What is Wherry?

[cwiseman77]

It seems like every day I come across a topic on "Wherry" or a member who has brewed it but I still don't quite understand what it is. Is it a type of beer? The only information I have acquired is that Woodfordes make it. What kind of beer is it and why is it so popular on this forum :wha: :wha: :wha:

 

[pittsy]

i think its just a bitter

 

[PD]

Yep its just a bitter, with a distinctive taste, going towards something like Hobgoblin. It seems quite popular ( especially the Woodfordes kit )
I believe its only available on draught in a few places not bottled. But honestly don't know much about it. I've done one kit and it was drunk very quickly and appreciated by all, today I am doing what is purported to be a clone of it, and I'm doing it All Grain. will be interesting to see how it compares.
Lots of Styrian Golding Hops as late additions. and the hlt is on and the temperature is rising....

 

[oz11]

Clicky to the cask version

 

[rpt]

I think it's popular because it's a widely available premium two can kit that's rated highly. It's also part of an introductory kit which includes all the equipment you need for your first brew. And it's available at a good price in Wilkinson. Good marketing by Muntons I think. (Muntons plc is a large Suffolk maltster that make the Woodfordes, St Peters, Geordie and other kits).

 

[daf]

It's served in nearly every pub in Norfolk. I've not seen a pub in the county that doesn't sell real ale.

 

[rocket ronnie]

Wherry is a good beer sold as said in nearly all Norfolk pubs, ( the other beer in that locality is Adnams of Southwold). When I am in Norfolk I always drink one or the other.

Although I drink Wherry in the pubs it does not resemble the kit version in any way as the pub version is a good session beer of 3.8%
the kit version, made I believe by Muntons is a much more higher a/v 4.5% and although I have brewed it myself, I think it is entirely different.

On many forum sites there is also methods of tweaking it up further and I have done these ideas but I must say what you end up with is a first class potent brew, once you start drinking it you cannot put it down, but it is nothing like the Norfolk pub session brew.

My favorite woodefordes brew is Norfolk Nog I have made this and this is exactly like the pub version and I recommend this fully.

 

[cwiseman77]

Any decent extract recipes around?

 

[wherespete]

The boat featured on the Woodforde's logo is a wherry, a distinctive sailing barge type vessel that is common on the Norfolk broads.

The beer itself is a nice, easy drinking 3.8% available in bottles and on draught. :drink:

We get it in pubs here in Hertfordshire, but I wouldn't expect to see it much further away as Woodforde's is a relatively small brewery who concentrate on their home market rather than taking the Doom Bar approach to nationwide saturation distribution.

 

[cwiseman77]

The boat featured on the Woodforde's logo is a wherry, a distinctive sailing barge type vessel that is common on the Norfolk broads.

The beer itself is a nice, easy drinking 3.8% available in bottles and on draught. :drink:

We get it in pubs here in Hertfordshire, but I wouldn't expect to see it much further away as Woodforde's is a relatively small brewery who concentrate on their home market rather than taking the Doom Bar approach to nationwide saturation distribution.

My local had doom bar on cask last week...wasn't too keen to be.honest
:sulk:

 

[Speccy]

My local had doom bar on cask last week...wasn't too keen to be.honest
:sulk:

Doom Bar got bought up last year by Molson Coors, makers of such delights as Carling and Fosters...

 

[rpt]

Doom Bar got bought up last year by Molson Coors, makers of such delights as Carling and Fosters...

So is it Doomed?

 

[sound chaser]

Doom Bar got bought up last year by Molson Coors, makers of such delights as Carling and Fosters...

So is it Doomed?

Very good :clap:

 

[Speccy]

So is it Doomed?

Heh. Well, it does mean you can now get a proper beer in places that used to only do Carling and Fosters, so maybe it's not all Doom and gloom.

 

[rpt]

So is it Doomed?

Heh. Well, it does mean you can now get a proper beer in places that used to only do Carling and Fosters, so maybe it's not all Doom and gloom.

Provided they don't turn it into that Smoothflow *****, like has happened to John Smiths, Tetley and Boddingtons.