Triple fff Brewery Pressed Rat & Warthog
Triple fff Pressed Rat and Warthog – new on today at The Fox Inn at Fox Corner.
Dark Mild
Complex mild perhaps not in the traditional sense but we like our beers hoppy! Ruby coloured, coffee, chocolate aroma with hints of dried fruits and sour cherry leads to a soft yet full roast flavour, fruit and malt vying with the rounded hoppy bittersweet finish. Interestingly, not only for the mild fanatics but the bitter lovers too. Both will be left satisfied and wanting more.
ABV 3.8%
Triple fff Brewery Pressed Rat & Warthog
Awards
Champion Mild of Britain
Great British Beer Festival 2002
CAMRA Beer of the Festival GOLD
CAMRA Vale of Aylesbury 2003
CAMRA Reading Overall Champion GOLD
2006
CAMRA Mild of the Festival GOLD
CAMRA Woking 2010
CAMRA Mild Category GOLD
CAMRA South East & London 2011
CAMRA Mild Category SILVER
CAMRA South East & London 2012
CAMRA Mild of the Festival GOLD
CAMRA Woking 2014
CAMRA Mild Category GOLD
CAMRA South East & London 2015
CAMRA South East Mild Competition – Winner
CAMRA Reading 2015
The History of Triple FFF
Significantly, the brewery Triple fff was launched in 1997 by Graham Trott, a cabinet maker by trade who was a keen home brewer. One of the most popular questions they get asked is ‘What is Triple fff?’. Furthermore as many of you know all their beers (Alton’s Pride aside) are either song or album titles. Triple fff in music stands for fortississimo and means very very loud.
Furthermore, he installed a 5 barrel plant (20 casks) in one of the units vacated by the now closed furniture factory on Station Approach in the village of Four Marks. Interestingly, this station still operates on the steam heritage Watercress Line which runs ten miles between Alton and Alresford.
As has been noted, their beer names came from song titles of many of the 60s rock icons, Van Morrison, Led Zeppelin and Cream with Moondance (4.2% ABV), Stairway (4.6% ABV) and the well loved Pressed Rat and Warthog (3.8% ABV). In contrast, the psychedelic 60s did not spawn a song called Alton Pride (3.8% ABV) but that joined the lyrical portfolio and is their number one seller following its success at 2008’s Great British Beer Festival having been voted Supreme Champion Beer of Britain.