Excellent strong dark ale. "Riggwelted" is the word used to describe an unfortunate sheep who cannot get back to its feet. A few of these, and you'll get the idea!
Monkey Wrench is a strong, smooth malty ale with a touch of sweetness. A suggestion of dark fruit & hops, rich ruby red in colour with a hint of warm copper.
Owd Rodger is brewed to a recipe believed to be 500 years old. Brewed using malted barley, English Aroma hops and well water, Owd Rodger offers an explosion of rich fruit flavours with a dry bitter-sweet finish.
Old Tom with chocolate is a sensuous rich warming combination of Old Tom Ale and the finest cocoa. A superior full-bodied strong ale, filled with the flavour of ripe malt,velvety smooth chocolate and a teasing hint of Madagascan vanilla.
Voted "Worlds Best Ale" in the 2009 World Beer Awards in London. Superior dark, rich and warming strong ale with a cherry brandy like colour and character. Booming balance of ripe malt, and peppery hops combine with roasted nut and chocolate flavours with a smoky richness. Distinctive deep port wine finish with bitter hops balance complemented by heady, vinous aromas of dark fruit.
Proper Black is a very unusual beer, a black IPA. The intense hop bitterness is offset by the rich chocolate roasted malt to give a very well balanced and drinkable beer. This is a bottle conditioned beer so will condition with age.
Black IPA's are becoming fashionable with beer enthusiasts so this is a chance to sample something at the cutting edge and engage in the conundrum that these beers create.
A very special bounty indeed, Smugglers is a unique blend of dark ale and oak-aged barley wine. This strong beer is brewed and racked into oak whisky casks before being stored in the brewery cellars. During its long slumber the beer undergoes an extraordinary transformation, emerging rich and complex with hints of whisky, creamy vanilla, toffee and spice. Bottle conditioned.
A silky-smooth suppertime beer, created using dark malts and chocolate. Pronounced vanilla notes fuse the chocolate and malts together to give a rich, warming, flavour.
Naylors have blended the recipes of their Pinnacle Bitter & Pinnacle Porter to create Black & Tan - a deep brown beer with mellow flavours of roasted barley. Verrry smooth!
A rich, ruby colour with vinous and bitter plum aromas blending with rich fruity sweetness, suggesting honey & figs with rum soaked raisins. There is a lovely, lingering bitterness which rounds off this old ale style beer.
A well-hopped dark premium beer, with an unusual medley of flavours. It is rich and well rounded though, not as strong as it tastes. Brodies Prime has a roasted edge, like a stout, but with contrasting spiciness and surprisingly pronounced fruit flavours from a mixture of English & American hops.
In this video, award-winning beer writer Zak Avery tries three of the range: Lakeland Lager (up to 2 minutes), Lakeland Gold (2 to 3.30 minutes) and Brodies Prime (3.30 minutes to finish).
Black Rocks brings together the amazing hop varieties of Columbus, Cluster and Southern Cross, imparting hints of blackcurrant pithy grapefruit and liquorice. A black IPA!
A smooth, easy drinking dark ale with a pleasant hoppy character and hints of roasted malts with a luxurious full finish.
A darker more complex version of Kelham's top selling Pale Rider.