The 2023 Drinks.
Our festival is proud to showcase a mixture of unique and popular beers from local and national breweries. From hoppy IPAs to malty bitters, stouts, porters, milds, lagers and ciders, we have something for everyone to enjoy. Check out our 2023 selection below!
Beer Listing
Acorn Barnsley Bitter
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Award winning Barnsley Bitter is brewed using the finest quality Maris Otter malt and English hops. Chestnut in colour, having a well-rounded rich flavour,it retains a lasting bitter finish
Silver award at the Great British Beer Festival 2006, and was also a finalist in 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2019. CAMRA Third best beer of Britain award 2018.
Details
Type: Bitter
ABV: 3.8%
Bosun's Draughtsmans' Draught​
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This is a quintessential Northern English bitter. It has a malty nose and a gentle bitterness, with a lovely fruity background and a slightly dry finish. This is an excellent session beer.
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Type: Bitter
ABV: 3.9%
Bosun's Razamataz​
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For those warm summer days brewed with almost no aroma hops, but instead infused with a raspberry flavour from natural ingredients, the raspberry flavour is first on the nose and then comes through in the taste, but not over powering.
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Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 3.7%
Bosun's Tempest​
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Full Bodied IPA - This American IPA is light gold in colour and brewed using fine American hops. Despite its fruity nose and bursts of citrus and grapefruit flavours.
Details
Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 5.6%
Eagles Crag The Eagle of Kindness​
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A golden session IPA hopped with Mosaic and Centennial, and dry hopped with additional Mosaic to provide a modern style beer with balanced malts, packed with flavour.
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Type: Session IPA
ABV: 4.5%
Harrogate Best​
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A full bodied amber ale boasting sweetness from dark crystal malts and a subtle spiciness from the malted rye Gold award for the best cask premium bitter on a national scale at the SIBA awards 2022. A must try bitter from this local company.
Details
Type: Bitter
ABV: 4.5%
Harrogate Wavey Marms​
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A fruity, funky session IPA made using Mosaic and Citra hops. Tropical notes with hints of marmalade.
Details
Type: Keg IPA
ABV: 3.8%
Hawkshead Dry Stone Stout​
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A dry oatmeal stout, named after that enduring feature of the Lake District landscape, the dry stone wall and the skilled craftsmen who build them. Aromas of chocolate and coffee, complex rich deep flavours from a blend of 7 malts, moderate bitterness and a long dry finish make Dry Stone Stout a satisfying and warming black beer.
Details
Type: Stout
ABV: 4.5%
Hawkshead Windermere Pale​
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Refreshingly Hoppy Pale Ale. A very pale ale bursting with hop flavour from the signature hop - Citra. Brewed with soft Lakeland water, Maris Otter malted barley and whole cone hops.
SIBA Silver National independent beer awards 2022
World beer awards Winner 2021
SIBA NW 2017 Gold Overall Champion
CAMRA Champion Beer of the North West 2017
Details
Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 3.5%
Kirkstall Pale Ale​
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Wonderfully golden session beer. Fresh malt and hop aroma lead to a satisfyingly bitter finish.
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Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 4.0%
Kirkstall Judicious​
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Vegan. Tropical, juicy, hazy pale ale. Packed full of pink grapefruit, mango, pineapple, lychee, passion fruit and peach flavours, bouncing on a bed of coconut. Hops Talus, Mosaic and Citrus
Details
Type: Keg Hazy Pale Ale
ABV: 4.8%
Kirkstall Three Swords
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The name is derived from the coat of arms used by Cisterian monks of Kirkstall Abbey. Three American hop varieties are fused in abundance to deliver a crisp, aromatic pale ale with clean and refreshing citrus fruit flavours. Hops Centennial, Cascade and Chinook.
Details
Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 4.5%
Kirkstall Virtuous​
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Gluten free and Vegan, this session IPA is a crisp, bright, west coast style beer, flavours of grapefruit peel, lemon and lime on the nose. Tropical and citrus fruits dominate, with hints of pine and a touch of blueberry, balanced by its complex malt base and a solid carbonation. Hops Citra, Simcoe and Sultana
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Type: IPA Gluten Free, Vegan
ABV: 4.5%
Leeds Midnight Bell​
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A premium dark mild. Crystal and chocolate malts combine with wonderful Willamette hops to give a full bodied, complex character to this award winning ale.
Winner Gold award SIBA 2021 North East
Details
Type: Dark Mild
ABV: 4.8%
Leeds Pale​
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An easy drinking pale ale. Brewed using Slovenian Bobek hops, this session beer is light and hoppy with delicate floral aromas and a well balanced finish.
Details
Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 3.8%
Ossett Macaroni Ted​
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A collaboration with Elusive brewery, this limited edition Pale Ale has only been available to drink since 15th June.
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Type: West Coast IPA
ABV: 5.3%
Ossett White Rat​
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This very pale, hoppy ale is made from low colour malt. A combination of Cascade, Columbus & Amarillo hops produce an intensely aromatic and resinous finish.
Bronze award World Beer Awards 2021 UK
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Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 4.0%
Roosters Capability Brown​
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A classic best bitter, deep amber in colour and displaying classic English hedgerow hop characteristics harnessed from a blend of Challenger, Fuggles and Whitbread Goldings Variety hops.
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Type: Bitter
ABV: 4.0%
Roosters YPA​
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A two-time gold medal winner at the prestigious World Beer Cup, YPA® (Yorkshire Pale Ale) is a pale, aromatic, summer ale that offers up delicate peachy and berry fruit flavours.
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Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 4.1%
Rudgate Astrid's Summer​
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Refreshing fruity pale ale with citrus flavours, an ideal session beer for a hot summers day
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Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 3.7%
Rudgate Valkyrie​
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American West Coast pale ale, gold in colour, with a slightly tropical and hoppy finish.
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Type: IPA
ABV: 5.0%
Thornbridge Jaipur​
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A citrus dominated India Pale Ale, its immediate impression is soft and smooth yet builds to a crescendo of massive hoppiness with an enduring bitter finish.
With over 100 worldwide awards, including winning Double Gold at the recent European Beer Challenge, this was the UKs very first IPA craft beer
Details
Type: IPA
ABV: 5.0%
Thornbridge Lord Marples​
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Lord Marples is surprisingly smooth with light toffee and caramel characters, a mixture of floral and spicy hop notes and a pleasing bitter finish.
Details
Type: Bitter
ABV: 4.0%
Timothy Taylor's Boltmaker​
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A well balanced, genuine Yorkshire Bitter, with a full measure of maltiness and hoppy aroma, Boltmaker is first choice for the discerning drinker on both sides of the Pennines.
CAMRA Supreme Champion Beer of Britain 2014
CAMRA Champion Beer of Britain 2016, Gold, Bitters
Details
Type: Bitter
ABV: 4.0%
Wetherby Gold​
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Easy drinking golden ale with hop and fruit flavours. Behold the Gold! Superb ‘all rounder’...great with a wide range of food, or ideal on its own as a session beer.
Details
Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 4.0%
Wensleydale Gamekeeper​
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Gamekeeper has all the traditional traits of a Yorkshire Best Bitter with a modern edge. Rich copper in colour with malty and slightly biscuity flavours; Magnum hops give a subtle hoppy finish.
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Type: Bitter
ABV: 4.3%
Wensleydale Semer Water​
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Sema’ is a light, blonde easy drinking ale. Wensleydales popular staple is hopped with Cascade to infuse a balanced and delicate floral undertone.
Details
Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 3.7%
Wilde Child Resplendent Perspective​
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Easy drinking English Blonde Ale hopped with Goldings and First Gold hops
Details
Type: Gold/Pale Ale
ABV: 3.8%
Lager Listing
Amstel Lager​
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The distinctive golden Amstel beer with its mildly bitter taste and excellent quality has become well known around the World.
Details
Type: Lager
ABV: 4.1%
Birra Moretti​
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Birra Moretti is a low fermentation beer, made from a blend of fine hops, giving it a pleasant taste that is finely bitter and balanced, with floral notes and initial aromas of barley malt.
Details
Type: Lager
ABV: 4.6%
Cider Listing
Grumpy John's Dry Cider​
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100% juice traditional cider made from apples picked in Bradford area, slow fermentation on wild yeast gives full apple flavour. Sharp, leading to a dry finish.
Details
Type: Dry Cider
ABV: 6.o%
Grumpy John's Medium Cider​
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100% juice traditional cider made from apples picked in Bradford area, slow fermentation on wild yeast gives full apple flavour. Sharp, leading to a medium-sweet finish.
Details
Type: Medium Cider
ABV: 6.0%
Grumpy John's Sweet Cider​
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100% juice traditional cider made from apples picked in Bradford area, slow fermentation on wild yeast gives full apple flavour. Sharp, leading to a sweet finish.
Details
Type: Sweet Cider
ABV: 6.0%
Grumpy John's Trouble at T'Mill​
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Eastern Counties and Western cider attributes are married in this wild fermented, whole juice, natural cider.
Details
Type: Medium Cider
ABV: 6.0%
