THE BEER menu
SHUGGY BOAT BLONDE
Our most popular beer. Multi award winning refreshing, blonde beer made with Challenger, Bramling Cross, UK Cascade and Jester English hops. Smooth, fresh and highly drinkable!
ABV 3.8%
Bronze Regional SIBA Award 2016
3x Silver Regional SIBA Award 2017 & 2018 & 2021
POLLY DONKIN
All English stout, rich roasted coffee aroma. Smooth and creamy with blackberry notes from Bramling Cross, Challenger, Jester and Epic hops. Polly was a famous Cullercoats Fishwife, who raised huge amounts for RNLI
ABV 4.2%
Bronze National CAMRA Award 2024
Bronze Regional SIBA Award 2021
Silver Regional SIBA Award 2020
Gold Regional SIBA Award 2018, 2019 x2
Porthole Coffee Porter
An all English creamy porter, full of caramel and coffee aroma, brewed with Tynemouth Coffee Company Black Middens Roast. Brewed with 10 different malts give a rounded, rich taste and a creamy mouthfeel, with gorgeous rich coffee aroma.
ABV 4.1%
Silver Regional SIBA Award 2018
JACK THE DEVIL
Delicious and rich, a mid brown, chestnut coloured ale. Brewed with Maris Otter barley and the finest English aromatic hops. Perfect balance of malty nuttiness and a fresh hoppy aroma. Jack was a bowman on the Lifeboat in the Lovely Nelly Rescue in 1861.
ABV 4.5%
Silver Regional SIBA Award 2012
Gold SIBA Award 2015
Bronze National SIBA Award 2016
Grace darling gold
A refreshing, golden beer made with Challenger, Jester, Fuggle and Bramling Cross hops. Smooth, hoppy and fresh.
Named after the famous Grace Darling, who rescued survivors from shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838, in the Farne Islands.
ABV 5%
Watch house winter warmer
Warming dark English ale, malty with spicy/berry flavours from Bramling Cross hops. This beer is brewed in the Autumn, usually on sale between the end of October and January, but not every year. Cullercoats Watch House is subject to an ongoing major restoration.
ABV 5%
WIlde north blonde
Blonde zesty English ale brewed with fresh green hops grown at Wilde Farm, Ponteland in Northumberland, and harvested by hand every September. Fresh and grassy this is a once a year brew, flavourful and refreshing, when it's gone it's gone!
ABV 3.8 % available from early October 2024
LOVely NElly
A superb full-bodied amber bronze session beer. Biscuit malt flavour balanced with a smooth bitterness from the finest English Fuggles and Golding hops. Lovely Nelly was wrecked in 1861 off Whitley Sands.
ABV 3.9%
Gold Regional SIBA Award 2021
Bronze Regional SIBA Award 2021
Rocket brigade
Pale, strong and bitter, yet deceptively easy drinking. Intense hoppy aroma from Challenger, Jester, Endeavour and Bramling Cross hops, compliments rich malty flavour. Rocket Brigade Volunteers helped rescue crew from stricken ships in Cullercoats, using a breeches bouy fired with a rocket from the shore
ABV 5.5%
Silver Regional SIBA Award 2018
Bronze Regional SIBA Award 2017
Bronze Regional SIBA Award 2014
SANDPIPER
A full flavoured IPA brewed with the newly bred Jester, UK Cascade, Challenger and Fuggle hops ABV 3.4% makes Sandpiper Session IPA our lowest gravity beer, but it’s proving to be one of our most popular.
ABV 3.4%
Gold Regional SIBA Award 2020