Goddards Brewery’s award-winning Wight Squirrel ale has been selected for another national slot by Punch Taverns as part of their ‘Finest Cask Champion Ales’ rotation, which will see more quality Island produce in pubs across the country from now until July.
The Island-based company have been proud to feature in pubs throughout the country from the beginning of the year with national distribution contracts with Greene King, JD Wetherspoon, Mitchells & Butlers and Enterprise Inns resulting in 90,000 pints of beer being produced in February alone.
Xavier Baker, who heads up business development at Goddards said:
“It underlines the growing appeal of independent craftbrewed real ales. According to our calculations that’s enough pints side by side to reach from the brewery in Ryde, Isle of Wight, across the Solent to Portsmouth!”
A great start to 2016 got even better after Goddards’ FuggleDeeDum was shortlisted by Majestic Wine customers across the UK as one of the top 8 craft beers in the country – Goddards was in the lineup along with Adnams and Bath Ales.
Over 400 British beers were selected and tasted as part of Majestic’s first Oktoberfest held last year. Goddards were pipped to the post by Twickenham Fine Ales with its temptingly named Naked Ladies.
Xavier Baker commented:
“We were really pleased that our flagship beer FuggleDeeDum had been selected as one of the final eight beers. Obviously we’re disappointed we didn’t win but very happy for Twickenham Fine Ales, another established craft beer producer in the UK”.
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