Breweries in Alphabetical Order

__A__

Aberdeenshire

• Buchan Gold (4.0%)

Aberystwyth

• Dinas Dark Mild (3.6%)
• Dinas Draught (3.6%)
• Premium (4.4%)

Abington Park (Scottish & Newcastle)

• Cobblers Ale (3.3%)
• Becket (3.6%)
• * Dark (3.6%)
• Extra (4.3%)
• * Special (5.0%)

Adnams

• Mild (3.2%)
• Bitter (3.6%)
• Old Ale (4.1%)
• Extra (4.3%)
• Broadside (4.7%)

Alford Arms (Whitbread)

• Dark Mild (2.8%)
• New Cherry Pickers (3.9%)
• Olde Frithsden (4.2%)
• Pickled Squirrel (4.5%)
• Rub Of The Brush (5.0%)
• * Rudolf's Revenge (5.8%)

  {Winter Special}

• * 500 Special Ale (6.0%)

  {Winter}

Alloa (Carlsberg-Tetley)

• Archibald Arrol's 80/- (4.4%)

Archers

• Village Bitter (3.5%)
• Best Bitter (4.0%)
• Black Jack Porter (4.6%)
• Golden Bitter (4.7%)
• Old Cobleighs (6.3%)

  {Used to be known as Headbanger}

Arkell's

• 2B Bitter (3.2%)
• 3B Bitter (4.0%)
• * Mash tun Mild (3.5%)
• Kingsdown Ale (5.0%)
• * Noel Ale (5.5%)
• * Summer Ale (3.8%)
• * Yeomanry Bicentenary Ale (4.5%)
• * Peter's Porter (4.8%)

Arundel

• Best Bitter (4.0%)
• Gold (4.2%)
• Stringhold (5.0%)
• Old Knucker (5.5%)
• * Old Conspirator (5.0%)

  {Only available October/November}

• * Romeo's Rouser (5.3%)

  {Only available February}

• * Old Scrooge (6.0%)

  {Occasional brew for Christmas}

Ash Vine

• Bitter (3.5%)

  {Was 3.8%}

• Challenger (4.1%)
• Black Bess Porter (4.2%)
• Hop & Glory (5.0%)

  {Bottle Conditioned Beer}

[Return To Index]

[Next]

__B__

B&T {Ex Banks & Taylor}

• Shefford Mild (3.8%)
• Shefford Bitter (3.8%)
• Dragonslayer (4.5%)
• Edwin Taylors Extra Stout (4.5%)
• 2XS (6.0%)
• Black Bat (6.0%)
• Old Bat (7.0%)
• Shefford Pale Ale (4.5%)
• Shefford Old Strong (SOS) (5.0%)
• Shefford Old Dark (SOD) (5.0%)
• * Midsummers Ale (3.5%)
• * Bedfordshire Clanger (4.0%)

  {March}

• * Santa Slayer (4.0%)
• * Madhatter (4.2%)

  {May}

• * Maiden's Rescue (4.2%)

  {April}

• * Bodysnatcher (4.4%)

  {October}

• * Guy Fawkes Bitter (4.5%)

  {November}

• * Romeo's Ruin (4.5%)

  {February}

• * Emerald Ale (5.0%)

  {Special ale for St Patricks day. Bright Green coloured - Tastes OK though.}

• * Juliets Revenge (5.0%)

  {February}

• * Shefford Wheat Beer (5.0%)

  {July-August}

• * Frostbite (5.5%)

  {December-January}

• * Bat out of hell (6.0%)

  {November}

• * Skeleton Special (6.0%)

Ballard's

• Trotton Bitter (3.6%)
• Best Bitter (4.2%)
• Golden Bine (4.2%)

  {Anyone know what a Bine is?}

• Wild (4.7%)
• Wassail (6.0%)
• Midhurst Mild (3.5%)

Bank Top Brewery

• Bridge Bitter (3.8%)
• Samuel Cromptons Ale (4.2%)
• Freds Cap (4.0%)

  {Named after local celebrity, Fred Dibnah}

• * Santa's Claws (5.2%)

Banks's

• Mild (3.4%)
• Bitter (3.6%)
• Hansons Mild (3.2%)

Bass (Birmingham)

• M&B Mild (3.3%)
• Charrington IPA (3.4%)
• Brew XI (3.9%)

Bass (Burton)

• Draught Bass - A Classic beer (4.4%)

Bass (Cardiff)

• Worthington Dark (3.3%)
• Hancocks HB (3.8%)
• Worthington Best (3.6%)

Bass (Sheffield)

• Light (3.2%)
• Mild XXXX (3.2%)
• Special Bitter (3.4%)
• Stones Best Bitter (4.1%)

Bass (Walsall)

• M & B Highgate Mild (3.2%)
• M & B Springfield Bitter (3.5%)
• M & B Highgate Old Ale (5.3%)

Bass Birmingham

• M&B Mild (3.2%)
• Joule's Crown Ale (3.9%)
• M&B Brew XI (3.9%)

Bass Burton

• Draught Bass (4.4%)

Bass Cardiff

• Worthington Dark (3.0%)
• Hancock's HB (3.6%)
• Worthington Best Bitter (3.6%)

Bass Glasgow

• Aitken's 80/- (4.2%)

Bass Sheffield

• Mild (3.1%)

  {used to be XXXX Mild}

• Light (3.2%)
• William Butler's Black Country Ale (3.5%)
• Special Bitter (3.4%)
• Worthington Best Bitter (3.6%)
• Stones Best Bitter (3.9%)

Bass Walsall

• M&B Highgate Dark Ale (3.2%)
• * M&B Highgate Old Ale (5.1%)

  {November-January}

Bateman

• Dark Mild (3.0%)
• XB (3.8%)
• XXXB (5.0%)
• Victory Ale (6.0%)
• Salem Porter (5.0%)
• Valiant (4.3%)
• Aries Aphrodisiac (0.0%)

  {One of 12 limited 350 barrel edition 'Zodiac' beer}

• Gemini Double Trouble (0.0%)

  {One of 12 limited edition 'Zodiac' beer}

• Cancer Pinch Perfect (0.0%)

  {One of 12 limited 350 barrel edition 'Zodiac' beer}

• Virgo Ale (0.0%)

  {One of 12 limited edition 'Zodiac' beer}

• Capricorn Billy Goat (0.0%)

  {One of 12 limited edition 'Zodiac' beer}

Batham

• Mild Ale (3.5%)
• Best Bitter (4.3%)
• XXX (6.3%)

Beartown

• SB Bitter (4.2%)
• Th'underback (5.3%)

Beer Engine

• Rail Ale (3.8%)
• Piston Bitter (4.3%)
• Sleeper Heavy (5.4%)
• * Whistlemas (7.5%)

Belhaven

• 60/- Ale (2.9%)

  {I can remeber when 60 shillings was a lot of money}

• 70/- Ale (3.5%)
• 80/- Ale (4.2%)
• * 90/- Strong Ale (8.0%)
• Sandy Hunter's Traditional Ale (3.6%)
• St Andrew's Ale (4.9%)
• Festival Gold (3.8%)

Belvoir

• Beaver Bitter (4.3%)

Berkeley

• Old Friend (3.8%)
• Berkeley Vale Ale (4.5%)

Berrow

• Best Bitter (BBBB or 4Bs) (3.9%)
• Topsy Turvey (TT) (6.0%)
• Porter (4.4%)

Big Lamp

• Bitter (3.9%)
• Prince Bishop Ale (4.8%)
• Old Genie (7.4%)
• Blackout (11.0%)
• Summerhill Stout (4.8%)
• Premium (5.0%)

  {formally ESB}

• Winter Warmer (5.2%)

Bird In Hand

• Paradise Bitter (3.8%)
• Millers Ale (4.3%)
• Artists Ale (5.1%)
• Old Speckled Parrot (6.3%)

Bishops

• Traditional Ale (3.5%)
• Cathedral Bitter (3.7%)
• Cardinal Ale (4.7%)

Black Bull

• Dovedale Bitter (3.6%)
• Best Bitter (4.0%)
• Raging Bull (4.9%)
• * Owd Shrovetider (5.9%)

  {November-February}

Black Horse And Rainbow

• Black Horse Bitter (4.3%)
• Winter Ale (4.3%)
• Celebration Bitter (4.8%)

Black Sheep

• Best Bitter (3.8%)

  {A full-bodied session bitter. Light golden in colour and rounded in taste. Well hopped, in the finest Masham tradition }

• Special Bitter (4.4%)

  {Clean-drinking. Distinctively darker and stronger than the Best Bitter. Brewed with many generous handfuls of choicest Golding hops}

Blackawton

• Bitter (3.8%)
• Devon Gold (4.1%)
• 44 Special (4.5%)
• Headstrong (5.2%)
• * Winter Fuel (4.1%)

  {Christmas-January}

• * Shepherd's Delight (4.6%)

  {April}

Blackmoor

• Batley Bitter (3.6%)
• Bog Standard Bitter (4.2%)
• Nectar Soup (4.2%)
• Batley Shampayne (4.8%)
• DOA (5.0%)

Blewitts

• Best (3.8%)
• Wages (4.2%)
• Nose (4.6%)
• Head Off (4.8%)
• Top (5.2%)

Blue Anchor

• Middle (4.9%)
• Best (4.9%)
• * Special (6.3%)

  {summer}

• * Extra Special (7.3%)

  {winter}

Boddingtons (Whitbread)

• OB Mild (3.0%)
• Boddingtons Mild (3.0%)
• Boddingtons Bitter (3.8%)

  {A light, golden beer with a creamy head. Advertised nationally as 'The cream of Manchester'}

• * OB Bitter (3.8%)

Border

• Old Kiln Bitter (3.8%)
• Old Kiln Ale (4.0%)
• Special Bitter (3.8%)
• Noggins Nog (4.2%)
• SOB (5.0%)
• * Rudolph's ruin (7.1%)

  {Christmas}

Borve

• Borve Ale (3.9%)
• Tall Ships IPA (4.9%)
• Union Street 200 (4.8%)

Brains

• Dark (3.5%)
• Bitter (3.7%)
• SA Best Bitter / Skull Attack (4.2%)

Brakspear

• * XXX Mild (2.8%)
• Bitter or Pale ale (3.4%)
• Old Ale (4.3%)
• Special (4.3%)
• OBJ (5.0%)

Branscombe Vale

• Branoc (3.8%)
• Olde Stoker (5.6%)
• Pistol Knight (4.3%)

Brewery on Sea

• Spinnaker Bitter (3.5%)
• Spinnaker Mild (or Lancing Special Dark) (3.5%)
• Spinnaker Classic (4.0%)
• Spinnaker Buzz (4.5%)
• Special Crew (5.5%)
• * Black Rock (5.5%)
• Riptide (6.5%)
• Spinnaker Buzz (4.5%)
• Spinnaker Ginger (5.5%)
• Winter Widget (4.5%)
• Wicked Widget (4.7%)
• Pitfield Bitter (3.5%)
• Hoxton (5.5%)
• * Spinnaker Porter (5.0%)
• * Tidal Wave (7.0%)

Bridgwater

• * Carnival Special Brew (3.5%)
• Coppernob (4.4%)
• Sunbeam (5.4%)
• Blakes Bitter (3.4%)
• Amber Ale (3.8%)
• Bosun's Tickle (4.1%)
• Bluto's Revenge (6.0%)

Bristol (Courage)

• Georges Bitter Ale (3.3%)
• Best Bitter (4.0%)
• Directors (4.8%)

Britannia

• Sally Perry Mild (3.5%)
• Wally Williams Bitter (4.5%)

British Oak

• Eve'ill Bitter (4.0%)
• * Col. Pickerings Porter (4.6%)
• * Dungeon Draught (4.8%)
• * Old Jones (6.2%)
• Mild (3.7%)

Broughton

• Greenmantle Ale (3.8%)
• Special Bitter (3.9%)
• Scottish Oatmeal (3.8%)
• Merlins Ale (4.2%)
• Old Jock (6.7%)
• 80/- Ale (4.2%)

Brunswick

• Recession Ale (3.3%)
• * Celebration Mild (3.4%)
• First Brew (3.6%)
• * Fat Boy Stout (3.8%)
• Second Brew (4.2%)
• Railway Porter (4.3%)
• Festival Ale (4.6%)
• Old Accidental (4.9%)
• Owd Abusive (6.0%)
• Recession Extra (3.8%)

Buffy's

• Bitter (4.0%)
• Polly's Folly (4.3%)
• Best Bitter (4.9%)
• Ale (5.5%)
• Strong Ale (6.5%)

Bull's Head

• Light (4.5%)

Bullmastiff

• Bitter (3.5%)
• * Ebony Dark (4.0%)
• Best Bitter (4.0%)
• Son of a Bitch (6.0%)
• Brindle (5.0%)

Bunces

• Vice Beer (3.2%)
• Benchmark (3.5%)
• Pigswill (4.0%)
• Best Bitter (4.2%)
• Old Smokey (5.0%)
• * Rudolph (5.0%)

  {Chistmas}

• * Sign of Spring (4.6%)

  {Has added colour dye to give a delicate vernal hue}

Burton Bridge

• Summer Ale (3.8%)
• XL Bitter (4.0%)
• Bridge Bitter (4.2%)
• Burton Porter (4.5%)
• Top Dog Stout (5.0%)
• * Hearty Ale (5.1%)

  {Christmas}

• Burton Festival Ale (5.5%)
• Old Expensive (6.7%)
• * Thomas Sykes Old Ale (10.0%)

  {Winter and Spring}

• * Spring Ale (4.7%)

  {March-April}

• * Battle Brew (5.0%)

  {July-August}

• Knot Brown Ale (4.8%)

Burtonwood

• Dark Mild (3.0%)
• Best Bitter (3.7%)
• James Forshaws Bitter (4.0%)
• Top Hat (4.8%)
• Chesters Best Bitter (3.6%)
• Buccaneer (5.2%)
• OB Bitter (3.8%)

Burts

• Nipper Bitter (3.8%)
• Parkhurst Porter (3.8%)
• Ventnor Premium Ale (VPA) (4.2%)
• Newport Nobbler (4.4%)
• Tanner Bitter (4.8%)
• Old Vectis Venom (5.0%)

Bushy's

• Dark Mild (3.4%)
• Best Bitter (3.8%)
• Old Bushy Tail (4.5%)
• * Piston Brew (4.5%)
• * Lovely Jubbely Christmas Ale (5.2%)

Butcombe

• Bitter (4.0%)

Butterknowle

• * West Auckland Mild (3.3%)
• Bitter (3.6%)
• * Festival Stout (3.6%)
• Conciliation Ale (4.2%)
• Black Diamond (4.8%)
• High Force (6.2%)
• Old Ebenezer (8.0%)
• Banner Bitter (4.0%)

Butts

• Bitter (4.0%)

[Return To Index]

[Next]

__C__

Cains

• Dark Mild (3.2%)
• * Cains Bitter (4.1%)
• * Formidable (5.1%)
• * Superior Stout (4.8%)
• Traditional Bitter (4.0%)
• Formidable Ale (FA) (5.0%)

Caledonian

• 60/- Ale (3.2%)
• 70/- Ale (3.5%)
• Deuchars IPA (3.8%)
• ERA (4.1%)
• 80/- Ale (4.1%)
• Porter (4.1%)
• Campbell, Hope & King's Double Amber Ale (4.6%)
• Golden Promise (5.0%)
• Merman XXX (4.8%)
• Edinburgh Strong Ale (6.4%)

  {used to be 8%}

• Murrays Summer Ale (3.6%)
• Murrays Heavy (4.3%)
• 125 (4.5%)
• Pheonix (4.6%)

Camerons

• Bitter (3.6%)

  {used to be known as Camerons Traditional Bitter}

• Camerons Strongarm (4.0%)
• Crown Special (4.0%)

Cannon

• Light Brigade (3.6%)
• Pride (4.2%)
• Florrie Night-in-Ale (4.8%)
• Fodder (5.5%)

Cannon Royal

• Arrowhead Bitter (3.9%)
• Buckshot Bitter (4.5%)
• * Millwards Musket Mild (4.5%)
• * Christmas Merry (6.0%)
• KPA (3.4%)
• Mild (3.7%)
• Heart Of Oak (5.4%)
• Olde Merrie (6.0%)

Cartmel

• Buttermere Bitter (3.6%)
• Lakeland Gold (4.0%)
• Thouroughbred (4.5%)
• Winter Warmer (5.2%)

Castle Eden Brewery (Whitbread)

• Higsons Mild (3.4%)
• Higsons Bitter (3.7%)
• Castle Eden Ale (4.2%)
• Whitbread Porter (4.6%)
• Winter Royal (5.5%)
• Eden Bitter (3.6%)
• Old Dambuster (4.6%)
• Fuggles Imperial IPA (5.5%)

Chalk Hill

• Tap Bitter (3.6%)
• CHB (4.2%)
• Dreadnought (4.9%)
• Old Tackle (5.6%)

Cheriton

• Pots Ale (3.8%)
• Best Bitter (4.2%)
• Diggers Gold (4.6%)

Chiltern

• Chiltern Ale (3.7%)
• Beechwood Bitter (4.3%)
• Three Hundred Old Ale (4.9%)

Church End

• * Gravediggers (3.8%)
• What The Fox's Hat (4.2%)
• * Pews Porter (4.5%)
• M-Reg GTi (4.4%)
• Old Pal (5.5%)
• R-I-P (7.0%)

Clark's

• Traditional Bitter - Best Bitter at the 1982 GBBF (3.8%)
• Festival Ale (4.2%)
• Burgular Bill (4.4%)
• Rams Revenge (4.8%)
• Hammerhead } (5.5%)
• Winter Warmer (6.4%)
• Tow'd Dreadnought (9.0%)

Coach House

• Coachmans Best Bitter (3.7%)
• Gunpowder Strong Mild (3.8%)
• Oslers Summer Pale Ale (3.9%)
• Sqiures Gold Spring Ale (4.2%)
• Innkeepers Special Reserve (4.7%)
• * Bootleg Valentines Ale (5.0%)

  {February}

• Taveners Autumn Ale (5.0%)
• Blunderbus Old Porter (5.5%)
• Old Priory (4.7%)
• Victory Brew (5.2%)
• * Wizards Wonder (4.2%)

  {October}

• * Cracker Barrel (4.4%)

  {November}

• * Dewi Sant (4.4%)

  {April}

• * Regal Ale (4.4%)

  {April}

• * St George's Ale (4.8%)

  {March}

• * Burns Auld Sleekit (5.5%)

  {January}

• * Three Kings Christmas Ale (5.5%)
• * Anniversary Ale (6.0%)

  {January}

• Posthorn Premium Ale (5.0%)

Combe

• Shipwrecker's Ale (4.4%)
• Wallop (5.0%)
• * Gold (4.0%)

Commercial

• Worth Wayfarer (3.4%)
• Alesman or Keighlian Bitter (3.7%)
• Wild Boar (4.0%)
• Neary's Stout (4.1%)
• Worth Best Bitter (4.5%)
• Worth Porter (4.5%)
• Old Toss (6.5%)
• * Hi Summer (3.2%)

  {June-July}

• * Beckside (3.4%)

  {May}

• * Harvest Festival (4.5%)

  {August-September}

• * Rampant Spring (4.8%)

  {March-April}

• * Winter Blues (5.2%)

  {January-February}

• * Knobwilter (5.2%)

  {Summer}

• * Ruggie's Russet Nectar (7.5%)

  {October-November}

• * Santa's Toss (8.0%)

Concertina

• Best Bitter (4.0%)
• Old Dark Attic (4.0%)
• Hackett VC (4.2%)
• Shot Firers Porter (4.5%)
• KW Special Pride (4.5%)
• Fitzpatricks Stout (4.5%)
• Bengal Tiger (4.5%)
• Bandsman Strong Ale (5.2%)

Cook's

• Yardem Special Bitter (5.2%)

Cotleigh

• Harrier SPA (3.6%)
• * Nutcracker Mild (3.6%)
• Tawny Bitter (3.8%)
• Barn Owl Bitter (4.5%)
• * Rebelion (5.0%)
• Red Nose Reinbeer (5.6%)
• Aldercote Ale (4.2%)
• Aldercote Extra (4.7%)
• * Swift (3.2%)
• * Hobby Ale (4.2%)
• * Peregrine Porter (4.4%)
• * Golden Eagle (4.5%)
• * Old Buzzard (4.8%)
• * Powderkeg (5.0%)
• * Snowy Ale (5.0%)

Cottage

• Southern Bitter (3.7%)
• Wheeltappers Ale (4.0%)
• Somerset And Dorset Ale (S&D) (4.4%)
• Great Western Ale (GWR) (5.4%)
• Norman's Conquest (7.0%)
• * Christmas Cottage (6.0%)
• * Bitter (3.7%)

Cropton

• King Billy Bitter (3.6%)
• Two Pints Best Bitter (4.0%)
• Scoresby Stout (4.2%)
• Special Strong Bitter (6.0%)

Crouch Vale

• * Best Mild (3.5%)
• Woodham IPA (3.6%)
• Best Bitter (4.0%)
• Millennium Gold (4.2%)
• Strong Anglian Special or SAS (5.0%)
• Essex Porter (5.0%)
• * Fine Pale Ale(FPA) (5.0%)
• Santas Revenge (5.7%)
• Willie Warmer (6.4%)
• * Best Dark Ale (3.6%)
• Kusaal Flyer (4.6%)

Crown Buckley

• Buckley's Dark Mild (3.4%)
• Buckley's Best Bitter (3.8%)
• Special Best Bitter 3.7 (0.0%)
• * Reverend James Bitter (4.5%)
• Reverend James Original Ale (4.5%)
• James Buckley Ale (3.9%)
• Crown Pale Ale (3.4%)

Crown Inn

• Munslow Boy's Pale Ale (3.6%)
• Munslow Ale (4.0%)

Cuckmere Haven

• Best Bitter (4.1%)
• Saxon King Stout (4.2%)
• Gentleman's (Smuggler's) Gold (4.5%)
• Guv'ner (4.7%)
• * Summer Pale Ale (3.4%)
• * Seven Sisters Sussex Special (4.3%)
• * Velvet Dark Mild (4.7%)

  {Summer}

• * Fuggl'olmullable (6.2%)

  {Winter}

Cyder House Inn

• Piston Broke (4.0%)
• Norfolk n' Chance (4.6%)
• * Old Shackle (4.8%)
• * Overdraught (4.8%)

  {Christmas}

[Return To Index]

[Next]

__D__

Daleside

• Bitter (3.7%)
• Country Stile (4.1%)
• Dalesman Old Ale (4.1%)
• Monkey Wrench (5.3%)

Dark Horse

• Dark Horse Ale (3.6%)
• Fallen Angel (3.5%)

  {Ginger Beer}

• Sun Runner (4.1%)
• Black Widow (4.6%)
• Death Quest (5.3%)

Davenport Arms

• JLK Pale Ale (4.0%)

Dent

• Bitter (3.7%)
• Ramsbottom Strong ale (4.5%)
• T'Owd Tup (6.0%)
• Kamikaze (5.0%)

Donnington

• BB (3.5%)
• XXX (3.5%)
• SBA (4.0%)

Dunn Ploughman

• * BHB (4.0%)
• * Woodys Crown (4.5%)
• * Shire Horse Ale (5.0%)
• * Muletide (5.5%)

Durham

• Magnus (3.8%)
• Celtic (4.2%)
• Pagan (4.8%)
• Sanctuary (6.0%)

Dyffryn Clwyd

• Cysur or Comfort Bitter (3.6%)
• Druid (3.9%)
• Cwrw Castell or Castle Bitter (4.2%)
• Jolly Jack Tar Porter (4.5%)
• Pedwar Bawd or Four Thumbs (4.8%)

[Return To Index]

[Next]