Breweries in Alphabetical Order

__R__

RCH

• * Clarence Pride (3.6%)
• Pitchfork (4.3%)
• Old Slug Porter (4.5%)
• * Clarence Regent (5.2%)
• PG Steam (3.9%)
• East Street Cream (5.0%)
• Firebox (6.0%)
• * Santa Fe (7.3%)

  {Christmas}

Rainbow

• Piddlebrook (3.8%)
• Belcher's Wood (4.2%)
• Fire Cracker (4.8%)
• * Sley Ale (5.2%)

Randalls

• Bitter (5.0%)
• * Best Mild (3.2%)
• * Best Bitter (5.0%)

Rebellion

• IPA (3.9%)
• Mutiny (4.5%)
• 24 Carat (5.0%)

Reckless Eric's

• Retribution (3.4%)
• Renown (4.0%)
• Restoration (4.3%)
• Recked 'Em (5.2%)
• Rejoice (6.0%)

Red Cross

• Nailers OBJ (4.5%)

Redruth

• * Cornish Original Bitter (3.4%)

Reepham

• Granary Bitter (3.8%)
• Dark (3.9%)
• Summer Velvet (4.2%)
• Rapier Pale Ale (4.2%)
• Velvet Stout (4.2%)
• * Smugglers Stout (4.5%)
• Old Bircham Ale (4.6%)
• Brewhouse (5.0%)
• Anniversary Ale (7.3%)

Reindeer (Carlsberg-Tetley)

• Moild (3.5%)
• Pale Ale or RPA (3.5%)
• Bevy (3.9%)
• Gnu Bru (4.5%)
• * Porter (4.5%)
• * Bitter (5.0%)
• Red Nose (6.0%)
• Stout (OG 1039) (0.0%)
• * Sanity Clause (7.0%)

  {Christmas Special}

• * Sledgehammer (7.5%)

  {Christmas Special}

Ridleys

• Mild (3.5%)
• IPA Bitter (3.5%)
• * Winter Ale (5.0%)

  {Christmas}

• ESX Best Bitter (4.3%)
• Witchfinder Porter (4.3%)
• * Spectacular Ale (4.6%)

  {May-October}

Ringwood

• Best Bitter (3.8%)
• Fortyniner (4.8%)
• XXXX Porter (4.7%)
• Old Thumper (5.8%)

  {Well named. Deceptively strong falling down water - as I know only too well}

Rising Sun

• * Mild (3.5%)
• * Sunlight (3.5%)

  {Summer}

• Rising (3.8%)
• Setting (4.4%)
• Sunstroke (5.6%)
• Total Eclipse (6.8%)
• * Solar Flare (11.5%)

  {Winter}

Robinson's

• Three Shires Mild (3.3%)
• Hatters Mild (3.3%)
• Old Stockport Bitter (3.5%)
• Hartleys XB (4.0%)
• Best Bitter (4.2%)
• Frederic's (5.0%)
• Old Tom (8.5%)

Robinwood

• * Best Bitter (4.1%)
• * XB (4.7%)
• * Old Fart (6.0%)

Rooster's

• Yankee (4.3%)
• Roosters (4.7%)
• Jak's (3.9%)
• Special (3.9%)
• Cream (4.7%)
• * Mayflower II (3.7%)
• * Zulu (4.7%)
• * Hop Along (4.7%)

  {Easter}

• * Necter (5.8%)

  {Christmas}

Rose Street (Carlsberg-Tetley)

• Auld Reekie 80/- (4.1%)
• Auld Reekie 90/- (5.2%)

Ross

• * Clifton Dark (4.5%)
• Hartcliffe Bitter (4.5%)
• * Kingsdowner (4.5%)
• * Medievil Porter (4.5%)
• * Pale Ale (5.0%)
• Pictons Pleasure (4.2%)
• Porter (5.0%)
• SPA (5.5%)
• * Numbskull (6.0%)

  {Winter}

Rother Valley

• Level Best (4.0%)

Royal Inn

• Tamar (3.9%)
• Horsebridge Best (4.5%)
• Right Royal (5.0%)
• Heller (6.0%)

Ruddles

• Best Bitter (3.7%)
• County (4.9%)

Rudgate

• Viking (3.8%)
• Battleaxe (4.2%)
• Pillage Porter (4.0%)
• * Maypole (4.5%)
• * Easter Special (5.0%)
• * Thor's Hammer (5.5%)
• * Rudolf's Ruin (6.0%)

Ryburn

• * Mild (3.3%)
• * Bitter (3.8%)
• * Stout (4.0%)
• * Porter (4.2%)

  {Christmas}

• Rydale Bitter (4.2%)
• Stabbers Bitter (5.2%)
• * Strong Mild (5.0%)
• Best Mild (3.3%)
• Best Bitter (3.8%)
• Old Stone Troff Bitter (4.7%)
• Luddite (5.0%)
• Coiners (6.0%)

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__S__

Samuel Smith

• Old Brewery Bitter or OBB (4.0%)
• Museum Ale (5.0%)

Sarah Hughes

• Sedgley Surprise (5.0%)
• Original Dark Ruby Mild (6.0%)

Scott's

• Golden Best Bitter (3.4%)
• Blues and Bloater (3.7%)
• Dark Oast (5.0%)
• William French (5.0%)
• * Festival Staggers (7.0%)
• * Santa's Quaff (7.0%)

Selby

• * Strong Ale (4.5%)
• Old Tom (6.5%)

Shardlow

• Session (3.6%)
• Bitter (4.2%)
• Cavendish 47 Bridge (4.7%)
• * Sleighed (5.7%)

  {October-March}

• * Wide-Eyed And Crownless (4.4%)

Sharp's

• Cornish Coaster (3.6%)
• Doom Bar Bitter (4.0%)

Shepherd Neame

• Master Brew Bitter (3.7%)
• Best Bitter (4.1%)
• * Masons Dark Ale (4.2%)
• Spitfire Ale (4.7%)
• Original Porter (5.2%)
• Bishops Finger (5.2%)
• Charrington IPA (3.4%)

  {Brewed for Bass }

Skinner's

• Dark Star (5.0%)
• Ale Trail Roast Mild (3.5%)
• Pale Ale (3.7%)
• 42 (4.2%)
• * Old Ale (4.2%)

  {Winter}

• Penguin Stout (4.2%)
• Old Familiar (5.0%)
• Summer Haze (5.0%)
• Cliffe Hanger Porter (5.5%)
• Pavilion Beast (6.0%)
• * Meltdown (6.0%)

  {Ginger beer}

Smiles

• Bitter (3.7%)
• Best Bitter (4.1%)
• * Bristol Stout (4.7%)

  {September-March}

• Exhibition Bitter (5.2%)

Snowdonia

• * Mel y Moelwyn Bitter (3.7%)
• * Choir Porter (4.5%)
• * Snowdon Strong Bitter (5.2%)

Solva

• Ramsay Bitter (4.1%)
• Bishops And Clerks (5.0%)

South Yorkshire

• Barnsley Bitter (3.8%)
• Black Heart Stout (4.6%)

Spikes

• Impaled Ale (3.6%)
• Porter (4.0%)
• Stinger (4.5%)

Springhead

• Bitter (4.0%)
• The Leveller (4.8%)
• Roaring Meg (5.5%)
• Cromwell's Hat (6.0%)

St Austell

• Bosun's Bitter (3.4%)
• XXXX Mild (3.6%)
• Tinners Ale (3.7%)
• Hicks Special Draught or HSD (5.0%)
• * Winter Warmer (6.0%)

  {November-February}

Stag

• Jack Of Hearts (4.0%)
• Lord Douglas Dark Mild (4.0%)

Stanway

• Stanney Bitter (4.5%)
• * Old Eccentric (5.5%)

Steam Packet

• Mellors Game Keeper Bitter (3.6%)
• Chatterley (3.7%)
• Foxy (3.9%)
• * Bitter Black (4.0%)
• Bargee (4.8%)
• Poacher's Swag (5.0%)
• Giddy Ass (8.0%)
• Packet Porter (4.5%)
• * Summer Lite (3.5%)

  {Summer}

• Brown Ale (4.5%)
• Bit o Black (4.0%)

Stocks

• Best Bitter (3.9%)
• Select (4.7%)
• Old Horizontal (5.4%)
• Golden Wheat (4.7%)
• St Ledger Porter (5.1%)

Summerskills

• Best Bitter (4.3%)
• Whistle Belly Vengence (4.7%)
• Ninjabeer (5.0%)
• Indiana's Bones (5.6%)

  {A very smooth ale not too sweet and definitely to be recommended - DB}

Sutton

• Plymouth Pride (3.8%)
• XSB (4.2%)
• Gold (4.4%)
• Old Pedantic (4.9%)
• Weetablitz (5.0%)
• Eddystone Light (5.0%)
• Knickadroppa Glory (5.4%)
• Plymouth Porter (5.5%)

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__T__

Tally Ho

• Potboiler's Brew (3.5%)
• * Master Jack's Mild (3.5%)

  {Summer}

• Tarka's Tipple (4.0%)
• Nutters Ale (4.6%)
• Thurgia (5.7%)
• * Janni Jollop (6.6%)

  {Winter}

Taylor

• Golden Best (3.5%)
• Dark Mild (3.5%)
• Best Bitter (4.0%)
• Landlord (4.3%)
• Porter (3.8%)
• Ram Tam (XXXX) (4.3%)

Teignworthy

• Reel Ale (4.0%)
• Spring Tide (4.3%)
• Beachcomber (4.5%)

Tetley Walker (Carlsberg-Tetley)

• Tetley Dark Mild (2.9%)
• Walker Mild (2.9%)
• Tetley Mild (3.2%)
• Walker Bitter (3.6%)
• Walker Best Bitter (3.6%)
• Tetley Bitter (3.7%)
• Wild Rover (5.6%)
• Walker Winter Warmer (6.2%)
• HP & D Bitter (3.7%)
• HP & D Mild (3.7%)
• Greenalls Mild (3.3%)
• Shipstones Mild (3.4%)
• Greenalls Bitter (3.8%)
• Davenports Traditional Bitter (3.9%)
• Shipstone's Bitter (3.9%)
• Thomas Greenall's Original Bitter (4.6%)
• Festival Bitter (0.0%)

  {A 6-months trial, retailing in 30 selected pubs at 99p/pint}

Theakston (Scottish & Newcastle)

• Mild Ale (3.5%)
• Best Bitter (3.8%)
• XB (4.6%)
• Old Peculier (5.7%)
• * Black Bull Bitter (3.9%)
• * Hogshead Bitter (4.1%)
• Masham Ale (6.6%)

Thomas McGuiness

• * Mild (3.4%)
• Best Bitter (3.8%)
• Junction Bitter (4.2%)
• Tommy Todd Porter (5.0%)
• Feather Plucker Mild (3.4%)
• Special Reserve Bitter (4.0%)
• Stout (4.0%)

Thompson's

• Best Bitter (4.1%)
• Celebration Porter (6.0%)
• IPA (4.4%)
• * Botwrights Man of War (5.0%)
• Figurehead (5.1%)
• Man 'O' War (5.1%)
• Black Velvet Stout (4.2%)
• Lunchtime Bitter (3.4%)

Three Tuns

• Mild (3.5%)
• XXX Bitter (4.3%)
• XXX Stout (4.3%)
• Jim Wood's Porter (5.8%)
• * Old Scrooge (5.5%)

  {Christmas}

Thwaites

• * Mild (3.0%)
• Best Mild (3.3%)
• Bitter (3.6%)
• Craftsman (4.5%)
• White Oak Bitter (3.8%)
• Snigbrook Ale (4.0%)
• Scallywag (4.5%)
• Thunderbolt (4.5%)
• Town Crier (4.5%)
• Fawkes Folly Porter (4.8%)
• Daniel's Hammer (5.2%)
• Big Ben (5.0%)
• Old Dan (6.5%)

Tipsy Toad

• Cyril's Bitter (3.7%)
• Jimmy's Bitter (4.0%)
• Black Tadger (4.4%)
• Horny Toad (5.0%)
• * Star Drooper (6.0%)

  {Winter}

Tisbury

• Best Bitter (3.8%)
• Archibald Beckett (4.3%)
• Old Wardour (4.8%)

Titanic Brewery

• Best Bitter (3.5%)
• Lifeboat Ale (3.9%)
• Premium Bitter (4.1%)
• * Anniversary (0.0%)

  {April}

• Captain Smiths Strong Ale (4.8%)
• Wreckage (7.8%)
• Stout (4.5%)

Tolly Cobbold

• Mild (3.2%)
• Bitter (3.5%)
• Original Best Bitter (3.8%)
• * Old Strong Winter Ale (5.0%)

  {November-February}

• * Tollyshooter Premium Premium Bitter (5.0%)
• Tollyshooter (5.0%)
• IPA (4.2%)

Tomintoul

• Caillie (3.6%)
• Stag (4.1%)
• Wildcat (5.1%)
• * 80/- (4.2%)
• * Ginger Tom (4.5%)

Tomlinson's

• Sessions (4.0%)
• De Lacy (4.6%)
• Deceitfull Rose (5.0%)
• Richard's Defeat (5.0%)
• Three Seiges (6.0%)
• * Hermitage Mild (3.7%)
• * Down With It (4.3%)
• * Femme Fatale (4.5%)
• * Fractus (4.5%)

Townes

• Muffin Ale (3.5%)
• Sunshine (3.6%)
• Best Lockoford Bitter (4.0%)
• Pynot Porter (4.5%)
• Double Bagger (5.0%)

Traquair

• Bear Ale (5.0%)
• * Ale (7.2%)
• Fair Ale (6.0%)
• Traquair House Ale (7.2%)
• Jacobite Ale (8.0%)

Tring

• The Ridgeway Bitter (4.0%)
• Old Icknield Ale (5.0%)
• * Death or Glory (7.2%)

  {December}

• * Finest Summer Ale (0.0%)

  {June-September}

• * Old Cantankerous (4.8%)

  {Winter}

Trough Brewery Ltd Bradford, W.Yorks

• * Wild Boar (4.0%)
• * Festival Ale (5.0%)
• * Blind Pugh (5.2%)

Tyne (Scottish & Newcastle)

• Theakston Mild Ale (3.5%)
• Theakston Best Bitter (3.8%)
• Theakston XB (4.6%)
• Theakson Old Peculier (5.7%)

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__U__

Uley

• Bitter or Hogshead or UB40 (3.8%)
• Old Spot Prize Ale (5.0%)

  {I must have had a bad pint of this at the Stockport Beer Festival. It was foul}

• Pig's Ear Strong Beer (4.8%)
• Pigor Mortis (6.0%)
• Old Ric (4.5%)

Ushers

• Best Bitter (3.8%)
• Founders Ale (4.5%)
• * 1824 Particular (6.0%)

  {Winter}

• Tap And Spile Premium (4.3%)
• * Summer Madness (3.6%)
• * Spring Fever (4.0%)
• * Autumn Frenzy (4.0%)

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__V__

Vale

• Wychert Ale (3.9%)
• Grumpling Old Ale (4.6%)

Vaux

• Lorimer's Best Scotch (3.6%)
• Bitter (3.9%)
• Samson (4.2%)
• Double Maxim (4.7%)
• Waggle Dance (5.0%)

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__W__

Wadworth

• Henrys Original IPA (3.8%)
• 6X (4.3%)
• Malt And Hops (4.5%)

  {September}

• Farmer's Glory (4.5%)
• * Old Timer (5.8%)

  {October-March}

• * Valentine's Ale (4.5%)

  {February}

• * Easter Ale (4.5%)
• * Summersault (4.5%)

  {June-July}

Wards

• Mild or Darley's Dark Mild (3.2%)
• Thorne Best Bitter (3.8%)
• * Sheffield Best Bitter (4.0%)
• * Kirby Strong Beer (5.0%)
• Extra Special Bitter (Brewed by Wards for Vaux) (5.0%)
• Waggle Dance (5.0%)

Weetwood

• * Best Cask Bitter (3.8%)
• Best Bitter (3.8%)
• Old Dog Bitter (4.5%)

Wells

• Eagle IPA (3.6%)
• * Bombardier Best Bitter (4.2%)
• Bombardier Premium Bitter (4.3%)
• Fargo Strong Ale (5.0%)

West Berkshire Brewery Company

• Brick Kiln Bitter (4.1%)

  {only available in "The Pot Kiln" pub. Has a warm ruby colour with a definite fruity tang}

• Good Old Boy (4.0%)

  {A darkish bitter with a full hop flavour}

• * Longdog (0.0%)

  {Probable name for a strong winter beer starting production}

• * Talon (0.0%)

  {Probable name for a strong winter beer starting production}

West Coast

• * Dobbins North Country (DNC) Mild (3.0%)
• * DNC Best Bitter (4.0%)
• * DNC Guiltless Stout (4.0%)
• * DNC Kangaroo XXXX Pale Ale (4.2%)
• * DNC Big Heavy Jimmie (4.5%)
• * DNC Ginger Beer (5.0%)
• * DNC Yakima Grande Porter (5.5%)

West Highland

• * Highland Heavy (3.8%)
• * Old Station Porter (4.2%)
• * Highland Severe (4.8%)

Whim

• Hartington Bitter (4.0%)
• Magic Mushroom Mild (3.8%)
• Special (4.7%)
• Old Izaak (5.2%)
• Black Bear Stout (6.2%)
• * Black Christmas (6.5%)

Whitby's

• Merryman's Mild (3.5%)
• * Ammonite Bitter (3.8%)
• Woblle (4.5%)
• Force Nine (5.5%)
• Nut Brown Ale (4.5%)
• Golden Pale Bitter (3.3%)
• Wallop (3.6%)

  {used to be Ammonite Bitter}

White

• 1066 Country Bitter (4.0%)

Whitworth Hall

• Bonnie Bobby Shafto (6.0%)
• * Plum Beer (8.0%)

Wickwar

• Coopers WPA (3.5%)
• Brand Oak bitter (4.0%)
• Olde Merryford Ale (5.1%)
• Station Porter (6.1%)

Wild's

• Bitter (3.8%)
• Wild Oats (4.1%)
• Wild Blonde (4.5%)
• Wild Redhead (4.5%)
• Wild Thing (5.0%)

William Clark

• Thistle Mild (4.0%)
• * EXB (4.1%)
• Thistle Bitter (4.1%)
• Two Bays Best Bitter (4.1%)
• No.68 (5.1%)
• * XXXPS (5.1%)

Willy's

• Original Bitter (3.7%)
• Burcom Bitter (4.2%)
• Coxswains Special Bitter (4.9%)
• Old Groyne (6.2%)

Wood

• * Sam Powell Best Bitter (3.0%)
• * 101 (3.5%)
• * Sam Powell Original Best Bitter (3.5%)
• Parish Bitter (4.0%)
• Special Bitter (4.2%)
• Sam Powell Old Sam (4.6%)
• Wonderful (4.8%)
• * Christmas Cracker (6.0%)
• Wallop (3.4%)
• Sam Powell Original Bitter (3.7%)
• Woodcutter (4.2%)
• Shropshire Lad (4.5%)
• * Anniversary Ale (5.0%)

  {April}

Woodforde's

• Broadsman Bitter (3.5%)
• Mardler's Mild (3.5%)
• Wherry Best Bitter (3.8%)
• * Norfolk Porter (4.1%)
• Old Bram (4.1%)
• * John Brown (4.2%)
• Nelson's Revenge (4.5%)
• Norfolk Nog (4.6%)
• Baldric (5.6%)
• Headcracker (7.0%)
• Emerald Ale (4.2%)
• Great Eastern Ale (4.3%)
• Phoenix XXX (4.8%)
• * Mother-In-Law's Tongue (4.1%)
• * John Browne's Ale (4.3%)

Worldham

• Old Dray Bitter (4.4%)
• Session Bitter (3.6%)
• Barbarian Bitter (5.2%)

Wortley

• * Bitter (3.6%)
• * Earls Ale (4.2%)
• Best Bitter (3.6%)
• * Countess Ale (5.8%)

  {Christmas}

Wychwood

• Shires Bitter (3.4%)
• Fiddlers Elbow (4.0%)
• Best (4.2%)
• Dr Thirsty's Draught (5.2%)
• Hobgoblin (6.0%)
• Black Wych Stout (5.0%)
• The Dog's Bollocks (6.5%)

Wye Valley

• * Hereford Bitter (3.6%)
• Hereford Pale Ale or HPA (4.0%)
• * Hereford Supreme (4.3%)
• Brew 69 (5.6%)
• Bitter (3.5%)
• Supreme (4.4%)
• * Springtime Bitter (4.0%)

  {April-June}

• * Golden Summertime Ale (4.2%)

  {July-September}

• * Glowing Autumn Ale (4.5%)
• * Wholesome Stout (4.5%)

  {January-March}

• * Warming Wintertime Ale (5.6%)

  {October-November}

• * Father Xmas Ale (8.5%)

  {December}

Wyre Piddle

• Piddle in the Hole (3.9%)
• Piddle in the Snow (5.2%)

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__Y__

Yates

• Bitter (3.7%)
• Premium (5.5%)
• Best Cellar (6.0%)

Yorkshire Grey (Scottish & Newcastle)

• Headline Bitter (3.8%)
• Holborn Best Bitter (4.8%)

Young's

• Bitter (3.7%)
• * Porter (4.0%)
• Special (4.6%)
• Winter Warmer (5.0%)
• Best Mild (3.2%)

  {Seasonal Special for April/May 96}

• Wheat Beer (4.0%)

  {With coriander & Orange peel - Seasonal beer for June/Aug 96}

• Dirty Dick's (4.1%)

  {Seasonal beer for Sept/Oct 1996}

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