Brew Britannia: The Strange Rebirth of British Beer by Jessica Boak & Ray Bailey

Author:Jessica Boak & Ray Bailey
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
Published: 2014-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

Exactly how much credit Summer Lightning deserves for kick-starting the ‘golden ale’ trend is debatable. There were plenty of beers described as ‘golden’, ‘straw coloured’ and ‘very pale’ in the late 1980s – perhaps as a response to the increasing popularity of lager, or merely reflective of the broadening vocabulary of beer enthusiasts as ‘tasting notes’ became fashionable. Certainly, after Summer Lightning’s string of victories, more beers were being marketed as ‘summer’ or ‘golden’ ales. A count of those beers with ‘summer’, ‘gold’, ‘golden’ or ‘sun’ in their names listed in the Good Beer Guide shows that there were four in 1989, eleven by 1992 and eighteen by 1993. Many more were described as summer ales in the notes even if their names did not reflect it – almost fifty, in fact. Whitbread, too, got in on the act, with their nationally distributed ‘Summer Ale’, launched in 1993.11

Hop Back had to expand production of Summer Lightning to meet demand, quickly outgrowing its back-room brewpub facilities. It is still trading today, and Summer Lightning remains its flagship brand.

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