We’ll be sending some of the bottled beer to King Charles III and Queen Camilla, with many happy memories of the visit of her majesty to the brewery in January 2018.” I encourage customers to get them on their bars while they are around, as they are sure to draw attention.” Our cask beers are brimming with stories, from the ingredients that make them, to the flavours they create and the inspiration of their names.

We have in fact celebrated six other monarchs coming to the throne since 1843, the first of course being Victoria, which is when we built our Victorian brewery. The family-operated brand described the beer as a smooth, chocolatey, traditional style, dark ale with a surprising light easy drinking body, brewed using traditional methods in their Victorian brewery.In a first for the brand, the new vanilla variant is presented in a clear bottle to enable to colour of the 35% ABV liquid to ‘shine through’. Arkell’s Brewery has announced the release of Coronation Ale (4.5% ABV), a special dark ale to toast the coronation of King Charles III. The amber ale has been brewed with five different malts to create a rich body and biscuity sweetness, and late hopped with Galaxy and Citra for extra fruity flavour. Kavka Estate Vodka, which launched in 2021, has announced the launch of its latest expression, Kavka Orchard Plum and Apple Vodka (38% ABV), drawing on the vodka-making heritage of Poland.

Halewood Artisanal Spirits owned Dead Man’s Fingers has added a vanilla expression to its ‘unconventional’ spiced rum portfolio. Dead Man’s Fingers Vanilla is presented in a clear bottle for the first time Hopping Special is part of a quartet of new casks from Greene King available throughout May and June, alongside the return of St Edmunds, the collaborative Pave the Way​ and the brand’s Coronation ​Ale.The latest addition to the brand’s line-up is said to boast notes of ‘smooth, sweet, creamy vanilla’, paired with rich butterscotch. Made with 200 years of distilling tradition, Kavka blends fine rye and wheat spirits, adding small quantities of aged pot-stilled fruit spirits to offer notes of ripe apples and rich plum sweetness with an underlying layer of rye and grain. The rum is triple distilled at the award-winning brand’s South Devon Distillery, with the fermentation process taking approximately one month, before then undergoing the first distillation in flame fired 60l copper pot stills. Arkell’s head brewer Alex Arkell said: “In keeping with our long tradition of celebrating royal milestones over our 180 years of brewing, we are extremely proud to release this Coronation Ale to honour our King as he is formally crowned.