News of the brews

Stonehenge Brewery's Sign of Spring - a green coloured spring beer

May 2, 2005: Long, Strong, Never and Ever (4%) is the May seasonal offering from the West Berkshire Brewery Company, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.

Meanwhile, from Rudgate Brewery this month comes Forseti Special Bitter (4.3%), which the company describes as a nutty, mid-coloured bitter with challenger hops, slightly spicy on the nose.

This year, Hyde's has comes up with a series of six special ales that celebrating great local manufacturing achievements, under the umbrella title Made in Manchester. The May and June beer is Elevation (4.4%), celebrating the Avro Manchester aircraft.

Stonehenge Brewery has gone green - quite literally - with its seasonally-coloured Sign of Spring (4.6%). This light green, smooth and very drinkable beer - rich in both malt and hop aroma - can be found in some J D Wetherspoon outlets.