Stubled across this place yesterday.
Barleycorns.co.uk - The beer specialists.
Kid in a sweet shop wasn't in it.
00. Guest Beers
Nearly every week Barleycorns has a new beer added to its shelves. Usually these are just 'one off' purchases of just one case, and when its gone, its gone.
Achilles Serafijn (Belgium) 50 6.2 £2.20 DB
Made as a hobby in the garage of a suburban home near Antwerp. The Serafijn is a spiced blond ale.
Achilles Serafijn Celtic Angel (Belgium) 33 6.2 £2.20
Another beer from this miniture microbrewery near Antwerp, this one a dark red and malty beer.
Bosteels Triple Karmeliet (Belgium) 33 8.4 £2.20 DB
"Blond, robust, smooth and fruity 3 grain beer, with final fermentation in the bottle." Brewery description.
Cantillon Gueuze (Belgium) Organic 38 5.0 £3.65 DB
Gueuze is a blend of three year old lambic with one year old lambic. Although it is only 5.0%, Cantillon say this beer will quite happily store for twenty years.
Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus (Belgium) 38 5.0 £4.25 DB
This is the beer that rekindled interest in fruit lambics. Over the years up 1973, when this beer was first produced, lambics had been getting ever sweeter, using fruit syrups. Cantillon returned to basics, using real fruit to produce a subtle blending which doesn't allow the sweetness to swamp the acidity of the lambic. It was given this name to distinguish this beer from existing fruit lambics.
Chimay Cinq Cents (Trappist) 75 7.0 £4.95 DB
Chimay Premiere (Trappist) 75 6.0 £4.45 DB
Holden Golden Glow (England) 50 4.4 £1.85
"An 18ct gold, golden ale with subtle yet fragrent hop aromas, a morish gentle sweetness and an almost citrus like pleasant bitter finish." Brewery description.
Holden Golden Pale (England) 50 3.9 £1.75
"An impressive golden straw coloured medium bodied ale, brewed using the finest English Maris Otter malts and choicest Fuggles, giving a distinctive and assertive hop character, balanced with a fruity palate and a malty finish." Brewery description.
Holden Golden Special (England) 50 5.1 £1.95
"A dark amber premium beer with robust malty overtones and a bitter sweet full bodied taste." Brewery description.
Lefebvre Blanche be Bruxelles (Belgium) 33 4.5 £2.40 B
An excellent Belgian wheat beer infused with coriander and bitter orange peel to produce a fresh spritzy beer ideal for a summer day.
Lizard Bitter (England) 50 4.2 £2.15 B
"an easy-drinking smooth nut brown beer which combines rich malt with aromatic Fuggles hops." Brewery description
Lizard Kernow Gold (England) 50 3.7 £2.15 B
"a light refreshing amber beer, finished with Styrian Golding hops for a characteristically fruity flavour and floral aroma." Brewery description.
Marble Chocolate (England) Organic 50 5.5 £2.50 VB
A dark, chocolate beer, similar to stout.
Marble Lagonda IPA (England) Organic 50 5.0 £2.40 VB
Gold colour with astringent citrus fruit flavour (tangerine and grapefruit). Quite floral with some toffee malt.
Marble Tawny No.3 (England) Organic 50 5.7 £2.60 VB
We have not tried this yet, and we can not find any reviews of this beer. What do you think of it? Write a review of this beer for Barleycorn's competition (see Home page)
Moorhouse Blond Witch (England) 50 4.5 £2.20
Lager malt and Fuggles hops produce a golden beer with a big toasted aroma.
Senne Taras Boulba (Belgium) 33 4.5 £1.85 DB
A light hoppy golden beer at a modest strength (for Belgium). The name is supposed to refer to a Belgian folk tale about a Fleming who falls for a Wolloon girl, much to his fathers disapproval.
Woodlands Light Oak (England) 50 4.0 £2.20 B
"A pale fresh malty beer with dry crisp aftertaste." Brewery description.
If you want to be up to date with the latest beers on the shelves, we can email you everytime we receive a new purchase. Just register with us through our 'Keep in Touch' service.
01. Local Beers
Beers from within 30 miles of Nantwich
Beartown Kodiak Gold 50 4.0 £1.85
After a break of 18 months Beartown have started bottling again. Currently it is just their popular golden ale.
Hanby Cherry Bomb 50 6.0 £2.20
Brown ale flavoured with Marischino cherry. Currently out of stock
Hanby Golden Honey 50 4.5 £1.80
Hanby Nutcracker 50 6.0 £2.20
"Very full tawny beer, a fine blend of malt and hops. One of our most distinctive beers." Brewery description. Currently out of stock
Hanby Rainbow Chaser 50 4.3 £1.80
Spitting Feathers Special 50 4.2 £2.05
"Complex, malty dark ruby beer, full malt taste balances well with hop bitterness and fruit flavours." Brewery Description.
Storm Bosley Cloud 50 4.1 £2.00
Currently not available (see item on home page)
Storm Silk of Amnesia 50 4.7 £2.10
Currently not available (see item on home page)
Titanic Captain Smith 50 5.2 £2.00
A strong red ale. Sweet start with hoppy, fruity finish.
Titanic Iceberg 50 4.1 £1.90
"A combination of Maris Ottter pale malt and fine wheat malt, give this refreshing beer real zest. Add fresh tasting Yakima Galena and Cascade hops and what you get is a fantastic wheat beer that will hole any passing thirst." Brewery description
Titanic Stout 50 4.5 £1.85 B
Champion Bottled Beer of Britain 2004
Titanic White Star 50 4.8 £1.90
Weetwood Eastgate Ale 50 4.2 £2.15
Woodlands Midnight Stout 50 4.4 £2.20
Woodlands Oak Beauty 50 4.3 £2.20
02. English Filtered Beers
Copper Dragon Black Gold 50 4.0 £2.10
A black bitter. It has sharp hop bitterness together with the depth of flavour of dark malts.
Copper Dragon Challenger IPA 50 4.8 £2.20
Copper Dragon Golden Pippin 50 4.2 £2.10
Copper Dragon Scotts 1816 50 4.4 £2.15
"A full-bodied flavoursome rounded ale with a distinctive hoppy palate and aroma." Brewery description.
Hook Norton Old Hooky 50 4.6 £1.95
"A beautifully balanced beer, fruity by nature with a well rounded body and the suggestive echo of crystal malt." Brewery description.
Moorhouses Black Cat 50 3.4 £2.00
Moorhouses Pendle Witches Brew 50 5.1 £2.30
Nottingham Extra Pale Ale 50 4.3 £2.15
Oakham Bishops Farewell 50 4.6 £2.40
"A strong premium beer of structures quality dominated by elaborate fruity hop notes, with a grainy background and dry finish." Brewery description. Currently out of stock
Oakham JHB 50 4.2 £2.15
Quercus Prospect 50 4.0 £2.20
"A rich appealing aroma and colour give a hint of the prospect to come. The balance of subtle bitterness and sweet malt flavours make that prospect a reality. Thirst quenching and eminently drinkable; a fine quaffing ale." Brewery description.
Rudgate Battle Axe 50 4.8 £1.85
Slater Top Totty 50 4.0 £2.20
The first bottled beer from the Eccleshall Brewery.
Wentworth Oatmeal Stout 50 4.8 £1.75
"Dark, smooth, deeply delicious and definately moorish. Heaped with bucketfuls of roast and chocolate malts, this award winning stout has to be tasted to be fully understood." Brewers description.
Wentworth WPA 50 4.0 £1.65
"Light and golden in colour with wonderful bursts of citrus fruits and an unforgetable hoppiness at the finish." Brewers description.
03. English Bottle Conditioned Beers
These beers undergo an additional fermentation in the bottle, causing a sediment to form on the bottom. Pour with care.
Burton Bridge Bramble Stout 50 5.0 £2.50 B
"Strong chocolaty aroma with a hint of fruit. Full bodied with a hint of bitterness." Brewery description.
Burton Bridge Empire Ale 50 7.5 £2.70 B
"Light in colour, strong and heavily hopped". Brewery description. Close reproduction of the 19th century style of India Pale Ale - made to withstand the long sea journey to India.
Burton Bridge Porter 50 4.5 £2.35 B
"Very dark brown, but not black. Fruity beer with a distinctive bitter after palate." Brewery description.
Hobson Manor Ale
Hobson Old Henry
Hobson Postman's Knock
Strong mild celebrating Simon Evans, novelist local to Hobson's home town of Cleobury Mortimer.
Hobson Town Crier
Marble Ginger Marble (England) Organic 50 6.0 £2.60
Not too sweet, as some ginger beers can be,with a nice hoppy dryness to stop it becoming too spicy or cloying. The aroma is also pleasant and light. Currently out of stock.
Red Rose Bowley Bitter
The session bitter from this small brewery in Great Harwood, near Burnley.
Red Rose Target 50 3.8 £1.80 B
Pale ale bittered using the Target hop. Due to it's high alpha acid content Target is often considered an unsubtle hop and usually only used in conjunction with others. This beer shows Target's true worth.
Stonehouse Cambrian Gold
"A deep golden fruity beer, with a subtle dry finish." Brewery description.
Stonehouse Off the Rails
"A rich and malty premium bitter, with a classic British hop flavour." Brewery description.
Wood Shropshire Lad
First produced in 1996 to commemorate 100 years since the publication of Housmans Shropshire Lad. "A strong well rounded bitter drawing from a fine blend of selected English malted barley, traditional English Fuggles and Golding hops." Brewery description.
Barleycorns.co.uk - The beer specialists.
Kid in a sweet shop wasn't in it.
00. Guest Beers
Nearly every week Barleycorns has a new beer added to its shelves. Usually these are just 'one off' purchases of just one case, and when its gone, its gone.
Achilles Serafijn (Belgium) 50 6.2 £2.20 DB
Made as a hobby in the garage of a suburban home near Antwerp. The Serafijn is a spiced blond ale.
Achilles Serafijn Celtic Angel (Belgium) 33 6.2 £2.20
Another beer from this miniture microbrewery near Antwerp, this one a dark red and malty beer.
Bosteels Triple Karmeliet (Belgium) 33 8.4 £2.20 DB
"Blond, robust, smooth and fruity 3 grain beer, with final fermentation in the bottle." Brewery description.
Cantillon Gueuze (Belgium) Organic 38 5.0 £3.65 DB
Gueuze is a blend of three year old lambic with one year old lambic. Although it is only 5.0%, Cantillon say this beer will quite happily store for twenty years.
Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus (Belgium) 38 5.0 £4.25 DB
This is the beer that rekindled interest in fruit lambics. Over the years up 1973, when this beer was first produced, lambics had been getting ever sweeter, using fruit syrups. Cantillon returned to basics, using real fruit to produce a subtle blending which doesn't allow the sweetness to swamp the acidity of the lambic. It was given this name to distinguish this beer from existing fruit lambics.
Chimay Cinq Cents (Trappist) 75 7.0 £4.95 DB
Chimay Premiere (Trappist) 75 6.0 £4.45 DB
Holden Golden Glow (England) 50 4.4 £1.85
"An 18ct gold, golden ale with subtle yet fragrent hop aromas, a morish gentle sweetness and an almost citrus like pleasant bitter finish." Brewery description.
Holden Golden Pale (England) 50 3.9 £1.75
"An impressive golden straw coloured medium bodied ale, brewed using the finest English Maris Otter malts and choicest Fuggles, giving a distinctive and assertive hop character, balanced with a fruity palate and a malty finish." Brewery description.
Holden Golden Special (England) 50 5.1 £1.95
"A dark amber premium beer with robust malty overtones and a bitter sweet full bodied taste." Brewery description.
Lefebvre Blanche be Bruxelles (Belgium) 33 4.5 £2.40 B
An excellent Belgian wheat beer infused with coriander and bitter orange peel to produce a fresh spritzy beer ideal for a summer day.
Lizard Bitter (England) 50 4.2 £2.15 B
"an easy-drinking smooth nut brown beer which combines rich malt with aromatic Fuggles hops." Brewery description
Lizard Kernow Gold (England) 50 3.7 £2.15 B
"a light refreshing amber beer, finished with Styrian Golding hops for a characteristically fruity flavour and floral aroma." Brewery description.
Marble Chocolate (England) Organic 50 5.5 £2.50 VB
A dark, chocolate beer, similar to stout.
Marble Lagonda IPA (England) Organic 50 5.0 £2.40 VB
Gold colour with astringent citrus fruit flavour (tangerine and grapefruit). Quite floral with some toffee malt.
Marble Tawny No.3 (England) Organic 50 5.7 £2.60 VB
We have not tried this yet, and we can not find any reviews of this beer. What do you think of it? Write a review of this beer for Barleycorn's competition (see Home page)
Moorhouse Blond Witch (England) 50 4.5 £2.20
Lager malt and Fuggles hops produce a golden beer with a big toasted aroma.
Senne Taras Boulba (Belgium) 33 4.5 £1.85 DB
A light hoppy golden beer at a modest strength (for Belgium). The name is supposed to refer to a Belgian folk tale about a Fleming who falls for a Wolloon girl, much to his fathers disapproval.
Woodlands Light Oak (England) 50 4.0 £2.20 B
"A pale fresh malty beer with dry crisp aftertaste." Brewery description.
If you want to be up to date with the latest beers on the shelves, we can email you everytime we receive a new purchase. Just register with us through our 'Keep in Touch' service.
01. Local Beers
Beers from within 30 miles of Nantwich
Beartown Kodiak Gold 50 4.0 £1.85
After a break of 18 months Beartown have started bottling again. Currently it is just their popular golden ale.
Hanby Cherry Bomb 50 6.0 £2.20
Brown ale flavoured with Marischino cherry. Currently out of stock
Hanby Golden Honey 50 4.5 £1.80
Hanby Nutcracker 50 6.0 £2.20
"Very full tawny beer, a fine blend of malt and hops. One of our most distinctive beers." Brewery description. Currently out of stock
Hanby Rainbow Chaser 50 4.3 £1.80
Spitting Feathers Special 50 4.2 £2.05
"Complex, malty dark ruby beer, full malt taste balances well with hop bitterness and fruit flavours." Brewery Description.
Storm Bosley Cloud 50 4.1 £2.00
Currently not available (see item on home page)
Storm Silk of Amnesia 50 4.7 £2.10
Currently not available (see item on home page)
Titanic Captain Smith 50 5.2 £2.00
A strong red ale. Sweet start with hoppy, fruity finish.
Titanic Iceberg 50 4.1 £1.90
"A combination of Maris Ottter pale malt and fine wheat malt, give this refreshing beer real zest. Add fresh tasting Yakima Galena and Cascade hops and what you get is a fantastic wheat beer that will hole any passing thirst." Brewery description
Titanic Stout 50 4.5 £1.85 B
Champion Bottled Beer of Britain 2004
Titanic White Star 50 4.8 £1.90
Weetwood Eastgate Ale 50 4.2 £2.15
Woodlands Midnight Stout 50 4.4 £2.20
Woodlands Oak Beauty 50 4.3 £2.20
02. English Filtered Beers
Copper Dragon Black Gold 50 4.0 £2.10
A black bitter. It has sharp hop bitterness together with the depth of flavour of dark malts.
Copper Dragon Challenger IPA 50 4.8 £2.20
Copper Dragon Golden Pippin 50 4.2 £2.10
Copper Dragon Scotts 1816 50 4.4 £2.15
"A full-bodied flavoursome rounded ale with a distinctive hoppy palate and aroma." Brewery description.
Hook Norton Old Hooky 50 4.6 £1.95
"A beautifully balanced beer, fruity by nature with a well rounded body and the suggestive echo of crystal malt." Brewery description.
Moorhouses Black Cat 50 3.4 £2.00
Moorhouses Pendle Witches Brew 50 5.1 £2.30
Nottingham Extra Pale Ale 50 4.3 £2.15
Oakham Bishops Farewell 50 4.6 £2.40
"A strong premium beer of structures quality dominated by elaborate fruity hop notes, with a grainy background and dry finish." Brewery description. Currently out of stock
Oakham JHB 50 4.2 £2.15
Quercus Prospect 50 4.0 £2.20
"A rich appealing aroma and colour give a hint of the prospect to come. The balance of subtle bitterness and sweet malt flavours make that prospect a reality. Thirst quenching and eminently drinkable; a fine quaffing ale." Brewery description.
Rudgate Battle Axe 50 4.8 £1.85
Slater Top Totty 50 4.0 £2.20
The first bottled beer from the Eccleshall Brewery.
Wentworth Oatmeal Stout 50 4.8 £1.75
"Dark, smooth, deeply delicious and definately moorish. Heaped with bucketfuls of roast and chocolate malts, this award winning stout has to be tasted to be fully understood." Brewers description.
Wentworth WPA 50 4.0 £1.65
"Light and golden in colour with wonderful bursts of citrus fruits and an unforgetable hoppiness at the finish." Brewers description.
03. English Bottle Conditioned Beers
These beers undergo an additional fermentation in the bottle, causing a sediment to form on the bottom. Pour with care.
Burton Bridge Bramble Stout 50 5.0 £2.50 B
"Strong chocolaty aroma with a hint of fruit. Full bodied with a hint of bitterness." Brewery description.
Burton Bridge Empire Ale 50 7.5 £2.70 B
"Light in colour, strong and heavily hopped". Brewery description. Close reproduction of the 19th century style of India Pale Ale - made to withstand the long sea journey to India.
Burton Bridge Porter 50 4.5 £2.35 B
"Very dark brown, but not black. Fruity beer with a distinctive bitter after palate." Brewery description.
Hobson Manor Ale
Hobson Old Henry
Hobson Postman's Knock
Strong mild celebrating Simon Evans, novelist local to Hobson's home town of Cleobury Mortimer.
Hobson Town Crier
Marble Ginger Marble (England) Organic 50 6.0 £2.60
Not too sweet, as some ginger beers can be,with a nice hoppy dryness to stop it becoming too spicy or cloying. The aroma is also pleasant and light. Currently out of stock.
Red Rose Bowley Bitter
The session bitter from this small brewery in Great Harwood, near Burnley.
Red Rose Target 50 3.8 £1.80 B
Pale ale bittered using the Target hop. Due to it's high alpha acid content Target is often considered an unsubtle hop and usually only used in conjunction with others. This beer shows Target's true worth.
Stonehouse Cambrian Gold
"A deep golden fruity beer, with a subtle dry finish." Brewery description.
Stonehouse Off the Rails
"A rich and malty premium bitter, with a classic British hop flavour." Brewery description.
Wood Shropshire Lad
First produced in 1996 to commemorate 100 years since the publication of Housmans Shropshire Lad. "A strong well rounded bitter drawing from a fine blend of selected English malted barley, traditional English Fuggles and Golding hops." Brewery description.