The Caledonian Brewery was founded by Messrs Lorimer and Clark in 1869 and was sold to Vaux of Sunderland in 1919. In 1987, the brewery was saved from closure by a management buy-out. The brewery site was purchased by Scottish & Newcastle in 2004 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of S&N/Heineken in 2008. A rolling programme of seasonal beers is produced, as well as Deuchars IPA and Caledonian 80/-.
Golden Promise claims to be the first organically brewed beer in Britain. It is named after Scotland's most famous malting barley, which is prized by brewers and distillers for producing a beautiful rounded sweet malt flavour, said to be reminiscent of Ovaltine. Organically grown aroma hops are added to Caledonian's unique direct fired open coppers to create this award winning beer.
The beer is a rich golden colour, full of spicy aromas with hints of cinnamon and vanilla. It has a clean dry crisp taste, lively and thirst quenching, with a noticeable finish that tastes of sherbert lemons.
It uses organic Optic malt together with the addition of organic whole hop flowers First Gold and Hallertau Hersbrucker. The ABV is 5% (but only 4.4% for the draught version apparently). It is not bottle conditioned.
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