You don't really expect to find an American guy turning out truely cutting edge beers all the way out here in the Somerset Levels, but that's what Justin at Moor Beer is doing.
California born and bred, Justin Hawke arrived in Somerset via LA, San Francisco, Berlin and Oxfordshire. He brought out the old Moor brewery a few years ago, updated the equipment and started to brew some really good beers. He has a strong antipathy for finings, so sends out a lot of his beers unfined. To those brought up on the British mantra of clarity equalling good beer this is a little odd, but in reality the soft haze of Moor beers adds to the flavour and mouth feel, and does nothing to detract. The Germans and Belgians of course have no problem at all with hazy beer, so why should we?
Moor also use a fantastic wooden shield as their instantly recognisable pump clip, they just change the paper insert in the centre for the different beers. It's a simple solution to the pump clip issue, and looks a lot better than many of the plastic wonders that other brewers send out.
New out this week is 'Hoppiness' a 6.5% Pale with lots of hop admittedly, but a sweet and fruity charecter that leans toward a barley wine more than anything else. It's brilliant in the 660ml 'Bombers' that Moor bottle their beer in, but even better on Keg.
Remember, Drink Moor Beer!
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