Roll up! Roll up! Bare witness and marvel at the wonder of Jumbo, an India Pale Ale of epic proportion! Presented to the world at The Great Exhibition of Prize Ales, Jumbo represents a daring collaboration between two esteemed outfits, Anspach & Hobday and Kirkstall Brewery. Countless bushels of the finest malted barley and bales of prized English hops are fused together giving rise to notes of pithy marmalade, sweet malt and bitter grapefruit. A true feat of brewing mastery, Jumbo IPA will undoubtedly delight one and all!
How We Made It
We’ve come together with Kirkstall Brewery to make a wonderful beer worthy of their Great Exhibition of Prize Ales. The four-day beer festival, held at Kirkstall in Leeds, challenged participating brewers to create new beers which explore a connection to the past. We brewed a big, bold IPA, with artwork inspired by historic Croydon brewery Nalder & Colly’s beer labels.
Nalder & Collyers was a historic Croydon brewery, not far from where Anspach & Hobday brews today. We were drawn to their illustrations of Jumbo and retro typography, which felt innately tied to the Victoriana aesthetic we've already established through our artwork.
The beer represents a true coming together of the old and the new, an ethos that we feel both breweries embrace. A significant portion of the grist is Chervallier, an English heritage variety that was widely used in the early 19th-century and was the dominant malted barley used for much of the Victorian era. Chervallier gives a wonderful, pronounced sweet malt character with notes of honey and even marmalade. This is paired with a blend of more contemporary, English hops, led by Ernest, offering up aromas of bitter grapefruit, apricot and spice. A clean, American Ale yeast strain allows these characteristics to shine through, resulting in a well balanced yet complex beer.