a refreshing citrus finish
Ashover, Ashover, Derbyshire
Liquorice Alesort 4.5%
A rich black stout made with black malt and crystal rye, has root liquorice added in the
boil.
Rainbows End 4.5%
Rainbows End was the name of the café at the terminus of Ashover light railway, the
beer is pale and hopped with Cascade.
B & T, Shefford, Bedfordshire
Edwin Taylor's Extra Stout 4.5%
A stout with a strong roast flavour along with a hinr of coffee and red wine.
Shefford Plum Porter 4.5%
Fruity on the nose but a little smokiness to the flavour.
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Backyard, Walsall, West Midlands
Premium 4.5%
Premium bitter with a toffee, herbal nose and bitter-sweet nutty flavours.
Hell Bound 5.4%
Dark, rich brew. Full of bitter chocolate and fruit malt character.
Barrell&Sellers, South Elmham, Suffolk
Bitter 3.8%
Classic English ‘Best’ brewed with crystal malt and punchy hops to give a bitter fiinish.
Brown Ale 4.7%
Brewed with caramel & chocolate malt & 'blackcurrant' hops.
IPA 5.8%
Robust, amber, well hopped beer is brewed with pale & caramel malt.
Batemans, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire
XB 3.7%
Classic amber bitter brewed with English hops, very quaffable.
Gold 3.9%
A golden coloued refreshing beer brewed with lager malt and hinook and Cascade hops.
Salem Porter 4.7%
Full of fruit, hazelnuts, almonds, liquorice and spicy hops.
Beeston, Beeston, Norfolk
Afternoon Delight 3.7%
An easy drinking blonde ale with a slightly dry feel and hint of lemon.
Worth The Wait 4.2%
A golden beer, with a balance of hops to give a gentle bitterness & a refreshing citrus
hint.
Village Life 4.8%
Toasted malt flavours with plenty of body and a hint of orange rind and biscuit.
Old Stoatwobbler 6%
Strong, dark, luscious & notorious and mostly mine.. (Manic laugh)
Bexar County, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Poquito Pequeno 3.5%
Gentle fruity bittersweet base with a surprisingly bitter/sour finish.
Timanfaya 3.8%
Rausch Beer. Soured Brown ale.
Cambridge Common 4.1%
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Blindmans, Leighton, Somerset
Backstreet 4.2%
A mid brown smooth rounded ale, full of subtle toffee flavours.
Boudicca, Hoveton, Norfolk
Spiral Stout 4.6%
A spectrum of autumnal berries, coffee, dark chocolate, and a gentle, lingering dry roast
finish with a hint of smoke.
Brandon, Brandon, Suffolk
Dragonfire 4.5%
Pioneer hops and caramel malt makes this an easy session beer with a bit of a kick.
Oakenshield 5%
Strong and dark with a smooth smoky aftertaste.
Brass Castle, Malton, North Yorkshire
Bad Kitty 5.5%
Chocolate vanilla porter , what's not to like..
Burnout 5.8%
A complex dark ale with sweet roasted notes alongside coffee and liquorice.
Brentwood, Brentwood, Essex
Chestnut Stout 4%
A smooth, rounded, easy drinking stout, brewed with local chestnuts.
Shackleton 'The Boss' 4.5%
A full-bodied red premium bitter, well balanced and with rich malt flavours. Brewed by
Brentwood for Shackleton brewery.
Buffy's, Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk
Norfolk Terrier 3.8%
Slightly malty and smooth.
Beagle 4%
A Beagle is really quite a delightful beast. Loyal to the end. Golden and with
exceptionally good citrus notes courtesy of First Gold hops.
9X 9%
Robust ale with plenty of malty fruityness by not over powering.
Cairngorm, Aviemore, Highlands & Islands
Black Gold 4.2%
A Scottish stout with a wonderful rich dark colour and subtle bitterness giving way to
late sweetness and underlying roast barley hints.
Witches Cauldron 4.9%
A dark ruby red coloured ale with a hint of roast malt flavours and a pleasant sweet
aftertaste
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Caveman, Swanscombe, Kent
Citra 4.1%
A hoppy pale ale with a straightforward malt character but plenty of citrus flavours.
Cavedweller 5.8%
Chocolate and coffee notes come through in the malt and dark berry flavours from the
hops.
Celt Experience, Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
Iron Age 3.5%
A ruby coloured fruity beer full of robust and unique fruity hop characteristics and hints
of berry fruit.
Silures 4.6%
The beer is named after a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, occupying
approximately the counties of Monmouthshire & Breconshire.
Church End, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Grave Diggers 3.8%
Dark black and red in colour, with a complex mixture of chocolate and roast flavours.
Stout Coffin 4.6%
Notes of roasted malts creamy vanilla chocolate.
Colchester, Wakes Colne, Essex
Brazilian 4.6%
Coffee and vanilla porter. A firm favourite in the range.
Dancing Men, Happisburgh, Norfolk
Famous Norfolk Broads 3.8%
Quaffing bitter named after three regulars at the Hillhouse Inn.
Knight's Noggin 4.8%
Rich, heavily-malted porter-style beer packed with toasted toffee and chocolate notes.
Dark Star, Horsham, West Sussex
Hophead 3.8%
An extremely clean-drinking pale golden ale with a strong floral aroma.
Festival 5%
A chestnut bronze coloured bitter which is full of freshness and smooth mouthfeel.
East London, Lea Bridge, Gt London
Nightwatchman 4.5%
Chestnut brown coloured al with a smooth well hopped flavour.
Cowcatcher 4.8%
An American Pale Ale, generously hopped with Amarillo, Chinook, Simcoe and Citra.
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Elgood's, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Which Witch is Which 4.3%
Try saying that after a couple.
Plum Porter 4.4%
A distinctive black beer, it has an enticing fruit aroma, leading to a full-bodied, rich and
fruity flavour.
Winter Warmer(Oak Aged) 7.5%
Deep rich brown and has a very full fruity body. Oak aged.
Elmtree, Snetterton, Norfolk
80/- 4.5%
Restrained hops with full flavours of grain and malts coming through in a near perfect
balance.
Winter Solstice 4.6%
Winter Solstice is a dark Porter with delicate additions of Vanilla pods and Cinammon
bark.
Dark Horse 5%
Rich coffee and classic hops dominate the nose. Dark ripe fruit in the mouth and a
velvet smoothness compliment the strength in the body.
Fallen, Kippen, Stirlingshire
Chew Chew 6%
Salted caramel milk stout, brewed with dark belgian candi syrup, lactose and Hebridean
sea salt.
Platform C 6.3%
New world IPA bursting with hops from the Pacific North West, not overl bitter or sweet.
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Fat Cat, Norwich, Norfolk
Hell Cat 4.1%
A light, fruity beer, with plenty of body. The kick comes from New World hops, packed
with bright, citrus flavours.
Curly Cat 4.2%
A single hop variety, added at three stages of brewing and also in cask, a little fruity
hint of orange and, not too bitter.
Stout Cat 4.6%
A deep, dark beer. The characteristic sweet, rich flavour of roast malt and molasses is
well balanced with the pronounced hop flavour.
Cougar 4.7%
American hops and lager malt are usesd to produce this eminently quaffable beer.
Porter 4.9%
An old-fashioned Porter, rich brown, rather than Black malt lends a biscuit flavour, with
deep smooth dark-chocolate notes.
Marmalade 5.5%
A classic mid-brown coloured strong bitter, with a markedly bitter finish from the
generous use of Styrian hops, plus a hint of orange marmalde.
Felinfoel, Felinfoel, West Wales
Dragon Stout 4.1%
Double Dragon 4.2%
A full drinking premium Welsh ale, malty and subtly hopped with a rich colour and
smooth balanced character.
Felstar, Crix Green, Essex
Old Essex 3.9%
Deep amber traditional old ale with a rich malty taste.
In The Pink 5%
A natural fermented ale matured for 6 years with a very generous helping of cherries
and a few raspberries added for good measure then blended with a new fresh beer.
Five Points, Hackney, Gt London
Pale 4.4%
A fresh, zesty, aromatic pale ale brewed with malted barley, a little wheat, and Amarillo,
Centennial and Citra hops.
Railway Porter 4.8%
A Porter in the classic London style with our own twist. Aromas of chocolate and coffee
with hints of caramel.
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Fox, Heacham, Norfolk
Heacham Gold 3.9%
A pale yellow beer with a surprisingly malty nose. The sweetish taste is also malty yet
quickly becomes crisp and lightly citrus.
Grizzly Bear 4.8%
Pale golden ale with a citrusy fruit aroma and th a distinctly sweetish background.
Heacham Kriek 5.1%
Amber beer made with black cherries and four different hops. Floral aroma leads to a
bitter taste.
Fuller's, Chiswick, London
Olivers Island 3.8%
Delicate floral and citrus aromas with distinctive biscuity, grapefruit flavour, tropical
notes and refreshing zesty qualities.
1845 6.3%
A sweet, fruit cake aroma, a dark tawny colour and a dry finish that sings of spices and
raisin
Vintage 8.5%
Vintage Ale 2015 sees the balance of malt and hops deliver well-rounded, complex
flavours, with a fruitful aroma and a bitter finish.
Goddards, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Wight Squirrel 4.3%
A rich, russet-coloured full-flavoured, easy drinking Best Bitter. Brewed with a host of
Crystal Malts giving a smooth caramel taste.
Ducks Folly 5.2%
Amber coloured, traditionally brewed English ale.
Golden Triangle, Barford, Norfolk
Mosaic City 3.8%
A full tropical fruit taste with peach flavours abundant.
Simcoe City 3.8%
Very similar to the mosaic city but brewed with Simcoe hops.
Drink More Beer 3.9%
Amber coloured bitter with surprising depth, brewed to comemerate the life of the late
Wolfe Witham.
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Grain, Harleston, Norfolk
316 3.9%
Brewed with lager malt and ludicrously light on the palate, well balanced with a slight
hint of grapefruit.
Redwood 4.3%
A rich red premium bitter that beautifully balances roasted malts with sherbert
grapefruit hoppiness.
Pale 5%
IPA with a grassy hop aroma, balanced with a lingering bitterness.
Slate 6%
A deep, dark and rich smoked porter, brewed with a complex blend of malts.
Great Heck, Great Heck, North Yorkshire
Chopper 3.5%
Golden session ale with a surprisingly full body and a decent amount of hops giving rise
a mango/melon fruitiness.
Dave 3.8%
A smooth, very dark, velvety bitter with aslight burnt coffee taste.
Voodoo 4.3%
Chocolate and weetabix with smooth coffee flavours,
Amish Mash Wheat 4.7%
Golden coloured wheat beer with a multitiude of flavours and peppery hop bitterness.
Washington Red 4.7%
Amber coloured beer with a zesty mouthfeel and slighty dry mouthfeel.
Black Jesus 6.5%
Black Jesus is a black IPA brewed with American hops and special dehusked German
roasted malt.
Great Newsome, Winestead, East Yorkshire
Holderness Dark 3.4%
Light coffee feel with a hint of fruitiness and a bittersweet finish.
Ploughmans Pride 4.2%
Dark rich malty ale, brown ale like but with liquorice tones.
Green Dragon, Bungay, Suffolk
Gold 4.4%
Zesty golden ale with a slight lager feel.
Bridge St. Bitter 4.5%
Malty and juicy with bitter orange peel in the finish.
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Green Jack, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Canary 3.8%
Straw-coloured pale ale with a big flowery hop character.
Fruit Bat 5.5%
A distinct taste of plums and fruit cake gives way to a slight piney bitterness.
Baltic Trader 10.5%
Extra Strong Imperial Stout with smooth rich roasted coffee & vanilla flavours.
Harveys, Lewes, East Sussex
Old 4.5%
A dark, full-bodied beer combining sweetness and strength to produce a exceptionally
smooth palate.
Bonfire Boy 5.8%
A dark amber beer with a full malty palate and a slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste. A small
quantity of black malt is used to impart the suggestion of smoke.
Prince of Denmark 7.5%
A complex beer with aromas of leather, chocolate and liquorice, with a lingering taste,
based on traditional recipes from the 18th Century.
Harwich Town, Harwich, Essex
EPA 3.8%
Good hoppy flavour, with hints of pineapple and grapefruit.
Tyrwhitts Tipple 4.5%
Pale malt, dark crystal and caramalt and then Columbus hops brwed especially for us.
Hexhamshire, Hexham, Northumberland
Devils Elbow 3.6%
Named after a waterfall on the West Dipton Burn, Devil’s Elbow is a smooth ale with a
rounded malty taste.
Devils Water 4.2%
A malty dark ale with a fruity range of flavours, named after a local burn.
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Humpty Dumpty, Reedham, Norfolk
Little Sharpie 3.8%
A delicate hop aroma leads to a light clean tasting finish.
Swallowtail 4%
A refreshing pale amber thirst quenching ale with a lively hop finish.
Hop Harvest Gold 4.5%
A golden ale brewed with fresh new hops every time.
Black Mill IPA 5%
A Cascadian style black beer brewed with 4 different American Hop varieties
Railway Sleeper 5%
A sweet plummy fruitiness blankets an underlying malty bitterness. Full and rich in
flavour.
Hydes, Manchester, Gt Manchester
Spicer Santium 4.5%
Brewed using American farmed hop ‘SANTIAM’ which gives a definite Herbal and floral
overtone.
Munchen 5%
Bavrian straw blonde ’Helles’ style beer, crafted from Pilsen malt and the noble
Hallertau, Mittlefruh and Hersbrucher hops.
Ilkley, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Ruby Jane 4%
Complex biscuit layers of flavour and a soft bitterness from the hops.
Scary Spice 5.5%
Influenced by flavours and spices from the East, a pumpkin beer with a difference.
Jo C's, Barsham, Norfolk
Norfolk Kiwi 3.8%
Easy-drinking session bitter with distinct kiwi flavour and aroma
Bitter Old Bustard 4.3%
Russet coloured ale carries warm nutty biscuit flavours coming through a smooth malt
body.
Knot another IPA 5%
A golden, hoppy, true-to-style IPA, brewed using Norfolk-grown Maris Otter barley with
a good blast of British Bodicea hops to provide a flavoursome finish.
Kelham Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
25th Anniversary 6.8%
An IPA using a blend of 5 of the finest American hop varieties, which gives an l aroma
and flavour of Tropical fruits and spices.
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Lacons, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Encore 3.8%
Pale amber hued beer, with delicate fruit aromas, comfortably balancing a dry pine and
citrus flavour.
Festival Special 3.8%
Burnished amber, this full bodied session ale carries dominant tropical fruit/berries in
aroma, followed by tart citrus on the palate. Pleasing nutty flavours are finished by a
dusting of bitterness
Pale 3.9%
An aroma of crisp fruitiness with distinct flavours of melon and grapefruit.
Extra Stout 4.5%
Valiant stone fruits are balanced by blackcurrant and a hint of citrus. The finish is both
smooth and dry.
Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancashire
Elderflower Twist 3.8%
A light coloured beer brewed using elderflowers and elderberries and the very delicate
Kallertauer Hop.
Red 4.8%
Robust, spicy & fruity, culminating in a very moreish finish.
Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Pale 3.8%
Light and hoppy with delicate floral notes and a well balanced finish.
Midnight Bell 4.8%
Roast and chocolate malts combine to give a full bodied, complex character to this rich
and robust ale
Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Borrowers Bitter 3.6%
Named after the classic series of children’s book written by Mary Norton.This is a midbrown,
easy drinking session ale brewed with five different English hops
Smoking Angel 4.5%
German Rauchmaltz smoked over beech wood in the Bamberg area of Germany is used
inthis dark porter style beer.
Long Man, Polegate, East Sussex
Old Man 4.3%
Soft malt notes of coffee and chocolate that combine with a pleasant light hoppiness to
create a rich, full tasting Old Ale.
APA 4.8%
A triple-hopped APA has a pleasant citrus fruit aroma and characteristic robust
bitterness.
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Magpie, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Dark Potion 5.8%
Apothecary inspired, botanically infused Black IPA. Dandelion and Burdock ..
Mauldons, Sudbury, Suffolk
Micawbers Mild 3.5%
This traditional beer has a full round flavour with a slight but distinctive bitter finish.
Mid Autumn Gold 4.2%
An amber coloured beer with a fine balance of malt and hops for a full bodied flavour.
Black Adder 5.3%
A dark bitter stout. Roast and nut aromas with a fruity balance of hops and dark malt
provide an excellent, lingering finish.
Maxim, Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear
Wards Best Bitter 4%
Classic ale from the past with a distinctive malty aftertaste that lingers on the palate.
Maximus 6%
Easy to drink, dark ruby in colour, smooth, sweet, with a hint of liquorice.
Mile Tree, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Crescent 4%
Mid-brown with a red hue to the body, malty and fruity, with a slight bitter finish
Larksong 4.5%
Light malty aroma with the slightest suggestion of oak and berry.
Festival Special 5.4%
Spicy aroma, with cinnamon, clove, bramble and liquorice. Sweet taste, very fruity, like
a beer version of a mulled wine.
Milestone, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Classic Mild 4.1%
Light sweet flavour with ripe berries, toasty bread, burnt caramel, and plum notes.
Olde English 4.9%
Full bodied winter warmer with a pleasing nutty finish.
Moonshine, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
Harvest Moon Mild 3.9%
Slightly sweet with plenty of character. Smooth fruit notes combining with coffee and
chocolate flavours.
Raspberry Porter 4.5%
Night Watch Porter infused with locally grown rapberries to give it a nice mellow fruity
finish.
Raspberry Wheat 4.5%
Part of the 13 moons series of monthly specials.
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Moor, Bridgwater, Somerset
Envy 4.2%
A green hopped beer omfined wih a natural haze with subtle hints of vanilla and herbs.
Illusion 4.4%
Imperial Black Ale as it is known in the USA, very flavoursome for its strength, peppery
and earthy with citrus overtones leading to a mellow finish.
Stout 5%
Not as roasty as some stouts with hints of chocolate and balckberry.
So' hop 5.7%
A pronounced floral and tropical quality to the beer, with honey and elderflower in the
nose.
Nethergate, Pentlow, Essex
Black Shadow 3.5%
A typical old fashioned dark mild, but with a surprisingly fresh bitterness.
Suffolk County 4%
A biscuity malt dominates the warm well rounded roasted background, with a punching
bitterness.
Umbel Magna 5%
The addition of coriander to the Old Growler wort completes the original 1750s recipe
for this distinctive dark beer.
Nobby's, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
Best 3.8%
A session bitter with good hop character.
Festival Special 4.7%
A dark ale with hints of Christmas pudding spice and warming seasonal cheer.
Norfolk Brewhouse, Hindringham, Norfolk
Golden 4%
A fresh citrus aroma and fruity hop character leads into the refreshing, crisp, dry finish.
Dark Mild 4.5%
This dark mild has a subtle blackcurrant aroma, full-bodied with a rich, fruity, sweet
finish.
Gold IPA 5%
A well hopped IPA combining USA and UK hops to deliver a fruity IPA which builds in
bitterness leading to a crisp, dry finish.
Cellar Bration Ale 6%
A ruby red ale brewed in collaboration with leading food and drink writer Melissa Cole.
Fresh cherries, Norfolk honey and mint are added to the brew, as well as sweet and
bitter orange peel.
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Nottingham, Radford, Nottinghamshire
Rock Mild 3.8%
Smooth and dark with a biscuity flavour.
EPA 4.2%
Well balanced smooth ale with a light fragrant hop finish
Oakleaf, Gosport, Hampshire
Quercus Folium 4%
Quercus Folium is Latin for oakleaf, a traditional hoppy bitter with a malty aftertaste and
slight sweetness.
I Can't Believe It's Not Bitter 4.9%
Clean and crisp with a fruity aftertaste. The use of Saaz hops gives this lager a citrus
finish that lingers on.
Old Chimneys, Market Weston, Suffolk
Amber Porter 4.8%
This beer, unusually pale for a porter, is based on a Tolly Cobbold recipe that was
availble from 1785 to 1827.
Good King Henry 9.6%
Chocolate coffee flavours abound with a hint of liquorice and black berry fruit, deep and
awesome.
Red Admiral 11.4%
Red Admiral is an oak aged barley wine with added liqueur whisky. As well as wood
and whisky, there are hints of honey, vanilla, orange marmalade, walnut and raisins.
Classic.
Opa Hay's, Aldeby, Norfolk
Engel's Best 4%
A triple hopped aromatic beer, a very old fashioned traditional ale.
Meister Pils 4.8%
A Pilsner style beer made with continental style yeast, light in colour and a hoppy aroma.
Liquid Bread 5.2%
Bavarian Style wheat beer with a distinct aroma of cloves and banana.
Otley, Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Thai Bo 4.6%
Infused with Lemongrass, lime leaf and galangal it has been described as having the
aromas of a Thai green curry in a glass.
O9 4.8%
Honey and wheat aroma. Flavours of fresh herb, honey and some notes of citrus.
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Palmers, Bridport, Dorset
Copper Ale 3.7%
Copper-coloured session ale, good citrus fruit with a hoppy aroma.
Tally Ho 5.5%
First brewed in the 1940s. A rich fruit cake flavour dominates in this dark strong old ale.
Panther, Reepham, Norfolk
Ginger 3.7%
This ginger wheat beer is fiery with a distinct ginger flavour and with subtle lemon
flavour notes.
Honey 4%
A full bodied ale with a floral honey flavour nicely balnced between the sweetness of the
honey and the malt finish.
Black 4.5%
A roasted malty chocolate and caramel aroma goes to nice earthy finish with a hint of
liquorice.
Pheasantry, East Markham, Nottinghamshire
BB 3.8%
A smooth tasting copper coloured beer, with medium bitterness and a light spicy aroma.
Smoking Rauch 4.8%
Reddish amber beer which starts sweet and then follows a lingering spicy smokiness.
Pictish, Rochdale, Lancashire
Alchemists 4.3%
A refreshing, straw coloured ale with crisp malt flavours and a robust hoppy finish.
Chinook 4.9%
Single hopped beer, pale and clean malt dominated by orange peel and fruity, bitter
hops.
Quartz, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire
MO50 5%
Brewed for the Maris Otter 50 years celebration, pale and very smmoth, with a slight
fizz in the mouthfeel.
Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Kent
No. 7 3.8%
Easy drinking pale session bitter with good balance.
Gadds No. 5 4.4%
A traditional Kentish Best bitter, the aroma is toffee malt and a red berry flavoured
finish.
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Raw, Staveley, Derbyshire
Dark Peak 4.5%
Award winning stout smooth with slight bitterness.
Edge 4.5%
Pale ale brewed using pale and Munich malt, balanced bitterness and a citrus aroma.
Red Squirrel, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Milk Stout 4%
Complex flavours reminiscent of dark chocolate and coffee, balanced by a hoppy
bitterness and a dry smooth silky finish.
APA 4.3%
Fairly bitter pale ale with aromas of grapefruit and pine and slighty sweet finish.
Redemption, Enfield, Gt London
Trinity 3%
Brewed with three malts and three hops. Generous late hopping provides Seville orange
aromas and the initial malt sweetness is dominated by citrus flavours.
Pale Ale 3.8%
Light and well ballanced in the mouth with grain feel along with cirus hop notes.
Fellowship Porter 5.1%
A dark brown coloured London Porter with chocolate, coffee, liquorice and dry roasted
malt flavours complimented with hints of dark fruit.
Redwillow, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Headless 3.9%
Aromas of light lemon barley water with a clean citrus finish. Easy drinking.
Smokeless 5.7%
Asmooth smoked porter, with a robust malt backbone. This is infused with Chipotles to
give even more smokiness and a subtle hint of heat.
Robinsons, Stockport, Cheshire
Unicorn 4.2%
Complex with a long dry finish and citrus fruit notes.
Old Tom 8.5%
Old Tom is dark, rich and warming with a cherry brandy like colour and character
named after the brewery cat in 1899.
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S&P, Horsford, Norfolk
Topaz Blonde 3.7%
Topaz hops provide this golden beer with a fruity citrus aroma, grapefruit taste and a
crisp, dry finish.
Afterglow 3.9%
Amber ale with a distinctive flavour of chalenger hops.
Between the Posts 3.9%
A new golden ale, flavoured with NZ Dr Rudi hops.
Saffron, Bishop Storford, Essex
Saffron Blonde 4.3%
Good balance of citrus and smooth malty flavours with a crisp finish, and a lingering
strawberry nose.
Henham Honey 4.6%
Delicate balance of bitterness, malt, spicy fruit and honey aromas.
Silent Night 5.2%
Ruby Port and pure red grape juice along with Fuggles and Bramling Cross hops create
a soft fruity and spice finish.
Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire
Elderflower Blonde 4%
A refreshing blonde ale infused with the delicate flavour of elderflower.
Hazelnut Coffee Porter 4%
Like Cadburys fruit and nut but with more nuts and fruitiness.
Siren, Finchampstead, Berkshire
Half Mast 2.8%
Quarter IPA, Heavily hopped but with low bitterness and notes of mango and grapefruit.
Undercurrent 4.5%
Spicy, grassy aromas and a taste of grapefruit and apricot an nice nutty maltiness.
St Peter's, South Elmham, Suffolk
Best Bitter 3.7%
A full-bodied ale with distinctive fruity caramel notes.
Ruby Red Ale 4.3%
A rich, red ale with subtle malt undertones and a distinctive spicy hop aroma.
Boo 5.3%
Cream Stout 6.5%
Aromatic, strong, dark chocolate cream stout with a satisfying bittersweet aftertaste.
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Stumptail, Great Dunham, Norfolk
Amber 4.8%
Based on a Victorian recipe, rich roast grain balanced with Goldngs hops.
Pale 4.9%
Traditional pale ale spiced with Goldings and a sprinkling of new world hops for extra
zest.
Summer Wine, Honley, West Yorkshire
Resistance 3.7%
tbc
Teleporter 5%
A Rich Dark Porter brewed with 10 different malts giving a sweet roast richness that is
balanced with just enough hop character.
Taylor's, Attleborough, Norfolk
No1 3.8%
A copper-coloured ale made with a blend of two traditional hops.
Dog Tooth 4%
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Dropped Stitched 4.5%
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Ticketybrew, Stalybridge, Gt Manchester
Munchner 4.5%
Amber lager, well rounded with a rich malty nose and dry pithy finish.
Rose Wheat 4.5%
Unique aroma of roses leading to a floral mouthfeel then a kick of spicy ginger.
Tipples, Acle, Norfolk
Hanged Monk 3.8%
Roasted malt, dry coffee & smoke aromas, some dark fruit with ahint of bitterness.
Longshore 3.8%
A light bitter with a good pale amber colour, a nice balanced malty flavour.
Lady Evelyn 4.1%
Pale, straw coloured ale with a long dryish finish and a floral hop aroma.
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Tombstone, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Arizona 3.9%
Light amber ale, malty, hoppy with a touch of citrus.
Texas Jack 4%
Chestnut red ruby coloured ale with a good flavour and a twist of plums.
Gunslinger 4.3%
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Cherokee 4.5%
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Triple FFF, Four Marks, Hampshire
Rock Lobster 4.5%
A chestnut-brown best bitter with a mellow hop aroma, smooth malt and subtle fruit
flavours. No matching towels though.
Jabberwocky 5%
Subtle hints of dark chocolate and liquorice but with a fresh pine aroma in this black IPA.
Turpin's, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Meditation 4.3%
A pale ale with citrus aromas and a low-medium hop and biscuit flavour.
Cambridge Black 4.6%
A combination of coffee, coca and dark chocolate can be found in this quaffable stout.
Two Rivers, Denver, Norfolk
Kiwi Kick 4%
A dry, biscuity malt flavour is followed by a tart citrusy hop flavour, grapefruit, lime and
a hint of spice.
Porters Pride 5.2%
Dark almost black beer with a bittersweet malt taste, chocolate and coffee, nutty and a
touch of woodiness.
Tydd Steam, Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire
Barn Ale 3.9%
Zesty bitterness and a lingering citrus finish.
Piston Bitter 4.4%
Hints of caramel and slight fruitness from a English style bitter.
Amnesiac 4.9%
Hopped with unique Nelson Sauvin hops giving a soft white wine background and
crushed gooseberry aroma.
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Wantsum, Canterbury, Kent
Black Prince 3.9%
A rich, full bodied Kent mild slightly bitter in the finish.
Imperium 4%
A deep amber best bitter, smooth biscuit malts and rich hoppy nose.
Waveney, Earsham, Norfolk
Lightweight 3.9%
Some hints of toffee, bread, mild earth. Light in body very drinkable.
Welterweight 4.2%
Golden amber coloured bitter with ahint of pears and berries.
Rocky Myrobalan 4.6%
Hedgerow plums ( yellow Myrobalan ) are added to this beer to produce a unique ale.
Welbeck Abbey, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
Red Feather 3.9%
Good malty bitter with a touch of fruit and caramel.
Kaiser 4.1%
Crisp, dry, biscuity lager malt flavours are perfectly balanced with sweet, honey like
floral hops.
Wharfe Bank, Otley, West Yorkshire
Washburn 3.7%
Copper-coloured Yorkshire Bitter with a subtle fruit aroma.
Camfell Flame 4.4%
Copper ruby colour bitter with roasted coffee notes.
Whim, Hartington, Derbyshire
Arbor Light 3.6%
Brewed using German lager hops. Light in colour, sharp and very clean.
Hartington Bitter 4%
Pale golden beer with not to much citrus nose, but hints of apple and pear in the
mouthfeel.
White Horse, Stanford In The Vale, Oxfordshire
Black Beauty 3.9%
Dark brown almost ruby coloured mild with toasty toffe undertones.
Oxford Blue 4.3%
Malty, raisiny, spicy aroma, with a hint of figs and cinnamon in the taste.
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Williams, Alloa, Central Scotland
Black 4.2%
Smooth coffee and chocolate undertones are complemented by the addition of late
harvest cone hops, giving a lovely blackcurrant aroma.
March of the Penguins 4.9%
Rich roasty coffee taste with dark maltiness.
Winter's, Norwich, Norfolk
Cloudburst 3.7%
A full flavoured easy drinking session beer with slight soft summer fruit taste.
Geniuss 4.1%
Deep ruby red coloured beer with a dark fruit and malty molasses backdrop.
Golden 4.1%
A refreshing yellow golden ale with nicely balanced malt, hop and light tangy citrus
flavours.
On The Beer City! 4.4%
Pale golden yellow coloured beer with plenty of citrus fruit and grassy with a mild
background malt flavour.
Wolf, Attleborough, Norfolk
Edith Cavell 3.7%
Tastes stronger than it is , with a malty toast aroma and a slight fruity zing to the
mouthfeel.
Golden Jackal 3.7%
Citrusy hops reign over this Golden Ale building a leafy and fruity hop finish to balance
out the malt.
Lupus Lupus 4.2%
Slight mango and zest through a mostly malt nose and a biscuit finish.
Granny Wouldn't Like It 4.8%
A rich, malty beer. It has masses of flavor and a slightly sweet finish.
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Woodforde's, Woodbastwick, Norfolk
Wherry 3.8%
A slight floral and hoppy nose but the taste is milder and has a biscuity sweetness.
Sundew 4.1%
Subtle golden beer - pale in colour and light on the palate with the distinctive hoppy
finish.
Nelsons Revenge 4.5%
A full-bodied pale amber beer with the rich flavour of Dundee cake. Sultana fruitiness is
balanced by a hoppy bitterness.
Tap and Go 5%
Copper-coloured beer has been brewed to celebrate the Rugby World Cup, in the style
of a classic IPA, yet with a powerful hoppy twist, characterised by citrus notes and hints
of herbs, pepper and pine.
Redcracker 7%
A special version of Headcracker infused with raspberries. Strong full-bodied pale barley
wine. Warm raspberry and apricot notes.
XT, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
4 3.8%
An amber beer with a special Belgian malt and a fruity mix of American and European
hops
XPA 5.9%
An IPA brewed with crisp, clean extra pale malts and numerous North American
flavouring and aromatic hop additions.
Yetman's, Bayfield, Norfolk
Amber 4.2%
A light, crisp beer with a fruity hoppy nose and amber colour.
Green 4.8%
Strongish, with a fruity sweetness and dark colour.
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Overall Beers Of The Festival
1 Beeston Worth The Wait
2 Brass Castle Bad Kitty
3 Boudicca Spiral Stout
Category winners:
Mild
1 Great Newsome Holderness Dark
2 Nethergate Black Shadow
3 Moonshine Harvest Moon Mild
Bitter
1 Jo C's Norfolk Kiwi
2 Wolf Edith Cavell
3 Lacons Pale
Best Bitter
1 Mile Tree Larksong
2 Jo C's Bitter Old Bustard
3 Felinfoel Double Dragon
Strong Bitter/IPA
1 Green Jack Fruit Bat
2 Adnams Broadside Extra
3 Great Heck Black Jesus
Stouts and Porters
1 Brass Castle Bad Kitty
2 Boudicca Spiral Stout
3 Elmtree Winter Solstice
Speciality
1 Moonshine Raspberry Wheat
2 Felstar In The Pink
3 Waveney Rocky Myrobalan
Golden
1 Beeston Worth The Wait
2 Golden Triangle Simcoe City
3 Green Jack Canary
Cider
Monk & Disorderly
Perry
Pickled Pig Wills Perry
Foreign
Huyghe Delirium Tremens
So, here we are in the fine city of Norwich, with hundreds of beers to try, with not enough time and just the two hands.
In the end I went to just one session, as there were festivals at both The Birdcage and The Muderders.
Moultons Mild was very nice, as was The Fat Cat Brewery'd Porter.
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Acorn, Wombwell, South Yorkshire
Barnsley Bitter 3.8%
Well rounded, with a rich flavour, it retains a lasting bitter finish.
Old Moor Porter 4.8%
A full bodied victorian style porter with hints of liquorice. The initial bitterness gives way
to a smooth, mellow finish.
Adnams, Southwold, Suffolk
Prop Hop 4%
A delicious bitter with malt, biscuit and bready flavours, accompanied by subtle notes of
orange peel.
Extra 4.3%
Copper coloured ale with hoppy, floral and herbal aromas which follow through on the
palate.
Broadside Extra 6.5%
The bottled version but in cask, full malt flavour and a hint of marmite.
Tally Ho 7.2%
Tally Ho is dark Mahogany red in colour with a rich, fruity aroma and a heart warming
sweet raisin and biscuit palate.
Allendale, Hexham, Northumberland
Wagtail 3.8%
A floral aroma, hints of seville orange and spiced dried fruit, with biscuit and toffee
notes.
Pennine Pale 4%
Golden ale, brewed with a trio of American hops giving a full fruity aroma and flavour,
with a refreshing citrus finish
Ashover, Ashover, Derbyshire
Liquorice Alesort 4.5%
A rich black stout made with black malt and crystal rye, has root liquorice added in the
boil.
Rainbows End 4.5%
Rainbows End was the name of the café at the terminus of Ashover light railway, the
beer is pale and hopped with Cascade.
B & T, Shefford, Bedfordshire
Edwin Taylor's Extra Stout 4.5%
A stout with a strong roast flavour along with a hinr of coffee and red wine.
Shefford Plum Porter 4.5%
Fruity on the nose but a little smokiness to the flavour.
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Backyard, Walsall, West Midlands
Premium 4.5%
Premium bitter with a toffee, herbal nose and bitter-sweet nutty flavours.
Hell Bound 5.4%
Dark, rich brew. Full of bitter chocolate and fruit malt character.
Barrell&Sellers, South Elmham, Suffolk
Bitter 3.8%
Classic English ‘Best’ brewed with crystal malt and punchy hops to give a bitter fiinish.
Brown Ale 4.7%
Brewed with caramel & chocolate malt & 'blackcurrant' hops.
IPA 5.8%
Robust, amber, well hopped beer is brewed with pale & caramel malt.
Batemans, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire
XB 3.7%
Classic amber bitter brewed with English hops, very quaffable.
Gold 3.9%
A golden coloued refreshing beer brewed with lager malt and hinook and Cascade hops.
Salem Porter 4.7%
Full of fruit, hazelnuts, almonds, liquorice and spicy hops.
Beeston, Beeston, Norfolk
Afternoon Delight 3.7%
An easy drinking blonde ale with a slightly dry feel and hint of lemon.
Worth The Wait 4.2%
A golden beer, with a balance of hops to give a gentle bitterness & a refreshing citrus
hint.
Village Life 4.8%
Toasted malt flavours with plenty of body and a hint of orange rind and biscuit.
Old Stoatwobbler 6%
Strong, dark, luscious & notorious and mostly mine.. (Manic laugh)
Bexar County, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Poquito Pequeno 3.5%
Gentle fruity bittersweet base with a surprisingly bitter/sour finish.
Timanfaya 3.8%
Rausch Beer. Soured Brown ale.
Cambridge Common 4.1%
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Blindmans, Leighton, Somerset
Backstreet 4.2%
A mid brown smooth rounded ale, full of subtle toffee flavours.
Boudicca, Hoveton, Norfolk
Spiral Stout 4.6%
A spectrum of autumnal berries, coffee, dark chocolate, and a gentle, lingering dry roast
finish with a hint of smoke.
Brandon, Brandon, Suffolk
Dragonfire 4.5%
Pioneer hops and caramel malt makes this an easy session beer with a bit of a kick.
Oakenshield 5%
Strong and dark with a smooth smoky aftertaste.
Brass Castle, Malton, North Yorkshire
Bad Kitty 5.5%
Chocolate vanilla porter , what's not to like..
Burnout 5.8%
A complex dark ale with sweet roasted notes alongside coffee and liquorice.
Brentwood, Brentwood, Essex
Chestnut Stout 4%
A smooth, rounded, easy drinking stout, brewed with local chestnuts.
Shackleton 'The Boss' 4.5%
A full-bodied red premium bitter, well balanced and with rich malt flavours. Brewed by
Brentwood for Shackleton brewery.
Buffy's, Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk
Norfolk Terrier 3.8%
Slightly malty and smooth.
Beagle 4%
A Beagle is really quite a delightful beast. Loyal to the end. Golden and with
exceptionally good citrus notes courtesy of First Gold hops.
9X 9%
Robust ale with plenty of malty fruityness by not over powering.
Cairngorm, Aviemore, Highlands & Islands
Black Gold 4.2%
A Scottish stout with a wonderful rich dark colour and subtle bitterness giving way to
late sweetness and underlying roast barley hints.
Witches Cauldron 4.9%
A dark ruby red coloured ale with a hint of roast malt flavours and a pleasant sweet
aftertaste
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Caveman, Swanscombe, Kent
Citra 4.1%
A hoppy pale ale with a straightforward malt character but plenty of citrus flavours.
Cavedweller 5.8%
Chocolate and coffee notes come through in the malt and dark berry flavours from the
hops.
Celt Experience, Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
Iron Age 3.5%
A ruby coloured fruity beer full of robust and unique fruity hop characteristics and hints
of berry fruit.
Silures 4.6%
The beer is named after a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, occupying
approximately the counties of Monmouthshire & Breconshire.
Church End, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Grave Diggers 3.8%
Dark black and red in colour, with a complex mixture of chocolate and roast flavours.
Stout Coffin 4.6%
Notes of roasted malts creamy vanilla chocolate.
Colchester, Wakes Colne, Essex
Brazilian 4.6%
Coffee and vanilla porter. A firm favourite in the range.
Dancing Men, Happisburgh, Norfolk
Famous Norfolk Broads 3.8%
Quaffing bitter named after three regulars at the Hillhouse Inn.
Knight's Noggin 4.8%
Rich, heavily-malted porter-style beer packed with toasted toffee and chocolate notes.
Dark Star, Horsham, West Sussex
Hophead 3.8%
An extremely clean-drinking pale golden ale with a strong floral aroma.
Festival 5%
A chestnut bronze coloured bitter which is full of freshness and smooth mouthfeel.
East London, Lea Bridge, Gt London
Nightwatchman 4.5%
Chestnut brown coloured al with a smooth well hopped flavour.
Cowcatcher 4.8%
An American Pale Ale, generously hopped with Amarillo, Chinook, Simcoe and Citra.
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Elgood's, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Which Witch is Which 4.3%
Try saying that after a couple.
Plum Porter 4.4%
A distinctive black beer, it has an enticing fruit aroma, leading to a full-bodied, rich and
fruity flavour.
Winter Warmer(Oak Aged) 7.5%
Deep rich brown and has a very full fruity body. Oak aged.
Elmtree, Snetterton, Norfolk
80/- 4.5%
Restrained hops with full flavours of grain and malts coming through in a near perfect
balance.
Winter Solstice 4.6%
Winter Solstice is a dark Porter with delicate additions of Vanilla pods and Cinammon
bark.
Dark Horse 5%
Rich coffee and classic hops dominate the nose. Dark ripe fruit in the mouth and a
velvet smoothness compliment the strength in the body.
Fallen, Kippen, Stirlingshire
Chew Chew 6%
Salted caramel milk stout, brewed with dark belgian candi syrup, lactose and Hebridean
sea salt.
Platform C 6.3%
New world IPA bursting with hops from the Pacific North West, not overl bitter or sweet.
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Fat Cat, Norwich, Norfolk
Hell Cat 4.1%
A light, fruity beer, with plenty of body. The kick comes from New World hops, packed
with bright, citrus flavours.
Curly Cat 4.2%
A single hop variety, added at three stages of brewing and also in cask, a little fruity
hint of orange and, not too bitter.
Stout Cat 4.6%
A deep, dark beer. The characteristic sweet, rich flavour of roast malt and molasses is
well balanced with the pronounced hop flavour.
Cougar 4.7%
American hops and lager malt are usesd to produce this eminently quaffable beer.
Porter 4.9%
An old-fashioned Porter, rich brown, rather than Black malt lends a biscuit flavour, with
deep smooth dark-chocolate notes.
Marmalade 5.5%
A classic mid-brown coloured strong bitter, with a markedly bitter finish from the
generous use of Styrian hops, plus a hint of orange marmalde.
Felinfoel, Felinfoel, West Wales
Dragon Stout 4.1%
Double Dragon 4.2%
A full drinking premium Welsh ale, malty and subtly hopped with a rich colour and
smooth balanced character.
Felstar, Crix Green, Essex
Old Essex 3.9%
Deep amber traditional old ale with a rich malty taste.
In The Pink 5%
A natural fermented ale matured for 6 years with a very generous helping of cherries
and a few raspberries added for good measure then blended with a new fresh beer.
Five Points, Hackney, Gt London
Pale 4.4%
A fresh, zesty, aromatic pale ale brewed with malted barley, a little wheat, and Amarillo,
Centennial and Citra hops.
Railway Porter 4.8%
A Porter in the classic London style with our own twist. Aromas of chocolate and coffee
with hints of caramel.
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Fox, Heacham, Norfolk
Heacham Gold 3.9%
A pale yellow beer with a surprisingly malty nose. The sweetish taste is also malty yet
quickly becomes crisp and lightly citrus.
Grizzly Bear 4.8%
Pale golden ale with a citrusy fruit aroma and th a distinctly sweetish background.
Heacham Kriek 5.1%
Amber beer made with black cherries and four different hops. Floral aroma leads to a
bitter taste.
Fuller's, Chiswick, London
Olivers Island 3.8%
Delicate floral and citrus aromas with distinctive biscuity, grapefruit flavour, tropical
notes and refreshing zesty qualities.
1845 6.3%
A sweet, fruit cake aroma, a dark tawny colour and a dry finish that sings of spices and
raisin
Vintage 8.5%
Vintage Ale 2015 sees the balance of malt and hops deliver well-rounded, complex
flavours, with a fruitful aroma and a bitter finish.
Goddards, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Wight Squirrel 4.3%
A rich, russet-coloured full-flavoured, easy drinking Best Bitter. Brewed with a host of
Crystal Malts giving a smooth caramel taste.
Ducks Folly 5.2%
Amber coloured, traditionally brewed English ale.
Golden Triangle, Barford, Norfolk
Mosaic City 3.8%
A full tropical fruit taste with peach flavours abundant.
Simcoe City 3.8%
Very similar to the mosaic city but brewed with Simcoe hops.
Drink More Beer 3.9%
Amber coloured bitter with surprising depth, brewed to comemerate the life of the late
Wolfe Witham.
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Grain, Harleston, Norfolk
316 3.9%
Brewed with lager malt and ludicrously light on the palate, well balanced with a slight
hint of grapefruit.
Redwood 4.3%
A rich red premium bitter that beautifully balances roasted malts with sherbert
grapefruit hoppiness.
Pale 5%
IPA with a grassy hop aroma, balanced with a lingering bitterness.
Slate 6%
A deep, dark and rich smoked porter, brewed with a complex blend of malts.
Great Heck, Great Heck, North Yorkshire
Chopper 3.5%
Golden session ale with a surprisingly full body and a decent amount of hops giving rise
a mango/melon fruitiness.
Dave 3.8%
A smooth, very dark, velvety bitter with aslight burnt coffee taste.
Voodoo 4.3%
Chocolate and weetabix with smooth coffee flavours,
Amish Mash Wheat 4.7%
Golden coloured wheat beer with a multitiude of flavours and peppery hop bitterness.
Washington Red 4.7%
Amber coloured beer with a zesty mouthfeel and slighty dry mouthfeel.
Black Jesus 6.5%
Black Jesus is a black IPA brewed with American hops and special dehusked German
roasted malt.
Great Newsome, Winestead, East Yorkshire
Holderness Dark 3.4%
Light coffee feel with a hint of fruitiness and a bittersweet finish.
Ploughmans Pride 4.2%
Dark rich malty ale, brown ale like but with liquorice tones.
Green Dragon, Bungay, Suffolk
Gold 4.4%
Zesty golden ale with a slight lager feel.
Bridge St. Bitter 4.5%
Malty and juicy with bitter orange peel in the finish.
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Green Jack, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Canary 3.8%
Straw-coloured pale ale with a big flowery hop character.
Fruit Bat 5.5%
A distinct taste of plums and fruit cake gives way to a slight piney bitterness.
Baltic Trader 10.5%
Extra Strong Imperial Stout with smooth rich roasted coffee & vanilla flavours.
Harveys, Lewes, East Sussex
Old 4.5%
A dark, full-bodied beer combining sweetness and strength to produce a exceptionally
smooth palate.
Bonfire Boy 5.8%
A dark amber beer with a full malty palate and a slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste. A small
quantity of black malt is used to impart the suggestion of smoke.
Prince of Denmark 7.5%
A complex beer with aromas of leather, chocolate and liquorice, with a lingering taste,
based on traditional recipes from the 18th Century.
Harwich Town, Harwich, Essex
EPA 3.8%
Good hoppy flavour, with hints of pineapple and grapefruit.
Tyrwhitts Tipple 4.5%
Pale malt, dark crystal and caramalt and then Columbus hops brwed especially for us.
Hexhamshire, Hexham, Northumberland
Devils Elbow 3.6%
Named after a waterfall on the West Dipton Burn, Devil’s Elbow is a smooth ale with a
rounded malty taste.
Devils Water 4.2%
A malty dark ale with a fruity range of flavours, named after a local burn.
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Humpty Dumpty, Reedham, Norfolk
Little Sharpie 3.8%
A delicate hop aroma leads to a light clean tasting finish.
Swallowtail 4%
A refreshing pale amber thirst quenching ale with a lively hop finish.
Hop Harvest Gold 4.5%
A golden ale brewed with fresh new hops every time.
Black Mill IPA 5%
A Cascadian style black beer brewed with 4 different American Hop varieties
Railway Sleeper 5%
A sweet plummy fruitiness blankets an underlying malty bitterness. Full and rich in
flavour.
Hydes, Manchester, Gt Manchester
Spicer Santium 4.5%
Brewed using American farmed hop ‘SANTIAM’ which gives a definite Herbal and floral
overtone.
Munchen 5%
Bavrian straw blonde ’Helles’ style beer, crafted from Pilsen malt and the noble
Hallertau, Mittlefruh and Hersbrucher hops.
Ilkley, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Ruby Jane 4%
Complex biscuit layers of flavour and a soft bitterness from the hops.
Scary Spice 5.5%
Influenced by flavours and spices from the East, a pumpkin beer with a difference.
Jo C's, Barsham, Norfolk
Norfolk Kiwi 3.8%
Easy-drinking session bitter with distinct kiwi flavour and aroma
Bitter Old Bustard 4.3%
Russet coloured ale carries warm nutty biscuit flavours coming through a smooth malt
body.
Knot another IPA 5%
A golden, hoppy, true-to-style IPA, brewed using Norfolk-grown Maris Otter barley with
a good blast of British Bodicea hops to provide a flavoursome finish.
Kelham Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
25th Anniversary 6.8%
An IPA using a blend of 5 of the finest American hop varieties, which gives an l aroma
and flavour of Tropical fruits and spices.
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Lacons, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Encore 3.8%
Pale amber hued beer, with delicate fruit aromas, comfortably balancing a dry pine and
citrus flavour.
Festival Special 3.8%
Burnished amber, this full bodied session ale carries dominant tropical fruit/berries in
aroma, followed by tart citrus on the palate. Pleasing nutty flavours are finished by a
dusting of bitterness
Pale 3.9%
An aroma of crisp fruitiness with distinct flavours of melon and grapefruit.
Extra Stout 4.5%
Valiant stone fruits are balanced by blackcurrant and a hint of citrus. The finish is both
smooth and dry.
Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancashire
Elderflower Twist 3.8%
A light coloured beer brewed using elderflowers and elderberries and the very delicate
Kallertauer Hop.
Red 4.8%
Robust, spicy & fruity, culminating in a very moreish finish.
Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Pale 3.8%
Light and hoppy with delicate floral notes and a well balanced finish.
Midnight Bell 4.8%
Roast and chocolate malts combine to give a full bodied, complex character to this rich
and robust ale
Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Borrowers Bitter 3.6%
Named after the classic series of children’s book written by Mary Norton.This is a midbrown,
easy drinking session ale brewed with five different English hops
Smoking Angel 4.5%
German Rauchmaltz smoked over beech wood in the Bamberg area of Germany is used
inthis dark porter style beer.
Long Man, Polegate, East Sussex
Old Man 4.3%
Soft malt notes of coffee and chocolate that combine with a pleasant light hoppiness to
create a rich, full tasting Old Ale.
APA 4.8%
A triple-hopped APA has a pleasant citrus fruit aroma and characteristic robust
bitterness.
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Magpie, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Dark Potion 5.8%
Apothecary inspired, botanically infused Black IPA. Dandelion and Burdock ..
Mauldons, Sudbury, Suffolk
Micawbers Mild 3.5%
This traditional beer has a full round flavour with a slight but distinctive bitter finish.
Mid Autumn Gold 4.2%
An amber coloured beer with a fine balance of malt and hops for a full bodied flavour.
Black Adder 5.3%
A dark bitter stout. Roast and nut aromas with a fruity balance of hops and dark malt
provide an excellent, lingering finish.
Maxim, Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear
Wards Best Bitter 4%
Classic ale from the past with a distinctive malty aftertaste that lingers on the palate.
Maximus 6%
Easy to drink, dark ruby in colour, smooth, sweet, with a hint of liquorice.
Mile Tree, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Crescent 4%
Mid-brown with a red hue to the body, malty and fruity, with a slight bitter finish
Larksong 4.5%
Light malty aroma with the slightest suggestion of oak and berry.
Festival Special 5.4%
Spicy aroma, with cinnamon, clove, bramble and liquorice. Sweet taste, very fruity, like
a beer version of a mulled wine.
Milestone, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Classic Mild 4.1%
Light sweet flavour with ripe berries, toasty bread, burnt caramel, and plum notes.
Olde English 4.9%
Full bodied winter warmer with a pleasing nutty finish.
Moonshine, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
Harvest Moon Mild 3.9%
Slightly sweet with plenty of character. Smooth fruit notes combining with coffee and
chocolate flavours.
Raspberry Porter 4.5%
Night Watch Porter infused with locally grown rapberries to give it a nice mellow fruity
finish.
Raspberry Wheat 4.5%
Part of the 13 moons series of monthly specials.
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Moor, Bridgwater, Somerset
Envy 4.2%
A green hopped beer omfined wih a natural haze with subtle hints of vanilla and herbs.
Illusion 4.4%
Imperial Black Ale as it is known in the USA, very flavoursome for its strength, peppery
and earthy with citrus overtones leading to a mellow finish.
Stout 5%
Not as roasty as some stouts with hints of chocolate and balckberry.
So' hop 5.7%
A pronounced floral and tropical quality to the beer, with honey and elderflower in the
nose.
Nethergate, Pentlow, Essex
Black Shadow 3.5%
A typical old fashioned dark mild, but with a surprisingly fresh bitterness.
Suffolk County 4%
A biscuity malt dominates the warm well rounded roasted background, with a punching
bitterness.
Umbel Magna 5%
The addition of coriander to the Old Growler wort completes the original 1750s recipe
for this distinctive dark beer.
Nobby's, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
Best 3.8%
A session bitter with good hop character.
Festival Special 4.7%
A dark ale with hints of Christmas pudding spice and warming seasonal cheer.
Norfolk Brewhouse, Hindringham, Norfolk
Golden 4%
A fresh citrus aroma and fruity hop character leads into the refreshing, crisp, dry finish.
Dark Mild 4.5%
This dark mild has a subtle blackcurrant aroma, full-bodied with a rich, fruity, sweet
finish.
Gold IPA 5%
A well hopped IPA combining USA and UK hops to deliver a fruity IPA which builds in
bitterness leading to a crisp, dry finish.
Cellar Bration Ale 6%
A ruby red ale brewed in collaboration with leading food and drink writer Melissa Cole.
Fresh cherries, Norfolk honey and mint are added to the brew, as well as sweet and
bitter orange peel.
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Nottingham, Radford, Nottinghamshire
Rock Mild 3.8%
Smooth and dark with a biscuity flavour.
EPA 4.2%
Well balanced smooth ale with a light fragrant hop finish
Oakleaf, Gosport, Hampshire
Quercus Folium 4%
Quercus Folium is Latin for oakleaf, a traditional hoppy bitter with a malty aftertaste and
slight sweetness.
I Can't Believe It's Not Bitter 4.9%
Clean and crisp with a fruity aftertaste. The use of Saaz hops gives this lager a citrus
finish that lingers on.
Old Chimneys, Market Weston, Suffolk
Amber Porter 4.8%
This beer, unusually pale for a porter, is based on a Tolly Cobbold recipe that was
availble from 1785 to 1827.
Good King Henry 9.6%
Chocolate coffee flavours abound with a hint of liquorice and black berry fruit, deep and
awesome.
Red Admiral 11.4%
Red Admiral is an oak aged barley wine with added liqueur whisky. As well as wood
and whisky, there are hints of honey, vanilla, orange marmalade, walnut and raisins.
Classic.
Opa Hay's, Aldeby, Norfolk
Engel's Best 4%
A triple hopped aromatic beer, a very old fashioned traditional ale.
Meister Pils 4.8%
A Pilsner style beer made with continental style yeast, light in colour and a hoppy aroma.
Liquid Bread 5.2%
Bavarian Style wheat beer with a distinct aroma of cloves and banana.
Otley, Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Thai Bo 4.6%
Infused with Lemongrass, lime leaf and galangal it has been described as having the
aromas of a Thai green curry in a glass.
O9 4.8%
Honey and wheat aroma. Flavours of fresh herb, honey and some notes of citrus.
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Palmers, Bridport, Dorset
Copper Ale 3.7%
Copper-coloured session ale, good citrus fruit with a hoppy aroma.
Tally Ho 5.5%
First brewed in the 1940s. A rich fruit cake flavour dominates in this dark strong old ale.
Panther, Reepham, Norfolk
Ginger 3.7%
This ginger wheat beer is fiery with a distinct ginger flavour and with subtle lemon
flavour notes.
Honey 4%
A full bodied ale with a floral honey flavour nicely balnced between the sweetness of the
honey and the malt finish.
Black 4.5%
A roasted malty chocolate and caramel aroma goes to nice earthy finish with a hint of
liquorice.
Pheasantry, East Markham, Nottinghamshire
BB 3.8%
A smooth tasting copper coloured beer, with medium bitterness and a light spicy aroma.
Smoking Rauch 4.8%
Reddish amber beer which starts sweet and then follows a lingering spicy smokiness.
Pictish, Rochdale, Lancashire
Alchemists 4.3%
A refreshing, straw coloured ale with crisp malt flavours and a robust hoppy finish.
Chinook 4.9%
Single hopped beer, pale and clean malt dominated by orange peel and fruity, bitter
hops.
Quartz, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire
MO50 5%
Brewed for the Maris Otter 50 years celebration, pale and very smmoth, with a slight
fizz in the mouthfeel.
Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Kent
No. 7 3.8%
Easy drinking pale session bitter with good balance.
Gadds No. 5 4.4%
A traditional Kentish Best bitter, the aroma is toffee malt and a red berry flavoured
finish.
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Raw, Staveley, Derbyshire
Dark Peak 4.5%
Award winning stout smooth with slight bitterness.
Edge 4.5%
Pale ale brewed using pale and Munich malt, balanced bitterness and a citrus aroma.
Red Squirrel, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Milk Stout 4%
Complex flavours reminiscent of dark chocolate and coffee, balanced by a hoppy
bitterness and a dry smooth silky finish.
APA 4.3%
Fairly bitter pale ale with aromas of grapefruit and pine and slighty sweet finish.
Redemption, Enfield, Gt London
Trinity 3%
Brewed with three malts and three hops. Generous late hopping provides Seville orange
aromas and the initial malt sweetness is dominated by citrus flavours.
Pale Ale 3.8%
Light and well ballanced in the mouth with grain feel along with cirus hop notes.
Fellowship Porter 5.1%
A dark brown coloured London Porter with chocolate, coffee, liquorice and dry roasted
malt flavours complimented with hints of dark fruit.
Redwillow, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Headless 3.9%
Aromas of light lemon barley water with a clean citrus finish. Easy drinking.
Smokeless 5.7%
Asmooth smoked porter, with a robust malt backbone. This is infused with Chipotles to
give even more smokiness and a subtle hint of heat.
Robinsons, Stockport, Cheshire
Unicorn 4.2%
Complex with a long dry finish and citrus fruit notes.
Old Tom 8.5%
Old Tom is dark, rich and warming with a cherry brandy like colour and character
named after the brewery cat in 1899.
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S&P, Horsford, Norfolk
Topaz Blonde 3.7%
Topaz hops provide this golden beer with a fruity citrus aroma, grapefruit taste and a
crisp, dry finish.
Afterglow 3.9%
Amber ale with a distinctive flavour of chalenger hops.
Between the Posts 3.9%
A new golden ale, flavoured with NZ Dr Rudi hops.
Saffron, Bishop Storford, Essex
Saffron Blonde 4.3%
Good balance of citrus and smooth malty flavours with a crisp finish, and a lingering
strawberry nose.
Henham Honey 4.6%
Delicate balance of bitterness, malt, spicy fruit and honey aromas.
Silent Night 5.2%
Ruby Port and pure red grape juice along with Fuggles and Bramling Cross hops create
a soft fruity and spice finish.
Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire
Elderflower Blonde 4%
A refreshing blonde ale infused with the delicate flavour of elderflower.
Hazelnut Coffee Porter 4%
Like Cadburys fruit and nut but with more nuts and fruitiness.
Siren, Finchampstead, Berkshire
Half Mast 2.8%
Quarter IPA, Heavily hopped but with low bitterness and notes of mango and grapefruit.
Undercurrent 4.5%
Spicy, grassy aromas and a taste of grapefruit and apricot an nice nutty maltiness.
St Peter's, South Elmham, Suffolk
Best Bitter 3.7%
A full-bodied ale with distinctive fruity caramel notes.
Ruby Red Ale 4.3%
A rich, red ale with subtle malt undertones and a distinctive spicy hop aroma.
Boo 5.3%
Cream Stout 6.5%
Aromatic, strong, dark chocolate cream stout with a satisfying bittersweet aftertaste.
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Stumptail, Great Dunham, Norfolk
Amber 4.8%
Based on a Victorian recipe, rich roast grain balanced with Goldngs hops.
Pale 4.9%
Traditional pale ale spiced with Goldings and a sprinkling of new world hops for extra
zest.
Summer Wine, Honley, West Yorkshire
Resistance 3.7%
tbc
Teleporter 5%
A Rich Dark Porter brewed with 10 different malts giving a sweet roast richness that is
balanced with just enough hop character.
Taylor's, Attleborough, Norfolk
No1 3.8%
A copper-coloured ale made with a blend of two traditional hops.
Dog Tooth 4%
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Dropped Stitched 4.5%
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Ticketybrew, Stalybridge, Gt Manchester
Munchner 4.5%
Amber lager, well rounded with a rich malty nose and dry pithy finish.
Rose Wheat 4.5%
Unique aroma of roses leading to a floral mouthfeel then a kick of spicy ginger.
Tipples, Acle, Norfolk
Hanged Monk 3.8%
Roasted malt, dry coffee & smoke aromas, some dark fruit with ahint of bitterness.
Longshore 3.8%
A light bitter with a good pale amber colour, a nice balanced malty flavour.
Lady Evelyn 4.1%
Pale, straw coloured ale with a long dryish finish and a floral hop aroma.
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Tombstone, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Arizona 3.9%
Light amber ale, malty, hoppy with a touch of citrus.
Texas Jack 4%
Chestnut red ruby coloured ale with a good flavour and a twist of plums.
Gunslinger 4.3%
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Cherokee 4.5%
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Triple FFF, Four Marks, Hampshire
Rock Lobster 4.5%
A chestnut-brown best bitter with a mellow hop aroma, smooth malt and subtle fruit
flavours. No matching towels though.
Jabberwocky 5%
Subtle hints of dark chocolate and liquorice but with a fresh pine aroma in this black IPA.
Turpin's, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Meditation 4.3%
A pale ale with citrus aromas and a low-medium hop and biscuit flavour.
Cambridge Black 4.6%
A combination of coffee, coca and dark chocolate can be found in this quaffable stout.
Two Rivers, Denver, Norfolk
Kiwi Kick 4%
A dry, biscuity malt flavour is followed by a tart citrusy hop flavour, grapefruit, lime and
a hint of spice.
Porters Pride 5.2%
Dark almost black beer with a bittersweet malt taste, chocolate and coffee, nutty and a
touch of woodiness.
Tydd Steam, Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire
Barn Ale 3.9%
Zesty bitterness and a lingering citrus finish.
Piston Bitter 4.4%
Hints of caramel and slight fruitness from a English style bitter.
Amnesiac 4.9%
Hopped with unique Nelson Sauvin hops giving a soft white wine background and
crushed gooseberry aroma.
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Wantsum, Canterbury, Kent
Black Prince 3.9%
A rich, full bodied Kent mild slightly bitter in the finish.
Imperium 4%
A deep amber best bitter, smooth biscuit malts and rich hoppy nose.
Waveney, Earsham, Norfolk
Lightweight 3.9%
Some hints of toffee, bread, mild earth. Light in body very drinkable.
Welterweight 4.2%
Golden amber coloured bitter with ahint of pears and berries.
Rocky Myrobalan 4.6%
Hedgerow plums ( yellow Myrobalan ) are added to this beer to produce a unique ale.
Welbeck Abbey, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
Red Feather 3.9%
Good malty bitter with a touch of fruit and caramel.
Kaiser 4.1%
Crisp, dry, biscuity lager malt flavours are perfectly balanced with sweet, honey like
floral hops.
Wharfe Bank, Otley, West Yorkshire
Washburn 3.7%
Copper-coloured Yorkshire Bitter with a subtle fruit aroma.
Camfell Flame 4.4%
Copper ruby colour bitter with roasted coffee notes.
Whim, Hartington, Derbyshire
Arbor Light 3.6%
Brewed using German lager hops. Light in colour, sharp and very clean.
Hartington Bitter 4%
Pale golden beer with not to much citrus nose, but hints of apple and pear in the
mouthfeel.
White Horse, Stanford In The Vale, Oxfordshire
Black Beauty 3.9%
Dark brown almost ruby coloured mild with toasty toffe undertones.
Oxford Blue 4.3%
Malty, raisiny, spicy aroma, with a hint of figs and cinnamon in the taste.
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Williams, Alloa, Central Scotland
Black 4.2%
Smooth coffee and chocolate undertones are complemented by the addition of late
harvest cone hops, giving a lovely blackcurrant aroma.
March of the Penguins 4.9%
Rich roasty coffee taste with dark maltiness.
Winter's, Norwich, Norfolk
Cloudburst 3.7%
A full flavoured easy drinking session beer with slight soft summer fruit taste.
Geniuss 4.1%
Deep ruby red coloured beer with a dark fruit and malty molasses backdrop.
Golden 4.1%
A refreshing yellow golden ale with nicely balanced malt, hop and light tangy citrus
flavours.
On The Beer City! 4.4%
Pale golden yellow coloured beer with plenty of citrus fruit and grassy with a mild
background malt flavour.
Wolf, Attleborough, Norfolk
Edith Cavell 3.7%
Tastes stronger than it is , with a malty toast aroma and a slight fruity zing to the
mouthfeel.
Golden Jackal 3.7%
Citrusy hops reign over this Golden Ale building a leafy and fruity hop finish to balance
out the malt.
Lupus Lupus 4.2%
Slight mango and zest through a mostly malt nose and a biscuit finish.
Granny Wouldn't Like It 4.8%
A rich, malty beer. It has masses of flavor and a slightly sweet finish.
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Woodforde's, Woodbastwick, Norfolk
Wherry 3.8%
A slight floral and hoppy nose but the taste is milder and has a biscuity sweetness.
Sundew 4.1%
Subtle golden beer - pale in colour and light on the palate with the distinctive hoppy
finish.
Nelsons Revenge 4.5%
A full-bodied pale amber beer with the rich flavour of Dundee cake. Sultana fruitiness is
balanced by a hoppy bitterness.
Tap and Go 5%
Copper-coloured beer has been brewed to celebrate the Rugby World Cup, in the style
of a classic IPA, yet with a powerful hoppy twist, characterised by citrus notes and hints
of herbs, pepper and pine.
Redcracker 7%
A special version of Headcracker infused with raspberries. Strong full-bodied pale barley
wine. Warm raspberry and apricot notes.
XT, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
4 3.8%
An amber beer with a special Belgian malt and a fruity mix of American and European
hops
XPA 5.9%
An IPA brewed with crisp, clean extra pale malts and numerous North American
flavouring and aromatic hop additions.
Yetman's, Bayfield, Norfolk
Amber 4.2%
A light, crisp beer with a fruity hoppy nose and amber colour.
Green 4.8%
Strongish, with a fruity sweetness and dark colour.
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Overall Beers Of The Festival
1 Beeston Worth The Wait
2 Brass Castle Bad Kitty
3 Boudicca Spiral Stout
Category winners:
Mild
1 Great Newsome Holderness Dark
2 Nethergate Black Shadow
3 Moonshine Harvest Moon Mild
Bitter
1 Jo C's Norfolk Kiwi
2 Wolf Edith Cavell
3 Lacons Pale
Best Bitter
1 Mile Tree Larksong
2 Jo C's Bitter Old Bustard
3 Felinfoel Double Dragon
Strong Bitter/IPA
1 Green Jack Fruit Bat
2 Adnams Broadside Extra
3 Great Heck Black Jesus
Stouts and Porters
1 Brass Castle Bad Kitty
2 Boudicca Spiral Stout
3 Elmtree Winter Solstice
Speciality
1 Moonshine Raspberry Wheat
2 Felstar In The Pink
3 Waveney Rocky Myrobalan
Golden
1 Beeston Worth The Wait
2 Golden Triangle Simcoe City
3 Green Jack Canary
Cider
Monk & Disorderly
Perry
Pickled Pig Wills Perry
Foreign
Huyghe Delirium Tremens
So, here we are in the fine city of Norwich, with hundreds of beers to try, with not enough time and just the two hands.
In the end I went to just one session, as there were festivals at both The Birdcage and The Muderders.
Moultons Mild was very nice, as was The Fat Cat Brewery'd Porter.
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Acorn, Wombwell, South Yorkshire
Barnsley Bitter 3.8%
Well rounded, with a rich flavour, it retains a lasting bitter finish.
Old Moor Porter 4.8%
A full bodied victorian style porter with hints of liquorice. The initial bitterness gives way
to a smooth, mellow finish.
Adnams, Southwold, Suffolk
Prop Hop 4%
A delicious bitter with malt, biscuit and bready flavours, accompanied by subtle notes of
orange peel.
Extra 4.3%
Copper coloured ale with hoppy, floral and herbal aromas which follow through on the
palate.
Broadside Extra 6.5%
The bottled version but in cask, full malt flavour and a hint of marmite.
Tally Ho 7.2%
Tally Ho is dark Mahogany red in colour with a rich, fruity aroma and a heart warming
sweet raisin and biscuit palate.
Allendale, Hexham, Northumberland
Wagtail 3.8%
A floral aroma, hints of seville orange and spiced dried fruit, with biscuit and toffee
notes.
Pennine Pale 4%
Golden ale, brewed with a trio of American hops giving a full fruity aroma and flavour,
with a refreshing citrus finish
Ashover, Ashover, Derbyshire
Liquorice Alesort 4.5%
A rich black stout made with black malt and crystal rye, has root liquorice added in the
boil.
Rainbows End 4.5%
Rainbows End was the name of the café at the terminus of Ashover light railway, the
beer is pale and hopped with Cascade.
B & T, Shefford, Bedfordshire
Edwin Taylor's Extra Stout 4.5%
A stout with a strong roast flavour along with a hinr of coffee and red wine.
Shefford Plum Porter 4.5%
Fruity on the nose but a little smokiness to the flavour.
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Backyard, Walsall, West Midlands
Premium 4.5%
Premium bitter with a toffee, herbal nose and bitter-sweet nutty flavours.
Hell Bound 5.4%
Dark, rich brew. Full of bitter chocolate and fruit malt character.
Barrell&Sellers, South Elmham, Suffolk
Bitter 3.8%
Classic English ‘Best’ brewed with crystal malt and punchy hops to give a bitter fiinish.
Brown Ale 4.7%
Brewed with caramel & chocolate malt & 'blackcurrant' hops.
IPA 5.8%
Robust, amber, well hopped beer is brewed with pale & caramel malt.
Batemans, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire
XB 3.7%
Classic amber bitter brewed with English hops, very quaffable.
Gold 3.9%
A golden coloued refreshing beer brewed with lager malt and hinook and Cascade hops.
Salem Porter 4.7%
Full of fruit, hazelnuts, almonds, liquorice and spicy hops.
Beeston, Beeston, Norfolk
Afternoon Delight 3.7%
An easy drinking blonde ale with a slightly dry feel and hint of lemon.
Worth The Wait 4.2%
A golden beer, with a balance of hops to give a gentle bitterness & a refreshing citrus
hint.
Village Life 4.8%
Toasted malt flavours with plenty of body and a hint of orange rind and biscuit.
Old Stoatwobbler 6%
Strong, dark, luscious & notorious and mostly mine.. (Manic laugh)
Bexar County, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Poquito Pequeno 3.5%
Gentle fruity bittersweet base with a surprisingly bitter/sour finish.
Timanfaya 3.8%
Rausch Beer. Soured Brown ale.
Cambridge Common 4.1%
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Blindmans, Leighton, Somerset
Backstreet 4.2%
A mid brown smooth rounded ale, full of subtle toffee flavours.
Boudicca, Hoveton, Norfolk
Spiral Stout 4.6%
A spectrum of autumnal berries, coffee, dark chocolate, and a gentle, lingering dry roast
finish with a hint of smoke.
Brandon, Brandon, Suffolk
Dragonfire 4.5%
Pioneer hops and caramel malt makes this an easy session beer with a bit of a kick.
Oakenshield 5%
Strong and dark with a smooth smoky aftertaste.
Brass Castle, Malton, North Yorkshire
Bad Kitty 5.5%
Chocolate vanilla porter , what's not to like..
Burnout 5.8%
A complex dark ale with sweet roasted notes alongside coffee and liquorice.
Brentwood, Brentwood, Essex
Chestnut Stout 4%
A smooth, rounded, easy drinking stout, brewed with local chestnuts.
Shackleton 'The Boss' 4.5%
A full-bodied red premium bitter, well balanced and with rich malt flavours. Brewed by
Brentwood for Shackleton brewery.
Buffy's, Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk
Norfolk Terrier 3.8%
Slightly malty and smooth.
Beagle 4%
A Beagle is really quite a delightful beast. Loyal to the end. Golden and with
exceptionally good citrus notes courtesy of First Gold hops.
9X 9%
Robust ale with plenty of malty fruityness by not over powering.
Cairngorm, Aviemore, Highlands & Islands
Black Gold 4.2%
A Scottish stout with a wonderful rich dark colour and subtle bitterness giving way to
late sweetness and underlying roast barley hints.
Witches Cauldron 4.9%
A dark ruby red coloured ale with a hint of roast malt flavours and a pleasant sweet
aftertaste
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Caveman, Swanscombe, Kent
Citra 4.1%
A hoppy pale ale with a straightforward malt character but plenty of citrus flavours.
Cavedweller 5.8%
Chocolate and coffee notes come through in the malt and dark berry flavours from the
hops.
Celt Experience, Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
Iron Age 3.5%
A ruby coloured fruity beer full of robust and unique fruity hop characteristics and hints
of berry fruit.
Silures 4.6%
The beer is named after a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, occupying
approximately the counties of Monmouthshire & Breconshire.
Church End, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Grave Diggers 3.8%
Dark black and red in colour, with a complex mixture of chocolate and roast flavours.
Stout Coffin 4.6%
Notes of roasted malts creamy vanilla chocolate.
Colchester, Wakes Colne, Essex
Brazilian 4.6%
Coffee and vanilla porter. A firm favourite in the range.
Dancing Men, Happisburgh, Norfolk
Famous Norfolk Broads 3.8%
Quaffing bitter named after three regulars at the Hillhouse Inn.
Knight's Noggin 4.8%
Rich, heavily-malted porter-style beer packed with toasted toffee and chocolate notes.
Dark Star, Horsham, West Sussex
Hophead 3.8%
An extremely clean-drinking pale golden ale with a strong floral aroma.
Festival 5%
A chestnut bronze coloured bitter which is full of freshness and smooth mouthfeel.
East London, Lea Bridge, Gt London
Nightwatchman 4.5%
Chestnut brown coloured al with a smooth well hopped flavour.
Cowcatcher 4.8%
An American Pale Ale, generously hopped with Amarillo, Chinook, Simcoe and Citra.
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Elgood's, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Which Witch is Which 4.3%
Try saying that after a couple.
Plum Porter 4.4%
A distinctive black beer, it has an enticing fruit aroma, leading to a full-bodied, rich and
fruity flavour.
Winter Warmer(Oak Aged) 7.5%
Deep rich brown and has a very full fruity body. Oak aged.
Elmtree, Snetterton, Norfolk
80/- 4.5%
Restrained hops with full flavours of grain and malts coming through in a near perfect
balance.
Winter Solstice 4.6%
Winter Solstice is a dark Porter with delicate additions of Vanilla pods and Cinammon
bark.
Dark Horse 5%
Rich coffee and classic hops dominate the nose. Dark ripe fruit in the mouth and a
velvet smoothness compliment the strength in the body.
Fallen, Kippen, Stirlingshire
Chew Chew 6%
Salted caramel milk stout, brewed with dark belgian candi syrup, lactose and Hebridean
sea salt.
Platform C 6.3%
New world IPA bursting with hops from the Pacific North West, not overl bitter or sweet.
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Fat Cat, Norwich, Norfolk
Hell Cat 4.1%
A light, fruity beer, with plenty of body. The kick comes from New World hops, packed
with bright, citrus flavours.
Curly Cat 4.2%
A single hop variety, added at three stages of brewing and also in cask, a little fruity
hint of orange and, not too bitter.
Stout Cat 4.6%
A deep, dark beer. The characteristic sweet, rich flavour of roast malt and molasses is
well balanced with the pronounced hop flavour.
Cougar 4.7%
American hops and lager malt are usesd to produce this eminently quaffable beer.
Porter 4.9%
An old-fashioned Porter, rich brown, rather than Black malt lends a biscuit flavour, with
deep smooth dark-chocolate notes.
Marmalade 5.5%
A classic mid-brown coloured strong bitter, with a markedly bitter finish from the
generous use of Styrian hops, plus a hint of orange marmalde.
Felinfoel, Felinfoel, West Wales
Dragon Stout 4.1%
Double Dragon 4.2%
A full drinking premium Welsh ale, malty and subtly hopped with a rich colour and
smooth balanced character.
Felstar, Crix Green, Essex
Old Essex 3.9%
Deep amber traditional old ale with a rich malty taste.
In The Pink 5%
A natural fermented ale matured for 6 years with a very generous helping of cherries
and a few raspberries added for good measure then blended with a new fresh beer.
Five Points, Hackney, Gt London
Pale 4.4%
A fresh, zesty, aromatic pale ale brewed with malted barley, a little wheat, and Amarillo,
Centennial and Citra hops.
Railway Porter 4.8%
A Porter in the classic London style with our own twist. Aromas of chocolate and coffee
with hints of caramel.
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Fox, Heacham, Norfolk
Heacham Gold 3.9%
A pale yellow beer with a surprisingly malty nose. The sweetish taste is also malty yet
quickly becomes crisp and lightly citrus.
Grizzly Bear 4.8%
Pale golden ale with a citrusy fruit aroma and th a distinctly sweetish background.
Heacham Kriek 5.1%
Amber beer made with black cherries and four different hops. Floral aroma leads to a
bitter taste.
Fuller's, Chiswick, London
Olivers Island 3.8%
Delicate floral and citrus aromas with distinctive biscuity, grapefruit flavour, tropical
notes and refreshing zesty qualities.
1845 6.3%
A sweet, fruit cake aroma, a dark tawny colour and a dry finish that sings of spices and
raisin
Vintage 8.5%
Vintage Ale 2015 sees the balance of malt and hops deliver well-rounded, complex
flavours, with a fruitful aroma and a bitter finish.
Goddards, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Wight Squirrel 4.3%
A rich, russet-coloured full-flavoured, easy drinking Best Bitter. Brewed with a host of
Crystal Malts giving a smooth caramel taste.
Ducks Folly 5.2%
Amber coloured, traditionally brewed English ale.
Golden Triangle, Barford, Norfolk
Mosaic City 3.8%
A full tropical fruit taste with peach flavours abundant.
Simcoe City 3.8%
Very similar to the mosaic city but brewed with Simcoe hops.
Drink More Beer 3.9%
Amber coloured bitter with surprising depth, brewed to comemerate the life of the late
Wolfe Witham.
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Grain, Harleston, Norfolk
316 3.9%
Brewed with lager malt and ludicrously light on the palate, well balanced with a slight
hint of grapefruit.
Redwood 4.3%
A rich red premium bitter that beautifully balances roasted malts with sherbert
grapefruit hoppiness.
Pale 5%
IPA with a grassy hop aroma, balanced with a lingering bitterness.
Slate 6%
A deep, dark and rich smoked porter, brewed with a complex blend of malts.
Great Heck, Great Heck, North Yorkshire
Chopper 3.5%
Golden session ale with a surprisingly full body and a decent amount of hops giving rise
a mango/melon fruitiness.
Dave 3.8%
A smooth, very dark, velvety bitter with aslight burnt coffee taste.
Voodoo 4.3%
Chocolate and weetabix with smooth coffee flavours,
Amish Mash Wheat 4.7%
Golden coloured wheat beer with a multitiude of flavours and peppery hop bitterness.
Washington Red 4.7%
Amber coloured beer with a zesty mouthfeel and slighty dry mouthfeel.
Black Jesus 6.5%
Black Jesus is a black IPA brewed with American hops and special dehusked German
roasted malt.
Great Newsome, Winestead, East Yorkshire
Holderness Dark 3.4%
Light coffee feel with a hint of fruitiness and a bittersweet finish.
Ploughmans Pride 4.2%
Dark rich malty ale, brown ale like but with liquorice tones.
Green Dragon, Bungay, Suffolk
Gold 4.4%
Zesty golden ale with a slight lager feel.
Bridge St. Bitter 4.5%
Malty and juicy with bitter orange peel in the finish.
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Green Jack, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Canary 3.8%
Straw-coloured pale ale with a big flowery hop character.
Fruit Bat 5.5%
A distinct taste of plums and fruit cake gives way to a slight piney bitterness.
Baltic Trader 10.5%
Extra Strong Imperial Stout with smooth rich roasted coffee & vanilla flavours.
Harveys, Lewes, East Sussex
Old 4.5%
A dark, full-bodied beer combining sweetness and strength to produce a exceptionally
smooth palate.
Bonfire Boy 5.8%
A dark amber beer with a full malty palate and a slightly burnt, bitter aftertaste. A small
quantity of black malt is used to impart the suggestion of smoke.
Prince of Denmark 7.5%
A complex beer with aromas of leather, chocolate and liquorice, with a lingering taste,
based on traditional recipes from the 18th Century.
Harwich Town, Harwich, Essex
EPA 3.8%
Good hoppy flavour, with hints of pineapple and grapefruit.
Tyrwhitts Tipple 4.5%
Pale malt, dark crystal and caramalt and then Columbus hops brwed especially for us.
Hexhamshire, Hexham, Northumberland
Devils Elbow 3.6%
Named after a waterfall on the West Dipton Burn, Devil’s Elbow is a smooth ale with a
rounded malty taste.
Devils Water 4.2%
A malty dark ale with a fruity range of flavours, named after a local burn.
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Humpty Dumpty, Reedham, Norfolk
Little Sharpie 3.8%
A delicate hop aroma leads to a light clean tasting finish.
Swallowtail 4%
A refreshing pale amber thirst quenching ale with a lively hop finish.
Hop Harvest Gold 4.5%
A golden ale brewed with fresh new hops every time.
Black Mill IPA 5%
A Cascadian style black beer brewed with 4 different American Hop varieties
Railway Sleeper 5%
A sweet plummy fruitiness blankets an underlying malty bitterness. Full and rich in
flavour.
Hydes, Manchester, Gt Manchester
Spicer Santium 4.5%
Brewed using American farmed hop ‘SANTIAM’ which gives a definite Herbal and floral
overtone.
Munchen 5%
Bavrian straw blonde ’Helles’ style beer, crafted from Pilsen malt and the noble
Hallertau, Mittlefruh and Hersbrucher hops.
Ilkley, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Ruby Jane 4%
Complex biscuit layers of flavour and a soft bitterness from the hops.
Scary Spice 5.5%
Influenced by flavours and spices from the East, a pumpkin beer with a difference.
Jo C's, Barsham, Norfolk
Norfolk Kiwi 3.8%
Easy-drinking session bitter with distinct kiwi flavour and aroma
Bitter Old Bustard 4.3%
Russet coloured ale carries warm nutty biscuit flavours coming through a smooth malt
body.
Knot another IPA 5%
A golden, hoppy, true-to-style IPA, brewed using Norfolk-grown Maris Otter barley with
a good blast of British Bodicea hops to provide a flavoursome finish.
Kelham Island, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
25th Anniversary 6.8%
An IPA using a blend of 5 of the finest American hop varieties, which gives an l aroma
and flavour of Tropical fruits and spices.
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Lacons, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Encore 3.8%
Pale amber hued beer, with delicate fruit aromas, comfortably balancing a dry pine and
citrus flavour.
Festival Special 3.8%
Burnished amber, this full bodied session ale carries dominant tropical fruit/berries in
aroma, followed by tart citrus on the palate. Pleasing nutty flavours are finished by a
dusting of bitterness
Pale 3.9%
An aroma of crisp fruitiness with distinct flavours of melon and grapefruit.
Extra Stout 4.5%
Valiant stone fruits are balanced by blackcurrant and a hint of citrus. The finish is both
smooth and dry.
Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancashire
Elderflower Twist 3.8%
A light coloured beer brewed using elderflowers and elderberries and the very delicate
Kallertauer Hop.
Red 4.8%
Robust, spicy & fruity, culminating in a very moreish finish.
Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Pale 3.8%
Light and hoppy with delicate floral notes and a well balanced finish.
Midnight Bell 4.8%
Roast and chocolate malts combine to give a full bodied, complex character to this rich
and robust ale
Leighton Buzzard, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Borrowers Bitter 3.6%
Named after the classic series of children’s book written by Mary Norton.This is a midbrown,
easy drinking session ale brewed with five different English hops
Smoking Angel 4.5%
German Rauchmaltz smoked over beech wood in the Bamberg area of Germany is used
inthis dark porter style beer.
Long Man, Polegate, East Sussex
Old Man 4.3%
Soft malt notes of coffee and chocolate that combine with a pleasant light hoppiness to
create a rich, full tasting Old Ale.
APA 4.8%
A triple-hopped APA has a pleasant citrus fruit aroma and characteristic robust
bitterness.
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Magpie, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Dark Potion 5.8%
Apothecary inspired, botanically infused Black IPA. Dandelion and Burdock ..
Mauldons, Sudbury, Suffolk
Micawbers Mild 3.5%
This traditional beer has a full round flavour with a slight but distinctive bitter finish.
Mid Autumn Gold 4.2%
An amber coloured beer with a fine balance of malt and hops for a full bodied flavour.
Black Adder 5.3%
A dark bitter stout. Roast and nut aromas with a fruity balance of hops and dark malt
provide an excellent, lingering finish.
Maxim, Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear
Wards Best Bitter 4%
Classic ale from the past with a distinctive malty aftertaste that lingers on the palate.
Maximus 6%
Easy to drink, dark ruby in colour, smooth, sweet, with a hint of liquorice.
Mile Tree, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Crescent 4%
Mid-brown with a red hue to the body, malty and fruity, with a slight bitter finish
Larksong 4.5%
Light malty aroma with the slightest suggestion of oak and berry.
Festival Special 5.4%
Spicy aroma, with cinnamon, clove, bramble and liquorice. Sweet taste, very fruity, like
a beer version of a mulled wine.
Milestone, Newark, Nottinghamshire
Classic Mild 4.1%
Light sweet flavour with ripe berries, toasty bread, burnt caramel, and plum notes.
Olde English 4.9%
Full bodied winter warmer with a pleasing nutty finish.
Moonshine, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
Harvest Moon Mild 3.9%
Slightly sweet with plenty of character. Smooth fruit notes combining with coffee and
chocolate flavours.
Raspberry Porter 4.5%
Night Watch Porter infused with locally grown rapberries to give it a nice mellow fruity
finish.
Raspberry Wheat 4.5%
Part of the 13 moons series of monthly specials.
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Moor, Bridgwater, Somerset
Envy 4.2%
A green hopped beer omfined wih a natural haze with subtle hints of vanilla and herbs.
Illusion 4.4%
Imperial Black Ale as it is known in the USA, very flavoursome for its strength, peppery
and earthy with citrus overtones leading to a mellow finish.
Stout 5%
Not as roasty as some stouts with hints of chocolate and balckberry.
So' hop 5.7%
A pronounced floral and tropical quality to the beer, with honey and elderflower in the
nose.
Nethergate, Pentlow, Essex
Black Shadow 3.5%
A typical old fashioned dark mild, but with a surprisingly fresh bitterness.
Suffolk County 4%
A biscuity malt dominates the warm well rounded roasted background, with a punching
bitterness.
Umbel Magna 5%
The addition of coriander to the Old Growler wort completes the original 1750s recipe
for this distinctive dark beer.
Nobby's, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
Best 3.8%
A session bitter with good hop character.
Festival Special 4.7%
A dark ale with hints of Christmas pudding spice and warming seasonal cheer.
Norfolk Brewhouse, Hindringham, Norfolk
Golden 4%
A fresh citrus aroma and fruity hop character leads into the refreshing, crisp, dry finish.
Dark Mild 4.5%
This dark mild has a subtle blackcurrant aroma, full-bodied with a rich, fruity, sweet
finish.
Gold IPA 5%
A well hopped IPA combining USA and UK hops to deliver a fruity IPA which builds in
bitterness leading to a crisp, dry finish.
Cellar Bration Ale 6%
A ruby red ale brewed in collaboration with leading food and drink writer Melissa Cole.
Fresh cherries, Norfolk honey and mint are added to the brew, as well as sweet and
bitter orange peel.
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Nottingham, Radford, Nottinghamshire
Rock Mild 3.8%
Smooth and dark with a biscuity flavour.
EPA 4.2%
Well balanced smooth ale with a light fragrant hop finish
Oakleaf, Gosport, Hampshire
Quercus Folium 4%
Quercus Folium is Latin for oakleaf, a traditional hoppy bitter with a malty aftertaste and
slight sweetness.
I Can't Believe It's Not Bitter 4.9%
Clean and crisp with a fruity aftertaste. The use of Saaz hops gives this lager a citrus
finish that lingers on.
Old Chimneys, Market Weston, Suffolk
Amber Porter 4.8%
This beer, unusually pale for a porter, is based on a Tolly Cobbold recipe that was
availble from 1785 to 1827.
Good King Henry 9.6%
Chocolate coffee flavours abound with a hint of liquorice and black berry fruit, deep and
awesome.
Red Admiral 11.4%
Red Admiral is an oak aged barley wine with added liqueur whisky. As well as wood
and whisky, there are hints of honey, vanilla, orange marmalade, walnut and raisins.
Classic.
Opa Hay's, Aldeby, Norfolk
Engel's Best 4%
A triple hopped aromatic beer, a very old fashioned traditional ale.
Meister Pils 4.8%
A Pilsner style beer made with continental style yeast, light in colour and a hoppy aroma.
Liquid Bread 5.2%
Bavarian Style wheat beer with a distinct aroma of cloves and banana.
Otley, Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Thai Bo 4.6%
Infused with Lemongrass, lime leaf and galangal it has been described as having the
aromas of a Thai green curry in a glass.
O9 4.8%
Honey and wheat aroma. Flavours of fresh herb, honey and some notes of citrus.
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Palmers, Bridport, Dorset
Copper Ale 3.7%
Copper-coloured session ale, good citrus fruit with a hoppy aroma.
Tally Ho 5.5%
First brewed in the 1940s. A rich fruit cake flavour dominates in this dark strong old ale.
Panther, Reepham, Norfolk
Ginger 3.7%
This ginger wheat beer is fiery with a distinct ginger flavour and with subtle lemon
flavour notes.
Honey 4%
A full bodied ale with a floral honey flavour nicely balnced between the sweetness of the
honey and the malt finish.
Black 4.5%
A roasted malty chocolate and caramel aroma goes to nice earthy finish with a hint of
liquorice.
Pheasantry, East Markham, Nottinghamshire
BB 3.8%
A smooth tasting copper coloured beer, with medium bitterness and a light spicy aroma.
Smoking Rauch 4.8%
Reddish amber beer which starts sweet and then follows a lingering spicy smokiness.
Pictish, Rochdale, Lancashire
Alchemists 4.3%
A refreshing, straw coloured ale with crisp malt flavours and a robust hoppy finish.
Chinook 4.9%
Single hopped beer, pale and clean malt dominated by orange peel and fruity, bitter
hops.
Quartz, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire
MO50 5%
Brewed for the Maris Otter 50 years celebration, pale and very smmoth, with a slight
fizz in the mouthfeel.
Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Kent
No. 7 3.8%
Easy drinking pale session bitter with good balance.
Gadds No. 5 4.4%
A traditional Kentish Best bitter, the aroma is toffee malt and a red berry flavoured
finish.
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Raw, Staveley, Derbyshire
Dark Peak 4.5%
Award winning stout smooth with slight bitterness.
Edge 4.5%
Pale ale brewed using pale and Munich malt, balanced bitterness and a citrus aroma.
Red Squirrel, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Milk Stout 4%
Complex flavours reminiscent of dark chocolate and coffee, balanced by a hoppy
bitterness and a dry smooth silky finish.
APA 4.3%
Fairly bitter pale ale with aromas of grapefruit and pine and slighty sweet finish.
Redemption, Enfield, Gt London
Trinity 3%
Brewed with three malts and three hops. Generous late hopping provides Seville orange
aromas and the initial malt sweetness is dominated by citrus flavours.
Pale Ale 3.8%
Light and well ballanced in the mouth with grain feel along with cirus hop notes.
Fellowship Porter 5.1%
A dark brown coloured London Porter with chocolate, coffee, liquorice and dry roasted
malt flavours complimented with hints of dark fruit.
Redwillow, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Headless 3.9%
Aromas of light lemon barley water with a clean citrus finish. Easy drinking.
Smokeless 5.7%
Asmooth smoked porter, with a robust malt backbone. This is infused with Chipotles to
give even more smokiness and a subtle hint of heat.
Robinsons, Stockport, Cheshire
Unicorn 4.2%
Complex with a long dry finish and citrus fruit notes.
Old Tom 8.5%
Old Tom is dark, rich and warming with a cherry brandy like colour and character
named after the brewery cat in 1899.
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S&P, Horsford, Norfolk
Topaz Blonde 3.7%
Topaz hops provide this golden beer with a fruity citrus aroma, grapefruit taste and a
crisp, dry finish.
Afterglow 3.9%
Amber ale with a distinctive flavour of chalenger hops.
Between the Posts 3.9%
A new golden ale, flavoured with NZ Dr Rudi hops.
Saffron, Bishop Storford, Essex
Saffron Blonde 4.3%
Good balance of citrus and smooth malty flavours with a crisp finish, and a lingering
strawberry nose.
Henham Honey 4.6%
Delicate balance of bitterness, malt, spicy fruit and honey aromas.
Silent Night 5.2%
Ruby Port and pure red grape juice along with Fuggles and Bramling Cross hops create
a soft fruity and spice finish.
Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire
Elderflower Blonde 4%
A refreshing blonde ale infused with the delicate flavour of elderflower.
Hazelnut Coffee Porter 4%
Like Cadburys fruit and nut but with more nuts and fruitiness.
Siren, Finchampstead, Berkshire
Half Mast 2.8%
Quarter IPA, Heavily hopped but with low bitterness and notes of mango and grapefruit.
Undercurrent 4.5%
Spicy, grassy aromas and a taste of grapefruit and apricot an nice nutty maltiness.
St Peter's, South Elmham, Suffolk
Best Bitter 3.7%
A full-bodied ale with distinctive fruity caramel notes.
Ruby Red Ale 4.3%
A rich, red ale with subtle malt undertones and a distinctive spicy hop aroma.
Boo 5.3%
Cream Stout 6.5%
Aromatic, strong, dark chocolate cream stout with a satisfying bittersweet aftertaste.
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Stumptail, Great Dunham, Norfolk
Amber 4.8%
Based on a Victorian recipe, rich roast grain balanced with Goldngs hops.
Pale 4.9%
Traditional pale ale spiced with Goldings and a sprinkling of new world hops for extra
zest.
Summer Wine, Honley, West Yorkshire
Resistance 3.7%
tbc
Teleporter 5%
A Rich Dark Porter brewed with 10 different malts giving a sweet roast richness that is
balanced with just enough hop character.
Taylor's, Attleborough, Norfolk
No1 3.8%
A copper-coloured ale made with a blend of two traditional hops.
Dog Tooth 4%
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Dropped Stitched 4.5%
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Ticketybrew, Stalybridge, Gt Manchester
Munchner 4.5%
Amber lager, well rounded with a rich malty nose and dry pithy finish.
Rose Wheat 4.5%
Unique aroma of roses leading to a floral mouthfeel then a kick of spicy ginger.
Tipples, Acle, Norfolk
Hanged Monk 3.8%
Roasted malt, dry coffee & smoke aromas, some dark fruit with ahint of bitterness.
Longshore 3.8%
A light bitter with a good pale amber colour, a nice balanced malty flavour.
Lady Evelyn 4.1%
Pale, straw coloured ale with a long dryish finish and a floral hop aroma.
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Tombstone, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Arizona 3.9%
Light amber ale, malty, hoppy with a touch of citrus.
Texas Jack 4%
Chestnut red ruby coloured ale with a good flavour and a twist of plums.
Gunslinger 4.3%
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Cherokee 4.5%
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Triple FFF, Four Marks, Hampshire
Rock Lobster 4.5%
A chestnut-brown best bitter with a mellow hop aroma, smooth malt and subtle fruit
flavours. No matching towels though.
Jabberwocky 5%
Subtle hints of dark chocolate and liquorice but with a fresh pine aroma in this black IPA.
Turpin's, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Meditation 4.3%
A pale ale with citrus aromas and a low-medium hop and biscuit flavour.
Cambridge Black 4.6%
A combination of coffee, coca and dark chocolate can be found in this quaffable stout.
Two Rivers, Denver, Norfolk
Kiwi Kick 4%
A dry, biscuity malt flavour is followed by a tart citrusy hop flavour, grapefruit, lime and
a hint of spice.
Porters Pride 5.2%
Dark almost black beer with a bittersweet malt taste, chocolate and coffee, nutty and a
touch of woodiness.
Tydd Steam, Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire
Barn Ale 3.9%
Zesty bitterness and a lingering citrus finish.
Piston Bitter 4.4%
Hints of caramel and slight fruitness from a English style bitter.
Amnesiac 4.9%
Hopped with unique Nelson Sauvin hops giving a soft white wine background and
crushed gooseberry aroma.
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Wantsum, Canterbury, Kent
Black Prince 3.9%
A rich, full bodied Kent mild slightly bitter in the finish.
Imperium 4%
A deep amber best bitter, smooth biscuit malts and rich hoppy nose.
Waveney, Earsham, Norfolk
Lightweight 3.9%
Some hints of toffee, bread, mild earth. Light in body very drinkable.
Welterweight 4.2%
Golden amber coloured bitter with ahint of pears and berries.
Rocky Myrobalan 4.6%
Hedgerow plums ( yellow Myrobalan ) are added to this beer to produce a unique ale.
Welbeck Abbey, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire
Red Feather 3.9%
Good malty bitter with a touch of fruit and caramel.
Kaiser 4.1%
Crisp, dry, biscuity lager malt flavours are perfectly balanced with sweet, honey like
floral hops.
Wharfe Bank, Otley, West Yorkshire
Washburn 3.7%
Copper-coloured Yorkshire Bitter with a subtle fruit aroma.
Camfell Flame 4.4%
Copper ruby colour bitter with roasted coffee notes.
Whim, Hartington, Derbyshire
Arbor Light 3.6%
Brewed using German lager hops. Light in colour, sharp and very clean.
Hartington Bitter 4%
Pale golden beer with not to much citrus nose, but hints of apple and pear in the
mouthfeel.
White Horse, Stanford In The Vale, Oxfordshire
Black Beauty 3.9%
Dark brown almost ruby coloured mild with toasty toffe undertones.
Oxford Blue 4.3%
Malty, raisiny, spicy aroma, with a hint of figs and cinnamon in the taste.
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Williams, Alloa, Central Scotland
Black 4.2%
Smooth coffee and chocolate undertones are complemented by the addition of late
harvest cone hops, giving a lovely blackcurrant aroma.
March of the Penguins 4.9%
Rich roasty coffee taste with dark maltiness.
Winter's, Norwich, Norfolk
Cloudburst 3.7%
A full flavoured easy drinking session beer with slight soft summer fruit taste.
Geniuss 4.1%
Deep ruby red coloured beer with a dark fruit and malty molasses backdrop.
Golden 4.1%
A refreshing yellow golden ale with nicely balanced malt, hop and light tangy citrus
flavours.
On The Beer City! 4.4%
Pale golden yellow coloured beer with plenty of citrus fruit and grassy with a mild
background malt flavour.
Wolf, Attleborough, Norfolk
Edith Cavell 3.7%
Tastes stronger than it is , with a malty toast aroma and a slight fruity zing to the
mouthfeel.
Golden Jackal 3.7%
Citrusy hops reign over this Golden Ale building a leafy and fruity hop finish to balance
out the malt.
Lupus Lupus 4.2%
Slight mango and zest through a mostly malt nose and a biscuit finish.
Granny Wouldn't Like It 4.8%
A rich, malty beer. It has masses of flavor and a slightly sweet finish.
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Woodforde's, Woodbastwick, Norfolk
Wherry 3.8%
A slight floral and hoppy nose but the taste is milder and has a biscuity sweetness.
Sundew 4.1%
Subtle golden beer - pale in colour and light on the palate with the distinctive hoppy
finish.
Nelsons Revenge 4.5%
A full-bodied pale amber beer with the rich flavour of Dundee cake. Sultana fruitiness is
balanced by a hoppy bitterness.
Tap and Go 5%
Copper-coloured beer has been brewed to celebrate the Rugby World Cup, in the style
of a classic IPA, yet with a powerful hoppy twist, characterised by citrus notes and hints
of herbs, pepper and pine.
Redcracker 7%
A special version of Headcracker infused with raspberries. Strong full-bodied pale barley
wine. Warm raspberry and apricot notes.
XT, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
4 3.8%
An amber beer with a special Belgian malt and a fruity mix of American and European
hops
XPA 5.9%
An IPA brewed with crisp, clean extra pale malts and numerous North American
flavouring and aromatic hop additions.
Yetman's, Bayfield, Norfolk
Amber 4.2%
A light, crisp beer with a fruity hoppy nose and amber colour.
Green 4.8%
Strongish, with a fruity sweetness and dark colour.
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Overall Beers Of The Festival
1 Beeston Worth The Wait
2 Brass Castle Bad Kitty
3 Boudicca Spiral Stout
Category winners:
Mild
1 Great Newsome Holderness Dark
2 Nethergate Black Shadow
3 Moonshine Harvest Moon Mild
Bitter
1 Jo C's Norfolk Kiwi
2 Wolf Edith Cavell
3 Lacons Pale
Best Bitter
1 Mile Tree Larksong
2 Jo C's Bitter Old Bustard
3 Felinfoel Double Dragon
Strong Bitter/IPA
1 Green Jack Fruit Bat
2 Adnams Broadside Extra
3 Great Heck Black Jesus
Stouts and Porters
1 Brass Castle Bad Kitty
2 Boudicca Spiral Stout
3 Elmtree Winter Solstice
Speciality
1 Moonshine Raspberry Wheat
2 Felstar In The Pink
3 Waveney Rocky Myrobalan
Golden
1 Beeston Worth The Wait
2 Golden Triangle Simcoe City
3 Green Jack Canary
Cider
Monk & Disorderly
Perry
Pickled Pig Wills Perry
Foreign
Huyghe Delirium Tremens
Starring Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen, Paul Hahn, J. Edward McKinley, Tom Daly, Don Lamond, Arline Hunter. Directed by Ib Melchior.
The first spaceship to Mars, presumed lost, is found in space and brought back to Earth by remote control. Only two from an initial crew of four are still alive, but one is unconscious due to an attached alien growth, while the other is traumatized, blocking out all memory of what happened. In hopes to save the unconscious crewman, the amnesiac is interrogated back into remembering. Those in charge thereby learn of the terrible dangers awaiting anyone venturing into the spooky, ruddy stillness of the very alien Martian ecosystem. Written by statmanjeff
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One of my earliest memories of THE ANGRY RED PLANET was seeing it through a five year-old's eyes on WPIX's (a local New York station for anyone reading this who is not from the New York area) SCIENCE FICTION THEATER on Saturday afternoons at 12:00 P.M. I can remember staring in wonder at the weird color designs of the Martian landscape plus being in absolute awe of the bizarre rat-bat-spider-crab creation. Well 27 years later, I am STILL in awe of the Martian landscape and the rat-bat-spider-crab creation. Yes friends, Sidney Pink's THE ANGRY RED PLANET has made its debut on DVD as part of MGM's "Midnight Movies" series and EVERY true fan of American International Pictures' science fiction films should have this under the Christmas tree for this upcoming holiday!!!
The plot is easy enough to follow. The first spaceship to Mars returns to Earth with two of the original four astronauts as survivors. The survivors in question are Dr. Iris Ryan (Nora Hayden) and her boyfriend/ship's captain Colonel Tom O'Banion (Gerald Mohr). The other hapless astronauts who perish before they can get back to Earth include Professor Theodore Gettel (Les Tremayne) and Dr. Sam Jacobs (Jack Kruschen).
Upon her return, Dr. Ryan is hospitalized with a severe case of shock. It seems that her conscious mind has blocked out much of the frightening journey and, to add to the trouble, an unknown blob-like substance has attached itself to Colonel O'Banion's arm and is slowing eating away at the tissues of the comatose astronaut. In order to save O'Banion, Professor Weiner (J. Edward McKinley) and other doctors decide that Dr. Ryan must remember the frightening events of her journey if they are to find out what this substance is, how O'Banion came in contact with it, and most importantly, how to destroy it.
Through mind-altering drugs, the doctors are able to glimpse into Dr. Ryan's memory and what they hear is a bizarre tale that features a month long space flight, the strange shadows and reddish hue of the planet's surface with a still atmosphere which lacks wind. In addition, there are various giant monsters (including the aforementioned rat-bat-spider-crab beast or as Dr. Jacobs puts it... "King Kong's older brother.") like the huge protoplasm-like beast with a rotating eyeball, a vicious man/woman eating plant, and a huge being (which looks like a twisted gingerbread man out of a reddish nightmare) which seems to be the dominant species and whose "people" make it very clear to the astronauts that they are intruders and are NOT welcome on the red planet. What happens to Colonel O'Banion? How do Gettel and Jacobs meet their unfortunate deaths? What warning is given to Earth from Mars? All these plus many more questions will be answered when you get to your local video/DVD store and get this crazy, but fun little science fiction flick in your collection today!!!!
THE ANGRY RED PLANET was released by American International Pictures in 1959 and like all AlP films, this one had a very small budget and was shot (according to the notes in the back of the DVD cover) in ten days. When one takes all this into account, one can not help being amazed that the film looks as good as it does (remember that we are talking about a time BEFORE computer generated special effects). The four lead actors are known mostly for character roles in films ranging from A-list directors to Z-grade hacks. For example, Les Tremayne appeared earlier that same year in Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST and would later work for Billy Wilder in 1966's THE FORTUNE COOKIE. However, he would also go on to appear in Larry Buchanan's laughable remake of THE SHE-CREATURE entitled CREATURES OF DESTRUCTION in 1967. Jack Kruschen was an always dependable character actor who worked with Tremayne earlier in George Pal's 1953 Martian epic, THE WAR OF THE WORLDS for Paramount. One year after THE ANGRY RED PLANET, Kruschen did a memorable character role as Jack Lemmon's nosy doctor/neighbor in Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT. Gerald Mohr worked in the cheap 1959 film TERROR IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE and in 1968 worked with the legendary William Wyler in the Barbra Streisand musical, FUNNY GIRL. Only Nora Hayden seemed to lack major acting experience and it does show in her delivery of some of the lines, but she is a VERY likable person on screen, so many of her scenes are fairly decent.
"Cinemagic" was in fact a typical 1950s "invention" which was really nothing, but film producers needed to lure people away from their television sets somehow. In this film, it DOES help disguise some of the budgetary limitations. For example, the design of the Martian landscape is in fact a series of paintings and the rat-bat-spider-crab monster is indeed a marionette. The bright red colors though do help conceal some of this (but NOT all of it). Paul Dunlap's eerie electronic score also helps create the mood of the "Cinemagic" sequences as well. Also, the fact that the story is being told through the drugged memory of a shocked astronaut helps explain the "unreal" world, which we see on screen (almost like some of the "expressionistic" designs of silent horror films like THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI).
The DVD itself is a full screen transfer and for a film MORE than 40 years old and from an independent, low budget studio, it survives on DVD remarkably well. The color (especially the "Cinemagic" Mars sequences) is excellent and vibrant. The film is also free of major scratches and cuts. In fact, the DVD is so clear that you can now see the wires of the monster marionette where in older prints, there was just enough static to somewhat obscure them. The Dolby Digital sound is available in English only while the subtitles are available in French and Spanish. The only other special feature is the original 1959 theatrical trailer in which the narrator raves about "Cinemagic."
All in all, THE ANGRY RED PLANET is a charming and fun-filled 82 minutes. Watching it reminds one of the 1950s comic books about journeys to Mars and other planets. It is a story told with such sincerity and innocence that one falls right back into an easier time of drive-ins, double features, AlP, etc.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
Zorro,
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
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