The Grassington Festival Team are delighted to announce that local brewers, Richard and Carole Eyton-Jones of the Dark Horse Brewery in Wharfedale, have produced a fabulous creamy Yorkshire Ale, especially for Grassington Festival.  FestivAle is 4% ABV.

Housed in an old laithe, Dark Horse Brewery can produce up to 12,000 pints a week.  Distribution of their flagship beer, Hetton Pale Ale, which won the coveted title of Yorkshire’s Perfect Pint in the TV series of the same name, is mainly found within a 20 mile radius of the brewery.

Richard says, “the pure Yorkshire water is drawn from the brewery’s own bore hole and even the waste that’s produced is used in a sustainable way to feed a reed bed system, which in turn is home to a rich variety of plants and animals.”  Only top quality English malts and the finest hops are used to produce their distinctive and popular beers.

FestivAle will go on sale on Saturday 1st June, 2013 and will be available to try in pubs up and down the Dale, including those in Grassington, The Angel at Hetton, The Clarendon at Hebden and The Fountaine at Linton.

So why not sit back and enjoy a well-earned pint after one of our Festival walks?  Or after our Wild Food Foraging Masterclass with celebrity forager Chris Bax, from BBC Countryfile, at Grassington House Hotel? For more information or to book tickets to this fabulous event, click on http://www.grassington-festival.org.uk/events/masterclass-wild-food-foraging-with-chris-bax/

Participating pubs are generously donating proceeds to the Festival.  So you can enjoy a fabulous Yorkshire pint whilst supporting your favourite Yorkshire festival!  If you are one of the many that will experience this new delightful beer, then we’d love to hear your comments.

By Cathy Parry

Cathy Parry is the owner of two holiday cottages set alongside the picturesque River Wharfe.  You can view them on her website www.riversidegrassington.co.uk and connect via Facebook www.facebook.com/RiversideGrassington.

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