Pig's Ear Festival - Latest Beer Updates

Brockley - Brockley Brabo - 5.2%

Belgian-style pale ale. Inital soft bready malt aroma, with lightly toasty honey-caramel notes. Brewed with the renowned beer writer Des de Moor.

Brockley - Harcourt Road Red - 4.8%

Vibrant red ale, pleasant and malty, with a mild hop aroma; notes of toffee and treacle, cut through leading to a balanced finish.

Iron Pier - American Gold - 3.9%

An all American hopped deep golden ale. With citrus and tropical fruit character and refreshing light bitter finish.

Portobello - Ho Ho Ho - 4.8%

We use three different malts for colour, depth of flavour and complexity and dry hop with Amarillo for seasonal flavours of citrus peel and dried fruit. Brewed by Brentwood Brewery

Redemption - Best Bitter - 4.2%

Classic best bitter with some caramel, hazelnut sweetness, and citrus and floral hop notes.

Redemption - Dark Side - 4.4%

Dark bitter with subtle spicey citrus hop notes, and some liquorice and chocolate from the malt.

Redemption - South Pacific Pale - 3.6%

Southern Hemisphere hopped beer using Magnum for bittering and Wai-iti, Motueka and Topaz. Collaboration with Weird Beard

Southwark - Double LPA - 6%

Double citrus hit from this double fermented LPA. Surprisingly sessionable.

Southwark - Single Hop - Sticklebract - 5%

Originally released as a high alpha bittering hop, but has become a dual purpose variety characterized by citrus and pine flavours.

Wimbledon - XXXK Vintage 2023 - 12.7%

Velvet notes of rich, warming autumn fruit, overlaid with hints of spice and seville orange, give a satisfying bite on the finish.

Anspach & Hobday - A Christmas Pale - 4.5%

A festive Hoppy Pale Ale, delicately spiced with orange zest, ginger & juniper, hopped generously with Columbus, Bullion and Bramling Cross. Bright, fruity and sublty spiced with a refreshing bitter finish

Brentwood - Careful With That Ale Eugene - 4.6%

Deep red fruity bitter with hints of Christmas cake.

Brentwood - Christmas Cracker - 4%

Pale ale brewed with New Zealand hops.

Brentwood - Great Pig in the Sky - 5%

Hearty English bitter with a dash of spice.

Brentwood - Momentary Lapse of Reason - 6%

Robust old winter ale.

Brockley - Garage Porter - 4.3%

Dark brown in colour, medium body, light roasty character and bitterness, with a smooth silky mouthfeel.

Brockley - Green Hop Cascade - 4.4%

Floral aroma, light and refreshing on the tongue, citrus and pine with subtle summery fresh cut grass and an earthy bittering aftertaste.

Broken Drum - Broadman Bitter - 3.9%

Traditional amber colour bitter

By the Horns - 36 Barrels - 4.7%

A malty and smokey beer brewed for those Autumnal nights spent around the fire. Brewed with oak smoked malt. As well as 8 other different kilned and roasted malts and hopped with English Fuggles, Challenger, Goldings and Ernest hops

By the Horns - Green Hop Monster 2023 - 4.5%

Light and deliciate pale ale with fresh green Golding hops from Hukins hops in Kent. The freshly picked hops offer a grassy, floral and gentle honey notes to well rounded pale ale with a light bitter finish

Caveman - Cave Dweller Xmas Spice - 5.8%

Special one-off rich dark spiced porter, brewed by Brentwood Brewery for Caveman

Drop Project - Choppy - 4.8%

A beautifully sessionable Dry Irish Stout with zero adjuncts. Expect a full roasty malt bill dripping in black coffee, dark chocolate, and background hints of mixed berry fruitiness

Fullers (Asahi) - Vintage 2023 - 8.5%

Pale Ale malt is at the heart for delicate sweetness, combined with Double Roasted Crystal malt to provide deeper toffee and raisin tones. Once more we highlight modern English hops, using Opus, Archer, and CF185 to provide peach accents and a pronounced citrus note, underpinned by the zesty marmalade character of our famous Fuller's yeast

Gravity Well - Special Circumstances V6 - 4.3%

Version 6 of this pale ale features El Dorado, Citra and Mosaic. This light and fragrant beer is full of soft stone fruit and citrus flavours at a sessionable strength

Iron Pier - Dark Mild - 2.8%

A dark mild with no sugars or caramel colour, instead we have dark wheat malt to bring the colour and soft roasty character.

Kernel - Export India Porter - 5.7%

Inspired by porter recipes of the 1850's, dark brown beer with notes of chocolate, coffee, tobacco, & leather.

Kernel - Export Stout - 7.3%

Victorian style export stout, inky black in colour, oily in texture. Loads of rich fruit and alcohol warmth, rum and raisin, with herbal hop bitterness on top of huge lingering espresso. Hints of leather, tar, smoke, and chocolate

Kernel - Export Stout With Sour Cherries - 7.6%

Victorian style export stout, but with sour cherries to bring fruit and acidity. The tartness evokes that of a wild fermentation. The finish is drier, and sharper, bringing to the fore more cocoa and chocolate than coffee.

Kernel - Half Brick Red Rye Ale - 4.4%

Special lighter seasonal red rye ale containing lots of juicy hops; what we love about English bitters but still with bold modern flavours.

Kernel - Table Beer (Mosaic) - 3.2%

Low alcohol sessionable pale ale. Hop varieties vary from batch to batch.

London Brewing Co - All Ripe - 3.5%

Fruited sour, with blackberry and sour cherry.

London Brewing Co - Flying the Mags - 3.8%

Super easy drinking Mild with medium sweet finish. Dark brown appearance, fruity yet nutty on the nose, with background hop character and light chocolate flavour

London Brewing Co - Rhapsody Kolsch - 4.5%

A crisp and unfiltered pale lager using Kolsch yeast and fermented low and slow for a clean and refreshing finish with notes of lemon and subtle noble hop character

London Brewing Co - Talk to the Palm - 8.4%

Imperial Stout with coconut; rich, roasty, bitter and slick; heady coconut aroma lends a rum–like quality. This beer is a liquid dark chocolate bounty bar. Collaboration brew with East London Brewery.

Portobello - Crown Jewels - 4.8%

Brewed for the Coronation of King Charles. Dark brown coloured porter with roast and chocolate flavours. Brewed for Portobello by Brentwood Brewery.

Portobello - Notting Helles - 4%

Clean sessionable lager brewed to German purity laws. This beer is exceptionally rare in cask form.

Redemption - Fellowship Coffee Porter - 5.1%

Fellowship Porter with added coffee

Redemption - Revolver (Amarillo) - 3.4%

Revolving single hop, on a pale malt base. The current hop is Amarillo.

Redemption - Victorian Mild - 6%

Collaboration brew with The Kernel. Our dark mild gives off aromas of chocolate, coffee and delicious boozy fruit peel. Smoky aromas coupled with a hint of Christmas pudding fruit

Redemption - Victorian Mild - 6%

Collaboration brew with The Kernel. Our dark mild gives off aromas of chocolate, coffee and delicious boozy fruit peel. Smoky aromas coupled with a hint of Christmas pudding fruit

Southwark - Dark Side of the Pig - 5%

Luscious stout packed full of malty cocoa flavour. More string than David Gilmore`s guitars.

Southwark - Full Sail Pale Ale - 4.4%

A light and refreshing pale ale with floral and citrus aromas from Ahtanum and Mosaic hops

Southwark - Winter Warmer - 5.2%

Deliciously malty, with warming body, and low level of bitterness. Based on a traditional double mild recipe.

Thames Side - Black Swan Porter - 4.6%

Classic London Porter with lots of brown, chocolate and crystal malts giving a wonderful rich roasted flavour, complemented with Fuggles and Golding hops from Kent

Thames Side - Get Back - 5.8%

A hazy New England IPA brewed in collaboration with Backbeat Brewing

Thames Side - Mallard Mild - 3.5%

A traditional dark mild, sweet and malty

Windsor and Eton - Imperial Russian Stout - 10%

A beer to be savoured – luscious, dark, rich and velvety, full bodied flavoured stout, with a hint of Brett,

Indie Rabble - The Mob Has Arrived - 6%

West Coast IPA dosed with a hefty Centennial, Cascade and Chinook dry-hop for the notes of citrus and resin we all adore and a piney finish against a rich caramalt smoothness