According to the splash page on their website, Suma is the UK’s largest independent wholesaler and distributor of quality vegetarian, fairly traded, organic and natural foods. There are around 7,000 products listed that they either make or distribute. You can now add one more to their list: organic beer.
Today’s Yorkshire Post gave a few scant details on the project. From the article:
The UK’s biggest independent distributor of organic food, Halifax-based Suma Foods, has launched a range of organic beers. The beers are all CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) approved, certified organic by the Soil Association and are vegan.
The beer is brewed locally by a Dutch master brewer who the company has been working with over the past 18 months to develop the range.
The names for the beers were chosen by Suma’s customers in a competition and reflect local places and folklore in the Calder Valley.
Though curiously the names of the beers were not revealed and Suma’s somewhat sparse website gives no details either. Now that’s good reporting.
hello
yes the report in the YP was a bit brief and our website is ahem “undergoing reconstruction”, but the names are
Long Wall Wall (local spectral mouse legend…. don’t ask) it a bottled conditioned blonde beer
Mytholm Mist after the area in which it is brewed this is a wheat beer finished with coriander and lime
Elphin Brook (the waters that feeds the brewery) is a red ale, a typical yorkshire bitter
Penumbra (we were going to call this Crow after the ted hughes poems, who was local to us but the estate would have sued us back into the stoneage) it is a stout brewed with chocolate malt and finished with orange peelings.
If you want the full deatails mail me back and i’ll send the attachment that the YP didn’t use
Bye
Andrew Mac
Suma