Unique Regional Beer

Got my Dad to bring me a bottle of Mathers Black Beer from back home near Huddersfield. This is a drink that I have seen in many of the local pubs around there but never tried it. Plus I needed my Malt Liquor tick.

Can you think of any other beers from across the UK that fit the same bill. Being unique and regional in their style? Or just a regional style of beer?

Gadds of Ramsgate and Goachers in Tovil pride themselves on using all Kentish ingredients in some/most of their beers.



Northern Brown Ale is a style that springs to mind



Light Milds are mostly a northern thing too aren’t they?



Burton beers with a Bruton Snatch aroma are a definite regional style.

Yes I would say Mild as being fairly much regionalised to the West Midlands and perhaps North West, ok its made and consumed elsewhere but when you go into many a West Midlands pub and see maybe 3-4 choices of Mild and just one bitter you know that this is a stronghold for the style.

Boys Bitters? Were these weaker bitters a South East or even Essex thing predominantly? I am not sure on this and happy to be corrected.

Actually Steve Silktork is your man for this one.

Originally posted by harrisoni
Bruton Snatch aroma

Originally posted by harrisoni
Gadds of Ramsgate and Goachers in Tovil pride themselves on using all Kentish ingredients in some/most of their beers.

Yeah but I couldn’t bring myself to claim Sheps as being regionally interesting.

Originally posted by Fin
Yes I would say Mild as being fairly much regionalised to the West Midlands and perhaps North West, ok its made and consumed elsewhere but when you go into many a West Midlands pub and see maybe 3-4 choices of Mild and just one bitter you know that this is a stronghold for the style.

Boys Bitters? Were these weaker bitters a South East or even Essex thing predominantly? I am not sure on this and happy to be corrected.

Originally posted by rpattinson
Boys Bitter is a Southwest thing. Things like Palmers BB. I thought it was almost disappeared.

I’ve seen it argued that they were more like Light Milds than Bitter. Not so sure about that, but they were in the same strength/price bracket as Mild.

Originally posted by rpattinson

Originally posted by Fin
Yes I would say Mild as being fairly much regionalised to the West Midlands and perhaps North West, ok its made and consumed elsewhere but when you go into many a West Midlands pub and see maybe 3-4 choices of Mild and just one bitter you know that this is a stronghold for the style.

Boys Bitters? Were these weaker bitters a South East or even Essex thing predominantly? I am not sure on this and happy to be corrected.

Boys Bitter is a Southwest thing. Things like Palmers BB. I thought it was almost disappeared.

I’ve seen it argued that they were more like Light Milds than Bitter. Not so sure about that, but they were in the same strength/price bracket as Mild.

The Southeast was more AK country. Had that survived longer, it would have ended up around the same gravity, 1030-1032º. But few AK’s made it past WW II.

Home Brewed was another Southwestern style (mostly). A type of Strong Brown Ale.

Newark, where I grew up, was an extreme outpost for both AK (Hole’s) and Home Brewed (Warwick & Richardson).