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Bringing the sunshine back to summer with our brand new beer CHERRY TONKA SOUR!

You may have heard us talk about it, you may have had a sneak peak at Sesh Fest or Nottingham Craft Beer Fest but now it is offically being released!

CHERRY TONKA SOUR

Berliner Weisse aged on Sour Cherries and Tonka beans
4 %

A Berliner Weisse style beer, Aged on sour cherries and infused with Tonka beans. Vibrant red in colour with pleasant tartness, with aromas of cherry, almond and coconut , bringing an enticing flavours reminiscent of a cherry bakewell tart.

Available at The Beer Hall 20th June and everywhere else 21st June.

NEW BEER ALERT

Caffè Romano Porter - 4.8%

Zestspresso, our take on a Caffè Romano – a shot of espresso served with a slice of lemon. This porter has been zested with lemon and cold steeped on whole coffee beans.

A complex and intriguing porter. The surprisingly light body is carried by rich, robust coffee notes and a heady, unmistakable aroma of lemon, slicing across your palate with zingy freshness. It shouldn't make sense, but it does!

Available at The Beer Hall today - Friday 3rd May

Caption: Hawkshead team on the brewkit

Caption: Sorting those hops

The 8th March is International Women's Day

We are lucky to have 11 full time women working in nearly every department of the brewery. Susan, Louise, Michelle, Lou, Gemma, Beth, Nicky, Molly, Gill, Hannah and Kate.

Today we celebrate, not only our amazing Hawkshead women, but our whole community of women in the brewing industry.
From the hop farmers to the bar workers, sales and marketing to lab technicians and of course brewers. We salute you and everything you do for the industry.

In honour of International women’s day and all you amazing women we came together, designed and brewed a beer today!

A wheat beer brewed with roasted orange & lemon and fresh bay leaves.

Roasting fresh oranges and lemons with hand picked fresh bay leaves to enhance all the fruits natural sugars and infuse them with the bay. The brew day brought together most of the women in the brewery (some were having a well earned break), getting down to business, mashing in at 8am with brewer Robin. As with all our brews they prepped all the ingredients by hand, checked the quality and introduced them to the brew when needed. This included, the pulp and juice from the earlier roasted oranges and lemons with some more fresh bay leaves and of course hops. 

Now it's time for the yeast to do it's thing with the loveliness that has been provided for it and we'll see it in a few weeks in Keg and some cask.

Hawkshead Can….in the last month we have relaunched our canning venture and reintroduced ITI along with three newly canned beers, NZPA, Session IPA and 5HOP. All of these beers are available to buy from the brewery website or directly from the brewery tap, The Beer Hall and all good independent craft beer retailers. Keep an eye out for more beers heading into cans in the near future.