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on October 31, 2001 CROP circles are not only whetting the appetites of paranormal fans they are also the toast at ale lovers in Swindon. The tasty tipple named after the mystery rural phenomena is being produced by Wiltshire's Hop Back Brewery. And joint managing director Richard Harvey said that 4.2 per cent brew has already made its mark across the country. "The beer has had two or three incarnations," he said. "We used it as a seasonal guest beer and it proved so successful we decided to put it in a bottle. "It was one of Tesco's featured beers for the whole of last year. Now it is one of our mainstream draft beers." Wroughton pub The Check Inn is a popular free house that stocks the beer on a guest basis. Barman Brian Nicholson, 22, said it has caught the imagination of locals who have become used to seeing crop circles in fields between Swindon and Marlborough every summer. He said "It has proved pretty successful here. Crop Circle was first produced in April 1997 by the brewery based in Downton, near Salisbury. In bottle-conditioned form it won the Tesco's Spring Beer Challenge 2000. The brewery says the hoppy aroma of the mahogany colour beer invites drinkers into a "splendid strong, malty base, complemented by a clean, rounded bitterness. Ale connoisseurs enjoying a lunchtime point at The Check Inn gave a mixed reaction as they sampled a batch of bottled Crop Circle. John Hornby, 41, a freelance computer design engineer from Chiseldon said: "I wouldn't buy it regularly, its too lively. The initial taste is slightly sour. I'm not a fan." Tony Whiteford, 55, who works in computer strategy and lives in Malmesbury, said: ÒIt is a light, Northern style beer with a lagerish taste rather than hoppy. It has an oily kind of taste and there are other bottled beers I'd go for in preference." The beer did have a fan in Dave Ross, 50, a cab driver from Lister Road, Wroughton, who said: "I thought it was very pleasant." And Nick King, 42, a railwayman from Marlborough Road, Old Town, said: "It is another example of the new trend in light coloured, lager style beers which still retain their full bodiedness. Light coloured beers are becoming more and more popular, dark beers are going out of fashion." Aptly-named Mike Brew, 55, a project manager from Faringdon who works at Nationwide, had the final word. "It's very nice. I don't usually like bottled beers but this is very pleasant. I might consider it for Christmas." Back to 2001 index |
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