ak [The Styles]

Styles of the Underground

Our Styles:

American Pale Ale (APA) - The APA is a cleaner and slightly hoppier version of the British Pale Ales. But everything else remains the same, right down to the balance between malts and hops to the medium body. With the additional hops APA tend to produce nice fruit-like flavours while balancing out the bitterness from the hops used in the process. [Alley Kat Full Moon Pale Ale]

Brown Ale - Are ales which tend to be slightly maltier and sweeter on the palate with a full body. Brown ales are usually used with darker malts such as Roasted malts and Chocolate malts which gives it their sweeter tastes and colour. Brown also tend to be low on the IBU scale and hoppiness as well. [Alley Kat Amber Brown Ale]

Wheat Ale - When the words wheat and ale are mentioned together most people immediately think of the German style Hefeweizen, an unfiltered wheat ale with strong hints of banana and smoked cloves with a slight tarty edge. Alley Kat owns wheat ale, Aprikat, is an aprikat flavoured beer with a wheat ale base which has been filtered which in turn produces a "Krystal" wheat ale. The combination of fruits and the wheat base offers a clean mouthfeel and is a great compliment to lighter foods. [Alley Kat Aprikat Wheat Ale]

European Lager - A european styled lager is one of the crispest and cleanest tasting styles of beer around. The lagers tend be a nice clear golden colour. Upon the first sips the palate will be enticed by the spicy bitterness of the hops (a notable flavour from the famous Saaz hops). Our Charlie Flint's lager is no exception to these qualities starting with a clean maltiness and finishing off with the spiciness of the hops, the lager is a very easy drinking beer. [Charlie Flint's Original Lager]

Mead - Mead, man's oldest known fermented drink. Alley Kat Meads are made from a concoction honey, water, yeast with fruits and spices. The mead is a perfect after dinner drink for those who prefer something subtly sweet and not overly dry (also makes for a nice champagne substitute...) [Alley Kat Mead]

Barley Wine - Despite the "wine" tagging, it is still a beer, a very big beer. The barley wines tend to be very high in alcohol by volume, often in the 10% ranges. These beers also tend to have a very big body balanced with sweet and bittersweet fruits [such as plums]. Their colours can range from a dark brown to a lighter off-brown shade. But thing that will stick out is the strong aroma of hops meshed with the fruits when it is first poured. [Alley Kat Olde Deuteronomy]