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The original stalwart of the Black Sheep range. First brewed in 1992, Best Bitter is the iconic Yorkshire Bitter devised and created to offer beer with real flavour and bite. A different breed

Tasting Notes: Brewed with whole flower English hops, Best Bitter packs a genuine spiky bitterness with big character. Challenger, Goldings and Fuggle hops blend to create a beautiful aroma and flavour with kicks of grassy freshness and a big peppery punch. The Maris Otter malt offers a light sweetness that balances against those big bitter characters.

Brewed continuously since the company was founded in 1882, Brains Bitter is a crisp, honest beer with golden amber hues and a fruity, hoppy flavour. A truly popular pint, it's genuinely stood the test of time.

Tasting Notes: The famous ‘pint of Brains’ is rich amber coloured, well balanced and refreshing. Goldings and Fuggles hops from The Welsh Marches create an appetising crisp aroma to complement the subtle flavour of fine pale malt. Crystal clear water combines with the unique Brains yeast to create the complete Welsh beer experience.

Every bottle of Becks is brewed according to the uncompromising German Reinheitsgebot (Purity law). With a strong and committed heritage, Becks has had only 6 brew masters throughout a 125 year history.

Tasting Notes: Our original Becks is a classic German lager beer with a distinctive full-bodied taste, fresh "hoppy" bouquet, golden colour and a full rich head. Adding to its complexity is a slightly fruity but firm crispness and a dry, clean finish.

A bottom fermented beer with a golden colour. This colouring is a result of the type of malt used in brewing.

Tasting Notes: The best raw materials are used to make Birra Moretti, as well as a special blend of high quality hops that gives it a unique taste and fragrance, enhancing its perfectly balanced bitter taste.

A well-balanced, genuine Yorkshire Bitter, with a full measure of maltiness and hoppy aroma – Boltmaker is first choice for the discerning drinker – on both sides of the Pennines.

Tasting Notes: Scent of citrus, fruit and spicy hoppy aroma. Tastes of roasted malt with a bitter finish.

Brewed in Oxfordshire, using the famous Henley ‘ double-drop ’ fermentation system in Victorian copper fermentation vessels from the orignal Henley brewery.

Tasting Notes: This amber ale has a crystal malt and a well hopped bitterness in taste, which transforms into a bitter-sweet and fruity finish with a good fruit, hop and malt nose.

Boxer Blonde, a Pale straw coloured refreshing session ale with a delicate gooseberry flavour and aroma.

Tasting Notes: Gooseberry, Light Citrus

A refreshing alcohol free beer, characterised by fruity and fresh malt notes and light bodied. At just 69 calories this is a great refreshing drink for all.

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Hobgoblin Gold is the latest beer carrying the little fella’s moniker, and while Gold might be lighter in colour, it’s definitely no lightweight

Tasting Notes: A combination of six hop varieties (yes six!) & an infusion of wheat and malted barley has resulted in the perfect golden beer – with a huge hop punch.

Brewed from the finest spring planted barley malts, Peroni has a unique balanced taste with a delicate aroma arising from the hops of the most exclusive varieties.

Tasting Notes: Bright and light golden coloured with a pure white frothy head.

A powerfully authenic IPA, Proper Job is brewed with a blend of imported American hops. It is a real treat of a beer with a growing reputation and loved by beer enthusiasts far and wide.

Tasting Notes: Perhaps the forerunner of all modern IPAs in the UK, Proper Job regularly wins awards, both from within the brewing industry and also at CAMRA Beer Festivals. The awards include the prestigious Champion Bottle Beer at CBoB and Champion Premium Best Bitter at the SIBA National Beer Festival. Proper Job is also supported with a unique online supporter's scheme called Proper Job Ambassadors. Here a growing group of fans and enthusiasts are encourage to tweet/post ect their enjoyment of Proper Job to the world! It's a great way to support new stockists or listings with retailers.

Theakston Best Bitter is the leading session ale within the Theakston portfolio. When we refer to a ‘bitter’ beer, the term does not mean sour as in lemons, but dry as in ‘dry white wine’. So Best Bitter is a full bodied, dry beer. We use five different hop varieties to make our Best Bitter forming a complex but subtle taste profile. The combination of dryness as generated by Target and Challenger hops, is balanced by sweetness created by the generous use of prime malting barley providing the perfect accompaniment to a wide variety of food flavours as found in a Ploughman’s lunch for instance.

Tasting Notes: This fine, golden amber beer has a full flavour that lingers pleasantly on the palate. With good bittersweet balance, this beer has a subtle hop character described as sweet and fruity. It's a very refreshing and satisfying pint!

Theakston Best Bitter is the leading session ale within the Theakston portfolio. When we refer to a ‘bitter’ beer, the term does not mean sour as in lemons, but dry as in ‘dry white wine’. So Best Bitter is a full bodied, dry beer. We use five different hop varieties to make our Best Bitter forming a complex but subtle taste profile. The combination of dryness as generated by Target and Challenger hops, is balanced by sweetness created by the generous use of prime malting barley providing the perfect accompaniment to a wide variety of food flavours as found in a Ploughman’s lunch for instance.

Tasting Notes: This fine, golden amber beer has a full flavour that lingers pleasantly on the palate. With good bittersweet balance, this beer has a subtle hop character described as sweet and fruity. It's a very refreshing and satisfying pint!

Dark, refreshing beer.

Tasting Notes: A legendary black mild with a distinct chocolate malt taste and a hop fruit finish.

Dizzy Blonde started life as a limited edition seasonal ale. With demand quickly out stripping supply we promoted Dizzy to our core family range of ales.

Tasting Notes: Dizzy Blonde is a straw coloured ale with distinctive herbal or perfume like hop aroma. It’s a light refreshing beer with a clean zesty hop, complimented by a crisp dry finish.

Proper Yorkshire Bitter. Full bitter flavour balanced with a hint of fruity sweetness.

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A refreshing pale amber lager style summer ale, with aromas of sweet malt and fine hop.

Tasting Notes: Sweet, malty, refreshing

A clean, pale golden yellow beer with citrus aromas, A dry bitter sweet balance and full hop flavour.

Tasting Notes: Lemon, Bitter Sweet Balance

Well balanced IPA ale with tropical undertones

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Pale brown in appearance with a bitter after taste, Courage Best Bitter consumers enjoy its lower ABV of 4% that allows them the opportunity to enjoy their favourite ale for longer.

Tasting Notes: Sight: Copper Aroma: Hoppy, Fruity, Sweet Taste: Bitter, Fruity Palate

With more than 200 years of brewing pedigree Courage Best has good fullness mixed with a bitter and fruity palate making for easy drinking, accessible ale.

Tasting Notes: An enduring and classic bitter which is hazelnut in colour with a sweet fruity aroma, malty flavour and a distinctive hop character.

Deep golden ale with a fresh, sharp smell and a distinctive hoppy and bitter taste with just a hint of grapefruit and grassy floral finish.

Tasting Notes: Grapefruit, Malty, Dry

Best of British! This double award winning extra special Bitter is named after the WWII airplanes that made the famous Dam buster raids.

Tasting Notes: Brewed using pale ale and crystal malts for a rich full-bodied bitter flavour with biscuit and fruit malt aromas. The finely balanced hop character is enriched by the late addition of Styrian Goldings as a dry hop in each cask to give a more prominent floral hop aroma and warming aftertaste.

Trooper is a Premium British Beer inspired by Iron Maiden and handcrafted at Robinsons brewery. Malt flavours and citric notes from a unique blend of Bobec, Goldings and Cascade hops dominate this deep golden ale with a subtle hint of lemon.

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A refreshing, easy drinking blonde ale with a grapefruit aroma and a fresh citrus taste.

Tasting Notes: Moorhouse’s brewers have blended Brewers Gold hops with the ‘noble’ German origin Tettnang variety for blonde style ale that delivers ‘a refreshing fruity springtime flavour with a bit of citrus, flowers and rich peppery spice on the aroma.”

61 Deep. Newest brew on the Burton block. 61 metres. That’s the depth of the well at the Brewery that gives this refreshing pale ale its name.

Tasting Notes: The five American and Australian hops give it its fresh, zesty aroma, whilst the tropical fruit and citrus notes make it extremely drinkable. Dive in.

Beck's Blue is a light, crisp and refreshing alternative with no compromise on taste. Beck’s Blue adheres to the strict Reinheitsgebot. Only when the distinctive Beck’s flavour has been allowed to fully develop is the alcohol removed.

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Fresh and subtle fruit notes, a delicate malt sweetness and balanced bitterness for a clean, snappy finish.

Tasting Notes: Budweiser is a medium-bodied, flavorful, crisp and pure beer with blended layers of premium American and European hop aromas, brewed for the perfect balance of flavor and refreshment.

This light, dry beer has pleasant malt and hop notes with a round dry finish.

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Desperados is the world's first Tequila Flavoured Beer. A distinctive combination of full bodied lager with a kick of Tequila flavour

Tasting Notes: A light & refreshing taste profile balanced with spicy and lemony notes for sweetness.

Based on a recipe from 1885 The Rev. James Original is rich and well-balanced with a mellow malty flavour that unexpectedly gives way to a clean, refreshing finish. Brewed using exclusive Buckleys’ yeast this award winning ale will save your soul and satisfy your thirst.

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An earthy English pale ale, smooth & robust, floral & spicy aromas with a medium bitter finish.

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Double drop best bitter – dry-hopped, intensely flavoured, easy-going. A smooth beer, lightly caramelised and distinctly hoppy with a slightly dry finish.

Tasting Notes: A generous collection of aromas from wood & pine to soft fruits and roasted coffee, wonderfully combining to create a distinct yet traditional beer.

A refreshing Blonde session ale made with US and European hops, for a beer with a distinctive hoppy bite.

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Brewed using carefully selected old English hop varieties which include Fuggles, Golding and Challenger, added in is pale ale malts & chocolate malt

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Fully refreshing, this is a slightly deeper golden beer – full-bodied yet highly drinkable ale.

Tasting Notes: A spicy, hoppy treat of medium bitterness with a floral and slightly herbal bouquet.

A powerfully authenic IPA, Proper Job is brewed with a blend of imported American hops. It is a real treat of a beer with a growing reputation and loved by beer enthusiasts far and wide.

Tasting Notes: Perhaps the forerunner of all modern IPAs in the UK, Proper Job regularly wins awards, both from within the brewing industry and also at CAMRA Beer Festivals. The awards include the prestigious Champion Bottle Beer at CBoB and Champion Premium Best Bitter at the SIBA National Beer Festival. Proper Job is also supported with a unique online supporter's scheme called Proper Job Ambassadors. Here a growing group of fans and enthusiasts are encourage to tweet/post ect their enjoyment of Proper Job to the world! It's a great way to support new stockists or listings with retailers.

6X is our iconic ale, brewed for over 90 years with a national following of drinkers always seeking it out; it’s a beacon on the bar for many ale drinkers. 6X is the classic premium ale that has made Wadworth famous.

Tasting Notes: This hand crafted ale is a timeless amber-hued beer distinctively full bodied and eminently drinkable. The nose is malty and fruity with a balancing hoppy note. The delicious malt and fruit character emerge even more intensely on the palate with a long lingering malty finish.

A citrus aroma & flavoured with grapefruit, a touch of spiciness on the palate leading to a hoppy finish

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A robust and agile amber ale, first introduced to our range in 1994, Special Ale carries an explosion of fruit on the aroma and palate with the fruity esters offering notes of raisins and pear drops. The malt blend provides notes of toffee, caramel and biscuit which balances perfectly against those flavoursome British hops. Superbly bittersweet and an icon of our range, Special Ale holds a special place in our heart

Tasting Notes: Dark fruits hit the palate whilst the malt offers those sweet toffee and biscuit flavours.

A citrus blond ale.

Tasting Notes: A punchy, full-bodied blonde ale with a distinct fruit taste and citrus hop finish.

The beer that changed everything. The first brew they perfected, the beer that made their name with its distinctive bitter, clean and refreshingly dry flavour.

Tasting Notes: Made with only the best Maris Otter malt blended with a variety of English hops, Butcombe Original is the classic session beer.

Doom Bar is a perfectly balanced beer combining subtle yet complex flavours, Doom Bar is both satisfying and deliciously moreish.

Tasting Notes: “The aroma of Doom Bar combines an accomplished balance of spicy resinous hop, inviting sweet malt and delicate roasted notes. The mouth feel is a perfectly balanced and complex blend of succulent dried fruit, lightly roasted malty notes and a subtle yet assertive bitterness. The bitterness remains into the finish with dry fruity notes which implore the drinker to go back for more.” Stuart Howe, Head Brewer.

Dizzy blonde is a straw coloured ale with distinctive herbal or perfume like hop aroma. It’s a light refreshing beer with a clean zesty hop, complimented by a crisp dry finish.

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This all UK brew is bursting with hop character, smooth with a long bitter finish, named after the WW1 Dazzle warships, a donation is made to an armed forces charity for each cask sold

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A premium golden ale

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An easy drinking, refreshing IPA with a hoppy taste, and aroma to give a clean dry finish

Tasting Notes: Tawny Amber in colour with a hoppy taste and aroma.

In recent years its popularity has grown to the extent that it is now Britain’s leading premium ale: a welcome fixture in many pubs and off licences around the country, and now winning new friends abroad.

Tasting Notes: Rich, smooth and elegant on the palate, it draws to a clean, satisfying finish with beautifully balanced bitterness.

A superb golden coloured ale, brewed with English pale Ale malt and using only the finest English aromatic hops. Traditionally brewed using pure Lakeland water drawn from the brewery’s own well

Tasting Notes: Deep, golden, hoppy, spicy bitter

Soft citrus and peach flavours intertwined in this golden ale.

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The Real Refreshing Alternative. MPA is a golden ale made from all British Malt, Liberty and Mount Hood hops. It’s brewed especially for bottles to capture the full, hoppy character of our cask beer - it’s the perfect alternative to draught MPA.

Tasting Notes: Malty, Fruity

A distinctive rich malty taste bursting with toffee character, fruity aroma and deliciously smooth.

Tasting Notes: Auburn Copper in colour with a distinctive malty and toffee taste.

Traditional Copper Ale

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A full malty flavoured beer with a crisp sweet fruity aftertaste and soft citrus nose.

Tasting Notes: A bold, malty amber beer with spice fruit notes and crisp fruity aftertaste.

Copper coloured bitter with rounded berry flavours.

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Brewed at Shepherd Neame’s Faversham brewery from a recipe devised in conjunction with the Boston Beer Company, it uses equal measures of US and UK hops.

Tasting Notes: The result is a summer pale ale with a delightful blend of grapefruit notes from the US Cascade hops and grassy earthiness from the Kent hops.

Tribute is an easy drinking pale ale.

Tasting Notes: Fresh, Orange, Grapefruit The zesty orange and grapefruit flavours are balanced with biscuit malt. The beer of South West sport, Tribute has high profile shirt sponsorships with Somerset and Gloucester CCCs as well as close relationships with both Football League clubs Plymouth and Exeter City. Tribute is also the Official Beer of South West Rugby and supports many rugby teams in the region with shirt sponsorships, plus it is the main sponsor of the Cornwall RFU whose teams are the current County Champions and holders of the Bill Beaumont Cup. We were also thrilled in 2015 for Tribute to be the main sponsor of Bristol Balloon Fiesta and in 2016 Tribute will again be a high profile partner of this wonderful event. All told, there is plenty to look forward to for Tribute in the coming year.

Sweet Malt, a strong malty bitter

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An exquisitely, golden ale, named after Alfred Wainwright, the renowned Lakeland author who was born in Blackburn.

Tasting Notes: Wainwright is a refreshing golden ale with subtle sweetness from the Maris Otter malts and the special mix of hops give a delicate citrus fruit overtone. Voted World’s Best Golden Ale at the World Beer Awards.

Orange Marmalade Hops rounded with malt and rye

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A zesty clean refreshing ale

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Foster's is the ultimate ice-cold refreshment. Its balance of subtle fruitiness and vanilla is ideal for the sweeter-toothed lager lover. The perfect session beer to enjoy with mates.

Tasting Notes: A light-coloured lager style, it presents full malt character with a balanced clean hop bitterness. Combined with a slightly hoppy, but yeasty/malty nose, Foster's lager is a full bodied beer with excellent drinkability.

One of the world's best-loved beers, with sweet smelling aromas of coffee and malt, from the first velvety sip to the last, lingering drop, every deep-dark satisfying mouthful in between is pure beauty… pure Guinness.

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

John Smith’s Extra Smooth was launched in 1993 and is now the nation's number 1 ale.

Tasting Notes: The boffins say it has a distinct cereal character, with malty, caramel notes being complemented by some fruitiness. But we just think it’s a right good pint.

Cruzcampo is a pilsner style Spanish lager founded in Seville in 1904. Brewed with subtle hoppy notes, fruity characteristics and finished with Cruzcampo bitterness. It’s a fresh, crisp, easy drinking beer and a favourite amongst Spanish locals.

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Peroni Nastro Azzurro’s Italian brew masters have perfected a new gluten-free recipe for Italy’s most iconic beer – without compromising on taste. Peroni Nastro Azzurro Gluten Free has the same crisp and refreshing taste with a notable citrus aroma as Peroni Nastro Azzurro. The gluten-free beer uses exactly the same ingredients as the regular Peroni Nastro Azzurro, including barley. A specific enzyme is added at the end of the brewing process which removes the gluten, ensuring Peroni Nastro Azzurro Gluten Free can be enjoyed by coeliacs or those choosing to lead a gluten-free lifestyle.

Tasting Notes: he same crisp and refreshing taste of Peroni Nastro Azzurro but gluten free.

Hoppy Pale Ale

Tasting Notes: This very pale, hoppy ale is made from low colour malt. A combination of Cascade, Columbus & Amarillo hops produce an intensely aromatic and resinous finish.

A pale full flavoured thirst quenching golden ale with a light bitterness and a prominent citrus hop aroma. The malt undertones in the body are complimented by a full hop flavour which gives way to a massive almost grapefruit like finish.

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Australian session IPA, FLORAL, HOPPY & refreshing

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Bursting with blackcurrants and raspberries, Kopparberg Mixed Fruit Cider spoils you

Tasting Notes: Rich and indulgent with an effervescent energy, its best served cold over mountains of ice.

Kopparberg Strawberry & Lime Cider is perfect for Summer BBQs. Drink it over ice and the job’s done.

Tasting Notes: Like summer in a glass; a splash of fresh strawberries in apple juice, and a squeeze of tangy lime.

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

Crisp Strongbow cut with a blend of dark fruit

Tasting Notes: Harnessing the crisp, masculine refreshment of Strongbow Original, Strongbow Dark Fruit offers an easy-drinking combination of Strongbow cider, cut with black currant and blackberry juices.

Bulmers Original Cider at 4.5% ABV offers a fantastic combination of softer culinary apples and sharper bittersweet apples, providing a cider rich in depth and character.

Tasting Notes: Well-balanced and medium-sweet

This tasty tipple occurred when our crisp apples met their match with a handful of ripe berries and cherries.

Tasting Notes: A special blend of strawberry and raspberry with notes of blueberry. Finished off with a refreshing burst of juicy apple.

Made from the purest Swedish spring water, Rekorderlig Strawberry - Lime Cider was the first to explore this unique flavour combination. Enjoy served over ice with fresh mint leaves or a real strawberry and a wedge of lime for a fresh, zesty experience.

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Bursting with the freshest fruit flavours Rekorderlig Wild Berries Cider is best served over ice for a juicy experience

Tasting Notes: Made from the purest Swedish spring water, flavour - packed Rekorderlig Wild Berries Cideris best served over ice with a handful of fresh blueberries and raspberries for a dry and juicy experience.