The Coniston Brewing Co.

This beer is brewed in memory of Harry Belton, the brewer’s grandfather, who was a master blacksmith in Coniston.

Tasting Notes: This rich, strong ale warming with hints of Christmas pudding is brewed using Challenger hops and crystal malt.

It is, quite simply, a wonderful beer. It is exceedingly pale (21-22 units colour), with just a hint of colour in its cheeks from the dash of crystal malt.

Tasting Notes: It has a massive orange fruit aroma from the challengers, balanced by biscuity malt.

Bluebird XB combines two of the great themes of ale brewing to produce something distinctive and new. The fine tradition of English Pale Ale is about quaffing, refreshment and complexity of flavour without alcoholic strength.

Tasting Notes: Then throw in new wave American hop variety Mount Hood with robust citrus aromas and the result is a smooth ale with floral hints, light malt tones and a hoppy freshness.

A radically different beer... it has roast barley added to the pale and crystal malts. It is a remarkably complex beer that deepens and changes as you sip it

Tasting Notes: It has a deep burnished copper colour, a rich port wine aroma, a big chocolate and creamy malt palate and a dry, grainy, roasted finish balanced by hop bitterness and tart fruit

This commemorative beer is a light straw coloured, easy drinking mild, subtly hopped with Whitbread's Golding variety hop and brewed using only the finest malt and a generous amount of demerara sugar.

Tasting Notes: 

Oats are used in the grist of this beer to give body and smoothness, enhancing the roasted barley, giving it complex flavours reminiscent of dark chocolate and coffee. This is balanced by a fresh hop bitterness and dry finish.

Tasting Notes: Chocolate, coffee, dry