Errant Brewery

COLLABORATOR: StuBrew - Newcastle University

For our perennial collab with those whippersnappers from Newcastle University's own brewery, StuBrew, we decided to big. Claremont Road is a complex DIPA built to exact specifications. A thick malt bill supports El Dorado, Falconer's Flight, and Chinook hop additions.

Style: Double IPA

Colour: Pale Straw

ABV: 8.0%

MALT: Extra Pale Malt, Wheat, Oats, Acidulated Malt

HOPS: El Dorado, Falconer’s Flight T90, Chinook T90

COLLABORATOR: Block & Bottle - Gateshead, Estate Tea Co. - Gateshead, Northern Rye - Newcastle

A big collaboration of minds from some of the finest small businesses from either side of the Tyne. Mosaic and HBC431 leaf lay the fruity groundwork while a heavy dose of Citra and Idaho 7 dry-hop brings the juice.

Style: IPA

Colour: Pale Gold

ABV: 5.4%

MALT: Extra Pale Malt, Oats

HOPS: Mosaic, HBC431, Citra T90, Idaho 7 T90

COLLABORATOR: Gold Box Coffee Roasters - Newcastle

We’ve teamed up with our new neighbours, Gold Box Coffee Roasters to bring this boozy fusion of rich dark malts and a fruity Bolivian coffee. Boasting a complex blend of flavours, Kabaddi Kabaddi is a mix of everything we love from two local businesses.

Style: Coffee Porter

Colour: Black

ABV: 4.8%

MALT: Maris Otter, Brown, Chocolate

HOPS: Cascade

ADDITIONS: Bolivian Caranavi Coffee

COLLABORATOR: Brewdog - Newcastle

Back again for a second time, we've got the top people from Brewdog NCL in the brewhouse to kick out this straight-up easy drinking stout. No tricks, no gimmicks, just a thick malt bill steeped in rich chocolate and biscuit flavours and a subtle ekuanot dry-hop. Only jabronis don't drink stout in summer!

Style: Stout

Colour: Black

ABV: 5.0%

MALT: Extra Pale Malt, Oats, Roasted Barley, Chocolate Malt, Crystal 240

HOPS: Cascade, Ekuanot

COLLABORATOR: Northern Rye - Newcastle

A unique kind of sour brewed in collaboration with Newcastle’s superstar baker Robbie from Northern Rye for Collabathon 2019. Using his Sourdough culture as a starting point, we soured the beer in house before adding peppercorns to the boil and then a mix of red berries to the fermenter to round out this unique brew.

Style: Red Berry & Peppercorn Sourdough

Colour: Pale

ABV: 4.2%

MALT: Extra Pale Malt, Acidulated Malt, Wheat, Rye

HOPS: Cascade

ADDITIONS: Sourdough, Peppercorns, Red Fruits

COLLABORATOR: Black Lodge - Liverpool

In collaboration with one of our long-time favourite breweries, Kiss the Sky is a heady mix of Amarillo, Cascade, and Ekuanot hops over a soured malt base. All coming together to bring big hits of tangy citrus and papaya.

Style: Acid Mash IPA

Colour: Pale Straw

ABV: 5.5%

MALT: Extra Pale Malt, Acidulated Malt, Wheat

HOPS: Amarillo, Ekuanot T90, Cascade BBC

COLLABORATOR: NORD Bottle Shop - Whitley Bay

Our annual collaboration with Nord Bottle Shop in Whitley Bay, this DDH Pale is a heavily hopped with CTZ leaf and a 15g/L dry hop charge of Cascade, Idaho 7 and Chinook to deliver a hazy mix of citrus and pine flavours.

Style: DDH Pale

Colour: Pale Gold

ABV: 4.5%

MALT: Extra Pale Malt, Wheat

HOPS: Cascade, CTZ, Idaho 7 T90, Chinook T90

COLLABORATOR: Bad Seed Brewery - Malton

A collaboration a long time in the making and a recipe we’ve wanted to create for a long time. Seal of Approval is a fusion of flavours we’ve always wanted to play with. Tangy pineapple plays off against the surprisingly robust floral notes of rose and then the unique flavours of saison yeast bring the beer to a tremendous head.

Style: Rose & Pineapple Saison

Colour: Pale Straw

ABV: 7.1%

SEE: Hazy Straw

SMELL: Rose, Stone Fruit

TASTE: Pineapple, Floral Undertones

COLLABORATOR: Brewdog - Newcastle

Not sure if getting hoppier or just cultivating mass... This is one big musclebound freak of an IPA. A grist of pale malt, and oats carries Hallertau Blanc and Mosaic Leaf and a thick 15g/L dry hop charge of Ekuanot and Citra gives Cultivating Mass its huge hoppy profile.

‘Not sure if getting hoppier or just cultivating mass...’

Style: IPA

Colour: Pale

ABV: 5.1%

SEE: Hazy Straw

SMELL: Tropical Fruits

TASTE: Pineapple, Citrus

COLLABORATOR: EYEs Brewing Co. - Bradford

A unique collaboration of ideas with top people from EYEs Brewing in Bradford. Laser of Tomorrow is a beer that pushes boundaries. Taking a nascent style and turning it on it’s head, we’ve taken it in a direction it’s never gone before, with unique results!

'A fusion of dark malts and tonnes of Enigma, Citra & Eureka hops; all fermented to a super-dry finish.'

Style: Black Brut IPA

Colour: Black

ABV: 5.8%

SEE: Jet Black

SMELL: Tropical Fruits, Citrus

TASTE: Stone Fruit, Pineapple.

COLLABORATOR: The Town Mouse - Newcastle

It’s back and even buffer! The 2nd 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: 4.0%

SEE: Pale Straw

SMELL: Peppers, Vanilla

TASTE: Vanilla, Tropical Fruit, Chilli

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