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Christmas Pudding 3.9%
1 December 2010 to 31 December 2010
Tasting Notes: Christmas pudding in a glass! Brewed using Golden Promise malt and Fuggles and Goldings hops. This beer has a distinctive nutty, malty character as well as sublte fruity, spicy notes with a hint of cinnamon, but watch out for the sixpence!
Wicked Witch 4.2%
1 October 2010 to 31 October 2010
Tasting Notes: Brewed around the time of All Hallows 'eve. The recipe is a dark secret but eye of newt an dwing of bat are hard to come by these days. A rich russet brown coloured beer with complex malt and hop flavours combining to make an autumnal delight with a warming character.
Royal Ryder 3.8%
1 September 2010 to 30 September 2010
Tasting Notes: A light coloured beer brewed with a touch of malted wheat to give a fullness to the beer. Complemented by a bitter hop flavour, derived from Progress hops, and a delicate aroma achieved by the late addition of English Goldings. Perfect for those lazy summer evenings
Long Hop 4.0%
1 August 2010 to 31 August 2010
Tasting Notes: Light coloured refreshing beer crafted with English hops to give a crisp bitterness and fresh hoppy aroma, perfect for long summer days watching leather on willow.
Diamond 4.1%
1 July 2010 to 31 July 2010
Tasting Notes: Marston's have teamed up with 'The Lord's Taverners' to produce this classic English ale, celebrating our favourite game and on the way raising money for a great cause. A 10p donation is made for every pint sold
Fever Pitch 4.2%
1 June 2010 to 30 June 2010
Tasting Notes: As the temperature rises to fever pitch for football fans everywhere, this beer is a certain winner. The extremely pale ale combines Maris Otter malt with East Kent Goldings hops to produce a beer guaranteed to go down easier than a continental dive in the box!
Marston's Merrie Monk - 4.5%
1 May 2010 to 31 May 2010
Tasting Notes: A delightful mild ale that's amber in colour with fruity overtones and a delicious hint of caramel. Crafting together both mild and bitter beer styles, this offering from Burton's Cathedral of Brewing delivers a hoppy mild with a dry clean finish that will leave you praying for more!
Dragon's Tale 4.5%
1 April 2010 to 30 April 2010
Tasting Notes: A malty, full bodied ale crafted with specially selected English malt and hops to commemorate St George's epic victory over the dragon. Slay your thirst and raise a glass to England's patron saint.
Sweet Chariot 4.8%
1 February 2010 to 28 February 2010 Available NOW!
Tasting Notes: Swing low with this full and fruity beer, guaranteed to carry you home with a spicy aroma and malty sweet taste to savour every English try and bone crunching tackle.
Single Malt 4.2%
1 January 2010 to 31 January 2010
Tasting Notes: Raise a wee dram of this golden pale ale to refresh the post Christmas palate and celebrate Burn's night. Crafted using only Golden Promise Malt, popular with Scottish whisky distillers, this beer delivers a full bodied malty flavour with a clean bitter finish
Ugly Sisters 4.5%
1 December 2009 to 31 December 2009
Tasting Notes: Brewed using Golden Promise malt and Fuggles and Goldings hops. This beer has a distinctive nutty, malty character as well as subtle fruity, spicy notes. Christmas Pantomime is always the season of fun and laughter and a time of enjoyment. Marston's Ugly Sisters is a great tasting ale - oh yes it is!
Powder Cask 4.1%
1 November 2009 to 30 November 2009
Tasting Notes: Brewed to commemorate Guy Fawkes' failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder. This full flavoured bitter has all the aromas of fruit and nut, complemented by a balanced hoppy note derived from traditional English hops.
Ploughman's Ale 4.6%
1 October 2009 to 31 October 2009
Tasting Notes: After a hard days work in the field, ploughmen would gather and chat quenching their hard earned thirst on easy drinking refreshing ale. Marston's Ploughman's Ale a rewarding pint at anytime.
Pomp & Circumstance 3.8%
1 September 2009 to 30 September 2009
Tasting Notes: A light coloured beer brewed with a touch of malted wheat to give a fullness to the beer. Complemented bya bitter hop flavour, derived from Progress hops, and a delicate aroma achieved by the late addition of English Goldings. Perfect for those lazy summer evenings.
Ashes Ale 4.1%
1 July 2009 to 31 July 2009
Tasting Notes: Marston's Ashes Ale is back for 2009. This is a very easy drinking light coloured pale ale at 4.1% ABV, is brewedwith passion and desire to beat the Aussies and cheer the England Cricket team to victory. So kick back and enjoy your Ashes Ale with England this summer.
The Lord Taverners Ale 4.2%
1 June 2009 to 30 June 2009
Tasting Notes: Marston's have teamed up with 'The Lord Taverners' to produce this classic English Ale, celebrating our favourite game and on the way raising money for a great cause. A donation is made for every pint sold.
Merrie Monk 4.5%
1 May 2009 to 31 May 2009
Tasting Notes: A traditional mild brewed using Maris Otter malt and English Fuggles and Goldings hops to give a dry balanced moreish drink
John Marston Ale 4.6%
1 March 2009 to 30 March 2009
Tasting Notes: In 1834 John Marston opened a brewery in Burton on Trent adn applied his uncompromising values to brew only the best beers. 175 years later our founders ale is true to these values at Marston's today.
175 Not Out 4.2%
1 January 2009 to 29 January 2009
Tasting Notes: What else than a true classic pale ale to celebrate 175 years of brewing history at Marston's. Brewed with the famous Burton spring water drawn from Marston's own wells and traditional Fuggle and Golding hops to give added fruitiness and a spicy high note
Blazing Ale 4.5%
1 November 2008 to 30 November 2008
Tasting Notes: A malty full bodied beer made from a malt grist of Maris Otter and a touch of crystal to give a warm chestnut colour. Brewed with a blend of Fuggles and Goldings to give a mellow bitterness.
Classic Beers Winter Ale 4.5%
1 November 2008 to 31 December 2008
Tasting Notes: Full, rich and fruity with a hint of spicy hop and a warming glow.
Classic Beers. Rye Beer 4.0%
1 September 2008 to 31 October 2008
Tasting Notes: Malty, biscuity and full bodied with a sweet finish, balanced with a blend of English hops.
Pure Blonde 4.2%
1 September 2008 to 4 October 2008
Tasting Notes: A light coloured beer brewed from best pale malt with a touch of wheat. A bitter hop flavour is there to counter the fullness of the wheat. A hint of citrus from the addition of Cascade hops to the kettle compliments this ale.
Classic Beers. Classic Pale Ale 4.2%
1 August 2008 to 31 August 2008
Tasting Notes: A full flavoured, fruity, crisp, light coloured beer with a spicy note.
Night Watchman 3.8%
1 August 2008 to 31 August 2008
Tasting Notes: A very quaffable light coloured but full flavoured beer. A pronounced bitterness compliments subtle malty flavours to give a sharp refreshing character to this beer.
Classic Beers. Classic Pale Ale 4.2%
1 July 2008 to 31 August 2008
Tasting Notes: A Classic Pale Ale that has a sharp dry bitternesswith a hint of floral fruitiness balanced by maltiness rather than sweetness.
Marston's Old Umpire 5.7%
1 June 2008 to 30 June 2008
Tasting Notes: A tempting aroma of biscuity malt, floral hops, vanilla and toffee, with hints of citrus fruit. A very refreshing ale.
Marston's Dragon's Tale - 4.5%
1 April 2008 to 30 April 2008
Tasting Notes: Brewed using the finest quality malt and a select blend of English hops to give a dark beer with a pronounced bitterness
Marston's Sun Bright – 3.8%
1 March 2008 to 31 March 2008
Tasting Notes: Classic burton pale ale which has a dry nutty flavour, and is very drinkable
Marston's Sweet Chariot 4.8%
1 February 2008 to 29 February 2008
Tasting Notes: A full and fruity flavoured beer, with a spicy aroma and the sweet taste of success for every Englishman to savour
Marston's Oyster Stout 4.5%
1 January 2008 to 31 January 2008
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.
Wicked Witch 4.6%
29 October 2007 to 23 November 2007
Tasting Notes: A rich russet brown coloured beer with complex malt and hop flavours.
Sweet Chariot 4.8%
1 October 2007 to 27 October 2007
Tasting Notes: A full and fruity flavoured beer, with a spicy aroma and the sweet taste of success for every Englishman to savour.
Wicked Witch 4.6%
1 October 2007 to 27 October 2007
Tasting Notes: A rich russet brown coloured beer with complex malt and hop flavours.
Night Watchman3.8%
1 August 2007 to 31 August 2007
Tasting Notes: A very quaffable light coloured but full Flavoured beer. A pronounced bitterness compliments subtle malty flavours to give a sharp refreshing character to this beer
Pure Blonde 4%
2 July 2007 to 31 July 2007
Tasting Notes: A light coloured beer brewed from best pale malt with a touch of wheat. A bitter hop flavour is there to counter the fullness of the wheat. A hint of citrus from the addition of Cascade hops to the kettle, compliments this ale.
VPA 4%
28 May 2007 to 26 June 2007
Tasting Notes: A light coloured, lightly flavoured, easy drinking summer beer. Brewed from very lightly malted barley and using a single hop variety.
Evening Glow 5%
30 April 2007 to 25 May 2007
Tasting Notes: Brewed at 5% ABV, this traditional bitter is boosted by the addition of some lightly roasted malts which add a little aniseed character to the after taste.
Old Empire 5.7%
26 February 2007 to 27 April 2007
Tasting Notes: To coincide with World Cup – West Indies. A tempting aroma of biscuity malt, floral hops, vanilla and toffee, with hints of citrus fruit. A very refreshing, drinkable and well balanced India Pale Ale
Heart Warmer 4.5%
29 January 2007 to 23 February 2007
Tasting Notes: A dark beer brewed with roasted malt and malted wheat, giving a fuller flavour.