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Cask Conditioned Ales
We serve four bitters and a mild as regulars on our hand pumps.
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Butty Bach (4.5%) 'little friend’. From Wye Valley Brewery at Stoke Lacey, Herefordshire.
A burnished gold premium ale. Full bodied, smooth and satisfying. Brewed with pale and crystal malt with English Goldings and Fuggles hops.
West Midlands Best Bitter of the Year 2008 |
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Three Tuns XXX (4.3%). From John Roberts' Brewing Co.
Three Tuns Brewery at Bishops Castle, Shropshire.
A renowned beer from a recipe passed down by the Roberts family who owned the brewery for several generations; a pale-straw-coloured, premium bitter with simple, light malty-sweetness, delicately balanced with light bitterness of floral, earthy character. |
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Shropshire Gold (3.8%). From the Salopian Brewery at Shrewsbury, Shropshire. A light copper coloured ale, the complex malt grist gives an unusual blend
of body and dryness. The beer is triple hopped using finest British Goldings and
Slovenian Styrian Goldings to give plenty of fruity aromas and flavours. |
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Hobsons Best Bitter (3.8%). From Hobsons Brewery at Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.
A pale brown medium bodied beer with a strong taste of hops.
A pale brown to amber, medium bodied beer with strong hop character throughout. It is consequently bitter but with malt discernible in the taste.
Bitter with a touch of malt.
West Midlands Bitter of Year 2001 and 2007 |
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Three Tuns 1642 (3.8%). From John Roberts' Brewing Co. Three Tuns Brewery at Bishops Castle, Shropshire. A golden bitter with light maltiness, comprising nutty and coffee flavours, leading to a refreshing medium/strong, spicy bitterness with a long-lingering finish. |
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Hobsons Mild (3.2%). From Hobsons Brewery at Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire. A smooth dark mild. Chocolate malt gives plenty of flavour and aroma which belies its strength.
CAMRA Great British Beer Festivals Supreme Champion Beer of Britain 2007
West Midlands Mild of Year 2006
Not served during the summer months. |
We usually have a guest ale on hand pump. Many more real ales are served during our beer festivals direct from the barrel.
Real Cider
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1st Quality Draught (5%). A clear bright still cider with a smooth, well-balanced fruity flavour and clean apple finish. Suitable for vegetarians, vegans and coeliacs.
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Country Perry (4.5%).Made from perry pears and fullly matured in old oak vats to develop its strength and traditional character. Free from all artificial colouring, flavouring and sweetening it retains its natural pale colour. Suitable for vegetarians, vegans and coeliacs.
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Specialist Bottled Beers
- Aventinus (8.2%). Dark ruby wheat beer. Schneider, Germany. £2.90.
- Blanche de Bruxelles (4.5%). A wheat beer with spice aromas of coriander and bitter orange peels. Lefebvre, Belgium Wallonia. £1.80.
- Boon Kriek (4%). A cherry fruit beer. Brouwerij Boon in Belgium. £3.20
- Bruges Zot (6.0%). " Bruges lunatic" is a goldenblond beer brewed with four malts and two aromatic varieties of hop. De Halve Maan, Belgium Flemish. £2.50.
- Budvar Dark Lager (4.7%). Voted the World’s Best Lager by the British Guild of Beer Writers in 2007. Buweiser, Czech Republic. £2.50.
- Conwy Telford Porter (5.6%). A Victorian style porter and ideal winter warmer. Conwy Brewery, Wales. £2.90.
- Devout Stout (8.0%). A strong, full-bodied English-style Imperial Stout, dark with a rich maltiness and light hops flavour. Alcazar Brewery, England. £1.90.
- Duvel (8.5%). "Nen echten duvel" (a real devil) gives this classic Belgian Strong Golden Ale its name. Moortgat, Belgium Flemish. £2.60.
- Früh Kolsch (4.8%). A light malty ale. Früh, Cologne, Germany. £2.60.
- Harvest Ale (11.5%). A barley wine. J. W. Lees, England. £2.90.
- Goose Island IPA (5.9%). A hoppy India Pale Ale with a touch of malt. Goose Island, USA. £2.20.
- Old Foghorn Barley Wine (8.8%). Highly hopped and carbonated with champagne-like bubbles. Anchor Brewery, San Francisco. £3.40
- Pikantus (7.3%). A 'dark bock' wheat beer. Erdinger in Germany. £3.00
- Samiclaus (14.0%). "The strongest lager in the world". Schloss Eggenberg, Austria. £4.20.
- Weissbier 'non-alcoholic' (0.0%). Erdinger Germany. £2.00.
- Witkap Pater Stimulo (6%). A pale ale. Brouwerij Slaghmuylder, Belgium. £2.70
- XX Bitter (6.2%). IPA style bitter. Brouwerij De Ranke, Belgium. £2.70
Other Drinks
- Lagers. Draught: Carling (4.1%), Stella Artois (5.2%), Coors Light (4.2%). Bottled: Budwieser (5%), Becks (5%), Holsten Pils (5%).
- Guinness (4.1%).
- Ciders. Draught: Strongbow (4.5%), Bulmers GL West County Cider.
We stock a range of wines (wine list), spirits, liqueurs, other alcoholic drinks and soft drinks.
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We serve Fairtrade, tea, coffee and drinking chocolate. |
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