Core Twelve
£3412 cans, £2.83 each
Two of each core beer. The easiest way to find your favourite before you commit to a bigger case.
Est. 2014Telford, Shropshire440 ml
Six beers.One gorge.
We brew 30 barrels a week half a mile from the iron bridge, can it ourselves on a Thursday, and put it on a van on a Friday. Nothing sits in a warehouse waiting for you.
4.8from 341 reviews6core beers24 hfrom order to doorstep
The core range
What is always in the cold store.
440 ml cans, £3.20 to £4.10 each.
Every can is date stamped on the base.
Coalport Pale
Grapefruit and pine over a soft malt base, finishing dry. The one we sell most of, by a distance.
£3.20a can
Wrekin Bitter
Toast and orange marmalade, a gentle bitterness and a short finish. Brewed to the recipe we opened with.
£3.20a can
Severn Gorge IPA
Mango and gooseberry up front, a firm bitter edge behind it. Double dry hopped in tank for four days.
£4.10a can
Ironmaster Stout
Cocoa nib and cold brew coffee from a roaster two miles up the road. Thick head, long dry finish.
£4.10a can
Blists Hill Lager
Lagered for eight weeks because there is no shortcut. Bread crust, lemon zest, clean enough to drink two.
£3.60a can
Bedlam Red Rye
Peppery rye and red berry, darker than it looks in the glass. Our autumn beer that stayed on all year.
£3.80a can
How it is made
Four steps, and no clever machinery.
One brewhouse, one yeast strain, one canning line in the corner. Small enough that the person who wrote the recipe is the person who packs it.
Step 01
Mash
Shropshire-grown Maris Otter, milled on site the morning we brew. Sixty six degrees for an hour, and no adjuncts we cannot spell.
Step 02
Boil
Ninety minutes in a direct-fired copper. Bittering hops at the start, aroma hops in the whirlpool once it drops to eighty degrees.
Step 03
Ferment
Our own house yeast, pitched warm and crashed cold. Five days for the lighter beers, fourteen for the stout, however long it takes.
Step 04
Pack
Canned on a small in-line seamer at under two parts per million of oxygen, then date stamped on the base. Nothing leaves here pasteurised.
Cases and subscriptions
Buy it by the box.
Free delivery over £50, or £4.95 under.
DPD next day, with a one hour delivery window.
Mixed Twenty-Four
£6224 cans, £2.58 each
Four of each. That works out at £2.58 a can, which is less than the taproom charges for a half.
Dark Six
£216 cans, £3.50 each
Three Ironmaster Stout, three Bedlam Red Rye. For the months when the heating goes on.
Or pick your own
Subscribe and save 10 per cent.
Choose the mix, choose the size, and it turns up every four weeks until you tell it to stop. Most people start with twelve and move to twenty four by the spring.
- Ten per cent off every case, for as long as you stay
- Free delivery, whatever the order is worth
- First refusal on limited releases before they go public
- Skip, pause or cancel from the email. No phone call, no notice period.
Build a mixed case
Any mix you like. Twelve or twenty four.
- Coalport PalePale ale · 4.2% · £3.20 a can
- Wrekin BitterBest bitter · 3.8% · £3.20 a can
- Severn Gorge IPAModern IPA · 5.6% · £4.10 a can
- Ironmaster StoutExport stout · 5.9% · £4.10 a can
- Blists Hill LagerHelles lager · 4.4% · £3.60 a can
- Bedlam Red RyeRed rye ale · 5.0% · £3.80 a can
12 cansDelivery £4.95
£48.95
The taproom
Come and drink it where it was made.
Opening hours
- MondayClosed
- TuesdayClosed
- Wednesday16:00 to 22:00
- Thursday16:00 to 23:00
- Friday12:00 to 23:30
- Saturday12:00 to 23:30
- Sunday12:00 to 20:00
The Tap, Coalport Road, Telford TF8 7HT
Twelve minutes on foot from Coalport station car park.
Fri 12 Sep
Tank takeover: fresh IPA
Severn Gorge IPA served straight from the tank, four days after dry hopping. When the tank is empty, that is that.
Sat 20 Sep
Meet the brewer
Ruth walks through six beers and answers anything, including the batches that went wrong. Six thirds included.
Thu 2 Oct
Quiz night
Teams of up to six, 19:30 start, no phones on the table. Winners take a mixed twelve home.
Sat 11 Oct
Green hop harvest day
Beer brewed with Herefordshire hops picked that morning. Pizza, a brass band, and the yard open until late.
What people say
4.8 out of 5, across 341 reviews.
★★★★★The mixed twenty four turned up next day and every can was dated inside a fortnight. That beats what the big online shops manage.
Alan H., Shrewsbury
★★★★★Booked the tour for my dad. Ruth spent twenty minutes answering his questions about water chemistry and never once looked bored.
Cerys D., Ironbridge
★★★★★On the subscription since March. It arrives, I drink it, I forget about it until the next one turns up. Exactly what I wanted.
Tom B., Wolverhampton
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