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Our April seasonal “The Hare and The Hedgehog” (available from 3 April) can now be pre-ordered.

Click here for our 27/03/2023 Beer Availability Update.

AVAILABLE FROM 3 APRIL – PRE-ORDER NOW!

An enduring Oakham favourite, first brewed in 2012 and a shoe-in for our celebratory “Oakham 30 Years” retrospective line-up.

Look up the Brothers Grimm tale of The Hare and The Hedgehog for the story behind the name and the pump clip!

Three big hitting USA sourced hop varieties combine in this punchily citrus, intensely dry, moreishly bitter session ale.

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AVAILABLE FROM 6 MARCH – Pre-order now!

Our 30th Anniversary Celebration Ale!

A tribute to Mount Hood, the very first hop variety we used back in 1993 and a pumped up, double hopped version of our first beer – Jeffrey Hudson Bitter.

First brewed on September 13 1993, JHB has become a cask beer legend, so what better way to celebrate its 30th birthday than by brewing a special 5.5% ABV cask aged version.

And high time that Sir Jeffery Hudson himself was elevated from Lord Minimus to Lord Maximus!

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A great new IPA with which to kick off our “Oakham 30” birthday celebrations!

Brewed in collaboration with hop factors Charles Faram. Woodston IPA features an all British line up of six exciting hops – including the experimental variety CF247 which displayed its potential to great effect in our well received 2022 seasonal beer “24/7”.

Six UK hops work wonderfully together to give peach, grapefruit and orange marmalade notes and a beautifully balanced bitterness. All on a forthright malt backbone.

Click here to view the excellent Charles Faram video record of the Woodston IPA brew day

Click here for further info on Woodston IPA.

2023 WILL SEE A LANDMARK BIRTHDAY FOR OAKHAM ALES.

AND TO CELEBRATE OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY, THE 2023 OAKHAM CASK AGED AND SEASONAL LINE-UPS WILL FEATURE A MIXTURE OF EXCITING NEW BEERS AND REVISITED OAKHAM CLASSICS.

We reckon to have brewed just shy of 300 different beers since the first batch of JHB was brewed in September 1993 and to have won around 250 major awards over the period.

So it was no easy task to select the very best of them.

But we think that we’ve come up with a fantastic 2023 list – one that pays tribute to the foresight of our founder John Wood and celebrates the pioneering spirit of Oakham legend John Bryan and his brewing teams.

Click here for more info on the 2023 Cask Aged Range.

2023 WILL SEE A LANDMARK BIRTHDAY FOR OAKHAM ALES.

AND TO CELEBRATE OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY, THE 2023 OAKHAM CASK AGED AND SEASONAL LINE-UPS WILL FEATURE A MIXTURE OF EXCITING NEW BEERS AND REVISITED OAKHAM CLASSICS.

We reckon to have brewed just shy of 300 different beers since the first batch of JHB was brewed in September 1993 and to have won around 250 major awards over the period.

So it was no easy task to select the very best of them.

But we think that we’ve come up with a fantastic 2023 list – one that pays tribute to the foresight of our founder John Wood and celebrates the pioneering spirit of Oakham legend John Bryan and his brewing teams.

Click here for more info on the 2023 Seasonals Range.

Ed Sharman and his brewing team were delighted to welcome Jon Stringer of hop factors Charles Faram to the brewery on 13 October.

Their mission?

To brew a brand new Oakham Cask Aged IPA using the best of UK sourced hops.

We’ll be ageing the beer in cask for at least 2 months prior to release in January 2023.

Which gives us time to come up with a name for it!

Keep an eye out for further details but in the meantime, have a look at Jon’s video of the day’s brewing for further info.

Click here to view the excellent Charles Faram video record of the day’s brewing

Three more awards for our beers at the recent SIBA East Beers Competition!

GOLD for Black Magic in the  “Cask Amber to Dark Speciality Beer” Category

GOLD for Green Devil IPA in the “Cask IPA” Category

SILVER for Citra in the “Cask Session IPA” Category

Oakham Lead Brewer Ed Sharman is a great lover of dark beers, Hawse Buckler being a personal favourite, so winning this category was particularly special.

“We’re legendary for our pale ales,” Ed said. “and I wanted to show that we can make fantastic beers in a range of styles. So I’m glad that my journey to the dark side hit the spot for the SIBA judges!”

Originally intended to be Oakham’s 4.5% ABV seasonal offering for October 2020, the pandemic meant that Black Magic was adapted into a 5% cask aged beer with unfiltered cans and kegs also produced.

Well received back in late 2020 despite the lockdowns, Ed brought Black Magic back this year as a cask aged beer with a revised recipe to emphasise the chocolate notes. He removed the lactose, changed the type of chocolate used and tweaked the malt and hop line-up to bring the recipe into balance.

Black Magic is aged in the cask for at least 3 months to allow the flavours to develop and to give a smooth mouthfeel.

Dark and decadent, balanced with a clean bitterness – a sumptuous autumn treat!

Available now!

A new Cask Aged Brown Ale with a rich malt base.

Hints of toffee sweetness from the malts complemented by citrus, soft tropical fruit and autumn berry flavours from an imaginative mix of hops.

Thanks to Jordan Vellam, design student at Stamford College, who came up with the pump clip images for “Echo”.

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