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Northern stout, spicy Australian Shiraz and sparkling honey nectar: the best new drinks for pubs
Refresh your beer and wine menus with these latest launches
The pub sector is highly competitive and the humble British hostelry has to keep offerings fresh to ensure it doesn’t lose custom.
Beer and wine form the mainstays of a pub’s drinks menu, so operators always need to be on the lookout for the latest launches in the market to stay at the cutting edge.
So to ensure pubs have everything they need for their beverage menus, we have rounded up the most innovative new alcoholic additions.
Find new pub drinks menu options below.
Northern stout collaboration
Two northern English breweries, Northern Monk and Timothy Taylor’s, have teamed up to launch Northern Rising, a 4.4% abv stout. The stout is available in cask and keg, plus in 440ml nitro cans online. Roast barley and crystal malt were used in the brew to create a malt-forward and chocolate flavour, with Golden Promise malt – a staple of Timothy Taylor’s cask ales – giving a full body and satisfying mouthfeel.
Price 30-litre keg, £102.29
Australian Shiraz with spice
Australian wine producer Mount Langi Ghiran has unveiled its flagship wine, the 2021 Langi Shiraz. Langi wines are known for their pepper and spice notes, which is exemplified in the 2021 vintage, produced from grapes grown in a lengthy ripening period in the Grampians region in Victoria. The Australian Wine Research Institute has analysed the wine and found that it has five times the sensory threshold of rotundone – the chemical that gives a peppery flavour to wines.
Price £73.97
Premium Indian beer
Kingfisher Drinks has launched Kingfisher Ultra, a premium beer with an abv of 5% imported from India. The beer was crafted with hand-picked malts, resulting in a strong but balanced profile, and brewed with a six-step filtration process and no additives.
Price Case of 24 x 330ml bottles, £36
Raspberry and honey sparkling nectars
Honey-based drinks producer Gosnells has introduced two sparkling nectars, Raspberry Hibiscus and Hazy Honey Nectar. The 4% abv nectars are gluten- and chemical-free and are an alternative to a cider or a spritz. Hazy Honey has flavours of pear and apple and is created using blossom honey, and Raspberry Hibiscus tastes of red berries and cranberry and has 70% less sugar than the UK’s leading fruit cider. It can be served on its own or as a mixer with spirits.
Price 30 litre keg, £112
A distinctive Tempranillo from Rioja’s Sonsierra region
La Carbonera has released Malpastor Crianza 2020, a 100% Tempranillo Rioja red wine. It is made from grapes grown on clay-limestone soils at the base of the Cantabria Mountain range, also called Sonsierra, which adds body and elegance and subtle savoury notes. The 2020 vintage was characterised by significant rainfall and atypical temperatures during the growth and ripening stages, which has resulted in an intense, aromatic wine with velvety tannins that showcases the variety’s fruit-forward nature.
Price Case of 6 x 75cl bottles, £65.16
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