We really want to call this Rye India Pale Ale ‘22’ not only to showcase its hard-hitting, punchy spicy and sour-like rye grains that hit your taste buds with an explosion, but to link it to the amazing fact that the RNLI are responsible for saving 22 lives EVERY DAY! Manned by volunteer crews, the RNLI service keep people safe at sea and throughout the shores of the whole of the United Kingdom and Ireland – and it all started here in Poole in 1824, the vision of Sir William Hillary.

In celebration of the history of pubs whose mediaeval origin comes from when brewing was carried out in the home by women, and as beer grew in popularity the best ‘ale wives’ started to open up their homes and sell their beer, and as these became gradually more commercial in the 19th century, the ‘public house’ was born. This very site was one of these; changing its usage from a domestic house to a ‘public house’ and locally named as the ‘Brewers Arms’ in testament to the great beer it produced.

Our dark, full-bodied oatmeal stout packed with interesting characteristics is a fitting tribute to Poole’s Spymaster John Le Carre, and his Cold War espionage novel ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ where a masterful use of code names finally uncovered the identity of the Soviet double agent operating at the top of the British secret service.

Prominent town dignitary and head of a very successful trading company in Poole, Thomas Pitt acquired his nickname of ‘Diamond Pitt’ and subsequent vast wealth by purchasing a 410 carat uncut diamond, in 1701, from a merchant in Madras, India. You can still appreciate the beauty, clarity and uniqueness of one of the 141 carat stones that was hewn from its mass, as it is became one of the French crown jewels, La Regent, and is on display today at The Louvre, Paris.

Enjoy a pint of this delicious chocolate stout, somewhat more popular with ladies – with its origin of being famously created for Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, after she ordered a stout to be sent to her from England, and toast our great and beautiful ladies of Poole origin, namely Anne Sidney and Sarah-Jane Hutt, who both won the title of Miss World in 1964 and 1983 respectively.

Designed and made here in Poole this Spiced Wheat beer celebrates the national institution which is also Poole born & bred, namely ‘E.R.N.I.E.’ the ‘Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment’ that selects winning Premium Bonds and has been responsible since 1957 for literally changed the lives of its Jackpot winners. This beer won’t change your life but hopefully it will bring a smile to your face.

As a tribute to an English gentleman who was one of the greats during the ‘Golden Age of Cricket’ – the England and Yorkshire cricketer Wilfred Rhodes whose world records as: The most appearances made in first-class cricket (1,110 matches); most wickets taken (4,204) – completing the double of 1,000 runs and wickets in an English cricket season, no less than 16 times; and in his final test in 1930 was the oldest player at almost 53 yrs, to play in a Test match, chose to spend his twilight years in Dorset where, despite his blindness, followed local cricket matches and was still able to provide advice and opinion to cricketing fans who sought him out.

This English IPA, with its hoppy character and strong backbone of caramel, bready malt, pays homage to our fearless ‘swimmer canoeists’ who make up the Special Forces unit of our Naval Service, SBS, or as they’re sometimes referred to as ‘the Shaky Boat squadron’. Enjoy this craft beer and toast their strength and guile!

This light and refreshing American Cream ale is brewed with a subdued hop and malt flavour, but with an assertive character, just like its namesake and American export ‘Shire Reeve’, AKA ‘Sheriff’, demands. The duties and responsibilities of the Sheriff are not as onerous today as they were in the past, where they collected taxes, kept the gaol – including organising hangings, commanded military force and were responsible for peace and order! Poole has one of the only 16 Sheriffs left in England and Wales today.

Our Amber Ale was inspired by the beautiful, timid, local neighbour, the red squirrel – once indigenous to England, is now seriously under threat of extinction by its larger, disease (squirrel)-spreading grey cousin, only existing in tiny pockets of the UK, one of which being Brownsea Island.

The order of Trappist nuns that once lived at Stapehill Abbey, near Wimborne, would have welcomed a glass of this Spiced Winter Warmer, English ale – as after pledging a vow of silence, they lived without heating and existed on a diet of bread and beer twice a day!

Although reported as being filmed on location in Norway, the block-busting 1965 war film ‘The Heroes of Telemark’, based on the true story of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during World War 11, featuring Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris, was in part, actually filmed in Poole harbour – with many Poole residents being drafted in as ‘extras’!

Enjoy a pint of this simple Pale Ale with truck loads of piney, grapefruity American hops and raise a refreshing glass to our American cousins – you could almost believe you were in a brewpub in Poole, Buffalo USA