A TINY brewery in the heart of the Wye Valley will be flying the flag for Welsh Brewing at this week's Great British Beer Festival at London's Earls Court. Kinsons Gold, from Kingstone Brewery at Whitebrook, is one of 28 beers specially selected by CAMRA, from brewers both large and small, to represent the very best in Welsh brewing. "It was very nice to be invited, especially as we're so tiny," Jill Austwick, wife of Kingstone's Head Brewer, Brian Austwich, told the Beacon, "and what's wonderful this year is that for the first time they've got a Welsh bar." Brian explained just how tiny the brewery is: "A brewery is measured by the number of 36 gallon barrels it can produce in one brew. A small micro brewery can produce up to ten, a small regional brewery, around 40 - we can produce four! "However, it does mean that we can produce a wide range of beers (currently we have ten), something which can be an uneconomic proposition for larger breweries. "We produce Real Ale, as Real as it can be - we brew it, ferment it and bottle or barrel it. That's it. We don't filter, pasteurise, carbonate, re-seed, prime or blend the beers. We don't use animal products or preservatives in our bottled beers. In common with the rest of the brewing industry, our cask ales will usually have a small quantity of Isinglas Finings (derived from fish) added to help the beer settle quickly in trade, but we can even leave that out if requested." Kingstone is believed to be the first Welsh Brewery to gain the coveted Organic Certification under the Welsh Organic Scheme. Organic Gold, the first of three planned Organic Beers, was launched at the Royal Welsh Show. The Brewery uses only locally sourced organic barley and hops, which limits the range available, as only a few varieties are grown in the UK and Europe. However, Brian Austwick feels " that it rather defeats the object of Organic production to fly in hops from New Zealand, where the majority of the World's Organic hops are grown. "The whole rationale behind small, local Breweries, is to provide a high quality product delivered to the consumer with the lowest possible beer miles. We feel that we are achieving that aim with all our products. "As we are so small, we can react to customer demand. It became apparent from talking to our customers at Farmers Markets, that there were a large number of people who liked dark beers, but just couldn't find them. "So we produced our No 1 Stout which has become enormously popular. "More recently, we brewed a beer we called 1503 - a dark beer brewed to a recipe chronicled in 1503 (Henry VII's Tudor England) and one of the first recorded uses of hops, which at that time, were used largely as a preservative, rather than for flavour.' The beer was launched at the Caerphilly Big Cheese Festival - and sold out both days! Kingstone send their beers to specialist beer shops and festivals far and wide, as well as supplying local businesses. They also attend the Monmouth and Usk Farmers Markets and the St. Briavels Produce Market.