Sharp's Brewery

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Status:
Operational

Established:
Not supplied

Owner:
Molson Coors Brewing Company

Capacity:
Not supplied

Visitor Policy:
Not generally accessible

Tel:
Not supplied

Address:
Rock,
Wadebridge,
PL27 6NU
Cornwall, England
United Kingdom

They make

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Sharp’s Connoisseurs No.2 Single Brew

The ‘single brew’ in this beer’s name refers to its being brewed with a single hop, whole cone Saaz from the Czech Republic.

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Sharp’s Connoisseurs No.4 Single Brew 2012

Part of Sharp’s Connoisseur’s Choice range designed to be served with food, Single Brew Reserve 2012 is brewed with Pale Ale and Carapils malts. The beer is first wort-hopped to a mild bitterness and then a large amount of Citra is added during a two month cold maturation. Released February 2013.

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Sharp’s Connoisseurs No.5 Spiced Red

Part of Sharp’s Connoisseur’s Choice range of beers designed to be served with food, Spiced Red is a red ale brewed with coriander and a particularly fruity yeast Irish yeast strain. It is dry hopped in warm conditioning with Hallertauer Perle hops and spiced with coriander just before bottling.

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Chalky’s Bite pale ale

Chalky's Bite is brewed with three different hop varieties and flavoured with wild Cornish fennel. The beer is matured for over three months.

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Sharp’s Connoisseurs No.1 Quadrupel Ale

Quadrupel’s informative back label says, it is brewed with pale, chocolate and crystal malts with Centennial, Hallertauer and Aurora hops. It is fermented with three yeast strains then matured on fresh Simcoe hops for a month at -1°C, it is then seeded with fourth strain for bottle conditioning.

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Sharp’s Cornish Pilsner

The Cornish interpretation of classic Czech pilsner is brewed using a Czech yeast strain and is lagered on a bed of Saaz hops.

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Sharp's Connoisseurs N0.6 Dubbel Coffee Stout

Released April 2013 as the last of the Connoisseurs 2012 Vintage. Sharp’s head brewer, Stuart Howe, is apparently not a big fan of stout so set out to brew one which he and other drinkers would enjoy. The result being this bottle-conditioned stout ‘dry hopped’ with Fazenda Das Almas coffee beans.

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Connoisseurs Choice No.9 6 Vintage Blend 2013

As the name of this beer suggests, it is a blend of six beers - five different beers of diverse styles from 2007-2013 aged in Sharps’ cellars, plus a newly brewed base beer.

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Sharp’s Connoisseurs No.3 Honey Spice Tripel

This bottled conditioned English tripel is brewed using a yeast culture from a Belgian Trappist brewery with extra pale malt, Cornish honey, with Czech Saaz and Styrian hops, coriander and citrus peel.

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Sharp’s Eden Project Cornish Pilsner

The 2nd beer resulting from the partnership between Sharp’s Brewery and Eden Project, a Cornish charity and social enterprise. Brewed with English Thyme grown by the Eden Project as well as Pilsner malt, whole Saaz hops and Czech lager yeast, this pilsner is cold matured before bottle conditioning.

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Sharps Single Brew Reserve 2013

Sharps’ Single Brew Reserve is designed to profile what they consider the best hops from each year. In 2013 this fell to the Czech superhop Premiant, known as Super Saaz. This was brewed using whole Premiant hop flowers with Pale Ale and Caramel malts for two months before bottle conditioning.

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Sharp's Atlantic Pale Ale

Sharp's Atlantic Pale Ale is brewed using Pale Ale and Low Colour Caramalt malts with Cascade, Aurora, Citra and Simcoe hops. The beers name is a reference to Sharp’s brewery’s location on Cornwall’s Atlantic coast.

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Sharp's Sea Fury

First brewed in 1996 and originally known simply as Sharp’s Special Ale, this bitter was relaunched in March 2016 as ‘Sea Fury’ Special Ale. IBU: 33

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Sharp's Wolf Rock IPA

Named after one of Cornwall's most dangerous offshore reefs, some seven miles off Land's End, Sharp’s Wolf Rock is a fusion between a red ale and an IPA made with both noble and new world hops.

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Chalky’s Bark

Developed in conjunction with celebrity 'fish' chef Rick Stein and named after his dog, Chalky's Bite is triple fermented and flavoured with ginger and continental hops. This beer is bottle conditioned so you may want to allow dead yeast to settle before carefully pouring.

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