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Cask Ales

Our permanent casks are;

Marstons Pedigree ABV 4.5%

Marston's Pedigree has always been crafted using the finest natural ingredients to ensure you receive a truly exceptional beer.

Made using natural Burton spring water and traditional varieties of barley and hops (Maris Otter Barley, Fuggles and Goldings hops), rather than less expensive, commercially grown, modern hybrids. Unique in this world, it is still brewed in the oak casks of the Burton Union to preserve its unique character, consistent quality and taste. Many brewers have abandoned this traditional method of brewing over the years due to its extra cost and labour intensive maintenance, which requires a skilled cooper to constantly service the wooden casks. It has been the commitment and belief of each Marston's Head Brewer to preserve the extra effort that goes into each brew that makes Marston's Pedigree such an exceptional beer.

Marstons Burton Bitter ABV 3.8%

Marston's Burton Bitter is one of our oldest beers, amongst the first created by John Marston when he established his brewery in 1834.

It is crafted using only the finest, barley, hops, yeast and famous Burton spring water to deliver an exceptionally clean tasting beer combining malty biscuity flavours with a delicate hop character and finish.

It is almost 1000 years since the beer making virtues of Burton's spring water was discovered by the Monks of Burton Abbey. The spring water does not come from the River Trent, it is rain water that has fallen on the surrounding hills, and percolated down through gypsum beds, forming an underground stream on the valley floor. It is these trace elements of gypsum (calcium sulphate) which help to make a clearer, brighter bitter. We collect our natural spring water from several wells on site at our brewery.

Throughout the world other brewers have to artificially 'Burtonise' their brewing water in order to compensate for the misfortune of not being based in Burton-upon-Trent, the home of British Brewing. As well as producing a clearer, brighter bitter, natural filtration through the gypsum beds also adds the distinctive sulphurous aroma that has affectionately become known as 'Burton Snatch'.

A Selection of our Guest Ales on Rotation

BeeWyched by Wychwood

Tasting Notes: This traditionally brewed copper coloured honey’d ale buzzes full bittersweet with hints of dried fruit, honey and grapefruit. A fair-trade product that not only praises thanks to the bees, but also ensures a better deal for disadvantaged farmers and workers.

Seventy Eight 4.2% by Ringwood

Tasting Notes: Hop aroma with fruity, spicy flavours. Golden refreshing beer with a distinctive hoppy finish.Brewed with Maris Otter Barley and infused with Sovereign and Goldings hops. Brewed to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Ringwood brewery in March 1978

Lancaster Bomber 4.4% by Thwaites

Tasting Notes: Chestnut in colour, Lancaster Bomber has a warming, full-flavoured moreish taste, with a hint of toffee and biscuit.

Hopback Spring Zing – 4.2% by Hop Back

Tasting Notes: A real hop-feast of a beer! Two English and two Continental hops give a very satisfying bitter yet flowery palate. Maize, wheat and barley malts combine with the hops to yield a very soft flavoursome pale thirst quenching ale of 4.2% ABV.

Iceberg 4.1% by Titanic

Tasting Notes: A combination of Maris Otter pale malt and fine wheat malt give this refreshing beer real zest. Add fresh tasting Yakima Galena and Cascade hops and what you get is a fantastic wheat beer that will hole any passing thirst

Marston's Old Umpire 5.7%

Tasting Notes: A tempting aroma of biscuity malt, floral hops, vanilla and toffee, with hints of citrus fruit. A very refreshing ale.

Marston's Merrie Monk - 4.5%

Tasting Notes: A traditional mild brewed using Maris Otter malt and the English Fuggles and Goldings hops to give a dry balanced moreish drink

Marston's Oyster Stout 4.5%

Tasting Notes: A rich dark and exceptionally creamy stout with a fruity, floral and spicy character derived from English aroma hops – Fuggles and Goldings and a bitterness derived from roasted malts.

Ashes Ale 4.1%

Tasting Notes: A very easy drinking lightly coloured pale ale, crafted to commemorate the burning of a used Burton Union barrel. It delivers a sharp thirst quenching bitterness, perfectly complemented with a slightly lemony citrus aroma. The perfect beer to accompany an English Summer, definitely not for Australians!

Fine Fettl 4.8%

Tasting Notes: A clean full-bodied malt flavour balanced with a robust bitterness, this classic ale is crafted with the finest English Fuggles and Goldings hops.

Tom Fool 4.0%

Tasting Notes: Brewed to commemorate the ghost of Thomas Skelton, the fool of Muncaster Castle in the Lake District, this golden amber ale has all the characteristics of a light mild.

Honey Bole 4.5%

Tasting Notes: A light straw coloured easy drinking ale made with classic English hops. This beer has a sting in the tale with a delicious honey finish

Boondoggle 4%

Tasting Notes: Meaning ‘to go on a jolly’, Boondoggle is very aptly named for a summer beer. It is a straw-coloured summer ale flavoured with Fuggles and First Gold and floor-malted Maris Otter barley to give it a moreish fruity taste.

BeeWyched by Wychwood Tasting Notes: This traditionally brewed copper coloured honey’d ale buzzes full bittersweet with hints of dried fruit, honey and grapefruit. A fair-trade product that not only praises thanks to the bees, but also ensures a better deal for disadvantaged farmers and workers.

BeeWyched by Wychwood