Daleside Old Leg Over

The Daleside Brewery opened in 1991 in Harrogate, the Victorian spa town famous for its healing waters, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It has expanded several times over the years. It uses the best quality malts, whole leaf hops, Daleside's own yeast and Harrogate water. The adoption of the full traditional brewing process together with the pride and expertise of the family tradition and the quality ingredients are all aimed at securing the high quality of Daleside's beers.

Old Leg Over is a well balanced mid-brown refreshing beer with nutty overtones, followed by an equally well-balanced late fruity bittersweet aftertaste. There appears no explanation for the rather quaint choice of name. It is designed to be an essentially Yorkshire beer with malt tastes slightly more prominent than hoppy flavours, though not so much as to not be well balanced.

As far as ingredients go, all we are told is that it contains malted barley and wheat, though like all Daleside beers it is brewed using quality grain malts from a traditional Yorkshire maltster, an unique yeast strain, full-leafed hops and Yorkshire Dales water. ABV is 4.1% and the beer is not bottle-conditioned.

Trivial factoid - the Daleside Brewery sponsor the Auld Lang Syne Fell Race held every New Years Eve and every entrant gets a bottle of Old Leg Over.