I hadn't written for a while now about the Rye Waterworks micropub (website). If you know nothing about Rye Waterworks and its 300 years history, please read this blog I wrote soon after it opened 7 years ago; the address is Tower Street (corner with Rope Walk), Rye, East Sussex TN31 7AT. As you can see from the image above, they do sell excellent locally made scotch eggs, and local ales too, of course.
I started off with the scotch egg and the Bexhill based Three Legs Brewing Co (website) 10 Years of Pale No 3 Simcoe and Citra Edition (3.7%), which is what it is, celebratory! Indeed, a pale bitter brewed with hops from the USA, Cascade (hopslist) and Columbus (hopslist), so essentially an APA style, and dry-hopped with Simcoe (hopslist) and Citra (hopslist). Thus providing a big citrus flavour, dry but not too bitter, a very drinkable session ale, very nice!
I don't just drink pale hoppy ales, but venture onto the darker side now and then 😉 so this, the pub's brewery (website) very own 4.9% Pissoir Porter; their beers are all named with toilet puns you will notice. Very dark with hints of chocolate, coffee and nuts, this is my favourite of their ales, rich with loadsa body, 'tis pretty good, and I had the last (nearly a) pint from the cask!
Oh yes, and I also drank, from Tonbridge Brewery (website), their 4.8% India Pale Ale, I have never had a duff Tonbridge ale, and this didn't let me down. More of a traditional style IPA, though a bit paler, and brewed with First Gold (hopslist), presumably from the USA Cascade (hopslist), Keyworth Midseason (hopslist) and Target from Kent (hopslist), hops mostly from Kent and therefore not as fruity as an APA, but very tasty, very drinkable, and very good!
And a couple of ciders before I left, for 2 or 3 of my 5 a day 😉 starting off with the crystal clear 6.9% Perryhill Orchards Double Vision Cider (website). This is quite a complex cider, with a dry bitter finish, and very good indeed, nice one; they also have a less dry version.
I finished off with just a half pint (limited time to catch train home) of a cider from Biddenden Vineyards (website), their 8.4% Dry Cider, made from culinary and dessert apples. This is what a cider should taste like, apple flavoured 😁 and so smooth and so gorgeous!
I just had enough time to take this photograph, from my platform opposite the box, of the very cute and Grade II Listed Rye Signal Box, built by Saxby & Farmer in 1894 (Historic England).
CHEERS! 🍻
