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Launched in April 2006 for the UK market. Brewed in Bremen, but packaged in the UK. "The Vier brand, whose German name translates as "four", is being positioned at the top end of the standard lager sector.

Tasting Notes: Beck’s Vier is a 4% pilsner lager brewed with the same uncompromising approach to quality and authenticity as Beck’s. Imported from Bremen, Germany, Beck’s Vier is brewed with precision to the Reinheitsgebot purity law, which ensures that only four pure ingredients are ever involved. This unique blend of golden barley, Bavarian hops, pure glacier water and unique yeast gives Beck’s Vier its clean, crisp, full bodied taste and exceptional refreshment.

A full flavoured black ale with a satisfying bitter finish. Deep, dark and decidedly drinkable.

Tasting Notes: Bitter

A high volume barley wine.

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A crisp and fruity pale ale brewed with American and New Zealand hops. A stalwart of the independent brewing scene in Manchester.

Tasting Notes: Crisp, fruity

Smooth Amber Ale bursting with hop aromas including Citrus, Peach, and Apricot

Tasting Notes: Citrus, fruity

A delicate lager malt and wheat malt base meets juicy new world hops. Crisp and zesty upfront with a long bitter finish.

Tasting Notes: This award winning golden ale is dry & hoppy with a slight grapefruit aroma.

It is brewed using fine yeast according to a traditional recipe and, of course, in strict accordance with the Bavarian Purity Law.

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Estrella Damm is a Mediterranean beer, made with malt, rice and hop, brewed with 100% natural ingredients according to the original recipe from 1876

Tasting Notes: A light malty aroma on the nose with a little spice drifting through slowly.

Swirling clouds tumble as the storm begins to calm.

Tasting Notes: Unmistakeably GUINNESS®, from the first velvet sip to the last, lingering drop. And every deep-dark satisfying mouthful in between.

Brewing beer is a 100% natural process. Heineken beer is made from the purest ingredients.

Tasting Notes: The resin from the female hop flower cones is used to help balance the sweetness of the barley with a refreshing bitterness.

The beer that made us famous, our Joseph Holt Bitter. Pours a deep amber with a creamy head encompassing full bitterness with a dry malt base.

Tasting Notes: A full drinking and original cask bitter that is rich in both colour and taste. Pours a clear amber, almost ruby, colour with creamy white head. It has a mild fruity and woody aroma, with berry undertones. Drinks smooth with a woody, malty and slightly peppery taste with a hint of floral hops.

2011 saw the introduction of our IPA, which has proved to be very popular in both Free Trade and the selected Joseph Holt pubs that stock it.

Tasting Notes: Our IPA is a very pale, traditional, English ale with relatively high bitterness and a fragrant hop aroma. It is brewed with traditional East Kent Goldings and Slovenian Styrian Goldings.

A pale golden beer with fresh hop flavours and a clean satisfying finish. The perfect session ale.

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A lip loosening red ale brewed with crystal rye and big hop flavours. Beer worth shouting about.

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The well balanced, full bodied, highly drinkable and pleasantly smooth taste of our Staropramen offers a rewarding pleasure of the genuine Czech beer.

Tasting Notes: With a rich, spicy, floral aroma. Full flavoured hop and bread-like malt flavours, with a lingering dry finish

A refreshing medium-dry sparkling cider that is bursting with the delicious flavour of crisp cider apples

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Strongbow gets its distinctive flavour and cut-through refreshment through the unique blends of bittersweet British cider apples from our Herefordshire orchards.

Tasting Notes: The cider is made from a blend of bittersweet cider and culinary apples making it a well-rounded, balanced cider with a good mix of fresh apples and cidery flavour