Beers A-Z

A over T (Aromas over Tongham)

Extra strong ale. Surrey's strongest beer! Deep tawny colour, complex and powerful yet well balanced with fruity notes, and hints of chocolate & raisins. A truly stunning Beer. A distinctive ale from the 'Barley Wine' stable
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Alligator Ale

Brewed with zesty Cascade hops from Oregon in the US, perfect refreshment for those summer days with hints of citrus fruits – grapefruit, lychee and orangey hop flavours but floral notes too and a good traditional English earthiness.

Bad King John

A very English ale, but black! Bitter...intense...like the ruthless man it honours. Do not look for subtlety from this fine ale.

Barbus barbus

Barbus Barbus is the latin for the barbel fish and this beer celebrates the sport of coarse fishing. In cask form it has quickly become the brewery’s most popular ale and the bottled version has also gained itself a fan club. Three hop strains contribute to the flavour, although, yet again, the brewery won’t say which. Hoppy and well balanced witho...
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Bede's Chalice

Deep amber with cinder toffee and navel oranges flavours. Full, rich and very strong.
Origin: It is possible that the Romans coined the term "barley wine". Beer was related to wine because that was the alcoholic beverage that they were most familiar with. However, barley wine is beer and has no connection with wine. Tas...
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Benedictus

This barley wine is golden in colour with a luscious malty body. A complex blend of hops give an interesting depth and balancing bitterness. The finish lingers with a rich warmth. Something very special.
Origin: Although beers of this strength have always been brewed, the term "barley wine", although coined by the Roman invaders...
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Best Bitter

Clean tasting, well hopped, pale coloured traditional bitter. Made with pure spring water. Brewed with only the best organic produce.
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Blakes Gosport Bitter

Strong, dark and intensely malty, this bitter has everything you need for a cold winters evening yet surprisingly easy to drink for a hot summers day.
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Blond

Easy drinking and golden in colour.Plenty of hops with a bitter-sweet after-taste.A perfect accompaniment to cheese
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Blue

Tesco Beer Challenge Winner 2007. A pale ale designed to be served chilled.Unusually brewed using whole leaf hops. "A crisp refreshing light pale coloured ale with a hint of citrus from the hops with a dry bitter finish keeping the underlying sweetness in check." Chris S."Pale ale taste with slight bitte...
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Bodgers Barley Wine

Brewed entirely naturally from the finest English ingredients and is unfiltered and unpasteurised (330ml). The name ‘Bodger’ records the famous chairmaker of yore. he beer pours a light copper colour, with a white, bubbly head that lasts quite impressively all the way down the glass. Nose is very fruity, with notes of lime (reminiscent of a lime co...
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Brewster's Bundle

First brewed to celebrate the birth of Charley, our Brewsters baby girl.

Bronze coloured with a honeyed aroma and a full sweetish palete. (275ml bottle).

Chocolate (330ml)

Chocolate and beer! Are we Mad? We’d rather say passionate. We marry the soothing flavour of this complex malt barley grist with a hint of dark chocolate. This is a beer for your more self-indulgent moments. Great for lazy afternoons or long evenings, it is best served chilled with your feet up, watching the sun go down. Like w...
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Coffee Porter

Multiple award winner.
Made with dark malts and Fairtrade coffee beans.
Coffee bitterness is balanced by vanilla sweetness to create s lingering espresso cum mocha experience that fills the mouth in a way that coffee alone rarely manages. is it coffee with beer or beer with coffee?
The roastiness of the Fairtrade Arabica Bourbon...
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Coniston Old Man

It is a chestnut brown colour, with a lightly bubbly head. Nose is extremely fruity - apples, plums and bananas are all noticeable, although these become more obvious as the beer warms (it was served from the fridge so was rather cold initially). In the mouth it is initially malty, with caramel, toffee and dark fruit flavours, plus a roasty, grainy...
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Crystal Tips

A full bodied crystal malt flavoured beer. This is a ruby bitter in which malt dominates. Some fruity hop in the nose & taste.

Dizzy Dick

A strong smooth dark ale with plenty of hops and the bitterness carries on into the finish.
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Entire Butt English Porter

Historically the term used to describe a porter blended from a variety of ales, Entire Butt uses 14 different malts and 3 hops to recreate this forgotten style of porter. Black/brown with a crisp white head and is distinctly vinous. It has little hop character as essentially the flavour is derived ...
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Essex Border

Fools Gold

A pale refreshingly complex best bitter. Fruity aroma leads to a bitter-sweet flavour and after-taste with predominance of citrus tones.
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Foreign Export Stout

It pours an almost jet black hue, with a little reddish hint against light. The head is very restrained, without the help of force-pour, forming just a thin layer of sparse big bubbles. The nose: lightly sweetish dark chocolaty note upfront, followed by woody and a little black ink-like note, plus, yeah, a hint of char-coal!! just like ...
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Fuller's 1845

Highly acclaimed strong ale and was described by Roger Protz as 'a rich beer with a fruit cake aroma, spices and nutmeg from malt and hops resulting in a dry, fruity finish' winner of numerous awards eg: the CAMRA Champion Bottle Conditioned Beer of Britain (1998-1999 and 2002) and the British Bottle Institute's award for the Best Dressed Bottle (1...
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Gardener’s Tipple

Brewed to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Horticultural Association at Wisley. Deep golden colour, classic, refreshing, hoppy and well-balanced.
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Goldblade

Crisp, refreshing, and deliciously citrus-tinted with a hint of spice, it’s a flavour that cuts the biggest thirst down to size. Made from only hand selected, traditionally prepared, floor-malted, riband wheat from rolling chalk downs of Wiltshire, this is a truly classic beer. An absolute for Summer barbecues.
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Golden Ale

Easy drinking golden ale with plenty of hops.The bitterness carries on in the finish. Deceptively drinkable beer for it's strength.
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Golden Brown

Chris Butt confesses to being a Stranglers fan, hence the use of one of their song titles for this beer’s name. In the lyrics there is reference to ‘tied to a mast’, which explains the girl tied to a mast of a ship on the label. The beer contains three different malts and just one hop strain. Obviously potent with a slight spiciness from the hop va...
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Heart of Oak

To mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar this exceptional ale that has been brewed in the finest Naval tradition. Initial strong, fruity hop flavours lead to a bittersweet aroma, balanced by a warm chocolaty finish.


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Hearth Warmer

Rich in intense malt flavours and the colour of glowing embers. A potent, warming beer.
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High & Mighty

Beer of the Gods - conceived in Massachusetts out of  a German recipe and lovingly overhopped in the time-honoured American way, this beer was looking sensible until it was fermented it in England as an ale. "Beer of uncertain parentage".

Hole Hearted

Brewed with 100% Cascade hops. A golden ale with powerful, floral and tropical fruit flavours. It has a delicate bitterness. A beer will surprise with every mouthful. Runner up in the SIBA National Beer Competition 2004, bottled beer category Champion Beer of Hampshire 2002 & 2003
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Honey Bunny

Golden coloured bitter with a hoppy finish. A crisp refreshing bitter with a hint of honey. (Organic).

I Can't Believe It's Not Bitter

Clean and crisp with a fruity aftertaste. The use of Saaz hops gives this lager a citrus finish that lingers on
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Ivanhoe

A very English Pale Ale. A subtle red beer dominated by neither malt sweetness nor extreme hop…we want balance. Roast malts, whole English aroma hops.
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Last Drop [half case]

The last ever drop from Gales Brewery - 16 March 2006.
End of era 1847-2006 and every last drop has been squeezed in to this little (275ml) bottle with a cork. This will be the last ever beer to leave the Gales brewery.
Rich, complex and vinous as you'd expect of a 9% mature ale.
Half case of 6 bottles.

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London Pale Ale

The world's original pale beers were born in London over 200 years ago. In our modern interpretation of this classic style aromatic American and English hops marry so well that the International Beer Challenge 2007 awarded this brew 'World's Top 50 Beers' status.
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London Stout

London's black velvet. Made with Brown and Black malts and Goldings hops. Dark malts and London water work closely together to give a beer of great complexity. Soft mocha coffee and vanilla notes on the tongue. A velvet mouthfeel holds a rich and complex palate of caramel, molasses, and nut roast, which gives way to a gen...
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Lord Lee's

An amber ale. Spice and malt in the nose. Bitterness with maltiness to finish.

Madgwick Gold

A golden ale with a fresh citrus / spice hop flavour and nose. Very drinkable with a refreshing, thirst quenching finish.

Maypole Mild

A dark, rich, mild. Sweet with a light malt bitterness and subtle hop undertones.

Mild Gold Award, SIBA National Beer Competition 2004

Mill Lane Mild

A luscious dark mild full of malt with chocolate undertones and light hopping. A step back in time to days when England was the engine room of the empire and mild was the most popular drink for the working class. - Joint Winner - Milton Keynes Beer Festival 2004/05
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Mud City

This is a rich, full-bodied sweet stout. Brewed with raw Ecuadorian cocoa powder, vanilla, flaked oats, wheat and a complex blend of beautifully dark malts. Strong so served in 330ml bottles.

Great for making a choc stout ice cream

Northamptonshire Bitter

This beautiful, rich golden beer has intense but well rounded, refreshing bitterness. This can only be achieved with the liberal use of low alpha hops; in this case, Fuggles and Northdown.

Nuptu'ale

PRICE REDUCTION.
Great for summer drinking. Originally brewed to celebrate a special wedding. Nuptu'ale is a crisp pale ale with delicate hop flavours and a light maltyness. It is refreshing and easy to drink and can be enjoyed on all occasions, not just weddings! 

Original Port Stout

Roast barley, warm vinous undertone Palate Full flavour, dark, liquorice finish using aroma hops Styrian Goldings Guardian/CAMRA Champion bottle-conditioned Beer of Britain 2007 and 2003. These honours arrives hard on the heels of a Silver Medal in the 2002 WORLD BEER CUP at the first time of entry.
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OTT (Old Tongham Tasty)

Dark beer with a full complex aroma of sweet roated malt, fruitiness and a hint of liquorice. Tastes of sweet fruit and malt. The finish is sweet malty and nutty.
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Posh Pooch

Flagship Bitter from this boutique brewer. "Very pleasantly surprised by this newly launched Real Ale. Hugely hoppy and unique. A cascade bomb, with lovely grapefruit and herbal notes. Well worth a try." Tad Edwards [courtesy of OBBD www.bottledbeer.co.uk]

Prior's Ale

Light, refreshing and surprisingly full flavoured for a pale, low gravity beer with a complex, bitter-sweet mixture of hops & fruit carrying through into the after-taste.
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Prize Old Ale

It pours absolutely flat, with no visible head, and is chestnut coloured. The aroma is immediately apparent as a rich, deep roast malt with medicinal cough-candy and lighter fruity notes. Spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg combine with dried fruit and port or sherry, and perhaps a touch of brandy, to give a rich fruitcake-like scent. In the mouth i...
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Pump Fiction

A deep golden beer with good malty complexity, exquisitely balanced with a bright hoppy finish.
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Raspberry (330ml)

Raspberry Grand Cru has a vibrant red colour and a fine white head. The beer has a full raspberry fruit nose, a balance of sweet and sour fruit on the palate and a wildly refreshing zesty finish.

The beer is brewed with malted barley and malted wheat, and is fermented with a rare warmth loving yeast. The sec...
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Red Hunter

Deep mahogany to ruby red bitter. A full bodied, rich and slightly vinous malt character soundly balanced with finest English hops. Red Hunter has an ABV of 4.3 %

Sqn Ldr Neville Duke flew the prototype Hawker Hunter to a new record of 727 mph in 1953. This record was broken in the skies over Worthing and Littlehampton a few mi...
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Reservoir Hogs

Full on flavour from this light copper coloured ale. Deep dryness and strong bitterness followed by a sweetening aftertaste of dark malt. A lively exciting beer with a hoppy ending.
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Ridgeway Bitter

Using the new Boadicea strain of aphid-resistant hops. Golden amber. Fruity and floral aroma. Well-balanced, clean before the floral, bitter, dryish finish.
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Ridgeway IPA

Given Peter's track record this is bound to be a winner. 5.5% bottle conditioned authentic IPA, "well as near as you can get without a time machine to collect ingredients", adds brewer Peter.
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ROB

Ridgeway Organic Beer - a refreshing traditional bitter with an organic purity.
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Rocket Fuel

A strong golden ale guaranteed to go down with a bang.
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Solstice Stout

A rich full flavoured stout made with a wide range of malts, which fully demonstrate the brewer's art. Originally brewed for the frosty dark night of the midwinter solstice, it is now brewed all year round by popular demand.

St Cuthbert

Their first bottle-conditioned beer. This is a very rich, golden, original style IPA. Despite being strong, this beer is not too sweet, but has a luscious malty base over which a complex bitterness makes balancing, thirst quenching properties.
Origin: This is our interpretation of the strong, highly hopped beer that was exporte...
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T.E.A.

A pale ale where the name stands for 'Traditional English Ale'. It is an unusual orange-golden colour, with a thin, bubbly, but long-lasting head. The nose consists of hop flowers and very light malt, with some citrus notes. It is bitter, hoppy and slightly sharp in the mouth, and feels very clean on the palate. There is no sweetness and relat...
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Temptation

An interpretation of a Russian Stout. This classic beer is deep black with coffee and liquorice flavours. And very strong.
Origin: The roots of Russian Stout lie in the porters and stouts brewed in London prior to the advent of Burton pale ale. Thrale’s brewery is probably the most famous producer which, from around 1780, shipp...
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Thomas Hardy's Ale (x12)

"Best beer in the World"
Off-licence News International Challenge 2006

A unique achievement with a special place in English brewing history. Strong in alcohol and powerfully hopped, it doesn't spoil with time and careful storage, but can be kept for at least 25 years, growing...
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Thomas Hardy's Ale (x6)

"Best beer in the World"

 (Off-licence News International Challenge 2006)

A unique achievement with a special place in English brewing history. Strong in alcohol and powerfully hopped, it doesn't spoil with time and careful storage, but can be kept for at least 25 years, growing in character as the flavours blend and devel...
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