Errant Brewery

COLLABORATOR: Padstow Brewing Co. - Cornwall

We invited the top blokes from Padstow Brewing to help us with what might our maddest collab to date. Running Wild is a beer that took on a life of it’s own, inspiring it’s own creation.

A sour at heart made all the better with the addition of juicy hops and even juicier fruits. Hop, sourness and stacks and more tropical fruit than you can shake a stick at, combine in this unique fusion of flavours.

'A super sour, super juicy, hoppy fusion of an IPA.'

Style: Tropical Fruit Sour IPA

Colour: Pale Yellow

ABV: 3.9%

SEE: Murky Yellow

SMELL: Mango, Pineapple & Passionfruit

TASTE: Sour, Tropical Fruits, Fruity Hop

COLLABORATOR: StuBrew - Newcastle

Every year we get our heads together with the whippersnappers from Newcastle Uni’s own Stubrew. This year’s ridiculous result is: Combustible Lemons.

A Lemon Pale Ale like no other; with heaps of lemongrass, citrus zest and juice and and tonnes and tonnes of super citrus hops, it's the exact kind of madness you'd expect from an Errant/Stubrew collab!

'A super juicy, super bitter, super lemony, fusion of flavours.'

Style: Lemon Pale Ale

Colour: Pale

ABV: 5.4%

SEE: Cloudy Straw

SMELL: Bitter Lemon

TASTE: Lemon, Lemon Grass, Citrus Hop

COLLABORATOR: The Town Mouse - Newcastle

A birthday brew for Newcastle's own Town Mouse Micropub. Fight Milk is a beer for bodyguards, by bodyguards. A unique fusion of chilli heat, vanilla milk sweetness and hop fruitiness, it's a unique kind of beer.

'A signature sweetness gives way to chilli warmth in this unique fusion of flavours'

Style: Chilli Milkshake Pale

Colour: Pale

ABV: 4.3%

SEE: Pale Straw

SMELL: Peppers, Vanilla

TASTE: Vanilla, Tropical Fruit, Chilli

COLLABORATOR: Block & Bottle - Gateshead (Meat & Beer)

It’s not often we get asked to do a collaboration with our local butcher's shop. But then it’s not often your local butcher is as hipster as ours! Being a bottle shop and a butchers, they know a thing or two about beer; so when they came to brew with us, we knew we had to make a beast of a beer!

'A huge New England IPA drenched in Mosaic, Citra and El Dorado.'

Style: NEIPA

Colour: Pale Yellow

ABV: 6.0%

SEE:  Hazy, Pale Straw

SMELL: Apricot, Citrus

TASTE: Apricot, Peach, Stone Fruit

COLLABORATORS: Drygate Brewing Co - Glasgow, StuBrew - Newcastle

We love a mental Christmas beer and this year our idea was so mental we called in a bit of back-up. Enter Drygate and long-time collaborators StuBrew and this year's Errant Christmas Cock-Up: Biscuit of Burden. 

An imperial mild brewed with seven kinds of malt and triple fortified with heaps and heaps of biscoff speculoos biscuit, it's a heady brew full of malty goodness. It's the absolute definition of a winter warmer. 

'Seven kinds of malt and biscoff meet in this ludicrouss winter warmer.'

Style: Biscoff Imperial Mild

Colour: Brown

ABV: 6.1%

SEE:  Hazy Brown

SMELL: Malt, Cinnamon, Nutmeg

TASTE: Malt, Biscuit, Whiskey

COLLABORATOR: Out There Brewing Co. - Ouseburn, Newcastle

A shadowy cabal came together to take a wheat beer and change it into something else...something darker. Presenting Umbra, the dark side of wheat beers. 

'A shadowy take on the classic pale wheat beer, fortified with plenty of dark malts.'

Style: Dunkelweisse

Colour: Brown

ABV: 5.0%

SEE:  Hazy Chocolate

SMELL: Coffee, Clove

TASTE: Chocolate, Bramble

COLLABORATOR: Flash House Brewing Co. - North Shields

...and now for something completely different. Push It is the insane product of Errant and Flash House Brewing Co. Mixing the classic salty gose flavours with a blend of seven kinds of pepper, it's a unique kind of gose.

'A mental take on the classic goes with himalayan sea salt and seven kinds of pepper...'

Style: Salt & Pepper Gose

Colour: Pale Straw

ABV: 4.7%

SEE:  Hazy Straw

SMELL: Pepper, Aniseed

TASTE: Pepper, Salt, Sour

COLLABORATOR: The Station House Micropub - Durham

The first in a series of collabs we've smashed out this September. Dominion is a true New World Oatmeal Pale Ale. An extra pale malt and oat base liberally covered with Nelson Sauvin & Kohatu and dry hopped with even more of New Zealand's finest.

' A very New Zealand pale ale dominated with oats and Nelson Sauvin'

Style: OPA

Colour: Pale

ABV: 3.9%

SEE:  Pale Straw

SMELL: Grass, White Wine

TASTE: Herbal, Gooseberry, White Grape,

COLLABORATOR: Brew York - York

The first of two collaborations with top Jorvikian giants Brew York. Luscious tropical Pineapple, Passion Fruit, Guava, Mango, Pink Grapefruit and Lime combine with juicy Citra and Mosaic in a hopped-up taste of the Caribbean. A drink for today not for mañana!

'Tropical Juice Bomb IPA'

Style: Tropical IPA

Colour: Hazy Yellow

ABV: 6.5%

SEE:  Hazy, Pale, Amber

SMELL: Tropical Fruit, Citrus

TASTE:, Mango, Guava, Grapefruit

COLLABORATOR: StuBrew - Newcastle

The next in our series of collaborations with Newcastle University's own Stu Brew. Shovelbeast is a super fruity Red Berry Saison brewed with heaps and heaps of pulped raspberry and cranberry and backed up with the unique flavours that only saison yeast can give. Named after Stu Brew's Chris O'Malley after he beasted the brewery's mash tun challenge. Also it's red. 

'A super fruity saison with a shovel full of Raspberries and Cranberries'

Style: Saison

Colour: Hazy Red

ABV: 5.0%

SEE:  Hazy, Red, Amber

SMELL: Red Berry, Clove

TASTE:, Red Berry, Citrus, Spice

COLLABORATOR: StuBrew - Newcastle

A long time dream brew for us, we put our heads together with the young 'uns at Newcastle Uni's StuBrew and the Ouseburn Coffee Company's finest roasters to bring you this ludicrous caffeine-heavy Espresso Stout. It's a malt heavy stout fortified with some tasty hops and a huge blast of coffee. 

'A super dark Imperial Stout fortified with Bramling Cross and the OCC's finest columbian coffee.'

Style: Espresso Stout

Colour: Dark

ABV: 6.5%

SEE:  Black Coffee

SMELL: Malt, Coffee

TASTE: Earthy, Coffee