TASTING NOTES

Warming, Malty and Fruity. Pale and amber malts contribute to a mouth filling and satisfying 'Horlicks' and biscuity maltiness. Challenger and First Gold give a base note of herbal hop and Fuggle as a late hop contributes the main fragrant fruity and floral and spicy notes. Fermented slowly to give just enough fruity esters Abbot Ale provides a complex, satisfying and warming experience.

ABV 5%

Blackshore is a smooth, easy-drinking stout, named after the black-tarred fishing huts that line Southwold's harbour. They are individual, characterful and made of sturdy stuff. It is brewed with a hefty mash bill for a rich, broad malt character. You’ll find Pale Ale, Brown, Double Roasted Crystal, and Chocolate malts, alongside Roasted Barley and a hearty helping of oats. This adds a real depth of flavour, that the brewing team are particularly proud of, making it tremendously tasty, but mellow on the finish.

Best Before: 2026/11/30

Our citrus pale ale is approachable, moreish, and hauntingly good on any occasion. Originally brewed as a Halloween seasonal, interest lingered, like its lemony flavours, and it is now our best-selling beer. In the foggy past, patrons of The Bell Inn, our 600-year-old pub in Walberswick, told tall tales of ghostly ships that haunted the shore. The seeds of these stories were likely sown by smugglers trying to scare people away, but they later became the inspiration for everyone’s favourite eerie brew.

The Battle of Sole Bay was fought off the coast of Southwold in 1672. Brewed to mark its tercentenary in 1972, Broadside’s taste has endured for over 50 years. This ruby red ale delivers a cannon of fruitcake notes and is charged with the richness of conserved fruit.

6.3% ABV

Best Before: 2026/03/31

Tally-Ho is a limited edition barley wine that has been brewed at Adnams since 1880. Bottle conditioned and dark mahogany red in colour, Tally-Ho's Christmas cake richness and warmth lends itself to wintery, fireside evenings. Each year's vintage is unique and can be kept and matured in bottle, just like a fine wine.

• Barley Wine
• 7.2%
• Best Before: 2026/11/30

Hops: Fresh Hop Nelson Sauvin from Freestyle Hops, Nelson.Malt: Gladfield American Ale, Gladfield Sour Grapes, Gladfield Light Lager, Warminster CaragoldStory:Rewi Alley cut his teeth on hard-scrabble farming in Taranaki before moving to China in the 1920s. He fell in with the Communists, seeing the revolution through and founding the “together in harmony” movement, better known by the name Gung Ho! For this version of our beloved Gung Ho! we’ve used the finest and freshest ‘wet hops’ from our sunny valleys in Tasman - picked fresh off the bine and carted straight to the brew kettle in 24 hours.

Six of our best

Hold on to an Emersons tasting where ever you go. The beach, the backyard, the back of beyond, or even just your place. This mini bar contains a carefully curated selection of favourites, so you can take your taste-buds on a journey, even while you're on a journey. Just make sure you keep in somewhere cold - this isn't actually a real fridge. 

6 x 330ml Cans 

Pilsner - NZ Pilsner  | 4.9% ABV |
Hazed & Confused - Cloudy IPA  | 5.8% ABV |
Orange Roughy - Hazy Tropical Pale Ale | 4.2% ABV |
Kaleidoscope - Hazy Pale Ale | 5.2% ABV |
Reverb - NZ IPA | 5.9% ABV |
Super Quench - Pacific Pilsner | 4.0% ABV |

Cabbages & Kings Stout 12%

The Walrus did beseech. Cabbages & Kings, Imperial Oyster Stout, brewed with the more or less willing assistance of ten dozen fresh Te Matua Bay Pacific oysters, Horopito and Manuka smoked malt. Dark, certainly - and rich with just a suggestion of brine, a touch of smoke and a hint of native New Zealand pepper leaf.

Iconic big, full bodied red from the hillside town of Montalcino, which is a small enclave of big wines close to the Tuscan coast. Brunello di Montalcinos by law have to be 100% Sangiovese; the great red grape of Tuscany. Maceration and ageing times are long and result in wines that can be kept in a cool dark cellar for 10+ years, evolving beautiful into even more savoury, velvety reds over that time. 

This lovely smooth wine has a powerful structure with aromas of spice, balsamic and ripe dark fruit.

Thanks to its in-bottle re-fermentation, the Lindemans Oude Gueuze Cuvée René gives you a completely natural sparkle and froth.

The Lindemans Oude Gueuze Cuvee Rene  contains one-third old lambic, aged for at least two years, and two-thirds young lambic, which is at least one year old and has been matured in large oak foeders.

The yeasts and sugars in the Lindemans Oude Gueuze Cuvee Rene  prompt the in-bottle re-fermentation. Slowly but surely the wild yeasts will convert all of the residual sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Six months on, the result is a golden-coloured, sparkling, mildly sour gueuze.

5.5% ABV

Best Before: 2027/12/17

Tuverbol is a blend of Loterbol Blond – a blond beer from the Diest-based brewery of the same name – and 3 Fonteinen's own lambic. Created for the first time in 2005, Tuverbol has been an annual recurring winter beer since 2017. Tuverbol has a unique taste profile thanks to the combination of the freshness of the lambic, the warmth of the alcohol and the full body of the blond beer.

9.6% ABV

Fantôme Coffee Ruby is a Saison/Farmhouse Ale style beer brewed by Brasserie Fantôme in Soy, Belgium.

8% ABV

Brut Nature is a copper-colored ' Brut Style ' beer. The term Brut originally comes from the Champagne world and is used to refer to dry champagnes. Brut Nature is a top fermentation beer, refermented in the bottle with a  wild yeast . This wild yeast makes Brut Nature ' lively ' and ensures a  pleasantly dry  beer with a low sugar content. Brut Nature is a beer that evolves in the bottle and can  be kept for up to 5 years . The use of dry hopping with Belgian hops emphasizes the fruity and spicy character of the 5 hop varieties . The result is a dry, mildly bitter beer with a pleasant aftertaste.

The different fermentation stages, top fermentation and refermentation in the bottle with wild yeast require a brewing process of at least 3 months.

7% ABV

Reintroduced in 2015 it's the first Oude Kriek the brewery has produced since the 1980's. Made with lambic brewed in March 2014, and blended with 35% Schaerbeek cherries.

5.5% ABV

Best Before: 2025/12/02

Superbia presents itself as an extremely hoppy and fresh beer. It shows its proud taste but hastily. Do not store and drink quickly

7% ABV