Our Beers

Hand crafted beer with all natural ingredients

Great Ale Since 1843

We believe that without raw materials of exceptional quality it is impossible to produce first-rate beers. This is why we go to great efforts to source the best malted barley from around the UK and spend the hop harvest every year picking out the finest grown hops for our Ales. We have a staple of distinctive regular beers and also introduce seasonal and special ales throughout the year.

Latest Beers

Winter Warmer (ABV: 4.5%)
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Our brand-new, seasonal ale now on the pumps at selected pubs. Moreish and indulgent, this velvety dark stout is brewed with a delightful chocolate, orange twist, perfect for fireside sipping.

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Belt Driver (ABV: 4.2%)
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Brewed using our authentic traditional belt-driven brewhouse, where belts and wheels installed in 1861 still today power our brewing process. We're proud to be one of the last remaining breweries in the world to brew beer in this way.

Belt Driver is a full-bodied, flavourful Indian Pale Ale (IPA) which bursts with tropical and grapefruit flavours and like a cask beer should, draws you in for that next pint every time!

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Our House Beers

3B (ABV: 4.0%)
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Originally known as Arkell’s Best Bitter Beer. First brewed in 1910 and affectionately known as BBB or 3B by customers ever since. A copper coloured Ale with a pleasant fruity and malty nose. It has a lingering bittersweet flavour of balanced Maris Otter malt and traditional Fuggles and Golding hops.

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Wiltshire Gold (ABV: 3.7%)
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A light golden coloured Ale brewed using English Maris Otter malt, which creates a satisfyingly sweet malty flavour. The use of traditional hops give the beer a mellow floral hop aroma followed by a distinctive hoppy taste. Serve slightly chilled.

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Malthouse Craft Lager (ABV: 4.2%)
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Handmade, refreshing, characterful English lager brewed using local barley grown just around the corner from our brewery.

Unlike many lagers we like to slow ferment Malthouse for up to a month, creating a softer cleaner flavour with a satisfying fullness in the mouth. After this, rather than pasteurising and cooking the aromas, we gently triple micro filter the beer to lock in the thirst quenching flavour.

SIBA's BeerX National Gold Award 'Champion' Beer

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Voyager (ABV: 5%)
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Voyager is a tribute to adventurous spirit.

Way back in the early 19th Century before John, founder and great by-many grandfather, had selected our picturesque site to realise his passion and build a brewery, he was a farmer by trade. Times were hard in British farming so he upped sticks and voyaged to the uninhabited plains of Canada to build a new farm and a new life. “You can tell Polly that we live like two old, long-bearded and grave old bachelors,” John writes home to his brother.

Love eventually brought him home and our beautiful brewhouse soon followed. We’ve used American hops as a nod to his time across the Atlantic, giving the pale ale a fruity kick.

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Hurricane Amber Ale (ABV: 4.0%)
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Only available straight from the keg. Naturally, Arkell's Hurricane Ale uses the lemony Pilot hops which, when combined with Maris Otter Malt, give the beer a delicious, well-rounded finish - like a Hurricane coming into land. A refreshing amber ale.

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Mustang Black (ABV: 4.0%)
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This is a full-bodied stout, where we've blended 6 different malt varieties to create the grist for a moreish, smooth, creamy taste. Nurtured during a slow gentle maturation period, the balance of flavour from the selection of malts creates the perfect drinkable stout.

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Haze (ABV: 4.0%)
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Our first vegan & gluten-free beer. Available in selected pubs.

Awarded Gold in the Keg Session Pale Ale category at the SIBA South West Independent Beer Awards 2024.

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Honest John (ABV: 4.0%)
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Nitro best bitter, all the best parts of cask beer... the unique soft texture of a cask conditioned ale and the moreish caramel, toffee flavours of a best bitter all poured gently though a keg tap. Perfect for clubs, bars, restaurants & hotels where cask beer is not an option.

'Honest John' was the name by which our founder was affectionately known locally, he was an innovator who embraced steam technology when building his brewhouse, at a time when steam was the new kid on the block. You could call him the original steam punk!

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Bottled Beers

We also bottle some of our beers, which we first started way back in the 1930s. This requires a careful conditioning process in the brewery in our cold tanks, before the beers are gently filtered to increase the shelf life and filled into bottles. Our regular bottled beers available include 3B, DESI BIYAR, KINGSDOWN, MOONLIGHT, VOYAGER & WILTSHIRE GOLD, plus special seasonal & commemorative beers, when available.

All are available to buy at our Grape & Grain Wine & Brewery Warehouse, plus online for delivery in the UK.

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