Regular Beers
Below are some of our main beers with write-ups by beer writer, Steve Hobman. We have a constantly changing line-up of ales from small brewerys around the country so please pop by or ring the pub to find out what we have on today.
The legend of the Cheshire Cat goes way back in time and was featured in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
And this beer has enjoyed a bit of a fairytale success. The grinning cat pump clip couldn’t be better suited for a beer that gives you a ‘got the cream’ sort of mouth feel.
Light and fruity blonde ale that offers hints of lemon and grapefruit and a gentle, dry, hop bitterness Cheshire Cat began life as A Blonde for Christmas in 2005. Such was the magic, it quickly became a regular brew. That popularity can be witnessed daily in Harker’s, as the staple quaffing diet for the cask-ale-loving fat cats there. Blimey, do they shift some stuff. Greater praise for beer is hard to find.
Weetwood Brewery (see Oat House Gold) set up in 1993 near Tarporley and has garnered a strong following. The beers regularly show up in Brunning & Price pubs. A bit like Alice’s cat.
Twelve beer enthusiasts from around the company worked with Tony Allen of Phoenix Brewery developing our own cask ale over a period of seven months. This version - brew No. 8 - was the one we were finally happy to put our name to. It was an arduous process, but we were prepared to make the personal sacrifice for the good of the cause.
Brewed using East Kent Golding hops with a touch of American Mount Hood hops for aroma, this has been fermented using a Timothy Taylor derived yeast. Tony used predominantly Maris Otter malts with a small amount of Crystal to give colour and body, and the water is sourced from Ullswater as it is particularly pure and soft.
This beer has a gentle and pleasant aroma with a fine dark gold/amber colour and a good creamy head that clings down the glass. Taste wise, this has a malty, fruity sweetness and a long, rounded but refreshingly dry finish.
Beer finder
Below is a searchable database of favourites compiled across the company. Search for a brew and links below the write-up list any of our pubs it can be found in.
- Three Tuns 1642 Bitter (3.8%)
- Wadworth 6X (4.3%)
- Green King Abbot Ale (5.0%)
- Abbeydale Absolution (5.3%)
- Adnams Adnams Bitter (3.7%)
- Adnams Adnams Explorer (4.3%)
- Crouch Vale Amarillo (5.0%)
- Station House Aonach (4.9%)
- Phoenix Arizona (4.1%)
- The Arran Brewery Arran Dark (4.3%)
- Anglo Dutch Auntie Glads Ghoul (5.2%)
- Acorn Barnsley Bitter (3.8%)
- Spitting Feathers Basket Case (4.8%)
- Black Sheep Best Bitter (3.8%)
- Blue Monkey Brewing BG Sips (4.0%)
- Ossett Big Red (4.0%)
- Harviestoun Bitter and Twisted (3.8%)
- Moorhouse Black Cat (3.4%)
- Copper Dragon Black Gold (3.7%)
- Moorhouse Black Witch (4.2%)
- Thornbridge Blackthorn Ale (4.4%)
- Butcombe Blond (4.3%)
- Moorhouse Blond Witch (4.5%)
- Coniston Bluebird Bitter (3.6%)
- Boddingtons Boddingtons Bitter (4.1%)
- Boogart Hole Clough Brewery Boggart Rum Porter (4.7%)
- Bollington Brewery Bollington Dinner Ale (4.3%)
- Crouch Vale Brewers Gold (4.0%)
- Otter Bright (4.3%)
- Adnams Broadside (4.7%)
- Hawkshead Brodie's Prime (4.9%)
- Marstons Burton Bitter (3.8%)
- Yorkshire Dales Butter Tubs (3.7%)
- Conwy Celebration (4.2%)
- Celtic Experience Brewery Celt Golden Ale (4.2%)
- Peakstones Rock Brewery Chained Oak (4.2%)
- Weetwood Ales Cheshire Cat (4.0%)
- Fullers Chiswick Bitter (3.5%)
- Coach House Combine Harvester (5.1%)
- Corvedale Brewery Corvedale Dark and Delicious (4.2%)
- Marston Moor Cromwell Pale (3.8%)
- Cwmbran Brewery Crow Valley Bitter (4.2%)
- Hartleys Cumbria Way (4.1%)
- Purple Moose Dark Side of the Moose (4.6%)
- Dark Star Brewing Co Dark Star American Pale Ale (4.4%)
- Caledonian Deuchars IPA (3.8%)
- Facers DHB (4.3%)
- Wye Valley Dorothy Goodbody’s Wholesome Stout (4.6%)
- Okells Brewery Dr Okells IPA (4.5%)
- Hanby Drawwell (3.9%)
- RCH East Street Cream (5.0%)
- Weetwood Ales Eastgate Ale (4.2%)
- Hop Back Entire Stout (4.5%)
- Dark Star Brewing Co Espresso Stout (4.2%)
- Ossett Excelsior (5.2%)
- Bradfield Brewery Farmers Blonde (4.0%)
- Northumberland Fog on the Tyne (4.1%)
- Northumberland Gateshead Gold (5.0%)
- Purple Moose Glasfryn Ale (4.8%)
- Exmoor Gold (4.5%)
- Wylam Brewery Gold Tankard (4.0%)
- Archers Golden (4.7%)
- Badger Golden Champion (4.6%)
- Stonehouse Golden Fox (house brew) (4.2%)
- Salopian Golden Thread (5.0%)
- Breconshire Brewery Golden Valley (4.2%)
- Hornbeam Golden Wraith Pale Ale (5.0%)
- York Guzzler (3.6%)
- Castle Rock Harvest Pale (3.8%)
- Hawkshead Hawkshead Bitter (3.7%)
- Skinners Heligan Honey (4.0%)
- Hook Norton Hooky Gold (4.1%)
- Dark Star Brewing Co Hophead (3.8%)
- Hornbeam Hornbeam Top Hop (4.2%)
- Wye Valley HPA (4.0%)
- Titanic Iceberg (4.1%)
- Green King IPA (3.6%)
- Kelham Island Pale Rider (5.2%)
- Thornbridge Jaipur (5.9%)
- Oakham Jeffrey Hudson Bitter (3.8%)
- Anglo Dutch Kletswater (4.0%)
- Beartown Kodiak Gold (4.0%)
- Hawkshead Lakeland Gold (4.4%)
- Lancaster Brewery Lancaster Red (4.9%)
- Timothy Taylor Landlord (4.3%)
- Blakemere Brewery Landmark Bitter (3.7%)
- Facers Landslide (4.9%)
- Woodlands Light Oak (4.0%)
- Fullers London Pride (4.1%)
- Thornbridge Lord Marples (4.0%)
- Mighty Oak Brewing Co. Maldon Gold (3.8%)
- Abbeydale Matins (3.6%)
- Northumberland McCory's Irish Stout (4.4%)
- Moles Brewery Mole Catcher (5.0%)
- Abbeydale Moonshine (4.3%)
- Wincle Mr Mullins IPA (4.8%)
- Nethergate Nethergate Augustinian Ale (4.5%)
- Black Hole Brewery No Escape (5.2%)
- Northern Brewery Northern 45 (4.5%)
- Northern Brewery Northern 45 (4.5%)
- Wylam Brewery Northern Kite (4.9%)
- Thwaites Nutty Black (3.3%)
- Woodlands Oak Beauty (4.2%)
- Weetwood Ales Oast-House Gold (5.0%)
- Worfield OBJ (4.2%)
- Oakham Oblivion (5.7%)
- Old Bear Brewery Old Bear Goldilocks (4.5%)
- Moorhouse Old Boss Bitter (4.3%)
- Acorn Old Moor Porter (4.4%)
- Banks Original (3.5%)
- Flowers Original (4.3%)
- Brunning and Price Original Bitter (3.8%)
- Roosters Outlaw Wrangler (3.7%)
- Ossett Pale Gold (3.8%)
- Wood Parish Bitter (4.0%)
- Moorhouse Pendle Witches Brew (5.1%)
- Burton Bridge Brewery Pie in the Sky (4.5%)
- Plassey Plassey Bitter (4.0%)
- Wood Pot o’ Gold (4.4%)
- Moorhouse Premier Bitter (3.7%)
- Moorhouse Pride of Pendle (4.1%)
- Slaters Queen Bee (4.2%)
- Breconshire Brewery Red Dragon (4.7%)
- Storm Brewing Co Red Mist (3.9%)
- Rudgate Brewery Ruby Mild (4.4%)
- Salopian Salopian Hoptwister (4.5%)
- Sandstone Brewery Sandstone Edge (3.8%)
- Harviestoun Schiehallion (4.8%)
- Sharp's Brewery Sharp\'s Own (4.4%)
- Salopian Shropshire Gold (3.8%)
- Wood Shropshire Lad (4.5%)
- Ossett Silver King (4.3%)
- Pictish Brewing Co. Simcoe (4.4%)
- Purple Moose Snowdonia Ale (Cwrw Eryn) (3.6%)
- Shepherd Neame Spitfire (4.5%)
- Stonehouse Station Bitter (SB) (3.9%)
- Station House Station House Buzzin’ (4.3%)
- Wickwar Station Porter (6.1%)
- Titanic Stout (4.5%)
- Hop Back Summer Lightning (5.0%)
- Acorn Summer Pale (4.1%)
- Harveys Sussex Bitter (4.0%)
- Northumberland The Original (4.1%)
- Spitting Feathers Thirst Quencher (3.9%)
- Thwaites Thwaites Original (3.6%)
- Everards Tiger (4.2%)
- St Austell Tinners Cornish Bitter (3.7%)
- Titanic Titanic Steerage (3.5%)
- Titanic Titanic Stout (4.5%)
- Brimstage Trapper’s Hat (3.8%)
- St Austell Tribute (4.2%)
- Derby Brewing Co Triple Hop (4.1%)
- Thwaites Wainwright (4.1%)
- Weetwood Ales Weetwood Ambush (4.8%)
- Wells and Young Wells Bombardier (4.3%)
- Great Orme Welsh Black (4.0%)
- Bollington Brewery Wheat Nancy (4.3%)
- Woodfordes Wherry (3.8%)
- Envile White (4.2%)
- Oakham White Dwarf (4.3%)
- Roosters Wild Mule (3.9%)
- Thornbridge Wild Swan (3.5%)
- Wincle Wincle Waller (3.8%)
- Three Tuns XXX (4.3%)
- Roosters Yankee (4.3%)
- O'Hanlon's Brewery Yellow hammer (4.0%)
- Acorn Yorkshire Pride (3.7%)
- York Yorkshire Terrier (4.2%)
- Youngs Youngs Special (4.5%)
