Dark Cask

  • Awards
    Silver award - Speciality dark beer - SIBA North East 2023

    Thirsty Moose Canny Canuck 9G Cask 4.5%

    Cannny Canuck - Maple brown ale made with Canadian maple syrup and a north east iconic beer style of brown ale. Canny is northern slang which in this context means 'friendly and good'.
  • Bowness Bay Swift Best 9G Cask 3.8%

    Full and rounded, Swift Best has a creamy caramel base to match its hop character. Made with crystal malt and a secret blend of hops, this is a smooth, flavoursome and moreish beer.
  • Hogs Back Advent Ale 9G Cask 4.4%

    A deep chestnut coloured ale, brewed with the finest English malted barley and local hops, for a refreshing fruity nose, a sweet liquorice and roasted malt flavour, with a rich dark chocolate...
  • Butcombe Chris Moose 9G Cask 4.1%

    An easy drinking Yuletide ale. A full bodied winter warmer, brewed with the finest English Maris Otter and toasted malts to give a lovely bright reddish brown ale. Fruity and fresh with hints of...
  • Portobello Brewery Chestnut Ale 9G Cask 4.5%

    Toasty, nutty and smooth as a cashmere scarf. The chestnut character comes from a clever blend of roasted malts, bringing subtle sweetness and a rich malt backbone. Its the pint that makes cold...
  • Theakston Peculier IPA 9G Cask 5.1%

    Boasting a 'Peculier' blend of three UK grown hops, Harlequin, Jester and Olicana mixed with the magic of the Theakston brewing team to deliver a fruit-packed flavour with a dry bitter understone.
  • Weetwood Old Dog Premium Ale 9G Cask 4.5%

    No need for new tricks here, this is as traditional as it gets. Maris Otter & dark roasted malts create a wonderful deep colour & buckets of English hop varieties combine for extra flavour. This...
  • Glamorgan Thunderbird 9G Cask 4.5%

    Named after the Red Kites which are often spotted soaring in the skies above our brewery, Thunderbird is a proper Welsh IPA: complex, finely honed and refreshingly bitter.
  • Bowness Bay Raven Red 9G Cask 4.2%

    Treacle caramel flavours and a hint of roasted barley are blended with New World Citra and Columbus hops, which infuse this red ale with a balanced grapefruit aroma.
  • Awards
    World's Best Ale and Champion Beer of Britain

    Robinsons Old Tom 9G Cask 8.5%

    Old Tom is almost as old as the brewery itself. Dubbed 'The original craft beer' this dangerously drinkable legend was born in 1899, when Tom, the old brewery cat, was sketched into immortality by...
  • Castle Rock Preservation Ale 9G 4.4%

    Brewed to the traditional East Midlands style. Mid-brown / reddish easy drinking full flavoured best bitter is well rounded with some residual sweetness which is balanced with a resinous hop...
  • Awards
    Gold In Taste The West Awards 2024

    Hop Union Scallywag 9G Cask 4.8%

    Pale Chocolate and Caramalt in the mash give the dark amber colour. Dark Muscovado in the boil adds to the complexity of the malt bill. Brambling Cross in the whirlpool works with the darker malts to...
  • Black Sheep Blitzen 9G Cask 4%

    Blitzen beer is the perfect pint for the holiday season - a real winter warmer. Made with Cascade and Goldings hops, muscovado sugar, and orange & mixed peels, its ruby red colour and deep flavour...
  • Awards
    Sussex Green Company of the Year 2019, Sussex Drink Producer of the Year 2021

    Long Man Old Man 9G Cask 4.3%

    This original dark beer has soft malt notes of coffee and chocolate that combine with a pleasant light hoppiness to create a rich, full tasting Old Ale of times gone by.
  • Awards
    Champion Beer of Yorkshire 2017 Gold

    Abbeydale Black Mass Dark Ale 9G Cask 6.7%

    Very dark ruby ale with a rich, creamy head. Aromas of dark chocolate, coffee and burnt toast. Full bodied and warming with strong flavours of bitter chocolate, fruitcake, raisins and hints of...
  • Double Maxim 9G Cask 4.7%

    First Brewed in 1901 to commemorate the return of the Maxim Gun detachment from the Boar War. This is the first and only original brown ale still brewed in the North East.
  • Black Sheep Bitter 9G Cask 3.8%

    Black Sheep Bitter is brewed to challenge convention. Born iconic: proper beer, done properly. A bold, grassy and peppery BEST Bitter brewed with Fresh Dales Water in Masham, Yorkshire.