Bluebird Bitter – 3.6% ABV
Malt: Maris Otter pale malt and crystal malt
Hops: Challenger
“It is, quite simply, a wonderful beer. It is exceedingly pale (21-22 units colour), with just a hint of colour in its cheeks from the dash of crystal malt. It has a massive orange fruit aroma from the challengers, balanced by biscuity malt.”
£2.25 per 500ml bottle.
Old Man Ale – 4.2% ABV
Malt: Roasted Barley, Crystal & Pale Ale Malts
Hops: Challenger/Mount Hood
“A radically different beer… it has roast barley added to the pale and crystal malts. It has a deep burnished copper colour, a rich port wine aroma, a big chocolate and creamy malt palate and a dry, grainy, roasty finish balanced by hop bitterness and tart fruit. It is a remarkably complex beer that deepens and changes as you sup it.”
Roger Protz – CAMRA.
£2.40 per 500ml bottle.
Bluebird Premium XB – 4.2% ABV
Bluebird XB combines two of the great themes of ale brewing to produce something distinctive and new. The fine tradition of English Pale Ale is about quaffing, refreshment and complexity of flavour without alcoholic strength. Then throw in new wave American hop variety Mount Hood with robust citrus aromas and the result is a smooth ale with floral hints, light malt tones and a hoppy freshness.
£2.40 per 500ml bottle.
Special Oatmeal Stout – 4.5% ABV
Oats are used in the grist of this beer to give body and smoothness, enhancing the roasted barley, giving it complex flavours reminiscent of dark chocolate and coffee. This is balanced by a fresh hop bitterness and dry finish.
£2.40 per 500ml bottle.
Oliver’s Light Ale – 3.4% ABV
This commemorative beer is a light straw coloured, easy drinking mild, subtly hopped with Whitbread’s Golding variety hop and brewed using only the finest malt and a generous amount of demerara sugar.
£2.40 per 500ml bottle.
Winter Warmer Blacksmiths Ale 5.00 ABV
This beer is brewed in memory of Harry Belton, the brewer’s grandfather, who was a master blacksmith in Coniston. This rich, strong ale warming with hints of Christmas pudding is brewed using Challenger hops and crystal malt. Strong Ales Category 2007 Gold Medal Winner SIBA North Competition.
£2.40 per 500ml bottle.