The Ingredients

Malted barley
Barley which has been meticously dried and lightly roasted.

Malted barley provides the sugary solution for yeast fermentation. Many large brewers use cheaper sugars sourced from maize and rice for this purpose. Sharp's uses only British malted barley.

Hops
At Sharp's we only use whole dried natural hop flowers. Most of our contemporaries now use much cheaper hop pellets. These pellets are manufactured from hops using a long chemical process. We prefer to keep our beers as natural as possible even if it does cost us a little bit more!

Yeast
The Sharp's yeast strain has been with us since we started in '94. After every fermentation we carefully harvest some of the yeast for subsequent fermentations. This continuity imbues Sharp's beer with what many call "The Sharp's flavour". The norm nowadays in brewing is to dump all of the yeast after fermentation and to always use laboratory cultured mainstream yeast.

Water
Sharp's pure Cornish water is an essential ingredient.

Other ingredients that may be present in beer - but never in Sharp's beer!!!
Tetrahydroiso-alpha acids
Sulphur Dioxide
Protease
Betaglucanase
Amyloglucosidase
Ammonia Caramel
Propylene Glycol
Rhoiso-alpha Acids
Autolysed Yeast
Sulphuric Acid
Silicone