Ales of Wight

Goddards www.goddards-brewery.co.uk Goddards Special Bitter and Fuggle-Dee-Dum are brewed year round, and there is a selection of seasonal beers available outside the peak summer season,
In 1987 the stock market crashed and Lloyds looked to their names to cover their losses. "Time to honour your agreement, old boy". One of them was Anthony Goddard. To meet his commitments, the family home had to go as did the vineyard. At around the same time, Anthony met Jonathon Stancil of Burts Brewery, then on its last legs. They both agreed that the Isle of Wight needed to preserve its brewing tradition and Goddards Brewery was born in Anthony's new home, Barnsley Farm. Jonathon has now returned to his native Yorkshire but Goddards, now under the control of Richard Harvey, continues to brew fabulous award winning ales.
Special Bitter 4.0% abv Refreshingly clean, easy-drinking bitter, with a wonderful aroma of freshly-rubbed hops that carries through to a satisfying after taste. Also available as a cold-sterile filtered (not pasteurised) kegged beer. A winner of CAMRA's local Beer of the Year on several occasions and twice a bronze award winner in the national Great British Beer Festival.
Fuggle-Dee-Dum 4.8% abv Intensely flavoured, malty, hoppy, strong ale that makes your mouth water. Amber/brown in colour and full bodied. Also available as a cold-sterile filtered (not pasteurised) bottled and kegged beer. Another local CAMRA Beer of the Year Winner
Ale of Wight 4.0% abv An intensely aromatic pale beer, brewed with long summer evenings in mind. May/June
Duck’s Folly 5.2% abv Amber coloured, traditionally brewed English ale, hopped with Fuggles and Goldings. September. Also available as a cold-sterile filtered (not pasteurised) bottled beer. The beer's name is an anagram and refers to the owners previous association with a certain insurance outfit.
Inspiration 5.2% abv Pale, refreshing citrus-y ale, full of hop smells and flavours. March/April
Iron Horse 4.8% abv A rich ruby-red beer, well flavoured with hints of dark malt, followed with a dry softly bitter aftertaste . October
Winter Warmer 5.2% abv Dark and strong. Warms the cockles of your heart - whatever they are. November-February
Hoppiness 5.0% abv Brewed with hops grown at Ventnor Botanical Gardens. - a rich copper coloured ale overflowing with hoppy flavours. The first batch sold out in 2 weeks!

Undercliff Experience 4.1% abv Yates' flagship bitter taking its name from the address. It is primarily seasoned with Golding hops, but a charge of Fuggles is added late in the boil. This is differs from most brewers who use this classic combination, the Goldings are usually added last for the aroma. Tasting Notes (from Jeff Evans): An amber ale with bittersweet, malty and hop taste and a dry lemon edge that dominates the bitter finish.
Yates' Blonde 4.1% abv A light beer with a fruity citreous nose, completed with a dry hoppy final taste. "a light ale that won't be eclipsed"
Holy Joe 4.9% abv A glance at the ingredients suggests that this is going to b a citreous beer, with zesty inclusion of American Cascade hops and powdered coriander. The taste backs this up. Named after a character from the 1860's now brewed all the year round. Tasting Notes (from Jeff Evans): A golden beer with lots of citrus immediately evident in the aroma, and subtle malt emerging later. Plenty of bitterness features in the mouth along with slightly toasted, sweet malt flavours, pronounced tangy-citreous notes and spicy coriander bitter, hoppy, spicy and lightly toasted finish.
Wight Winter (aka St Lawrence Ale) 5.0% abv Described by Dave Yates as "stout like". Very dark bitter. Wight Winter (Nov-March) St Lawrence (April-Oct). Tasting Notes (from Jeff Evans): A very dark ruby appearance with malty milk chocolate at first in the nose, then plenty of orange fruit. It is mostly bitter, malty and roasted to taste, with a perfumed bitter orange note always present, bitter, roasted, perfumed finish.
Yates Special Draft (YSD) 5.5% abv A strong ale, light golden in colour, "a drink to be respected". The bottle version of this beer won the bronze medal at the Champion Beer of Britain 2004 Tasting Notes (from Jeff Evans): Golden in colour, with a tart fruit nose, this strong beer has a dry, hoppy, bitter taste that belies its strength to some degree, citrus notes emerge and linger in the dry bitter, hoppy afterwards.
Good King Senseless 5.5% A dark malty ale, brewed with %100 Fuggles hops and a dash of port to add a little bit of Christmas!

Hop A Doodle Doo 4 % A summer ale with a hoppy flavour
Haven 5% A strong amber bitter
Old Stumpy 4.5% Best Bitter
Tumbledown 5.0% To commemorate the Battle of Tumbledown in 1982.Hoppy with citrus notes. Brewed with Cascade hops
Drunken Dog 7.6% Strong bitter with malty flavours
Dog Daze 3.8% A light summer brew availabe April - October
Stumpys Old Stout 5.1% Traditional stout. Smooth with a nutty aftertaste.
Island Brewery www.islandbrewery.co.uk/ Unit 7, Parkwater Industrial Units, Forest Road, Newport, PO30 4LY
It had always been an ambition of Tom Minshull to start a brewery, having been involved a while back with Burts Brewery but he did not wish to until the time was right. When Chris Coleman agreed to come on board as the brewer, the ability to produce a first class product was in place. The brewery has installed specially designed equipment from Johnson Engineering, Bolton. The first barrels left the brewery in April 2010.
Nipper Bitter (3.8%) Straw coloured, light and refreshing, with a distinguishable balance of malt and hops, and a satisfyingly morish afterbite Its character displays the familiar qualities of traditional brewing at its best, using only four ingredients, resulting in an honest and rewarding mouthfeel and shining clarity.
Wight Gold (4.0%) Crystal malt - golden brown, with rounded malt and hops throughout, and that characteristic afterbite of a true craft brew that makes a favourite.
Yachtsman’s Ale (4.2%) The addition of roasted malt produces a rich brown beer and mouthfeel, counterbalanced by sufficient hops to rise to the nose and to refresh the throat of the most parched of sailors in a subtle complexity of flavours and texture found only when brewed with integrity in ingredients.
Wight Knight (4.5%) Strong, refreshing full of body, and dangerous if abused. Yellow in colour, but not in heart, this beer weighs all that is good in the tradition of strong English ale.
Vectis Venom (4.8%) Easy drinking because if it’s deceptive character and innocent lightness and colour, with an underlying smoothness that enables it to penetrate and deliver its potion in the most satisfying of ways, leaving the gentlest and enticingly seductive bite in the back of the throat that could paralyse any remaining will not to take another sip of this aromatic nectar.