"I'm a Canuck, though," I would protest. "Not with a name like Jones. You're Welsh!" they would counter.
In all my years, though, I had never had a beer from Wales. Well, that is 'til today. This week I was happy to find a Welsh beer sitting on the shelf of my local LCBO, the Celt Experience Bronze Ale.
It seems that Wales has quite a few breweries but Newmans Brewery is a small craft brewery which brews its beer in small batches. Located in Caerphilly in southern Wales that features the ruins of a roman fort and one of the largest medieval fortresses in Britain, Caerphilly Ca

Tom Newman was a chartered water engineer in Cardiff and in 2001 started dreaming and planning on opening his own brewery and creating beers based on historic Celtic brewing methods.
He started in his fathers garage in 2003 with a small 5 barrel brewery. He won some awards for his beers and in 2005 bought Smiles brewery in Bristol which gave him a a 20 barrel brewery. It was in 2007 that he decided to move to the 'land of his father' Teifion Newm

banner, along with the other beers he had created over the years.
This beer is named after the Bronze Age Celts. Recent discoveries in Bavaria have shown Celtic tribes were brewing as far back as 800 BC. The name Bracis-Curmi (malted beer) traces back to the ancient Celtic language or proto-celtic, an age where Celts were some of the first beer producers in Europe.
Time for a taste.
The beer does pour bronze in colour with a white head. As the head dissipates and I sip it, lots of lacings remain on the inside of the glass. Even though it has only 4.5% APV (4.3% a
How much? Sundays are great days to have lighter beers and this one is a perfect Sunday beer. It is good for any night of the week but as long as the LCBO stocks this, I will be buying it!
I would love one day to have one on tap while sitting in a pub in Cardiff or Caerphilly. One day!
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