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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Timothy Taylor
DESCRIPTION:There aren’t many breweries that can look back on more than 165 years of history and still feel like they’re moving forward. Timothy Taylor’s is one of them. Founded in Keighley in 1858 and brewing at Knowle Spring since 1863\, it has remained fiercely independent and family-owned through five generations. That’s quite an achievement in itself\, but what we really love is that Taylor’s has never treated its heritage as an excuse to stand still. It has built an incredibly loyal following over the years\, grown from a Yorkshire favourite into a name recognised in pubs across the country\, and continues to invest in the brewery and\, importantly\, in cask. \nAnd this month there’s a new look to go with it. Taylor’s has unveiled its first major brand refresh in more than a decade\, with a rather lovely British racing green taking centre stage across its pump clips\, glassware and bottles. We think they’ve got the balance just right: it feels fresh and contemporary without losing any of the character that makes Taylor’s\, well\, Taylor’s. The brewery says the aim is to carry the best of its 168-year history forward – and that feels particularly fitting during Cask Ale Week. \nThere was another reason Timothy Taylor’s caught our attention this week. Writing in The Good Food Guide\, beer writer Pete Brown makes a brilliant case for cask as Britain’s “original craft beer” – fresh\, living beer that isn’t truly finished until it reaches the pub. His visit to Taylor’s gets right to the heart of why this brewery has earned such a following: an almost obsessive attention to detail and a determination to do things properly rather than simply doing what’s easiest. At a time when we’re encouraging more people to discover just how special great cask beer can be\, we can’t think of a more fitting Brewery of the Day. \nDiscover more: Visit the Timothy Taylor’s website and read Pete Brown’s excellent “Cask ale: Britain’s original craft beer” in The Good Food Guide.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/timothy-taylor/
CATEGORIES:brewery
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SUMMARY:Beer of the Day: Timothy Taylor's Landlord
DESCRIPTION:What do our Ale Trailers and James Blunt have in common? Excellent taste in cask\, apparently. \nEvery year we ask our Ale Trailers to vote for their favourite beer – and every year Timothy Taylor’s Landlord comes out on top. So there really could only be one Drinkers’ Choice Beer of the Day to kick off Cask Ale Week. And this year our drinkers have some rather famous company. Singer\, songwriter\, cask ale fan and – importantly – pub owner James Blunt has picked Landlord as his Beer of the Day too. \nWhy? James tells us: “The beer is always consistent and has beautiful clarity once settled. Coming in at a sensible 4.3% ABV means enjoying a few jars is no problem at all… There would be uproar if we ever considered removing it from our pumps!” And who are we to argue? First brewed in 1953\, Landlord has gone on to become a four-time CAMRA Supreme Champion Beer of Britain and today is Britain’s number-one cask ale by both volume and value. Bright\, beautifully balanced\, fruity and citrusy with that unmistakable lingering bitter finish\, this is a pint that inspires some serious loyalty. \nAnd if your usual Landlord looks particularly snazzy this Cask Ale Week\, you haven’t had one too many. Timothy Taylor’s has just unveiled its first major brand refresh in more than a decade\, with a smart new British racing green look rolling out across pump clips\, glassware and bottles. New outfit\, same Landlord underneath – which is probably just as well\, given James has already warned us what would happen if anyone messed with it. \nOur Ale Trailers have spoken. James Blunt has spoken. Cheers to our first Beer of the Day 2026!
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/timothy-taylors-landlord/
CATEGORIES:beer
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Adnams
DESCRIPTION:There can’t be many breweries where you can talk about 14th-century ale wives\, Victorian brewing brothers\, a yeast rescued from the aftermath of a wartime air raid and one of Britain’s most pioneering sustainable breweries – all without leaving the same little corner of Southwold. Welcome to Adnams\, our Brewery of the Day. \nBeer has been brewed on this site since at least 1345\, with George and Ernest Adnams arriving in Southwold and buying the Sole Bay Brewery in 1872. More than 150 years later\, Adnams is still independent\, still brewing in the heart of the town and still finding new ways to move forward. Sustainability has become a huge part of that story – from its energy-efficient brewhouse to the extraordinary grass-roofed distribution centre just outside Southwold\, which celebrated its 20th birthday this week. And while Adnams has gone on to make everything from gin and whisky to alcohol-free beer\, there’s something we particularly like about where its attention is turning right now: cask. \nIn fact\, Adnams says it sees a “great opportunity in cask” and wants to encourage more people to discover it. Its newly refreshed beer range includes rather brilliant cylindrical pump clips designed to stand out at the bar – but perhaps the best evidence of its love for cask is what the brewers have been up to for this year’s Cask Ale Week. They’ve gone back into the archives and revived Extra\, the beer crowned Champion Beer of Britain in 1993. Head Brewer Dan Gooderham tracked down former Adnams brewers\, talked to the people who remembered it and delved into old records to understand what made the original so special. They even discovered that the Fuggles selected for this year’s brew came from the same Kent grower Adnams used in the 1990s. We love that: more than 150 years of brewing history\, but still curious\, still innovating and still getting genuinely excited about putting great cask beer on the bar. Happy Brewery of the Day\, Adnams! \nDiscover more: Visit the Adnams website and read more about the remarkable return of Extra for Cask Ale Week in Beer Today.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/adnams-2/
CATEGORIES:brewery
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SUMMARY:Beer of the Day: Adnams Ghost Ship
DESCRIPTION:Day Two and our Beer of the Day is a hauntingly good one. Award-winning beer writer Adrian Tierney-Jones has chosen Adnams Ghost Ship – and described a great pint of it with one word we particularly like: “pristine.” \nAdrian says: “Ghost Ship Pale Ale is actually a pristine pint. It’s a beer that packs great hop character. There’s a really good balance between the malt and the juicy\, fruity hoppiness\, which makes it the perfect cask beer for Cask Ale Week.” And there’s quite a story behind that pint. Ghost Ship first appeared in 2010 as a Halloween seasonal\, inspired by shipwrecks\, smugglers and tales of ghostly vessels off the Suffolk coast. Its spiritual home is The Bell at Walberswick\, Adnams’ centuries-old pub with a few ghost stories of its own. The brewers then threw a relatively new American hop called Citra into the mix – and created a monster. The first brew went down so well that Ghost Ship returned the following year\, when demand was so strong Adnams actually ran out of Citra. By 2012\, it was here to stay. \nAt 4.1%\, Ghost Ship brings lemon\, lime and elderflower from those hops\, a touch of biscuit from the malt and rye spice underneath – bright\, juicy\, refreshing and with a lovely hoppy finish. What began as a spooky seasonal experiment has become Adnams’ best-selling beer\, which suggests this is one Ghost people are very happy to see again. So take Adrian’s advice this Cask Ale Week: hunt down a pristine pint of Ghost Ship\, pull up a chair and enjoy it. Preferably in a nice old pub. Whether you choose one that’s haunted is entirely up to you.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/adnams-ghost-ship/
CATEGORIES:beer
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: JW Lees
DESCRIPTION:Nearly 200 years old\, seven generations of the same family and currently having the biggest year in its history – JW Lees is clearly not ready to start acting its age. Manchester’s oldest operating brewery has been brewing at Greengate in Middleton since 1828\, when retired cotton manufacturer John Lees decided that\, rather than putting his feet up\, he’d start a brewery. We’re rather glad he did. Almost two centuries later\, the family is still at the helm\, the beer is still being brewed at Greengate and JW Lees has grown into a brilliant part of North West pub and brewing culture. \nAnd there’s plenty to celebrate right now. JW Lees has just reported record sales of £105.6 million\, with draught beer sales up 3.7% – helped along by one particularly nostalgic comeback. Last year\, JW Lees brought Boddingtons Cask back to Manchester after a 13-year absence\, and the response has been extraordinary. By this summer it was pouring in around 400 pubs nationally and accounted for an estimated 15% of the brewery’s total production. We absolutely love that a beer with so much history can come back and find a whole new audience alongside the people who remember it first time around. And while all that nostalgia is flowing\, behind a little green door at Greengate you’ll find The Boilerhouse – JW Lees’ small-batch brewery\, where almost 200 years of brewing experience gets permission to play with new styles\, collaborations and ideas. \nThat mix of old favourites and new discoveries feels very Cask Ale Week to us. JW Lees is closing in on its 200th birthday with a growing business\, busy pubs\, a seventh generation involved in the family firm and absolutely no intention of standing still. They’re celebrating Cask Ale Week too\, including cask tasting flights at Founder’s Hall in Manchester – a sort of beer-lover’s pick ‘n’ mix and a very good excuse to discover something new. Nearly two centuries of brewing knowledge\, a brilliantly successful blast from Manchester’s beery past and cask still right at the heart of it all. Cheers to JW Lees! \nDiscover more: Visit the JW Lees website and read The Morning Advertiser’s fascinating feature on the revival of heritage ales and the return of Boddingtons.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/jw-lees-3/
CATEGORIES:brewery
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SUMMARY:Beer of the Day: Bradfield Brewery Farmers Blonde
DESCRIPTION:From Two Doors Down to one very good pint. Day Three’s Beer of the Day has been chosen by actor\, writer and comedian Kieran Hodgson\, best known to millions as Gordon in BBC sitcom Two Doors Down. His pick? A proper Yorkshire favourite: Farmers Blonde from Bradfield Brewery. \nAnd what a lovely pint to choose. At 4.0%\, Farmers Blonde is pale\, bright\, citrusy and packed with summery fruit aromas – the sort of wonderfully refreshing\, easy-drinking cask beer that can disappear rather quicker than you intended. It also comes with a brilliantly Yorkshire backstory. Bradfield Brewery started life on a working dairy farm in 2005\, and Farmers Blonde was named after the Blonde d’Aquitaine breed of cattle. The beer proved rather popular – today it’s Bradfield’s flagship ale\, while the brewery has gone from milking 100 cows a day to brewing more than 100\,000 pints a week. Now that’s what we call diversification. \nSo today we’re following Kieran’s lead. Find yourself a handpull with that famous blonde cow on it and order a Farmers Blonde. If you’re already a cask drinker\, there’s every chance you’ll understand why it has such a following. And if you’re just beginning to explore cask? This bright\, fruity\, refreshing Yorkshire blonde is a very good place to start. Cheers\, Kieran – excellent choice.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/bradfield-brewery-farmers-blonde/
CATEGORIES:beer
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Palmers
DESCRIPTION:If you were asked to imagine the perfect home for cask ale\, you might come up with an old thatched brewery beside a river\, a mile from the Jurassic Coast\, with its own spring\, a working Victorian waterwheel and more than 230 years of brewing history. The brilliant thing is\, you don’t have to imagine it – it exists. Welcome to Palmers Brewery in Bridport\, where there has been continuous brewing on the same site since 1794. Still independent\, still family-run and now with the fifth generation of the Palmer family involved\, this is a brewery where history isn’t something hanging on the wall – it’s still very much at work. \nAnd for beer lovers\, the Old Brewery is rather special. Palmers is the UK’s only thatched brewery\, and inside you’ll still find a traditional mash tun and open copper\, while a huge waterwheel dating from 1879 remains in working order. The ales are made with water from Palmers’ own natural spring\, Maris Otter malt and whole-leaf hops\, before being cask conditioned. But this isn’t brewing preserved in aspic: modern brewing knowledge and quality control work alongside all that wonderful old kit. Palmers is particularly serious about what happens between brewery and glass too\, investing in cellar training\, storage and transport to make sure its cask reaches the drinker as it should. Cask Marque has apparently described them as “obsessive” about quality. We suspect Palmers took that as a compliment. \nAnd more than 230 years after the first brew\, the place is still full of life. Palmers now has 53 pubs across the West Country\, as well as supplying free houses\, and this September its Beer Festival returns to the historic brewery itself\, raising money for the Palmers Brewery Community Fund. We love the whole picture: a fiercely independent family brewery\, beautiful pubs\, a waterwheel that has been turning since Queen Victoria was on the throne and live cask ale still being brewed on the site where the story began. If you want to show someone that cask isn’t simply part of Britain’s brewing history but a living\, breathing part of its future\, Palmers is a pretty wonderful place to start. \nDiscover more: Visit Palmers Brewery and read about this year’s Palmers Brewery Beer Festival in Bridport.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/palmers/
CATEGORIES:brewery
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SUMMARY:Beer of the Day: Palmers Dorset Gold
DESCRIPTION:Beer expertise\, meet liquid sunshine. Day Four’s Beer of the Day has been picked by the fabulous Ryan Perry – AKA Crafty Beer Boy and\, as of this summer\, an accredited Beer Sommelier. And yes\, Beer Sommelier really is a thing – think wine sommelier\, but with considerably more hops. Ryan has trained in everything from beer styles and brewing to tasting\, food pairing and spotting faults\, so when he gets excited about a pint\, we’re listening. \nHis choice is Palmers Dorset Gold\, a 4.5% golden ale brewed just a mile from Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. Pale\, zesty\, lightly hopped and packed with freshness\, it blends malted barley and wheat to make the sort of gloriously refreshing pint that seems made for a sunny pub garden. In fact\, Dorset Gold began life as a summer ale – but drinkers liked it so much that Palmers decided summer simply wasn’t long enough. It’s now brewed all year round. Sensible people. \nAnd perhaps that’s the joy of Ryan’s choice. You can know an enormous amount about beer – train your palate\, study brewing\, learn your styles and become a fully fledged Beer Sommelier – and still come back to something wonderfully simple: a cracking\, thirst-quenching pint that makes you smile. So follow Ryan’s lead this Cask Ale Week and look out for Dorset Gold on the handpull. Sunshine is\, unfortunately\, not guaranteed. A little taste of Dorset very much is.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/palmers-dorset-gold/
CATEGORIES:beer
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Robinsons
DESCRIPTION:How do you take nearly 200 years of brewing history and get it ready for the next 200? Robinsons has just had a pretty good go at answering that. After 187 years of brewing in the heart of Stockport\, this much-loved family brewery has made one of the biggest moves in its history – literally – moving brewing from its historic Hillgate home into a fantastic new £8.4 million brewhouse at Bredbury. It’s a bold new chapter for a brewery that began life at the Unicorn Inn in 1838 and is now in its sixth generation of family ownership\, with around 250 pubs across the North West and North Wales. \nFor beer drinkers\, the really exciting bit is what’s happening inside. The new brewery brings brewing and packaging together under one roof\, with brilliant new technology sitting alongside generations of brewing know-how. It’s more efficient\, more sustainable and built for the future – and cask is very much part of that future. In fact\, cask makes up an impressive 28% of beer sold in Robinsons pubs\, around five times the on-trade average\, and its cask volumes grew by around 5% in the latest reported year. Earlier this year\, Cask Marque founder Paul Nunny and the Cask Marque board went for a look behind the scenes and came away seriously impressed\, with Paul describing the scale of the investment and innovation as “genuinely impressive”. We suspect there may have been a few envious brewers peering at the new kit too. \nAnd that’s why we’re so excited to make Robinsons our Brewery of the Day. Moving a brewery with this much history could have been all about protecting the past. Instead\, Robinsons has made it about what comes next. There’s new kit\, new possibilities and a whole new chapter being written – while the family\, the pubs and that commitment to a properly kept pint of cask remain firmly at the heart of it. Nearly two centuries in\, Robinsons isn’t slowing down. It’s just fired up a brand-new brewery. Now that really is something worth raising a pint to. \nDiscover more: Visit the Robinsons Brewery website and take a look at Paul Nunny and Cask Marque’s visit to the new brewery on LinkedIn.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/robinsons/
CATEGORIES:brewery
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SUMMARY:Beer of the Day: Hanlons Yellow Hammer
DESCRIPTION:You know a beer has earned a place in your heart when just seeing it on the bar takes you straight back to somewhere special. That’s exactly what Hanlons Yellow Hammer does for today’s judge\, Sarah Hall from SALSA. \nSarah spends her working life pretty close to beer. SALSA works with Cask Marque to run SALSA plus Beer\, a specialist standard for breweries that checks all the important stuff happening long before a pint reaches the handpull – from ingredients and brewing processes to hygiene\, safety\, quality and consistency. In other words\, Sarah knows there’s a lot that goes into making sure the beer in our glass is as good as it should be. But her Beer of the Day isn’t about standards\, audits or ticking boxes. It’s about holidays\, family and a pint she’s loved for years. \n“My choice is Hanlons Yellow Hammer. I’ve been drinking this for years – back to when they were O’Hanlon’s – on my trips down to Devon. My brother ran a pub for many years in East Devon and whenever this beer was on tap\, this was my pick.” For Sarah\, its light\, fruity\, crisp character is now inseparable from those trips: “It is incredibly drinkable\, making it a beer I always look out for whenever I’m in the South West. It instantly transports me back to memories of holidays and family visits to Devon.” \nAnd we can see why it became the one. At 4.2%\, Yellow Hammer is a light golden ale with zesty citrus and tropical fruit notes and a delicate hoppy finish. Even its name came from drinkers\, chosen in a “Name This Beer” competition back in the O’Hanlon’s days. The recipe has evolved over the years\, but the affection for it clearly hasn’t – Yellow Hammer remains Hanlons’ most popular beer today. \nThat’s the magic of a favourite cask beer. It can be beautifully made\, perfectly kept and taste fantastic – but somewhere along the way it can also become attached to people\, places and memories. For Sarah\, Yellow Hammer tastes of trips to Devon and time with family. Find yourself a pint this Cask Ale Week and see where it takes you.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/hanlons-yellow-hammer/
CATEGORIES:beer
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Wadworth
DESCRIPTION:If you’ve been drinking cask for a while\, there’s a good chance Wadworth already means something to you – a familiar pump clip\, a favourite pub or perhaps a pint of 6X that brings back a few memories. And if it doesn’t? Well\, that’s what Cask Ale Week is for. Wadworth has been brewing in Devizes since 1875\, is still independent and family-run five generations later\, and has built the sort of following that includes one particularly dedicated fan who reckoned he’d enjoyed around 45\,000 pints of 6X by his 50th birthday. That’s not a typo. 45\,000. \nBut the really exciting thing is that new drinkers are joining the party. Fresh figures reported this month put 6X among Britain’s three fastest-growing major cask brands by value\, with Wadworth saying it’s seeing younger drinkers increasingly attracted to beers with real history and provenance. Meanwhile\, at its Folly Road Brewhouse\, the brewers have the freedom to play with new styles and flavours alongside the beers generations of drinkers grew up with. \nAnd that’s rather the point of Cask Ale Week. You don’t need to have been drinking a beer for 30 years to enjoy one with 150 years of stories behind it. So if you spot a Wadworth pump clip this week\, give it a go. You might discover an old favourite – even if it’s completely new to you. And if you do love it\, you’ve only got another 44\,999 pints to go. \nDiscover more: Visit Wadworth and read The Morning Advertiser’s feature on younger drinkers and heritage beers driving the growth of cask.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/wadworth/
CATEGORIES:brewery
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SUMMARY:Beer of the Day: Wadworth 6X
DESCRIPTION:We’ve had beer experts and famous faces choosing our Beers of the Day. Today\, we’ve gone for a full-blown superfan. Meet Tim Mackie-Harrison – lifelong cask lover\, officially crowned one of Wadworth’s “Legends”\, and a man whose relationship with 6X started considerably earlier than licensing laws would have preferred. \nTim grew up near Wadworth’s old Northgate Brewery in Devizes. He remembers the malty smell of brewing drifting across his primary-school playground and sneaking the occasional sip of 6X from his dad’s glass at the village pub. Fast-forward a few years (and to entirely legal pints) and that affection hasn’t gone anywhere. Tim even won a competition to help brew 6X 1923\, the special 6% version recreated for the beer’s centenary\, alongside Wadworth’s head brewer. Unsurprisingly\, it’s now his all-time favourite. This isn’t so much a Beer of the Day nomination as a lifelong love affair. \nAnd what started it all? 6X. First brewed on 5 December 1923\, today’s 4.1% cask version is a rich amber ale packed with malt and fruit\, balanced by Fuggles and Goldings hops and finishing with that long\, satisfying maltiness that has kept generations coming back. Even its wonderfully odd name comes with a pub-worthy story. Strong beers were traditionally marked on casks with crosses\, so the original 6% beer would have received six of them: XXXXXX. Wadworth cooper Reg Morris shortened the lot to 6X – and more than a century later\, the name is still on the handpull. \nSo today\, we’re taking advice from someone who has known the smell of Wadworth beer since the playground\, tasted 6X from his dad’s pint and eventually ended up helping to brew its centenary edition. That’s what we call a proper cask ale fan. If you already know and love 6X\, raise a glass to Tim and more than a century of this Wiltshire classic.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/wadworth-6x/
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Okell's
DESCRIPTION:There are breweries with traditions – and then there’s Okell’s\, which helped get the rules for good beer written into Manx law. Founded on the Isle of Man by Dr William Okell in 1850\, the brewery’s story took a wonderfully beer-geek turn in 1874 when its founder championed the Manx Pure Beer Act\, restricting Manx beer to proper brewing ingredients and keeping artificial additives and substitutes out. More than 175 years after Okell’s began brewing\, that commitment to pure beer is still going strong. Frankly\, we rather like an island that takes its pint seriously enough to legislate for it. \nAnd drinkers have plenty of reasons to take notice right now. Okell’s has just had a cracking few weeks on the awards circuit\, picking up Gold at the 2026 World Beer Awards for its Nectar New World IPA\, alongside recognition for its Smoked Porter\, followed by two more medals at the International Beer Challenge. Back home\, its cask ales remain a familiar sight across the Isle of Man’s pubs\, while seasonal and limited-edition brews give the brewers plenty of room to have some fun alongside the classics. \nSo\, if Okell’s is already an old friend\, raise a glass to 175+ years of proudly Manx brewing. And if you’ve never tried an Okell’s beer? Consider this your invitation. A pint brewed on a tiny island in the Irish Sea\, with generations of history behind it and its own purity law to boot – that’s exactly the sort of beer story we think is worth seeking out during Cask Ale Week. \nDiscover more: Visit Okell’s and read about its latest success at the 2026 World Beer Awards.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/okells/
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SUMMARY:Beer of the Day: Five Points Brewery XPA
DESCRIPTION:Imagine you’ve never tried cask ale before. You’re on a historic pub tour around Shoreditch and you ask your guide: “So… what should I order?” Today’s judge\, Charo Havermans\, knows exactly what she’d say. \nCharo is a public historian and tour guide specialising in pubs\, particularly the often-overlooked role women have played in brewing and pub life. She’s even helping to create the world’s first Pub Museum. On one of her Shoreditch tours\, a conversation about women as some of our original brewers led a group of tourists to ask what they should choose for their very first cask. Charo recommended Five Points XPA – locally brewed in Hackney by a team that includes Head Brewer Laura Hardman and Assistant Head Brewer Alana Lim. \nAt 4%\, XPA is light\, zingy and tropical\, with mango and passionfruit alongside a satisfying hoppy bitterness. Originally created for Field Day festival in 2016\, it proved far too popular to disappear afterwards and is now part of the core range – and it’s gluten-free too. But there’s another reason Charo remembers that particular tour. One local guest was very enthusiastic about her recommendation and promptly made sure everyone ordered XPA. Why the excitement? He owned shares in Five Points. As Charo says: “Let’s hope it’s made a difference\, Pete!” \nSo whether you’re a seasoned cask fan or wondering what to order for your very first pint\, follow Charo’s lead and give XPA a go. Her top spots to find it are two London pub legends\, The Pride of Spitalfields and The Cockpit. History lesson over. Pint time.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/five-points-brewery-xpa/
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Wye Valley
DESCRIPTION:If you like your pint with a real sense of where it comes from\, Wye Valley Brewery is one to look out for. It started life in 1985 when former Guinness brewer Peter Amor set up a tiny brewery behind a Herefordshire pub. Forty-one years later\, it’s still independent and family-owned\, but those humble beginnings have grown into more than 15 million pints enjoyed each year and beers pouring in over 1\,200 pubs and bars. Not bad for something that started behind the bar. \nAnd Wye Valley really does taste of its home turf. The brewery sits right in the heart of Herefordshire hop country and more than half of its hops are grown within just 10 miles – so when you’re drinking a pint of Wye Valley cask\, there’s a good chance the hops haven’t travelled very far at all. Even some of the brewery’s original casks from 1985 are apparently still doing the rounds. We’d love to know how many good nights out those have witnessed. \nThat combination of local roots and a loyal following is exactly why we’re celebrating Wye Valley during Cask Ale Week. Whether you already know their pump clips well or you’re about to order one for the first time\, this is proper independent brewing with Herefordshire running right through it. So if you spot Wye Valley on the bar this week\, you know what to do. Find a pint\, find some friends and give it a try. Cheers! \nDiscover more: Visit Wye Valley Brewery and read about the latest chapter in this independent family brewery’s story.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/wye-valley/
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SUMMARY:Beer of the Day: Jiddlers Tipple + Fullers London Tipple
DESCRIPTION:Today we’re handing out a Beer of the Day award we’ve never given before. Welcome to the Cask Ale Week Newcomer Award – and its first winner\, Jiddler’s Tipple. \nIf you know Jacob Liddle\, you’ll know he’s hardly a newcomer to great beer. He’s a certified Beer Sommelier\, beer judge and Channel 4 Sunday Brunch beer expert\, while the beers from his North London Jiddler’s Tipple have collected more than 40 awards. Swifty was crowned World’s Best Session IPA at the 2025 World Beer Awards\, Sweet As Pacific IPA picked up Gold at the London Beer Competition\, and there are plenty more medals where those came from. Jacob has built his reputation on modern\, flavour-packed\, lower-ABV craft beer – now he’s bringing that award-winning modern brewing approach to cask \nAnd what a way to do it. London Tipple is a 4.1% collaboration with Fuller’s that brings two sides of London brewing together in one handpull. Inspired by the heritage malt bill of the legendary London Pride\, Jacob and Fuller’s have given it a modern West Coast spin\, bringing citrus\, pithy orange and pine before a crisp\, refreshing bitter finish. London brewing heritage meets modern craft beer – on cask. Oh\, and it’s gluten-free too. \nThat’s what our Newcomer Award is really about. Not being new to beer\, but bringing new energy\, new ideas and new drinkers to cask. Jacob has previously said he’d love to see more people drinking cask because it’s Britain’s original craft beer. Well\, he’s doing his bit. Congratulations to Jiddler’s Tipple and Fuller’s – and here’s to seeing what Jacob puts through a handpull next.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/jiddlers-tipple-fullers-london-tipple/
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Ossett
DESCRIPTION:Fresh\, hoppy and with a definite independent streak\, Ossett Brewery has been doing things its own way since Bob Lawson started brewing in the back of a West Yorkshire pub in 1998. What began as a tiny operation has grown into a brewery producing more than nine million pints a year\, with a fantastic collection of pubs and a loyal following of drinkers who know exactly what they like. And if there’s one thing Ossett proves brilliantly\, it’s just how exciting modern cask can be. \nWhite Rat is perhaps the perfect example. First brewed in 2011 in the basement of Huddersfield’s Rat & Ratchet\, it quickly became a firm favourite with drinkers and has gone on to develop a huge following – today around five million pints are brewed each year. But Ossett’s brewers haven’t stopped playing. New hops\, new styles\, cask-only releases and collaborations keep appearing alongside the favourites\, making this the sort of brewery where it’s always worth having a look along the handpulls to see what’s new. \nAnd this summer Ossett doubled down on quality by becoming a member of Cask Marque\, with all of its own pubs already Cask Marque accredited. We love that combination: make brilliant cask\, keep experimenting\, but make absolutely sure it reaches the drinker tasting as good as it should. So if an Ossett pump clip catches your eye this Cask Ale Week – particularly one with a rat on it – we suggest you follow it. There could be a very good pint waiting on the other side. \nDiscover more: Visit Ossett Brewery and read about its latest commitment to great cask through Cask Marque.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/ossett/
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SUMMARY:Beer of the Day: Ossett Brewery White Rat
DESCRIPTION:When the man behind one of Britain’s great cask pubs tells you there’s a beer worth ordering\, you listen. Today’s Beer of the Day has been chosen by Steve from the Swan with Two Necks in Pendleton – a family-run Ribble Valley pub he and Christine have been running since 1987. \nAnd Steve knows his way around a handpull. The Swan has been crowned CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year\, has repeatedly been recognised among the country’s very best pubs and is the current Ribble Valley CAMRA Pub of the Year. Steve’s choice from behind that famous bar is Ossett White Rat – a 4% pale ale with plenty of bite\, packed with citrus\, tropical fruit and pine from its American hops. Crisp\, bitter\, seriously hoppy and extremely moreish\, it’s exactly the sort of pint that has people spotting the rat on the pump clip and knowing what they’re ordering. \nWhite Rat started life in 2011 as Lab Rat\, a tiny test brew created in the basement of Huddersfield’s Rat & Ratchet. It was designed for the drinkers upstairs and was seriously hoppy by the standards of cask at the time. Those drinkers clearly knew a good thing when they tasted it: demand took off\, White Rat became Ossett’s bestselling beer and today around five million pints a year are brewed. \nSo today we’re following Steve’s lead. Find the rat on the bar and give it a go. It’s modern\, punchy\, properly bitter cask that was ahead of the curve when it appeared 15 years ago – and judging by the number of people still ordering it\, the rest of us have been happily catching up ever since.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/ossett-brewery-white-rat/
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Belhaven
DESCRIPTION:Sitting among the barley fields of East Lothian\, just outside Dunbar\, Scotland’s oldest working brewery has been doing its thing since 1719. More than 300 years later\, the beer is still brewed right there using local water\, malted barley and Belhaven’s own yeast. There are even ancient cellars on the site linked to the Benedictine monks who brewed in Dunbar centuries ago. That’s a fair bit of brewing history beneath your feet before you’ve even ordered a pint. \nAnd what we love about Belhaven is that its beers are so unmistakably Scottish. This is the land of 80 Shilling – or “80 bob” if you prefer – alongside stouts\, IPAs and the hugely popular Belhaven Best. There’s a brilliant sense of place about it all: a brewery on the Scottish coast\, surrounded by some of the country’s finest barley-growing land\, still producing beers with the malty\, characterful flavours generations of Scottish drinkers have enjoyed. Yet there’s plenty for a new generation to discover too. \nBetter still\, Belhaven is getting properly stuck into Cask Ale Week\, with participating pubs offering CAMRA members 25% off cask during the promotion. So whether you already know your 80/- from your Wee Heavy or the world of Scottish ale is completely new territory\, this seems a very good week to investigate. Find a handpull\, order yourself a pint and raise a glass to more than three centuries of Scottish brewing. Slàinte! \nDiscover more: Visit Belhaven Brewery and explore the story of Scotland’s oldest working brewery.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/belhaven/
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SUMMARY:Beer of the Day: Colchester Brewery Brazilian Coffee Vanilla Porter
DESCRIPTION:What beer does the Chairman of CAMRA go hunting for when he spots it on the bar? Today we have the answer – and apparently you need to be quick. \nOur Beer of the Day has been chosen by Ash Corbett-Collins\, Chairman of CAMRA\, and it’s Brazilian Coffee & Vanilla Porter from Colchester Brewery. Ash first discovered it at the Great British Beer Festival while volunteering as a Champion Beer of Britain judge. It was his beer of the festival and he’s been seeking it out ever since – although finding it isn’t always easy. In fact\, Ash has previously called Brazilian his “needle in a haystack beer”. When he does find it\, he knows exactly why he keeps coming back: “It is smooth with a velvety mouthfeel\, it has a strong coffee flavour without being overly bitter\, while being easily drinkable without being too heavy.” \nAt 4.6%\, Brazilian is a proper flavour-packed cask porter\, with coffee and vanilla doing the talking while Goldings and Fuggles bring some classic British brewing character underneath. And Ash isn’t the only one who rates it: Brazilian has picked up multiple awards\, including winning the Speciality category at CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain. Colchester Brewery says it’s regularly one of the first beers to disappear at festivals too – so perhaps Ash’s trouble finding a pint is partly because everybody else keeps beating him to it. \nThere is one catch: Brazilian isn’t brewed on cask all year round. It’s part of Colchester Brewery’s rotating dark beer range\, making finding that 4.6% cask version all the more satisfying. So if you ever spot Brazilian on a handpull\, take Ash’s advice and give it a try while you can. And if Ash happens to be standing behind you in the queue… perhaps leave him a pint.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/colchester-brewery-brazilian-coffee-vanilla-porter/
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SUMMARY:Brewery of the Day: Thwaites
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Thwaites. The family has been brewing in Lancashire since 1807 and\, six generations later\, they’re still at it – although these days the beer comes from a smaller\, modern brewery at Mellor Brook in the beautiful Ribble Valley. \nAnd small really is part of the appeal. Thwaites made a conscious move away from big industrial brewing and back towards doing things on a more human scale. The brewers describe using their senses to guide every brew from grist to cask\, producing the bitters and ales drinkers know and love alongside a rolling line-up of seasonal and small-batch cask beers. In other words\, there’s usually a very good reason to have a look along the handpulls and see what they’ve been up to. \nThat feels like a pretty good way to round off our Brewery of the Day celebrations. More than 200 years of family brewing\, proper Lancashire pubs\, a modern little brewery making cask with plenty of character – and four enormous horses keeping an eye on proceedings. If you spot Thwaites on the bar this Cask Ale Week\, give it a try. You may just find a new favourite. And yes\, we think all breweries should come with Shire horses too. \nDiscover more: Visit Thwaites and explore the story of more than two centuries of Lancashire brewing.
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/thwaites/
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SUMMARY:Beer of the Day: Butcombe + Hawkstone Hops & Glory
DESCRIPTION:Well\, this feels like a rather good way to finish. Hawkstone has made its first-ever cask beer – and our final Beer of the Day comes from a landlord who knows a thing or two about a great pint. \nOwain Jones\, co-owner of The Plough at West Hanney\, has chosen Hops & Glory\, the new 4.2% Real English Pale Ale from Hawkstone and Butcombe. Owain and his team run a community-owned village pub where cask is very much part of the furniture – The Plough has been recognised repeatedly by its local CAMRA branch and has built a reputation for keeping a cracking pint. So when something genuinely new arrives on the handpull\, he’s exactly the sort of person we want to hear from. \nAnd Hops & Glory really is new territory. This is Hawkstone’s first-ever cask beer. The Cotswolds brewery has made its name with lager and modern British beer\, with Jeremy Clarkson perhaps its most recognisable champion\, but for its first trip onto the handpull it has teamed up with a brewery that knows cask inside out. Butcombe has been brewing since 1978\, giving the collaboration almost half a century of cask experience to draw upon. It’s a meeting of two different generations of British brewing – and rather wonderfully\, they’ve chosen to do it with a beer that puts British ingredients front and centre. \nHops & Glory is brewed using 100% British ingredients\, including Maris Otter barley and six varieties of British-grown hops. The result is pale\, bright and refreshing\, with grapefruit\, orange peel and gentle tropical fruit before a crisp\, satisfyingly bitter finish. It’s traditional enough to feel completely at home on a handpull\, but with the bright\, punchy hop character you’d expect from a modern pale ale. A first cask beer that actually feels like a first cask beer – not an imitation of something that came before. \nThere’s another reason we love this collaboration. Every cask sold raises £10 for two charities supporting the people at the heart of British pubs and farming. The Licensed Trade Charity has been helping people working in pubs\, bars and hospitality for more than 200 years\, providing practical\, emotional and financial support when times get difficult. Shout provides free\, confidential mental-health support by text\, including vital support for people in farming communities. Behind every pint are growers\, brewers\, dray teams\, cellar staff and publicans – real people – so it feels particularly fitting that Hawkstone and Butcombe are using their first cask together to give something back. \nAnd perhaps that’s why this makes such a good final Beer of the Day for Cask Ale Week. We’ve spent the week celebrating beers with decades – sometimes centuries – of history behind them. Hops & Glory points in the other direction. It’s a brand making its first move into cask\, working with an experienced cask brewer\, using British-grown ingredients\, supporting pubs and farming\, and putting something genuinely new on the handpull. \nSo if you spot Hops & Glory on the bar\, follow Owain’s lead and order one while you can – it’s only around for a limited time. Hawkstone’s first cask. Two breweries. Six British hops. Two brilliant causes. One community pub landlord giving it the thumbs-up. If this is what Hawkstone’s first crack at cask looks like\, we’re rather interested to see what comes next. Cheers to that – and cheers to Cask Ale Week!
URL:https://caskaleweek.co.uk/botd/butcombe-hawkstone-hops-glory/
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