A HAMPSHIRE farmer turned real ale enthusiast has launched a beer to mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day.
Martin Bazeley has a dairy and cereal farm on the Southwick Estate at Southwick, near Fareham - the village where the D-Day offensive of June 6, 1944, was planned.
Mr Bazeley, of Offwell Farm, started making ales from his own malting barley in 2000 under the Suthwyk Ales name. Now he is adding a third beer, called Liberation, to the range.
He said: "It's certainly shifting. I took my first delivery of six cases to a local shop and they phoned the next day saying they'd sold all but ten bottles. That's 110 bottles in a day!
"We thought that we should do something for the 60th anniversary as we are here and growing barley next to Southwick House where it all happened."
Liberation is brewed from Southwick malting barley and an American hop called Liberty.
The label on the bottle shows generals Eisenhower and Montgomery clutching their own bottle of the beer.
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