Allsopp’s Arctic Beer commissioned by Queen Victoria tasted by Kirsty Allsop after 130 years on Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast

Kirsty Allsop came to Jamie and Jimmy’s kitchen to cook one of her favourite Indian dish, but Jamie and Jimmy surprised her with a bottle of a long lost family drink all the way from the USA.

Kirsty’s family comes from a long line of brewers, and in tonight’s episode of Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast, Kirsty spoke about a few of the beers her family produced in the past. One of which was the Arctic beer which was commissioned by Queen Victoria.

The queen wanted a beer that was life sustaining and that could be consumed by Arctic explores and invited the country’s best known brewers to compete to see who could deliver a beer to meet her brief.

It was Allsop brewer that won, and last summer Jamie and Jimmy flew in a beer historian from the States that brought with him a bottle of a beer brewed by Kirsty’s family company in 1875. Kirsty was invited to taste the 130 year old beer and said it was delicious.