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Regular beers
Alesman Bitter: O.G. 1036, ABV 3.7%. A clean-tasting and well-balanced amber-coloured bitter with a fruity, hoppy bitterness throughout. An excellent session beer. (Winner, Beer of the Festival, Keighley Beer Festival 1993.)
Worth Best Bitter: O.G. 1045, ABV 4.5%. A strikingly hoppy best bitter, golden-amber in colour, with a citrus fruity aroma and a long dry bitter finish. Described in the 1999 Good Beer Guide as "Distinctive and Satisfying".
Occasional beers
Neary's Stout: O.G.1040, ABV 4.0%. A black stout with bitter chocolate, liquorice and coffee in the aroma and taste and a long dry roast bitter finish. Sometimes brewed at the higher gravity of 1050 for bottling as Neary's Extra Stout. (Runner-up, Beer of the Festival, Keighley 1996.)
Porter: O.G. 1045, ABV 4.5%. A well-rounded and smooth, dark-brown porter which combines dark chocolate, fruit and roast flavours in the aroma and taste and finishes with a dry roast bitterness.
Old Toss: O.G.1065, ABV 6.5%. A full-bodied and warming, dark old ale with a roast coffee aroma and roast and fruit flavours against a background of malt, hops and sweetness. We like to let this beer mature in the cask for a few months so that it achieves the complexity one expects of an old ale. (Winner, Beer of the Festival, Keighley 1992.)
Ruggie's Russet Nectar: O.G. 1070, ABV 7.5%. A dangerously drinkable russet-coloured Strong Autumn Ale with a predominantly fruity character. Generously hopped, this beer lacks the cloying sweetness of many beers of a similar strength. (Winner, Beer of the Festival, Keighley 1994.)
Santa's Toss: O.G. 1080, ABV 8.0%. A stronger version of Old Toss, brewed for Christmas and sometimes bottled.
Worth Beers - a historical record
A list of the beers we have produced at the Worth Brewery since we started in 1992.
| OG | ABV | Notes | |
| Worth Best Bitter | 1045 | 4.5% | Our first ever beer. Still produced on a regular basis and usually available in the Brewery Arms, Keighley. Now brewed to a slightly different recipe. |
| Commercial Mild | 1034 | 3.4% | No longer brewed. |
| Master James | 1080 | 8.1% | A strong ale brewed for bottling in 1993. No longer brewed. |
| Alesman Bitter | 1036 | 3.7% | Originally called Commercial Bitter, then Keighlian Bitter. Name finally changed to Alesman because drinkers outside Keighley did not know how to pronounce the word 'Keighlian'! |
| Old Toss | 1065 | 6.5% | Brewed in Autumn and available through the winter whilst stocks last. There are plans to start bottling this beer again soon. |
| Worth Premium | 1045 | 4.5% | No longer brewed. |
| Worth Porter | 1045 | 4.5% | Brewed in winter/spring. |
| Train Fayre | 1042 | 4.2% | No longer brewed. |
| Wild Boar | 1041 | 4% | Originally brewed by Trough Brewery in Bradford, production transferred to Worth when Trough closed. Now brewed only to order. |
| Knobwilter | 1049 | 5.2% | A wheat beer. Not being brewed at the moment but may be revived. There is, of course, an Umlaut on the 'o' in the name. |
| Wayfarer Mild | 1034 | 3.4% | No longer brewed. |
| Queen of the May Mild | 1039 | 3.9% | No longer brewed. |
| Hi Summer! | 1034 | 3.4% | No longer brewed. |
| Harvest Festival | 1050 | 5% | No longer brewed. |
| Ruggie's Russet Nectar | 1075 | 7.6% | Originally brewed for Keighley Beer Festival in 1994, this has become an annual beer brewed every September for the Autumn and Winter seasons. |
| Santa's Toss | 1080 | 8% | Brewed for Chrismas and occasionally available in bottles. |
| Winter Blues | 1048 | 4.8% | No longer brewed. |
| Rampant Spring | 1048 | 4.8% | No longer brewed. |
| Neary's Stout | 1040 | 4% | Brewed to order and occasionally available in bottles. |
| Worth Extra | 1049 | 5% | No longer brewed. |
| Worth Gold | 1050 | 5% | No longer brewed. |
| Neary's Extra Stout | 1050 | 5% |
Brewed to order and for bottling. |
Other Beers
Many experimental brews have also been tried. These range from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The most successful one-off was Train Fayre, brewed for a special event on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, which became a regular beer for a while. Next most successful must be Festival Toss, brewed especially for Bradford Beer Festival 1998, which won its class in their 'Beer of the Festival' competition.
More adventurous offerings included Brambleworth (Worth Bitter finished with Blackberries in the Belgian style) and Kiwian (Keighlian finished with Kiwi fruit). The latter was brewed for a Keighley Beer Festival along with a sister beer flavoured with plums. Surprisingly both casks were empty by the end of the festival and both beers even received some nominations for 'Beer of the Festival'.
Other one-offs were 'Steam Age Special', brewed for the celebrations of 150 years of railways in Keighley, Wildebeest, brewed for Keighley Beer Festival 1995, Hey-Honey-Nonny (a wheat-beer primed with honey), brewed for Keighley Beer Festival 1996 and a New Year beer called 'Rugmanay'.
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