Real Ale

 

Real or 'cask conditioned ' ale is a natural product brewed using traditional ingredients and left to mature in the cask from which it is served in the pub through a process called secondary fermentation. It is this process which makes real ale unique amongst beers and develops the wonderful tastes and aromas which processed (keg and smoothflow) beers can never provide.

Mark takes great pride in the real ales provided in the pub and is very experienced in keeping our cask ales in the best condition.

We normally have four to six cask ales available and a real cider or perry on draught.

CAMRA Awards

Mark's commitment to real ale has been rewarded by the pub's appearance in the Campaign For Real Ale's Good Beer Guide for 2009 & 2010.

Nominated for Warrington & North Cheshire 'Pub of the Year', Warrington & North Cheshire 'Community Pub of the Year' and also 'Cheshire Pub of the Year'

 

CamRA LOCALe scheme

LOCALe for us covers beers brewed within 30 road miles of the pubs location or within the Warrington and Cheshire boundries. We aim to have a good balance of local and national beers, (usually 60% / 40%) the beers list below shows our LOCALe beers in blue

 

Current Cask Ales on Handpump or in the Cellar

 

(H) - Handpull

(S) - Stillage

(C) - Cellar

Blue - LOCALe

 

Please understand that it takes a lot of time and effort to maintain this list with the high volumes and speed at which beers come and go (7 hours for example). If the list has not been updated for a couple of days it is possable that it just indicates that there is little or no change in the line-up since updating. There will always be a selection available if you come down.

Last updated - Thursday - 24th - December - 2009 - 5pm

Brewery	Beer	Colour	Type	ABV	Price
Stonehenge of Wiltshire	Old Smokey	Black	Porter	5%	£2.55	C
Barngates of Cumbria	Westmorland Gold	Golden	Bitter	4.2%	£2.30	H
Barngates of Cumbria	Pride of Westmorland	Mid	Bitter	4.1%	£2.30	S
Barngates of Cumbria	Red Bull Terrier	Ruby	Bitter	4.8%	£2.45	C
Great Heck of W. Yorkshire	Slaughterhouse Porter	Black	Porter	4.5%	£ 2.50	H
Old Mill of Snaith	Blonde Bombshell		Blonde	4%	£2.30	C
Brewdog of raserburgh	Trashy Blonde		Blonde	4.1%	£2.45	C
Wadworth of Devizes	Henry's IPA	Pale	IPA	3.6%	£2.15	C
Rooster's of Knaresborough	Aprѐs Ski	Straw	Bitter	4.3%	£2.25	C
Toons of Newcastle	Indulgence	Chestnut	Bitter	4.3%	£2.35	C
Brewsters of Lincolnshire	Red Hop Lover	Ruby	Bitter	4%	£2.30	C
Acorn of Barnsley	Barnsley Bitter	Mid	Bitter	3.8%	£2.20	C
Acorn of Barnsley	Barnsley Gold	Golden	Bitter	4.3%	£2.30	C
Acorn of Barnsley	Old Moor Porter	Black	Porter	4.4%	£2.40	C
Acorn of Barnsley	Pacific Gem IPA	Pale	IPA	5%	£2.50	C

 

 

Beers due include beers from Slate's, Tom Wood's, Atlas, Bank Top, Elland, Green Jack, Tring, Cotleigh, Saltaire and Triple FFF.

Please find below a list of micro-breweries that we deal with direct to source good LOCALe. In addition to these we also use 7 distributors to extend our selection to encompass breweries throughout the British Isles.

Breweries that we deal with direct include:

ABBEYDALE	ACORN	ALLGATES
ANGLO DUTCH	BANK TOP	BARNGATES
BAZON'S	BEARTOWN	PEERLESS
BOLLINGTON	BOWLAND	BRYSONS
DERWENT	DUNHAM MASSEY	FALLONS
GREENFIELD	HART	HOPSTAR
HORNBEAM	HOWARD TOWN	NAYLORS
OUTSTANDING	PHOENIX	PROSPECT
SALAMANDER	SLATERS	STORM
SUMMER WINE	TIGERTOPS	TOWNHOUSE
WEETWOOD	WEM (HANBY)	WINCLE
WOODLANDS	OLD NOOK BREWHOUSE	GERTIE SWEET
WC	ARRAN

Our bitter,
Which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink,
Thy will be drunk,
I will be drunk,
At home as I am in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against us,
And lead us not to incarceration
But deliver us from hangovers,
For thine is the beer,
The bitter and the porter,
Forever and ever,

Barmen.