Sudbury-based Mauldons Brewery’s Suffolk Pride ranked among best bitters in the nation by The Telegraph
A town brewery’s award-winning bitter has been named among the top six in the nation by a national newspaper, a ranking which resulted in it selling out of the ale.
The Telegraph rated Mauldons Brewery’s Suffolk Pride alongside Moor Beer Co Bitter, Holden’s Black Country Bitter, Oakham Ales JHB, Verdant Brewing Co ESB and Phoenix Brewery’s Wobbly Bob as the UK’s best.
The business, based on the Chilton Industrial Estate in Sudbury, previously won the bronze medal for Best British Bitter at the SIBA Independent Beer Awards last year with the product, one of its six core ales.
Its head brewer, Steve Birch, celebrated having made 25 million pints at the end of April, the equivalent of six Olympic swimming pools worth of beer.
Charlie Buckle, managing director of the Nedging Hall Estate, which Mauldons is a part of, said: “I am immensely proud of the team at Mauldons Brewery.
“This is acknowledgement of the hard work that goes in to producing a delicious pint of Suffolk Pride.
“I am also proud of Suffolk, the wonderful heritage, hospitality and countryside that we are so lucky to enjoy every day – so to be enjoying recognition with a beer named after the county is brilliant.”
The Telegraph piece is not the only high-profile recognition Suffolk Pride has had this year.
It was featured on Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Weekend recently, where it was highly-rated by celebrity guests Prue Leith and Joe Sugg.
Laura Hadland, author of The Telegraph article, said of the beer: “Deep caramel in colour, with a light body and backnote of digestive biscuits under a faintly sweet caramel flavour with a touch of bitterness at the end.
“It is light and refreshing with some notes of banana and raisin on the finish.”
Having sold out after the article, Suffolk Pride is now back in stock on the Mauldons website and at its bottle shop.
Alongside Mauldons, the Nedging Hall Estate comprises pubs The Lindsey Rose, The Bildeston Crown and The Brewery Tap in Sudbury.
On the estate farm, grain is grown which the brewery crafts into ales served in its pubs. The business aims to work full circle as part of its Estate to Plate ethos.
