On Tap is a regular column featuring our recommendations on the most unique new draft beer offerings from local pubs.
Our Recommendation: Wells Bombardier, Wells & Young’s Brewing Company
Where: The Whip Tavern, 1383 North Chatham Road, West Marlborough, PA 19320
In keeping with its British heritage, The Whip Tavern often has a few British Ales on tap. After disappearing from the lineup earlier this year, they recently brought back the popular Wells Bombardier. Wells & Young is the UK’s largest private brewery.
KC Kulp, a partner at the tavern describes Bombardier as a “very smooth drinking English Bitter with a sweet bready nose, a fruity flavor and a pleasantly dry finish.” The ale pours a deep copper red color and comes in at 5.3% alcohol. He recommends pairing the Wells Bombardier with The Whip’s Pork Delmonico.
“We had Bombardier on for quite a while earlier in the year,” KC explains. “Due to supply limitations, we switched up the handle to Fuller’s Chiswick bitter. Now that we’ve been assured that our distributor’s supply can be sustained, we brought it back. We don’t have any plans on changing that tap any time soon.”
When asked what other unique brews The Whip has coming up, KC says, “We’ve had a lot of fun with our two ‘Locals Only’ taps and our local cask handle. We recently took Bass off of our tower when Bud started brewing it in Syracuse. That freed up another handle which we are dedicating to domestic crafts.”
KC expects to tap Cottrell Summer Ale, Yards’ Cape of Good Hope and Victory’s Mad King Weiss. Also, they will soon offer two Sly Fox casks to round out the summer, the Chester County Brown and Route 113 IPA.
Previous On Tap columns featured the following: Fuller’s ESB, click here; Earth Bread + Brewery’s Black Irish Stout, click here; Sierra Nevada’s A Lighter Shade of Pale, click here; Deschutes Brewery’s Mirror Pond Ale, click here; Sierra Nevada’s Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale, click here.
