Black Sheep Riggwelter Reviews

Riggwelter is another beer from one of my favorite breweries, Black Sheep Brewery! The word Riggwelter means a sheep that is unable to stand, and after a few of these it will totally have you riggweltered! It is fairly strong, and the flavor is lovely and intense, nice malt with several different hop flavors throughout! I am ...  Read the complete review

Riggwelter: from the Old Norse words "rigg", meaning back or shoulder and "velte", to overturn. If a sheep rolls over onto its back and can't get up without help, local Dales dialect says it is rigged or riggwelted. Riggwelter is a full flavoured strong Yorkshire ale brewed using our unusual Yorkshire Square ...  Read the complete review

Last Thursday night we went to the Oakwood Beer Festival, held in the college buildings in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. This year's theme was beer from Sheep Country and the name of the Festival was The Great Baa! There were beers, wines and ciders from all the regions you would associate with sheep farming ~ such as Yorkshire, ...  Read the complete review

Riggwelter is a good old fashioned English Ales brewed at the Masham brewery deep in the Yorkshire Dales. The name comes from the old the old Norse, "Rygg" shoulder and "Velte" to overturn. So, when a sheep falls over and is unable to get up of it's own accord, it was known by the farmers to have rigged or been ...  Read the complete review

I'd better start off by telling you the strange meaning of the name of this rather fine ale. In yourkshire tounge (love it or hate it) rigged means to be drunk or fallen over on your back. And the welter part of the name comes from a sheep. As depicted on the front of the bottle (or pump) a pissed sheep. The ale iteslf is a proper ...  Read the complete review