Northern stout, spicy Australian Shiraz and sparkling honey nectar: the best new drinks for pubs

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

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