Miller's Ale Crackers 100g

A savoury cracker for cheese made with brown ale, hops and malted grain, hand-baked by Miller's at a family bakery in Ashbourne in Derbyshire that has been going for more than a hundred years and still sifts and weighs its ingredients by hand.

The dough is wheat flour and 26% stoneground wholemeal, mixed with brown ale, crushed malted barley and wheat, crushed crystal malt, malt extract, a little soft brown sugar, salt, autolysed yeast and hops. The baker describes it as made with hops, roasted wheat, barley and malt, a deeply savoury cracker for cheese, and that is exactly how it eats: dark, toasty and malty, with a faint bitterness from the hops that reads like the last mouthful of a pint.

That bitterness is what makes it a good cracker for strong cheese. It stands up to a mature cheddar such as Quicke's Mature Clothbound Cheddar, a crumbly blue like Butlers Blacksticks Blue, and the sort of washed-rind cheese that would flatten a water biscuit. Add a spoonful of Mrs Darlington's Real Ale Chutney and you have a ploughman's on a plate. It also holds a slice of ham or a smear of pâté without breaking.

A 100g box. Contains gluten from wheat and barley, and the bakery says its products are not suitable for nut allergy sufferers. The baker uses no artificial additives or preservatives. Contains no animal products according to the ingredient list.

• Gluten
• Not suitable for nut allergy sufferers

Delivery

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Cheese is cut fresh to order and sent chilled, dispatched every Monday and Wednesday. Everything in your order ships together in one insulated box, arriving the next day.

Delivery £4.95, free on orders over £50. Chilled delivery £5.95.

Returns

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