real ale

Traditional ales, with their own unique and regional heritage, often conjure up memories of times long gone. Yet they have somehow survived the 20th century to become the most sought after of brews. It is possible that Britain has the largest and most interesting selection of traditional ales with hundreds of established and newer up and coming breweries producing a variety of ales.

Whatever your taste, be it mild or strong there is a traditional ale waiting to be discovered!

Last Updated: 12/02/2012

Beowulf Brewing Company, Brownhills, Staffordshire

 

Dark Raven

4.8% ABV

500ml.

 

Dragon Smoke Stout

5.3% ABV

500ml.

 

Finn’s Hall Porter

5.2% ABV

500ml.

 

Folded Cross

4.6% ABV

500ml.

 

Gold Work

5.1% ABV

500ml.

 

Heroes

5.5% ABV

500ml.

 

India Pale Ale

7.4% ABV

500ml.

 

Mercian Shine

5.8% ABV

500ml.

 

Strong Mild

7.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Wuffa

5.0% ABV

500ml.

The Black Sheep Brewery, Masham, North Yorkshire

 

Black Sheep Ale

4.4% ABV

500ml.

 

Riggwelter

5.7% ABV

500ml.

NEW Brains (The Cardiff Brewery), Cardiff

NEW

SA

4.2% ABV

500ml.

NEW

SA Gold

4.7% ABV

500ml.

Brewdog, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire

BrewDog’s beers are the epitome of pure punk. They brew uncompromising, bold and irreverent beer, beer with a soul and a purpose.

Their approach has the same contempt of the mass beer market that the old-school punks had for pop-culture.

BrewDog is a modern day rebellion, a long overdue antidote against faceless corporate bureaucracy and the bland, soulless beer they industrially produce.

NEW

Blitz!

2.8% ABV

330ml.

 

Trashy Blonde

4.1% ABV

330ml.

 

77 Lager

4.7% ABV

330ml.

 

Prototype 17

4.9% ABV

330ml.

 

Zeitgeist

4.9% ABV

330ml.

 

5 a.m. Saint

5.0% ABV

330ml.

 

Punk IPA

5.6% ABV

330ml.

 

Avery Brown Dredge

7.5% ABV

330ml.

NEW

Scotch Ale

7.5% ABV

330ml.

NEW

Hops Kill Nazis

7.8% ABV

330ml.

 

Hello My Name is Ingrid

8.2% ABV

330ml.

NEW

Old World Russian Imperial Stout

8.2% ABV

330ml.

 

Hardcore IPA

9.2% ABV

330ml.

 

Abstrakt AB:01

10.2% ABV

375ml.

 

Abstrakt AB:03

10.5% ABV

375ml.

 

Abstrakt AB:06

11.2% ABV

375ml.

 

Bitch Please

11.5% ABV

330ml.

 

Divine Rebel 2010

13.8% ABV

330ml.

 

Black Tokyo Horizon

17.2% ABV

375ml.

 

Abstrakt AB:02

18.0% ABV

375ml.

 

Tokyo*

18.2% ABV

330ml.

 

Tactical Nuclear Penguin

32.0% ABV

375ml.

 

Sink the Bismarck

41.0% ABV

375ml.

Bristol Beer Factory, Bristol, Avon

 

Bristol Stout

4.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Seven

4.2% ABV

500ml.

 

Milk Stout

4.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Bristol Hefe

4.8% ABV

500ml.

 

Gold

5.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Chocolate Stout

5.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Exhibition

5.2% ABV

500ml.

 

Southville Hop

6.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Bristol Vintage 2011

6.6% ABV

500ml.

 

Ultimate Stout

7.7% ABV

500ml.

 

Raspberry Ultimate Stout

7.7% ABV

500ml.

 

Bristletoe

4.3% ABV

500ml.

Burton Bridge Brewery, Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire

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Burton Bridge Porter

4.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Festive Christmas Porter

4.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Bramble Stout

5.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Empire Ale

7.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Tickle Brain

8.0% ABV

500ml.

Church End Brewery, Nuneaton, Warwickshire

 

Arthur’s Wit

6.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Nuns Ale

4.5% ABV

500ml.

Daniel Batham & Son Ltd., Brierley Hill, West Midlands

 

Bathams Best Bitter

4.3% ABV

500ml.

Dark Star Brewing Co., Partridge Green, West Sussex

 

Espresso

4.2% ABV

500ml.

 

Sunburst

4.8% ABV

500ml.

NEW Fyne Ales, Cairndow, Argyll

NEW

Jarl

3.8% ABV

500ml.

NEW

Hurricane Jack

4.4% ABV

500ml.

NEW

Vital Spark

4.4% ABV

500ml.

NEW

Avalanche

4.5% ABV

500ml.

Gargoyles Brewery, Holcombe Village, Devon

 

Citra

3.8% ABV

500ml.

 

Dawlish Summer

3.8% ABV

500ml.

 

Holcombe Gold

4.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Napier

5.0% ABV

500ml.

Greene King, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

 

IPA Export

5.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Abbot Ale

5.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Strong Suffolk

6.0% ABV

500ml.

Hardknott Brewery, Milom, Cumbria

 

Dark Energy

4.9% ABV

500ml.

 

Code Black

5.6% ABV

500ml.

 

Infra Red

6.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Queboid

8.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Granite 2010

10.1% ABV

500ml.

 

Vitesse Noir

11.0% ABV

330ml.

NEW Isle of Mull Brewing Company, Tobermory, Isle of Mull

NEW

Galleon Gold

4.1% ABV

500ml.

NEW

Terror of Tobermory

4.6% ABV

500ml.

NEW

The Red Monk of Iona

4.2% ABV

500ml.

The Kernel Brewery, SE1, London

NEW

Pale Ale 5C

5.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Pale Ale Cascade

5.3% ABV

500ml.

NEW

Pale Ale Summit Galaxy NZC

5.3% ABV

500ml.

 

Pale Ale Nelson Sauvin

5.4% ABV

500ml.

 

Export India Porter

5.6% ABV

500ml.

 

India Pale Ale Citra

6.5% ABV

330ml.

NEW

India Pale Ale Columbus Summit

6.8% ABV

330ml.

 

India Pale Ale Black

6.9% ABV

330ml.

 

India Pale Ale S.C.G.A.NS

7.0% ABV

330ml.

 

India Pale Ale Simcoe Centennial

7.0% ABV

330ml.

 

Export Stout London 1890

7.1% ABV

330ml.

 

India Pale Ale Super Alpha Pacific Jade

7.3% ABV

330ml.

NEW

India Pale Ale Black III

7.4% ABV

330ml.

 

Export Stout London 1890

7.5% ABV

330ml.

 

Imperial Brown Stout London 1856

9.2% ABV

330ml.

NEW Magic Rock Brewing, Oakes, Huddersfield

NEW

Rapture

4.6% ABV

330ml.

NEW

High Wire

5.5% ABV

330ml.

NEW

Magic 8 Ball

7.0% ABV

330ml.

NEW

Cannonball

7.4% ABV

330ml.

NEW

Bearded Lady

10.5% ABV

330ml.

Mallinson’s Brewing Co., Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

 

Emley Moor

3.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Huddersfield Pale Ale

3.9% ABV

500ml.

 

Stadium Bitter

3.9% ABV

500ml.

 

Station Best Bitter

4.3% ABV

500ml.

Manchester Marble Brewery, Manchester, Greater Manchester

 

Lagonda IPA

5.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Tawny Nº5

5.7% ABV

500ml.

 

Dobber

5.9% ABV

500ml.

Marston’s Brewery, Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire

 

Double Drop

4.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Strong Pale Ale

6.2% ABV

500ml.

 

Owd Rodger

7.6% ABV

500ml.

Moor Beer Company, Pitney, Somerset

 

Revival

4.0% ABV

660ml.

NEW

Northern Star

4.3% ABV

660ml.

 

Merlin’s Magic

4.5% ABV

660ml.

NEW

Amoor

4.7% ABV

660ml.

 

Somerland Gold

5.5% ABV

660ml.

 

Old Freddy Walker

7.4% ABV

660ml.

NEW Oban Bay Brewery, Oban

NEW

Skelpt Lug

4.2% ABV

500ml.

Purity Brewing Co., Gt Alne, Warwickshire

 

Pure UBU

4.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Pure Gold

4.3% ABV

500ml.

 

Mad Goose

4.2% ABV

500ml.

Sadler’s Ale Brewery, Stourbridge, West Midlands

 

Thin Ice

4.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Mud City Stout

6.6% ABV

500ml.

 

Worcester Sorcerer

4.3% ABV

500ml.

 

Stumbling Badger

4.9% ABV

500ml.

 

Hop Bomb

5.0% ABV

330ml.

Samuel Smith Old Brewery, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire

 

Pure Brewed Lager

5.0% ABV

550ml.

 

Old Brewery Pale Ale

5.0% ABV

550ml.

 

Nut Brown Ale

5.0% ABV

550ml.

 

Taddy Porter

5.0% ABV

550ml.

 

Oatmeal Stout

5.0% ABV

550ml.

 

India Ale

5.0% ABV

550ml.

 

Imperial Stout

7.0% ABV

355ml.

 

Organic Best Ale

5.0% ABV

550ml.

 

Organic Lager

5.0% ABV

550ml.

 

Organic Cherry Beer

5.1% ABV

355ml.

 

Organic Raspberry Beer

5.1% ABV

355ml.

 

Organic Strawberry Beer

5.1% ABV

355ml.

 

Yorkshire Stingo

8.0% ABV

550ml.

 

Winter Welcome 2011

6.0% ABV

550ml.

Slater’s Brewery, Stafford

 

Premium Bitter

4.4% ABV

500ml.

 

Queen Bee

4.2% ABV

500ml.

 

Top Totty

4.0% ABV

500ml.

Thornbridge Brewery, Bakewell, Derbyshire

NEW

Tzara Koln Style Beer

4.8% ABV

500ml.

 

Versa Weisse Beer

5.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Kipling South Pacific Pale Ale

5.2% ABV

500ml.

 

Jaipur India Pale Ale

5.9% ABV

500ml.

 

Raven Black IPA

6.6% ABV

500ml.

 

Coalition Old Ale

7.0% ABV

500ml.

 

St Petersburg Imperial Russian Stout

7.7% ABV

500ml.

Timothy Taylor & Co. Ltd., Keighley, West Yorkshire

 

Landlord Strong Pale Ale

4.1% ABV

500ml.

Titanic Brewery, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire

 

Iceberg

4.1% ABV

500ml.

 

Stout

4.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Chocolate & Vanilla Stout

4.5% ABV

500ml.

NEW

White Star

4.8% ABV

500ml.

NEW

Captain Smiths

5.2% ABV

500ml.

Two Towers, Birmingham, West Midlands

 

Baskerville Bitter

3.8% ABV

500ml.

 

Hockley Gold

4.1% ABV

500ml.

 

Chamberlin Pale Ale

4.5% ABV

500ml.

 

Jewellery Porter

5.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Sherborne Strong Ale

5.1% ABV

500ml.

Williams Bros Brewing Co., Kelliebank, Alloa

 

Kelpie Seaweed Ale

4.4% ABV

500ml.

 

Fraoch Heather Ale

5.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Alba Scots Pine

7.5% ABV

330ml.

Wye Valley Brewery, Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire

 

Dorothy Goodbody’s Country Ale

6.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Dorothy Goodbody’s Golden Ale

4.2% ABV

500ml.

 

Dorothy Goodbody’s Wholesome Stout

4.6% ABV

500ml.

 

Butty Batch

4.5% ABV

500ml.

 

H.P.A.

4.0% ABV

500ml.

 

Wye Not?

4.5% ABV

500ml.


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