guest beers

This is a selection of the beers that have previously or are currently making a "guest" appearance on our bar.

Name Brewery ABV Description
303AD Hook Norton 4% English Malt and English hops combine to make a very English beer. Dry and crisp with a hint of citrus, 303AD being the year of St George is the Beer of St George.
6X Wadworth 4.3% 6X is brewed from 93% pale malt, 4% crystal malt and 3% cane sugar. The bitterness units of 22-24 are obtained from Fuggles hops (85% of total) in the copper and Goldings hops (15%) on the hop back plates. Colour rating is 28 .
Abbott Ale Greene King 5% A full-bodied very distinctive beer with a bitter sweet aftertaste
Adnams Broadside Adnams 4.7% A mid-brown bitter with a well-balanced flavour of fruit, malt and hops on a bittersweet base fruity aroma bitter fruit finish
AK McMullen 3.7% A mix of malt and hops leads to a dry aftertaste that some times stops a little short
Alchemy Oldershaw Brewery 5.3% A real light soft to the touch 5.3% summer style bitter, easy on drinking with just enough to catch you out later
Ale Crew Brew no details %
Apparition Full Mash 4.5% light pale colour with hints of lemon and citrus, from this very small Nottinghamshire brewery.
Archers Arrows Archers 4% A brown bitter on the dark side of ruby red, lots of hops, with a clean dry finish.
Arthur's wit Church End Brewery 6% Strong in all ways, load of flavour, taste and a great finish.
Autumn Ale Archers Ales 4.8% a rich malt brown bitter, with a fruit and hop after taste, and a long finish
Banbury 400 Hook Norton 4.7% Gold coloured with pale head. Richly hopped and dry beer, plenty of geen leafy resinous hop notes with a sweet tinge. Lacks a little body, lightly malted and quite crisp. Nice finish. Get it while you can.
Bard's Bitter Wye Valley Brewery 4% A pale amber coloured ale brewed with pale, wheat and crystal malt to commemorate the annual 'Ledbury Poetry Festival'. The rich, lingering almost fruity hop character is derived from the use of Challenger hops as the sole variety, with two infusions at different stages of the brewing process.
Barn Owl Cotleigh 4.5% A distinctive and full flavoured premium strength bitter. Copper coloured premium ale with hints of toffee and nut with a smooth malty bitter sweet finish.
Bass Coors 4.4% brewed with a unique twin yeast strain gies Bass a distinctive nutty, malty taste.
Bats in the Belfey Church End Brewery 5.6% A top Church end bitter full of flavour and taste for these cold winter days
Bobs Dog Jumping Frogs Church End Brewery 4.2% in the house style
Bobsledge Jack Cottage Brewing Company 4.5% Part of the Whippet series, a 3/4 brown bitter with full roast malt and hops and a aroma that is all mince pies and xmas trees.
Brass Band Archers 4.3% Bold as brass like the BBC's new weather map bright shiny and with great flavour, all english hop a real nice pint
Broadside Adnams 4.7% Rich fruitcake aromas – almonds, zest and conserved fruit. A wonderful balance of malt and hop flavours. A pint to savour. An easy drinking pint rich in flavour. Adnams Broadside enjoys a special place in our hearts. Brewed to celebrate the Battle of Sole Bay in 1672, Adnams Broadside has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame.
Buckeye Archers 4.5% Another in the run of super light summer beers this on is all malt and hops with a short finish, the term Buckeye, well the pump clip comes with a butterfly on it but a google search does not reveal why!!!!!
Bycle - Ale Church End Brewery 4.6% Brewed for the Coventry Beer festival
Camberwell Beauty Wentwoth Brewery 4% not a butterfly or a book by Jenny Eclair, but a rather fine bitter not to hopped or to dry, you couls even sit out side with it and look at the butterflys or read a book.
Captain Smith Titanic Brewery 5.2% Dark red/brown beer hoppy and bitter with malt and roast malt flavours and a long bitter-sweet finish
Caribbean Calypso Archers 4.2% Ultra light like the England batting line up, but a taste that bowls like Monty
Champflower Cottage Brewing Company 4.2% A mediumcoloured beer with a fine hoppy aroma and finish
Cheltenham Gold Goffs Brewery 4.5% A classic gold bitter for a classic horserace.
Classic Gold Bitter Church End Brewery 4.5% Just what it says on the label a classic golden bitter from one of the most well thought off Warwickshire brewers.
Cop Gun Church End Brewery 4.8% Based on the top selling "Hop Gun" this uprated version is well hoped and pale in but taste, so named because one of the brewery staff got a speeding ticket!!!!
Corianna Outlaw Brewing Co 4.3% light in colour, lots of hops with a touch of greatfruit in the after taste!!
Corrianna / Red Mist bridge of allan/Outlaw brewery 4.5%
Cotswold Lion Hook Norton 4.2% The Cotswolds Conservation Board is celebrating 40 years of protected status for the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). And Hook Norton has joined in the celebrations with a new brew Cotswold Lion, at 4.2 per cent ABV, to mark the occasion, and 5p from every pint sold is being donated to the Cotswolds Conservation Board. The beer is a pale, fruity ale, brewed with Maris Otter malt and hopped with Fuggles. Brewer James Clarke said: “This is the first time we have brewed a single varietal beer.” Over the past four decades AONB designation has meant that the Cotswolds has been conserved and enhanced and that any change has, where possible, been in keeping with the distinctive nature of the area.
Cotswold Lion / Fortyniner Hook Norton / Ringwood 4.2% see each beer
Cracker Church End Brewery 5% light colour, with a rich smell of winter days and a touch of sweetness in the aftertaste and now 5.0%
Cutting Ale Church End Brewery 4.8% First brewed for the 99 Harbury beer show
Deltic Diesel Cottage Brewing Company 4.7% A light floral bitter with a pale straw colour
Doombar Sharps Brewery 4% Taste Notes from Head Brewer Stuart Howe "The aroma of Doom Bar is an accomplished balance of spicy resinous hop, inviting sweet malt and delicate roasted notes. The mouth feel is a perfectly balance 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."
Double Barrelled Hook Norton 4.3% BASC Director of operations Simon Hamlyn said: “This is great news for the BASC centenary celebrations. What better way to celebrate a 100 years of success than with a beer produced by one of the country’s leading independent brewers. ” Hook Norton’s Managing Director James Clarke said: “Hook Norton Brewery is extremely proud to have worked with BASC in creating Double Barrelled. Being a rural independent brewer with an interest in conservation it is important that we aid organisations like BASC wherever possible. “The beer, at 4.3 per cent ABV, is the perfect compliment to the fruits of the sport. “With a glass of this Oxfordshire beer, raise a glass to toast those people who have made the BASC what it is today.” Double Barrelled is a pale ale with aromas of soft fruit and a hint of orange. It has a full and almost spicy flavour
Double Stout Hook Norton 4.8% Double stout is a full bodied smooth stout with a hoppy aftertaste, Double Stout is dry-hopped and based on a 100 year old recipe.
Dragon's Breath Hop Back Brewery 4% A real beer brown in colour with a proper beer smell and a taste that hides the fact that chilles are used in the making of this beer
dulce Full Mash Brewery 4.6% The most pale bitter you will see, very easy to drink great taste
East Street Cream RCH Brewery 5% Pale brown in colour with chocolate hints hoppy fruity and bitter-sweet
Embargo Church End Brewery 4.8% A rich full ruby red bitter
English Summer Black Country Ales 4.1% A refreshing light brown summer ale of fine balanced character, with a moreish lingering hoppy aftertaste of Fuggles and Cascade.
English Winter Black Country Ales 5.5% A trad mid-brown bitter, and a little more ABV to help keep out the cold
Excelsior Ossett Brewery 5.2% SIBA NATIONAL SUPREME CHAMPION 2003 Our strongest permanently available brew. Excelsior has a mellow yet full flavour that develops into fruity dryness on the palate. A fresh, hoppy aroma with citrus, toffee and floral characteristics.
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Fallen Angel Church End Brewery 5% Cask handpull at the brewery. Lagery gold pour with creamy white suds. Fresh green hop bite, orange-citrussy tanginess and fresh bread afters. A thicker bodied, fruitier version of Altar’s Ale. My only criticism of these crisply hoppy golden bitters CE specialise in is that drinking a range of them over an evening is like being tapped over the head ever-so-slightly-harder with the same mallet. But it’s a good mallet.
Field of Gold Tunnel Brewery 5% A summer ale, yes, but as the summer draws to a close and night get cooler, so the beer darkens just a little, a get a touch stonger, now with 10 or 11 brewers in the county, its going to be a great winter
First Light Hook Norton 4.3% A salute to the approaching summer, First Light is a pale, light brew with a complex aroma anticipating heady days of al fresco. Malted wheat and malted barley give it an exotic palate; Styrian Goldings provide a fruity nose with hints of water melon and lychees
Flagship Hook Norton 5.3% Named by a customer this great beer stands up well, and is the flagship of the range
Flying Herbert North Yorkshire Brewing Co. 4.7% Full-flavoured premium bitter smooth and well balanced
Flying Top Bakehouse Brewery 4.4% A mid-brown bitter, full of fruit and hops with a sweet finish
Flying top / Swindon Strong Bitter Walsh's Bakehouse / Archers 4.4%
For Honour & Victory Cottage Brewing Company 4.7% A light straw colour bitter, with a dry hop after taste and the great sense that we put one over the Frogs and the Spanish!!!
Fortyniner Ringwood 4.9% Light, fresh hop bouquet. Rounded malt in the mouth with strong hop balance, deep bittersweet finish. Golden full-bodied malted beer, silver medal winner at the '96 International Beer Competition at Burton-on-Trent
Generation Hook Norton 4% A pale brown best bitter, predominantly hoppy but balanced with moderate malt and a short hoppy finish
Goats Milk Church End Brewery 3.8% a very light pale bitter, good taste, and smell
Gold Exmoor Ales 4.5% A long hopped finish of the single malt style beer the colour as you would expect is golden with a sweet finish
Gold / Dragon's Breath Exmoor Ales / Hop Back Brewery 4.5% see each beer
Golden Archers 4.5% Just what is says
Golden Arrow Cottage Brewing Company 4.5% Golden beer with a powerful floral hoppy aroma a fruity full-bodied taste with a dry bitter finish
Golden Eagle Cotleigh 4.2% Golden Eagle is as the name suggest a golden beer, not to rich in malt or hops but a fine balence of both
Golden Newt Elgood's 4.6% A well balanced but dry palate with bitterness unusual malted grain types give fruity depth to this dry hopped beer
Golden Train Archers 4.5% light, well hoped dry biiter with a smooth after taste.
Goodwill Archers Ales 4.5% A full rich brown biiter, with a great mix of hops and malts that lead to a long dry finish.
Gridlap Bakehouse Brewery 5% A Dark Brown Nutty Beer Full Of Malt From Our New Local Brewery
H.P.A. Wye Valley Brewery 4% A delightful pale ale, smooth on the palate with a citrus hop aroma leading to a balanced bitter finish. Ingredients:- Pale malt and Wheat malt. English Target and Styrian Goldings hops.
Hagley Hall Archers 4.5% Light colour full hopped beer.
Happy new beer Church End Brewery 4.2% A very light golden ale a nice change after all those dark winter ones
Haymaker Hook Norton 5% From their classic seasons range a dryhopped, light and fruity bitter
Hereford Pale Ale Wye Valley Brewery 4% Ok lets look at the facts it's from Hereford, it's pale and it's an ale, so it dose what it says on the pump clip and at 4% it's light and tasty
His Lordship's Whisky Beer Archers Ales 5.2% A full rich malty brown/red beer with the touch of whisky in the aftertaste, drinks well below it's 5.2% weight
I.K.B Archers 4% A beer to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He became the chief engineer of the Great Western Railway company and as Archers Brewery is located in a former GWR engine weight shed, we feel it appropriate to have brewed this beer to commemorate the life of this great man who became a world class engineer.
I.P.A Archers 4.2% I gave the first drop of this to a customer and they said "tastes like an I.P.A" well praise indeed,
India Pale Ale (IPA) Church End Brewery 5% A proper IPA brewed the way it should be, pale with lots hops, a joy to drink.
Indiana Bones and the Golden Whippet Cottage Brewing Company 4.6% Part of the new Whippet series from Cottage a light golden, well hopped beer, great taste and clean aftertaste
Jack & The Dragon Cottage Brewing Company 4.8% A cool pale bitter very easy to drink, dry hoppy with a touch of spice, just right for sharing with the Dragon in your life!
Jouster Goffs Brewery 4% A classic beer from a brewery that has become a regular on our guest beer list, light in colour with fruit and hops great summer drinking.
Landlord Timothy Taylor 4.3% Dry and bitter finish complements the spicy citrus hop character of this full flavoured beer
Larks Rise Cherwell Valley Brewery 4% Light and pale with a hint of citrus, form this new brewery just south of us in oxon
Launcelot Goffs Brewery 4.5% A classic light style bitter, lots of hops dry clean taste, part of the ales of the round table series, and an aroma that lasts to the bottom of the pint
Launcelot Goffs Brewery 4.5% A pale yellow ale with a floral nose and a clean hoppy aftertaste
Legger's Ale Wye Valley Brewery 4.6% True Wye Valley style light fruity and just a touch of malt in the finish.
London Pride Fuller's 4.1% Well-balanced golden brown best bitter hoppy aroma and sweetish fruity palette drying finish
Lydham Manor Archers Ales 4.1% crisp amber ale
Mighty Morgan Wye Valley Brewery 4.4% bitter, with a tiuch of fruit easy to drink, great late summer beer
Mutley's Revenge Spinning Dog Brewery 4.8% 2005 SIBA WEST CHAMPION SUPREME BITTER 2006 CAMRA WEST MIDLANDS CHAMPION STRONG BITTER Amber in colour, full bodied beer with a citrus Aftertaste.
Mutley's Springer Spinning Dog Brewery 4.4% Three guys tonight that drank it said it was a lovel hoppie beer, and i have no reason to disagre. and they were all card carring CAMRA members
Nimbus Atlas Brewery 5% a well-balanced yellow/golden beer. dry and fruity at the front, becoming slightly astringent with lasting fruit and a pleasant dry finish.
Northern Light Orkney Brewery 4% A straw coloured beer, hoppy and refreshing, fruity hop notes can develop a true lager nose. A late copper hop is intense without being cloying
Northern Light / Nimbus Orkney Brewery / Atlas brewery 4% See each beer
Old Gravel Treader Church End Brewery 5% A bright clear brown bitter, easy drinking with a long finish
Old Herbaceous Church End Brewery 5% A pale yellow beer, very light and easy to drink but with a full hop taste
Our Ken Cottage Brewing Company 4.5% A rich mid-brown bitter full of malt and hops
Pendle Witches Brew Moorhouse's Brewery 5.1% A faint malty nose leads to a rich sweetish nutty flavour with a subtle hoppy bitterness
Piddle in the Snow Wyre Piddle 5.2% Dry strong tastes draw your attention to the balance between malt and hops in the brew
Pig Brooke North Cotswold Brewery 3.8% mid-brown session bitter
Pig on the Wall (Mild) Black Country Ales 4.3% mild at its best
Pixie Dance Archers Ales 4.2% very light beer with a strong taste, that hides its lower gravity, and get retains the fact that it is easy to drink.
Pooh Beer Church End Brewery 4.3% A bright golden beer brewed with honey sweet yet hoppy very moreish
Pulpit Church End Brewery 4.8% Wow what a great beer to clear the Christmas cobwebs with a full light easy to drink bitter that leaves you trying to guess why the pump clip has a four poster bed on it
Pure Gold Purity Brewing 3.8% is a refreshing Golden Ale
Pure UBU Purity Brewing 4.5% Pure UBU pronounced OO-BOO - is named after our faithfull/feared canine friend UBU, protector of our secrets. UBU 4.5% ABV is a distinctive Premium amber coloured beer. Using 100% English Marris Otter Malt with Challenger and Cascade hops, creates a balanced full flavoured beer that is a pleasure to drink.
Red Mist Bridge of Allan Brewery 5% A wheat beer made with scottish raspberries
Regatta Adnams 4.3% The perfect summer bitter, light in colour, light dry and crisp, serverd cool on summers eve.
Rock 'N' Roll Bakehouse Brewery 4.2%
Ruby Ale Wye Valley Brewery 4.7% Ruby ale like all products from Wye Valley does what it says a ruby colour ale, some what bitter but cracking taste gromit!!!!!
Rusty Dudly Church End Brewery 4.5% Just when the weather goes warm, Warwickshires top brewer runs hot with this little stunner, a 4.5% classic, malt, hops, and a after taste that slake a thirst like a snake in a wagon rut!!!
S.S.B Archers Ales 5% a copper colour bitter not to dark and just the right side of strong both in terms of taste and A.B.V
SA Brains 4.2% Low aroma, amber colour a rounded blend of flavours malt fruit and hops are accompanied by a building bitterness
Sharps Own Sharps Brewery 4.4% Own features sweet roasted notes and is very full in the mouth making it the perfect partner for a cheeseboard. It goes particularly well with strong blue cheeses like stilton. Sharp's Own is also well suited to use in or accompanying beef or game stews or pies.
Silly Mid Whippet Cottage Brewing Company 4.5% Ok, so the pump clip is leg before but who cares the beers is as good as the cricket, a strong gold colour, great taste hops, malt just the sort of thing you need to stress the Aussies out with "come on Shane lend us your brain were're building a moron"
Slaters Supreme Slaters Ales 4.7% A well hopped tawny bitter fresh and fruity with a hoppy aroma the hops linger developing bitterness and a moreish finish
Sneck Lifter Jennings 5.1% A strong dark brown ale with a complex balance of fruit and malt and a full roast finish
Special Young's Brewery 4.6% Smooth fruity beer with a good malty/hoppy balance and a fruity bitter after taste
special Young's Brewery 4.5% A classic bitter that has gained cult status among cask ale drinkers. Amber in colour, Young's Special has a fruity, slightly estery nose with a good hop aroma and full round flavour, a fine balance between malt and hops. 100% malt brew: Maris Otter and crystal malt together with Fuggle and Golding hops. Note from the Head Brewer A real mouthful of flavour - savour what being Special is all about.
special Sharps Brewery 5.2% Special is the sweetest and most alcoholic of all the range. The sweetness complements most deserts and most especially those with a good measure of sugar such as treacle puddings and stewed fruits. The sweet roasted aroma also make Special perfect with creamy and rich cheeses. Taste Notes from Head Brewer Stuart Howe "Delicious jellied fruit aromas blend perfectly with inviting roasted notes. The mouthfeel is succulent with dried fruit, malt and delicate hop bitterness. The finish is lingering and warm with fruit and malt notes. For a strong ale Special is subtle and dangerously drinkable."
Spiders have feelings too Church End Brewery 4.8% This one breaks the mould bad name meen bad beer, but this is from church end so you know it is nice,
St Michael's Ale Wye Valley Brewery 4.7% A harvest ale brewed with un-kilned hops brewed to rasie money for St Michaels hospice text smh to 84858 to make a ÂŁ3 donation
Starlight White Star Brewery 5% A wonderful, golden bitter. The subtle blend of malt and hops gives it a bitter finish and long after-taste.
Stout Coffin Church End Brewery 4.6% A Stout, makes a nice change dry and malty, with a rich dark brown/red colour, good after taste.
Strong Dark Mild Archers 5% say's it all
Summer Lighting Hop Back Brewery 5% A pale bitter with a good fresh hoppy aroma and a long dry finish very easy to drink
Summer of '69 Wye Valley Brewery 4.9% Summer of 69 - 4.9% Our brewer has been reminiscing about those long hot lazy days of his youth. Summer of 69, with no strings attached, proves there is some romance left in this hectic world. It is brewed using Pale, Crystal, Amber and Wheat Malts combined with Herefordshire Fuggles and East Kent Goldings. This combination produces a delightful rich amber coloured beer
Sunshine Ale Church End Brewery 5% A very pale 5% ABV Bitter with a dry hop taste and finish
Swindon Wilts Archers Ales 5% Strong dark Mild 5% ABV a very strong in mild terms, dark with lots of malt and an easy to drink finish
Tanglefoot The Badger Brewery 5.1% A full-bodied beer, pale straw in colour with a characteristic fruitiness medium bitterness and a slightly spicy finish.
Thames Tunnel Cottage Brewing Company 4.7% Celebrating 200 years of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, this mid brown bitter with a smooth taste and a great malty aroma.
The best 4x4 Wye Valley Brewery 4.4% To celebrate the diamond jubilee of the farmers friend, Wye Valley Brewery has produced The Best 4 × 4. Brewed with Maris Otter pale, wheat, Munich malt and Perle hops. A classic brown ale with a sweet nutty flavour balanced by a resinous hop character.
The Tippling Philosopher Wye Valley Brewery 4% The Tippling Philosopher is a book published by Merlin Unwin of Ludlow. It contains many funny stories from the Welsh Marches and beyond. This beer is very pale in colour and is brewed using Maris Otter Pale, Wheat Malt and hopped at the start and end of the boil with Styrian Goldings for a distinctive hoppy aroma.
The Whippet Strikes Back Cottage Brewing Company 4.1% A return of the ever popular whippet series this version is lower in abv and light to mid brown in colour, a lack of hops is the only down side to this fine easy to drink ale
Tiger Everards 4.2% Mid brown in colour and a malty nose and a long bitter-sweet finish
Top Gear Archers 4.9% If you gloss over the crap pump clip and get down to the beeer you are in for a treat, malt barley and sweet nose are part of this easy to drink bitter.
Tournament Goffs Brewery 4% Darker than most in the Goffs range but no less good, malt nad hops are well balanced with a long finsh.
Tournament / Thames Tunnel Goffs Brewery /Cottage Brewing 4.7% see each beer
Treason Tipple Hook Norton 4% Well they will with Hook Norton’s latest brew Treason Tipple. The four per cent ABV brew has been created to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of The Gunpowder Plot. The Brewers at Hook Norton have conspired to produce a dark ale, powdery on the palate with smokey overtones, reminiscent of another Hooky beer. But can you solve the mystery. Try one and see!
Twelve Days Hook Norton 5.5% A dark brown strong beer brewed for Christmas,lightly hopped, with a strong malt and nutty flavour, and long smooth aftertaste.
Valiant Bateman 4.2% Tasting Notes A delicious golden beer, clean, crisp & zesty.
ValinantTasting Notes Bateman 4.2% Tasting Notes A delicious golden beer, clean, crisp & zesty.
Vicars ruin Church End Brewery 4.4% pale, great taste and style a true classic
Victory Ale Wye Valley Brewery 4.6% Brewed in memory of the people who have won the Victoria Cross
Wessex Sizzler Cottage Brewing Company 4.8%
White Knight Goffs Brewery 4.7% No surprise then that this is a very pale almost white bitter, just a touch of sulphur on the nose, easy drinking bitter finish
White Knight / Golden Arrow Goffs Brewery /Cottage Brewing 4.7%
Willie Brew'D Church End Brewery 4.5% Another classic from the top local brewery, this one is made for Burn's night
www.beer.org Church End Brewery 5% organic beer, great smell and taste if a little of the normal Chuch end track, but make sure you check out the web site the beer is named after before you you leap
XXXB Bateman 4.8% A brilliant blend of malt and hops and fruit on the noise with a bitter bite over the top of a faintly banana maltiness that stays the course
Young's bitter Young's Brewery 3.7% Bursting with taste, Young's Bitter is an easy to drink, refreshing cask ale with a fresh, fruity aroma that leaves a long, satisfying bitter finish. It is traditionally brewed to deliver a clean taste and is light and dry in flavour with a subtle taste of hops. Brewed by methods unchanged for generations to modern standards using only the highest quality traditional ingredients. 100% malt brew: Maris Otter and crystal malt with Fuggle and Golding hops.

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