This American West Coast IPA showcases the best New World hops, bringing both piney resinous and clean grapefruit flavours, which are balanced with English malted barley.
Our flagship beer. Brewed to the same recipe for over 30 years. A classic Burton style bitter with a distinctive Burton flavour. Our most popular beer Hops used are Challenger, Target and Northdown with Styrion added at the end of the boil.
We believe that the key to brewing a great strong beer is to make it well-balanced with a good use of hops making Otter Head easily drinkable. Whilst it has a distinctive barley wine, old ale character it remains light to drink with a malty, fruity and slightly sweet flavour with a long bittersweet aftertaste. The fruit and malt aroma sits well with the beer’s deep, luxurious red/brown colour. Hops: Challenger, Fuggles and Pilgrim.
This black IPA has a citrus aroma, leading to predominant roast caramel and coffee malt flavours, balanced by a generous helping of fruity hops and dark berry notes. Hops: Cascade, Simcoe and Summit.
This deep red beer is brewed using a special Norwegian yeast, resulting in a toasted aroma, leading to a distinctive flavour with floral notes, hints of orange and a long, dry finish. Hops: Challenger, Mosaic and Summit.
This award-winning porter, based on a 1750s recipe, is infused with coriander to provide a unique spicy dimension to the complex roast malt, chocolate and fruity character. Hops: Challenger and Sovereign. Vegan friendly.
This golden ale is made using, as the name suggests, 5 different hop varieties; Amarillo, Citra, Ekuanot, Jester and Simcoe. The fruity, floral and citrus aromas lead to a fruity, hoppy flavour, balanced by biscuit notes, leading to a crisp, dry finish.
This golden seasonal beer delivers a fusion of succulent floral and citrus hop flavours, balanced by crisp malt, to produce a clean, thirst-quenching character. Hops: Challenger, Goldings and Styrian.
Chocolate malts, real chocolate and chocolate syrups make this stout a real chocolate bomb.
This new American amber-red ale has aromas of rich and sweet malts, resinous pine and citrus, leading to caramel and toasted malt flavours, balanced by a moderate bitterness. Hops: Chinook, Columbus and Simcoe.
This amber-coloured Extra Special Bitter has a rich, yet easy-drinking, character, with a fine balance of malt and hop flavours, delivering a fresh, fruity character. Hops: East Kent Goldings, Fuggles and Olicana. Vegan friendly.
This pale copper IPA has intense citrus and piney aromas, tropical fruit then spicy flavours, lasting zesty mouth watering bitterness. Hops: Cascade, Ekuanot and Simcoe.
This golden seasonal beer is brewed in the style of a Bavarian wheat beer, infused with orange peel and crushed coriander seeds to provide citrus fruit notes and a hint of spice. Hops: Bobek and Perle.
This new chestnut beer is brewed in the style of a classic English brown ale, with the warmth and depth of opulent darker malts balanced by the heavy-handed addition of hops, resulting in a fruity, hoppy finish. Hops: Fuggles, Goldings, Northdown and Pilgrim.
This session IPA is pale amber in colour, with a fruity aroma and plenty of citrus notes throughout, balanced by a moderate malt flavour, leading to a soft bitterness and dry, refreshing finish. Hops: Citra, Columbus, Jester and Summit. Brewed exclusively for J D Wetherspoon at Banks's Brewery, Wolverhampton by Peter Croonenberghs, Brombeer Compagnie, East Flanders, Belgium.
This amber-coloured beer is brewed in the style of an American steam ale, with aromas of light caramel, biscuit malt flavours and earthy hop notes, resulting in a pronounced bitter finish. Hops: Bramling Cross and Northdown.
A well rounded pale ale with citrus and exotic fruit notes, a hint of pine and a clean, hoppy bitter finish. This pale ale embodies all that we love about Wales: it’s easy going, approachable and practically impossible to resist. Hops: Citra, Columbus and Goldings. Gluten free.
An amber-red beer with a predominant caramel-malt flavour, delivering some sweetness, balanced by subtle hop notes, resulting in an easy-drinking character. Hops: Perle. Brewed exclusively for J D Wetherspoon at Adnams Brewery, Southwold by Martin Halter, Sudwerk Brewery, Pfaffikon, Switzerland.
This classic English bitter is deep copper in colour, with a smooth, full-bodied character and predominant malt flavour, balanced by an emerging bitterness on the finish. Hops: First Gold, Goldings and Pilgrim. Brewed to help raise funds to restore our heritage! A donation from each pint goes to saving Ruskin's View.
A sweet, malt-focused dark brown ale, with caramel and toffee malt complexity and a slightly sweet initial taste which lingers until a slightly bitter dark malt finish. Hops: East Kent Goldings.
Last brewed in 2013, this mahogany-coloured beer has aromas of earthy spices and lemon, leading to a balanced flavour and gentle coffee and treacle notes on the finish. Hops: Aurora and Fuggles.
An amber ale brewed with the addition of rye malt and a blend of American hops to create a quaffable beer with citrus fruit aromas and a light, spicy finish. Hops: Centennial and Columbus. Vegan friendly.
A full-bodied, very distinctive beer with a bitter-sweet aftertaste.
Dry hop aroma with full range of complex flavours. The melding of nut, fruit and winey flavours creates a drinkable ale.
An amazing hop harvest aroma with tropical fruit bursting through. Smooth and fruity passion fruit, and mango with a crisp aftertaste.
A light refreshing beer with pungent grapefruit, lychee and gooseberry aromas leading to a dry, bitter finish.
Bitter with a faint flowery aroma and a moderately fruity, malty taste. The finish is long but pleasantly bitter with some sweetness and dryness.
Powerful fruitiness, with flavours reminiscent of redcurrants, raspberries and strawberries intermingled with citrus notes. The fruitiness is balanced out by the famous Ruddles bitterness and by a delicate aroma.
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