BAKE & ALEHOUSE

This libation, which we class as a 'Golden Ale', has a strength of 4% ABV.

The first new permanent beer for 4 years, Spirit of Kent celebrates the Kent Spitfire, a Mark IX Spitfire housed at the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar. It also remembers the 'XXX Modification Depth Charges' that flew out of Biggin Hill in June 1944 filled with Westerham Ales. The 'XXX Joy Juice' was racked into the unused auxiliary fuel tanks and flown over to the forward airbases in France click here for more details. This golden ale is hopped with 9 different types of Kent bred and Kent grown hops in a total of 9 separate additions. That really is the Spirit of Kent.

So far, this is one of 41 beers from Westerham Brewery that have been sold at the Bake & Alehouse.


To date, the Bake & Alehouse has supplied -

From THIS brewery:

• 12 ales with a higher strength
• 24 ales of this ABV
• 4 ales with a lower ABV

From ALL breweries:

• 484 stronger ales
• 126 ales of this strength
  
• 157 weaker ales
• 13 ales with an unrecorded strength