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Woodforde’s fans and acknowledged as their flagship brew, was given the accolade of the Campaign for Real Ale’s ‘New Breweries Champion Beer of Britain’. This was followed two years later by the supreme honour when Norfolk Nog ‘Old’ ale was voted outright ‘Champion Beer of Britain 1992/93’, and overnight the brewery became known throughout the land. Norfolk Nog has subsequently been voted ‘Silver, Champion Winter Beer of Britain 1999.’ Nog has subsequently won several CAMRA awards.
The succeeding years saw awards for Mardler’s Mild (3.5%) which became ‘Champion Mild Ale of Britain’ in 1993/94, and for the consistently applauded Headcracker (7%) which became ‘Champion Draught Barley Wine of Britain’ in both 1993/94 and 1994/95.
Perhaps one of the contributing factors to Woodforde’s enormous national success was that the new brewery had its own borehole for the water supply. The high quality water, which is surprisingly very low in nitrates, is used in conjunction with finest East Anglian malted barley and high quality whole hops to produce Woodforde’s range of beers; these are constantly being developed to take into account the increasingly educated palate of the British beer drinker. Of note, Nelson’s Revenge (4.5%) was brewed to counteract the invasion of ‘foreign’ beers into Norfolk, and Great Eastern Ale (4.3%) . . .
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