Uley Brewery

A full flavoured and hoppy palate balanced by underlying fruit. Smooth, long and very refreshing.

A remake from 2025, but this year using Charles Faram’s experimental hop CF277 for a beer with hints of orange, spice and floral overtones.

Uley Brewery says:

A beer shaped by ritual and the turning of the seasons. Each year, Ken makes a pilgrimage to the hop fields of Herefordshire to choose fresh green hops by hand, and this year that hop is Godiva. Their journey home is urgent; by dawn they must be in the copper, alive with their fleeting freshness.
The brew begins quietly, like a Uley Bitter, until the moment the copper comes to the end of the boil and the fresh hops are cast in. The whole brewery then fills with a wild, fragrant haze and a once‑a‑year scent. With hops selected on the day, the beer’s character only reveals itself after open‑top fermentation and a week resting in cask. Since 1992, Harvest Special has been a dependable joy, a beer that captures a moment in time.

GB meets the USA! We will blend the spicy English hop Olicana, with an American classic hop.

Prize Strong Ale. Uley's most full-bodied beer with distinctive fruity aroma and a malty flavour that delivers a mild but bitter, strong aftertaste. Winner of lots of prizes!

A rich, dark ruby winter ale with a smooth malty and bitter hoppy taste, followed by a fruity port-like finish. Perfect for the festivities.

Despite the lack of apostrophe, this is a cracking beer. A pale ale from another era. Built on a robust pale malt backbone that brings soft notes of almond and biscuit, balanced by heritage English hops that give a smooth, mellow finish. First brewed in the early nineties, it now stands out as a rare example of a traditional, malt-led pale ale in a modern, hop-heavy world.

A robust beer with an aroma of coffee and blackcurrant, fruit on the tongue and a long bitter finish.

Brewed using Bramling Cross, Severn Boar is a strong, mellow beer with long-lingering fruity characteristics synonymous with Uley Beers. Fruity with a smooth and fruity finish.​

The wonderfully-named Squeal of Fortune is Uley Brewery’s summertime special. Described by the brewer as “crisp, refreshing, and just a little bit crunchy”, it’s brewed with the expressive Zappa hop (yes, named after Frank). The genre‑defying beer sits somewhere between traditional ale and modern craft lager. It opens with a clean, crisp snap, moves into soft peach and papaya notes, and settles into a gentle pale‑malt richness.

Permanently available at The Red Lion. Amber in colour this beer has hops and fruits in the aroma which combines with maltiness on the tongue to give a bitter, dry finish. CAMRA’s SW Region Champion 2013 Bitter.

A refreshing, light, thirst quenching pale ale. Floral notes on the aroma with hints of vanilla and fruit in the mouth. The finish is notably bitter and long. With well- balanced characteristics of Slovenian, American and UK hops.