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Frog Island
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Frog Island, Croak & Stagger (England) 
(RP) Frog Island's beers have such tongue-in-cheek names as Natterjack and Fire Bellied Toad as well as Shoemaker in memory of Northampton�s industrial past. Croak & Stagger is a bottle-conditioned beer, brewed from pale, crystal, chocolate and wheat malts and hopped with American Cascade and English Target. The Cascade is renowned for imparting a powerful blast of grapefruit to the aroma and palate of the beer, and it is joined in C&S; by chocolate and juicy malt on the nose and in the mouth, followed by a long, complex finish with biscuity malt, tangy citrus fruit and chocolate. The beer first appeared in 1995 as a cask winter beer and Bruce and Graham have reduced the strength a little for the bottled version as they say the original had not enough croak but far too much stagger. 5.6% ABV, 50cl, �26.99 X 12, Livingbeer.com. | |
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