Sixteen Tons pub-restaurant has its own brewery making beer from natural primary materials: malt, hop and yeast. We use the finest sorts of these materials exported from England. Our beer is prepared exclusively for our clients. The recipe is patented; it won the highest acclaims at numerous competitions. We make beer basing on the classical technology of English ales without sugar, preservatives and stabilizers; our beer is unfiltered. Note that bottled beer and even beer from the wood made industrially is usually filtered and pasteurized. This allows to store it for a long time and to convey it; however, such beer can hardly be called a natural product. This is why only home breweries like ours can give you a feeling of "the beer's body", as brewers say. Besides, lately nearly all kinds of beer contain sugar which serves to raise alc.% in the beer; it adds some unnatural spirituous nuances to the taste. Unlike filtered beer, our unfiltered product contains useful microelements, vitamins and ferments. Unfiltered beer improves digestion, increases working efficiency and improves health in general. In ancient Sparta, sportsmen drank unfiltered beer as an invigorant.
The whole technological process from A to Z takes place in the same room. Thus we minimize different stages of sifonage, decantation and interfusion that spoil the beer's natural taste.
We make two sorts of beer: special lager and double dark. Light sorts of malt and aromatic hop give a refreshing impression of a soft drink. Caramel and burnt malt in double dark beer create an unforgettable deep taste, while bitter sorts of hop make the drink austere and strong. The beer is kept in mash-tubs for several months, gaining every possible nuance of taste and smell. Such beer has a special amber glimmering that becomes visible if you look at the light through the drink.
We are proud of our beer. It is the result of practical experiments and technological discoveries that took several years, a recherchй drink for real gourmets.
What is more, our beer will not cause any unpleasant symptoms the next day. You will keep only good memories about the night spent in our pub, due to high quality primary materials, filtered water used in the brewery, strict observance of all technological rules - and the brewers' love for their work, of course.
"Drinks Russia `97 & Moscow Beer Festival" awards 16 Tons brewery the Golden Certificate in Pale Ale category for high quality production and for preserving English brewery traditions.
The International exhibition company ITE Group Plc (Byron House, London), the 2nd International Drinks and Technologies Exhibition certify that 16 Tons Brewery won a high appraisal of the degustation committee for high quality of the natural beer made according to English brewery traditions. The brewery became golden medallist in the International Degustation Beer Competition in 1998.
In 1999, 16 Tons Club won the first prize as the Best Beer Restaurant (Amber Cross award from Beer Fans Association). 16 Tons Beer won Beer Fan Association diplomas in "Pale Ale" and "Dark Ale" categories.