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Dark, complex with a bitter aftertaste, new beer inspired by page-turning conspiracy thriller

Jarrow Brewery have created a new beer inspired by a book from Newcastle based Zymurgy Publishing.

Gladio: We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny is by Whitley Bay based author Steve Chambers who teaches at Northumbria University, he has worked as a dramatist for many years writing for radio, stage, television and cinema.

Gladio:We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny is a conspiracy thriller, the central character is TV journalist John Bradley who discovers a murderous, conspiracy during the 1980s miners strike.

Twenty years later the past comes back to find him. John’s search for the truth takes him on a journey through Europe. Operation Gladio was an undercover organisation in western Europe sponsored and supported by the CIA.

Jarrow Brewery’s Jess McConnell first discussed creating a beer inspired by Gladio a few months ago in November when the book was published in paperback, Jess said: “Gladio is a page-turner with many threads and themes, the idea struck me that it would be interesting to create a beer that will be dark, complex with a bitter aftertaste.”

The beer will be available at pubs throughout the north east initially. The book is available from bookshops nationally and as an e-book from Amazon and other e-book retailers.

Jarrow Brewery’s marketing manager Mike Berriman said: “We hope Gladio the beer will be as fast-moving as Gladio the book.”

The book has been selected for the Peoples Book Prize and Zymurgy has interest from international publishers in the rights for foreign language editions.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Martin Ellis .