FIVE VALLEYS PREMIUM BITTER

5% ABV

Available: January - February

Traditional chestnut coloured, rich and fruity strong ale.

The Story

Stroud, set at the meeting point of five streams and rivers which flow steadily along five valleys then onward as the River Frome to the River Severn, the town has been a hotbed of industrial, spiritual and artistic activity for hundreds of years. Strouds five valleys are the:

Chalford Valley (Golden Valley)
Chalford is the largest of the valleys where the River Frome runs down the bottom of a deep narrow gorge from Sapperton to Stroud.

Painswick Valley
The Painswick Valley with its fast flowing streams attracted the cloth industry in the 18th and 19th century with some 30 fulling mills established which made the area very affluent. The town of Painswick, known as the Queen of the Cotswolds is a very popular Cotswold Touring destination.

Nailsworth Valley
The Nailsworth Avon rises near Cherrington, passing through Avening, Gatcombe Wood and Longford's Mill, before it is joined by a small stream at Nailsworth.
Nailsworth was a cloth making town and is situated at the foot of a deep wooded valley with houses spilling down the hillsides.

Slad Valley
The Slad valley, again, was a centre of clothmaking until the 19th century when the mills ceased production. The grey-stone village of Slad is scattered along the south-east slope of the narrow valley and has been immortalised by the poet and author Laurie Lee.

Cam Valley
In an area lying between Frocester Hill in the north-east, and Stinchcombe Hill in the south-west, the Cotswold escarpment forms a natural amphitheatre around the low lying Cam valley. The large village of Cam is 1 mile north of the town of Dursley and one mill remains here producing high quality cloth used largley for tennis balls, billiard tables and guardsmens's uniforms.

Above information taken from Cotswolds Info