REDCOAT RUBY MILD

3.9% ABV

Available: May

Easy drinking ruby mild delicately spiced with Goldings hops. 

We use challenger and traditional Goldings hops to give this beer its fruity bitterness.

The abundance of water attracted weavers into the surrounding valleys and Stroud grew to become the centre famous for cloth of exceptional quality, among them the famous Stroud scarlet. The lengths of this cloth were dried in the fields and several historians have commented on the appearance of the landscape in and around Stroud, in their day. A painting in the Stroud Museum in the Park shows a panorama from Rodborough Fort, with large areas of red cloth spread out in the green fields or hung on the tenters.

Stroudwater Scarlet clothed the redcoats who fought rebellious American colonists; it clothed the redcoats of Wellington's Peninsular Army when he pushed the French out of Spain, and it clothed them when they finished off Napoleon at Waterloo. It clothed the little detachment of Welshmen who fought off thousands of Zulu warriors at Rourke's Drift in Natal. There was a time when Stroud Scarlet was the most famous colour in the world!