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Why not have a Meantime in the meantime?  
MeantimeAt The Mercer we pride ourselves on using the best British produce in both our food and drinks. Therefore our choice of beer is Meantime from Greenwich. Founded by visionary Brewmaster Alastair Hook – the British Guild of Beer Writers’ Brewer of the Year 2008 - the brewery has, in ten short years, built an enviable reputation for the quality and diversity of its beers.

Founded in 2000, Meantime’s mission is to explore the combinations of flavours beer has to offer and bring them to the drinking public. This is why they were the first British brewery to win medals at the World Beer Cup in 2004 and remain the only brewery to have won medals at every WBC since.

Meantime draw inspiration from the Thames flowing past the brewery. Once cargo ships laden with casks of Porter and India Pale Ale sailed on the ebb tide to all four corners of the globe; whilst ships weighed with exotic cargoes such as coffee and chocolate floated upriver to London; inspiring Meantime’s Chocolate and Coffee beers.

Our selection of Meantime beers includes

Organic Pilsner 4.7% abv
A gentle maltiness on the nose deceives as a massive hop flavour envelopes the tongue. Lots of organic Perle and Halletauer hops give the correct levels of bitterness, making this delicately hued pilsner true to the German style, as well as enabling it to stand up much better than most lagers to stronger flavours such as mature cheeses, hams and smoked meats or oily fish.

Grand Cru Wheat 6.3% abv
A cloudy, golden-orange beer with a moderately dense white head displaying a mixed combination of banana, fruit, bubblegum, spice and zesty aromas and flavours, all created in true Bavarian wheat beer style with the use of a unique yeast strain that brings out the true character of the wheat malt used in the brew.

meantime beersChocolate Beer 6.5% abv
A silky-smooth suppertime beer, created using dark malts and chocolate. Pronounced vanilla notes fuse the chocolate and malts together to give a rich, warming flavour that also works well as a complement to fruity desserts.

Pale Ale 4.7% abv
In the days before lager a Pale Ale was a treat. It was the beer that cost that little bit extra. It was the first beer to make a statement about the drinker. Meantime’s Pale Ale is a little bit special too. English Goldings and American Cascade and Cluster hops provide the bitterness, whilst the unique dry hopping technique with bucketfuls of Cascade and Willamette hop gives it a truly tantalising aroma.

London Porter 6.5% abv
No fewer than seven malts go into this Porter, helping recreate a recipe of 1750, specially chosen to bring you the flavours so loved by Londoners that demand for Porter made London the brewing capital of the world. Porter offers light roast malt on the nose and on the tongue a sweetish caramel gives way to a mouthful of smoky, dry maltiness, and an astringency on the finish that comes entirely from the brown, black and chocolate malts.


 


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