It’s Yorkshire in a pint glass!

Shelley-based Small World Beers has created a pale ale called Yorkshire-Ness – made from fresh Yorkshire green hops harvested and brewed in a single day.

The ale choice is a result of Small World’s sponsorship of part of the acreage at Yorkshire Hops – based on the banks of the Humber, near Brough, East Yorkshire – and the enthusiasm of David Woodhead, cellarman at The Woodman Inn, Thunderbridge, and the pub’s manager, Chris McHugh, to provide customers with a beer that can claim to be truly grown and brewed in Yorkshire.

Dave Hill, of Small World Beers, said: “Yorkshire Hops is the most northerly and smallest commercial hop farm in the UK – far from the traditional growing areas at the Worcestershire/Herefordshire border and Kent.

“Generally, hops are taken directly from the field to the kiln within the day to be dried and packed to ensure they will last a full year. However, every year at picking time there is a chance to make a unique seasonal beer by taking the fresh hops straight into the brew house.”

He said the use of Yorkshire Hops was a natural progression for Small World Beers, which has its own borehole underneath the brewery at Barncliffe Mill, providing access to its own spring water.

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To ensure absolute freshness, while the fresh Yorkshire Hops were being picked, collected and driven 70 miles down the M62, the brew was started back at base. This allowed the hops to be added to the copper just a few hours after harvest from the fields.

Yorkshire-Ness uses malt barley from Thomas Fawcett & Sons Ltd, of Castleford, makes use of Challenger hops for the bitterness and the Yorkshire-grown First Gold hop which is added to the copper at the end of the boil to provide the spicy hop aroma to the beer.

The beer will ferment for five days and be further conditioned for another three days before being available locally from September 26.