Abbey Ales Brewery

Infobox Brewery
name = Abbey Ales


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location = Bath, Somerset
owner = Alan Morgan
opened = 1997
production =
active_beers = brewbox_beer|name=Bellringer|style=Bitter
seasonal_beers =
other_beers =

Abbey Ales is an English brewery located in city of Bath, England. It was founded in 1997 by Alan Morgan.

Beers

Bellringer is a cask beer with an alcohol by volume of 4.2%, launched at the Bath Beer Festival in 1997. It was awarded 'Beer of the Festival' at the Cotswolds CAMRA Festival in July 1998, the Devizes CAMRA Festival in May 1999, the Bath Beer Festival in October 2000, and was a finalist in the Champion Beer of Britain competition in 2001. [cite web |url=http://www.abbeyales.co.uk/page.asp?id=aboutus |title=About us |accessdate=2008-01-11 |format= |work=Abbey Ales ]

Other beers which are brewed on a seasonal basis, or for special occasions, include:
* Mild 4.0% abv
* Chorister 4.5% abv
* Bath Star 4.6% abv
* Resurrection 4.6% abv
* Steeple Jack 4.7% abv
* Salvation 4.8% abv
* Twelfth Night 5.0% abv, a dark bitter produced at Christmas. [cite news | url= http://www.thisisbath.com/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=163061&command=displayContent&sourceNode=163044&contentPK=19170188&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch | title= Festive Brew | date= 6 December 2007 | publisher= The Bath Chronicle | accessdate= 2008-01-12]
* White Friar 5.0% abv
* Black Friar 5.3% abv
* Bellringer Maximus 5.0% abv, a new version of the Bellringer bitter, launched at the Bath Beer Festival in October 2007, to celebrate the brewery's 10th anniversary. [cite news | url= http://www.thisisbath.com/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=163061&command=displayContent&sourceNode=163044&contentPK=18703396&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch | title= Abbey's hoppy new best bitter to be launched at festival | date= 18 October 2007 | publisher = The Bath Chronicle | accessdate= 2008-01-12]

The brewery also owns the Star Inn and Coeur de Lion pubs in Bath. [cite web |url=http://www.star-inn-bath.co.uk/ |title=The Star Inn, Bath |accessdate=2008-01-11 |format= |work=The Star Inn, Bath ] [cite web |url=http://www.coeur-de-lion.co.uk/ |title=Coeur de Lion - Bath |accessdate=2008-01-11 |format= |work=Coeur de Lion - Bath ]

References

External links

* [http://www.abbeyales.co.uk/ Abbey Ales website]