Pioneering beer at the

Brewery and Trade

Core Beers

At Zerodegrees, we believe you should be able to see, smell and taste.Our strong core beers has exceeded the standard of fresh craft beer since 2000. We love the beers we brew and it inspires us every day. Each of our craft beers are crisp, clean and a true example of its style. Each sip is bold and full of flavour with a strong core! Much like us.

The Bohemian – Pilsner

Czech Pilsner

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Style: Our spin on a classic pilsner showcases all the great things about this kind of lager. In other words, it’s crisp, dry, slightly bitter, full of flavour and incredibly easy to drink.

ABV: 4.8%

Aroma Notes: Key Notes: Light - Crisp - HoppyImagine the taste of a perfect lager and you’re pretty much on the money. We’re talking clean and refreshing, with loads of hops thrown in. It’s matured long and slow, so it has this great depth of flavour and slight flowery and herby notes too.

Food Pairing: Fresh, simple flavours work with a Pilsner. Think chicken dishes, light spice, Cajun flavours and BBQ food.

Downtown – Pale Ale

American Pale

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Style: Our take on making a great American Pale Ale. British & German malts meet sexy American hops. Result: love at first taste. This is why we started our craft brewery idea back in 1999 and we are so glad we did. This was our first brew!

ABV: 4.6%

Aroma: Key Notes: Balanced - Hoppy - FruityFruity is the first word that comes to mind - mainly tangerine, grapefruit and melon. Then you notice the pleasant, the full bodiness of it and how easy it is to drink. Finally, you can congratulate yourself on a great choice.

Food Pairing: This big bold beer deserves big, bold flavours. Try it with red meat or spicy foods. Yummy!

Hazy Days – Wit Bier

Belgian Witbier

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Style: An easy drinking Belgian Style Beer using orange peel and fresh-ground coriander seeds. We tweaked the recipe by dropping the ABV to a more sessionable level – 4.2% - allowing you to comfortably have more than one pint.

ABV: 4.2%

Aroma: Key Notes: Citrus Clove RefreshingNo prizes for guessing that this one’s going to be orangey, citrusy and a bit spicy (think cloves). The wheat malt and wheat beer yeast provide a good majority of the natural haze. The Oats bring a silky body and also contribute to the natural haze as well.

Food Pairing: Oily foods like fish, seafood pastas and creamy dishes pair well as the fresh and fruity beer cuts through, cleansing the palate.

The Beast – Black Lager

Black Lager

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Style: The inspiration is German Schwarzbier. It’s hard to believe this dark, full-bodied, roasty-toasty beast is a lager. But it really is! This beer is incredibly easy to drink.

ABV: 4.6%

Aroma: Key Notes: Full-Bodied - Roasty - CoffeeMalt, dark chocolate, coffee. Hold to the light and notice, like the best schwarzbiers, that it’s actually dark brown, not black. And don’t think its richness means it’s hard to have a second.

Food Pairing: The Beast needs a strong flavour to work with - try anything with gravy or, if you’re feeling adventurous, why not try it with a dessert? It’s works surprisingly well with coffee and chocolate flavours. We all love it!

Our Mango Beer

Fruit Beer

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Style: How to make a clean, golden ale sing even sweeter? Add mango! The sweet mango pulp results in a naturally hazy easy-drinker that bursts with a taste that’s totally tropical. One of our biggest sellers! It started off as a Speciality beer on tap for a limited time, but it was asked for so many times it became a permanent core beer since 2004.

ABV: 4.1%

Aroma: Key Notes: Light - Sweet – FruityHmm, beer made with mango, what could it possibly taste like? Here’s a thing though – the fruitiness makes this one go down very well with cider fans. Yet it isn’t too sweet that you couldn’t drink more than one.

Food Pairing: Try something spicy with this beer - it helps balance spice, complementing chili dishes.

The Bohemian – Pilsner

Czech Pilsner

Bitterness

Sweetness

Colour

Style: Our spin on a classic pilsner showcases all the great things about this kind of lager. In other words, it’s crisp, dry, slightly bitter, full of flavour and incredibly easy to drink.

ABV: 4.8%

Aroma Notes: Key Notes: Light - Crisp - HoppyImagine the taste of a perfect lager and you’re pretty much on the money. We’re talking clean and refreshing, with loads of hops thrown in. It’s matured long and slow, so it has this great depth of flavour and slight flowery and herby notes too.

Food Pairing: Fresh, simple flavours work with a Pilsner. Think chicken dishes, light spice, Cajun flavours and BBQ food.

Downtown – Pale Ale

American Pale

Bitterness

Sweetness

Colour

Style: Our take on making a great American Pale Ale. British & German malts meet sexy American hops. Result: love at first taste. This is why we started our craft brewery idea back in 1999 and we are so glad we did. This was our first brew!

ABV: 4.6%

Aroma: Key Notes: Balanced - Hoppy - FruityFruity is the first word that comes to mind - mainly tangerine, grapefruit and melon. Then you notice the pleasant, the full bodiness of it and how easy it is to drink. Finally, you can congratulate yourself on a great choice.

Food Pairing: This big bold beer deserves big, bold flavours. Try it with red meat or spicy foods. Yummy!

Hazy Days – Wit Bier

Belgian Witbier

Bitterness

Sweetness

Colour

Style: An easy drinking Belgian Style Beer using orange peel and fresh-ground coriander seeds. We tweaked the recipe by dropping the ABV to a more sessionable level – 4.2% - allowing you to comfortably have more than one pint.

ABV: 4.2%

Aroma: Key Notes: Citrus Clove RefreshingNo prizes for guessing that this one’s going to be orangey, citrusy and a bit spicy (think cloves). The wheat malt and wheat beer yeast provide a good majority of the natural haze. The Oats bring a silky body and also contribute to the natural haze as well.

Food Pairing: Oily foods like fish, seafood pastas and creamy dishes pair well as the fresh and fruity beer cuts through, cleansing the palate.

The Beast – Black Lager

Black Lager

Bitterness

Sweetness

Colour

Style: The inspiration is German Schwarzbier. It’s hard to believe this dark, full-bodied, roasty-toasty beast is a lager. But it really is! This beer is incredibly easy to drink.

ABV: 4.6%

Aroma: Key Notes: Full-Bodied - Roasty - CoffeeMalt, dark chocolate, coffee. Hold to the light and notice, like the best schwarzbiers, that it’s actually dark brown, not black. And don’t think its richness means it’s hard to have a second.

Food Pairing: The Beast needs a strong flavour to work with - try anything with gravy or, if you’re feeling adventurous, why not try it with a dessert? It’s works surprisingly well with coffee and chocolate flavours. We all love it!

Our Mango Beer

Fruit Beer

Bitterness

Sweetness

Colour

Style: How to make a clean, golden ale sing even sweeter? Add mango! The sweet mango pulp results in a naturally hazy easy-drinker that bursts with a taste that’s totally tropical. One of our biggest sellers! It started off as a Speciality beer on tap for a limited time, but it was asked for so many times it became a permanent core beer since 2004.

ABV: 4.1%

Aroma: Key Notes: Light - Sweet – FruityHmm, beer made with mango, what could it possibly taste like? Here’s a thing though – the fruitiness makes this one go down very well with cider fans. Yet it isn’t too sweet that you couldn’t drink more than one.

Food Pairing: Try something spicy with this beer - it helps balance spice, complementing chili dishes.

Speciality Beers

Over the years our crafty brewers have enjoyed brewing specials that have given a lot of people tremendous joy, here are some you missed and some to look forward to!

Charlie Don’t Drink! – Brown IPA

Style: Brown IPA
Key Ingredients: Dark unrefined sugar, Columbus, Citra, Ekuanot, Mosaic, Simcoe Hops
Tasting notes: Bitter - Toasted - Hoppy
Try with: Cheesy or Meaty dishes
Inspiration: We’ve tasted a few Brown IPAs from other breweries, and they weren't so good. So I was challenged to make a great one! Let me know what you think!
Interesting facts: Crossover between a Brown Ale and an IPA

Cinnamon Roll – Stout

Style: Pastry Stout (Cinnamon Roll Stout)
Key Ingredients: Lots of nutty, toffee, chocolaty malts, lactose, cinnamon (whirlpool) and vanilla (cold-side)
Tasting notes: Sweet - Cinnamon - Vanilla
Try with: As it's sweet, I would recommend drinking this on its own, or drink it after dinner is done or with dessert
Inspiration: “Pastry” stouts are all the rage in America at the moment. People love dessert, and are pleasantly surprised if you can mimic it in a beer. Chris at Mother Earth had never brewed one; neither had I.
Interesting facts: This beer was a collaboration between Mother Earth Brew Co (with Head Brewer Chris Baker) and Zerodegrees.Lactose was added in the boil, cinnamon sticks in the whirlpool, and a natural vanilla extract will be added post-fermentation to produce a dessert-like beer.

The Bohemian – Pilsner – GLUTEN FREE

Style: GLUTEN FREE Pilsner
Key Ingredients: Czech Saaz hops
Tasting notes: Light - Crisp - Hoppy
Try with: Fresh, simple flavours work with a Pilsner. Think chicken dishes, light spice, Cajun flavours and BBQ food.
Inspiration: Our aim was to create our first gluten free Pilsner.
Interesting facts: Our first Gluten Free beer!

Cloud Waltz – Dry Hopped Lager

Style: Vienna Dry Hopper Lager
Key Ingredients: Tradition, Hüll Melon, Styrian Dragon (Slovenia) hops
Tasting notes: Clean - Hoppy - Aromatic
Try with: Cheesy or Meaty dishes
Inspiration: Darker lager for autumn
Interesting facts: New generation of Slovenian hops (Styrian Dragon) and German hops (Hüll Melon) give a lot of delicate aromas but not much bitterness.

Passionfruit – NEIPA

Style: Sour NEIPA
Key Ingredients: Passionfruit, Columbus, Cascade, Ekuanot, Mosaic, Simcoe Hops
Tasting notes: Sour - Fruity - Hoppy
Try with: Nothing too spicy!
Inspiration: A classic NEIPA base, with the addition of passionfruit
Interesting facts: It supposed to be a normal NEIPA, but the passionfruit was a bit sour than expected so the PH dropped and made it a sour beer

Pumpk It Up! – Pumpkin Ale

Style: Pumpkin Ale
Key Ingredients: 40kg pumpkins, cinnamon, ginger, cloves & nutmeg
Tasting notes: Round - Comforting - Spicy
Try with: Spicy pizzas or risottos
Inspiration: It's Halloween Season
Interesting facts: Pumpkins are Musquée de Provence, a nice French variety. Got roasted in the wood fired oven to soften the flesh and added to the mash tun with the malts 4 spices to blend in properly with the pumpkins, with more Nutmeg and Ginger than Cinnamon and Cloves

American – Mild Ale

Style: Mild Ale (but with American hops)
Key Ingredients: Tomahawk, Chinook, Citra Hops
Tasting notes: Chocolate - Medium Bodied - Floral
Try with: Portobello Mushroom, Prosciutto, Peking Duck, Meatball Linguine
Inspiration: A historic style, that I paired with some piney American hops and a traditional Mild to make a great tasting, low ABV beer
Interesting facts: I used Maris Otter malt as the base malt, as it is cherished for it’s delicious bready and nutty flavour. Chinook hops give a piney aroma to the beer with the Citra supplementing some dankness.

Grodziskie – Smoked Wheat Ale

Style: Light Smoked Wheat Ale
Key Ingredients: Izabela, Oktawia from “Polish Hops”
Tasting notes: Smoked - Crisp - Light
Try with: BBQ Chicken Pizza or Salad MUSSELS: Hot smoky chorizo with Dijon & Wheat ale broth
Inspiration: One from two (Baltic Porter also) Polish styles of beers. Poland is famous for good smoked food (meat, fishes, fruits,) so why not try to make smoked beer? This is my first but not last attempt to brew smoked beer.
Interesting facts: Na zdrowie!

Mob Rules – Belgian Pale

Style: Belgian IPA
Key Ingredients: Hallertauer Tradition, Styrian Fox, Hüll Melon Hops
Tasting notes: Sweet - Full bodied - Complex
Try with: Nothing too spicy!
Inspiration: Sessionable Belgian low strength beers
Interesting facts: 100% European hops and Malt

Danke Dunkel – German Lager

Style: Munich-Style Dunkel
Key Ingredients: German Magnum & Tettnanger
Tasting notes: Malty - Clean - Biscuity - Caramel - Chocolate
Try with: Pizza: Carne Asada , Fennel Sausage & Broccoli Pasta: Meatball Linguine Mussels: Chicken & Mascarpone Risotto
Inspiration: I love traditional German styles, so I set out to make a Dunkel (“dark” in German). Traditionally brewed in Munich, this is a tasty, malty, dark German lager. I used to drink litres of the stuff regularly at a Hofbrauhaus near my hometown.
Interesting facts: Dark and delicious but less coffee and roast notes compared to our Black Lager. Will be on tap just in time for Oktoberfest to start in Munich. Will take 6 weeks total in tank, between fermentation and lagering.

Mr Pink – Hibiscus Beer

Style: Cream Ale
Key Ingredients: Hibiscus flowers
Tasting notes: Dry - Fruity - Light
Try with: Moroccan salad, fried calamari, prawns dishes
Inspiration: Karkade is a famous drink in Egypt, a tea infused with hibiscus flowers
Interesting facts: In Egypt they’re used to drink karkade, a red tart and refreshing beverage made with hibiscus flowers. It's beautiful!

All Seeing – Rye IPA

Style: Rye IPA
Key Ingredients: Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic and Nelson Sauvin
Tasting notes: Spicy - Hoppy - BitterRye aromas/flavours, USA hop & Dryhop, green herbal, citrusy, bitter, clean. High carbonation to elevate the hop aromas
Try with: Flavourful dishes
Inspiration: Fancied making an American Rye IPA to our wonderful collection!
Interesting facts: Rye is a grain which has no husks and is used in addition to the other malted grain, normally barley, in the ingredients during the mashing process. Rye is normally added to beer for its complex, crisp and distinctive, spicy flavour.

Tea Break – Earl Gray IPA

Style: Earl Grey IPA
Key Ingredients: Citra, Cascade & Earl Grey Tea
Tasting notes: Bergamot - Earl Grey Tea - Touch of Caramel
Try with: Anything spicy – then tannin compounds will be nice dissipated on the tongue
Inspiration: An experimental beer - to brew and learn about the combination of beer and tea.
Interesting facts: 4 kg Taylors Harrogate Earl Grey Tea for 24 hours as post-fermentation addition. Something like “cold brew” method tea preparation.

Bouquet – Blonde Ale

Style: Blonde Ale
Key Ingredients: Lavender & Elderflower
Tasting notes: Light - Dry - Floral
Try with: Nothing spicy, mild or light dishes like salads...
Inspiration: Light summer beer with flowers
Interesting facts: Used 300g of lavender to make a batch

Bristol Lite – USA Lager

Style: USA Lager
Key Ingredients: UK Lager Malt
Tasting notes: Clean - Fresh - Crisp
Try with: Goes with everything on sunny day!
Inspiration: A much better version of a Coors Light/ Bud Light/ Miller Lite.
Interesting facts: Brewed in a craft brewery as oppose to an industrial brewery. Clearly we do a much better job! Beer how it should be made!

Haze Craze – NEIPA

Style: New England IPA
Key Ingredients: Amarillo, Comet, Cascade, Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic and Nelson Sauvin
Tasting notes: Juicy - Hazy - Full Body - Hoppy - Fruity
Try with: Pizza – BBQ Chicken, Peking Duck Pasta – Lime/Tequila Chicken Tagliatelle Mussels – Thai Curry
Inspiration: This style originated in the NE of the USA. It is an interesting take on IPA – very hazy (like a hefeweizen), less bitterness, and tremendous dryhopping with a focus on fruity American (and sometimes Southern Hemisphere) hops.
Interesting facts: This beer has been dryhopped twice and the aroma is sublime!

Time Warp – Session IPA

Style: Session IPA
Ingredients: Water, malt, lots of hops, California ale yeast
Tasting Notes: Drinks nice and light on the palate with noticeable but not overwhelming bitterness. Abundant aroma of citrus fruits including lemon, grapefruit, and tangerine with a hint of pineapple.

Dr Goodnight – Chamomile Saison

Style: Saison
Key Ingredients: Wild blossom honey, Chamomile and Eucalyptus
Tasting notes: Spicy - Dry - Balsamic
Try with: On its own - a relaxing beer!
Inspiration: Saison style beer with herbs of goodnight
Interesting facts: We’ve never heard of any beer brewed with eucalyptus.

The Californian – Steam Lager

Style: Steam Lager
Key Ingredients: 100% Northern Brewer
Tasting notes: Hoppy - Clean - Fizzy
Try with: Spicy stuff!
Inspiration: Inspired by Anchor Steam Lager
Interesting facts: 100% Northern brewer for the style of beer which is a steam beer/amber lager. Use of a lager yeast but fermented at higher temperatures to increase the ester production. Higher carbonation than a classic Lager

Tongue Twister – Peach Gose

Style: German-Style Gose with Peaches
Key Ingredients: Lactobacillus bacteria, Sea Salt, Coriander seed and Peaches
Tasting notes: Tart - Salty - Earthy
Try with: Seafood or Sherbet
Inspiration: We enjoy sour beers and were intrigued by this style.
Interesting facts: This beer was intentionally soured, in the kettle, using Lactobacillus plantarum bacteria. Peaches were added to the whirlpool with freshly-ground coriander seed. Due to high acidity it will not have much of a head when pouring.

Gob Smack – American Sour

Style: Sour Ale
Key Ingredients: Pilsen Malt & Citra Hops
Tasting notes: Sour - Lemon - Refreshing
Try with: Mussels: Lemon and Pepper or Mariniere Pasta: Smoked Salmon Tagliatelle Pizza: Kedgeree, Seafood, Salmon and Mascarpone, Caramelised Pear and Gorgonzola Salad: Goats Cheese
Inspiration: We enjoy sour beers and were intrigued by this style.
Interesting facts: Lactic Acid Bacteria was used as primary fermentation then used boiling wort to kill them. Classic fermentation by top fermenting yeast. In this beer we added Citra hops only for dry hopping.

Green Lantern

Style: Green Tea IPA
Ingredients: American ale yeast, matcha green tea
Tasting notes: Subtle green colour, dry, refreshing with a hoppy aroma
Try with: Lemon pesto spaghetti, green salad or quinoa salad
Inspiration: For St Patrick's Day!

Calypso – Pineapple IPA

Style: Fruit IPA
Key Ingredients: Loads of Pineapples of course!
Tasting notes: Tropical - Fruity - Sweet
Try with: Anything - great summer beer!
Inspiration: Fancied making a fruit beer with US hops - and so happened to be eating Pineapples - so we made a Pineapple IPA
Interesting facts: It has Pineapples!!

Bad Tattoos – Alt Bier

Style: German-Style Alt Bier
Key Ingredients: Used traditional German Ale Yeast
Tasting notes: Malty - Hoppy - Caramel - Chocolate
Try with: Pizza: Carne Asada , Fennel Sausage & Broccoli Pasta: Meatball Linguine Mussels: Chicken & Mascarpone Risotto
Inspiration: We love traditional German styles, so we set out to make an alt bier (“old beer” in German). This is more of a hybrid between Northern German (malty, darker, less hoppy) and Dusseldorf (lighter colour, hoppier) styles.
Interesting facts: In Germany, people used to brew ales, not pilsners or other lagers. This beer harks back to that time. It is still incredibly popular in Dusseldorf, served directly from a wooden barrel.

Pacific – Rice Lager

Style: Rice Lager
Key Ingredients: Pilsen Malt, Rice Flakes & Nelson Sauvin Hops
Tasting notes: Fruity - Crisp - White Grapes - Gooseberry - Fizzy
Try with: Anything - great summer beer!
Inspiration: The inspiration came from a trip in Asia where Rice is in abundance and combined it with a Pacific region hop from New Zealand
Interesting facts: Has a beautiful punch of aroma from the Nelson Sauvin hops!

Trade Sales

It only took 18 years!

After so many requests over the years, we are now releasing our beers to places that really understand and want to serve great fresh beers like us!

If you are interested in purchasing our kegs please click below

Trade Sales

Our Brewers

Dario Marcianese

Blackheath

Simon Gueneau

Bristol

Jeff Hueneman

Reading

Pawel Mekarski

Cardiff

Fresh Tasty Beer

How we make it

Beer Philosophy

It’s just this simple – By not filtering, pasteurising or using additives, Zerodegrees beer stays healthy and nutritious...and this is exactly what we have done from the beginning.

We started brewing fresh craft beer in 2000 with a small team of brewers who we're dead set on delivering fresh beer to the growing nation of beer lovers! We designed each brewery so that we could brew on site and in sight - from tank to mouth.

All of the beer served at Zerodegrees go straight from maturation tank to the tap, meaning there no need to keg. It's tank fresh beer, without the transportation - it really doesn't get any fresher than that.

Mini

Kegs

Zerodegrees' 5 litre mini-kegs are perfect for any occasion or even if you don't have one. Take one with you and enjoy the Zerodegrees experience whenever you want.

Venting the keg

Carefully vent the barrel by opening the value on the top of the keg. First, lift the red tab handle on top and turn it anti-clockwise, giving it a quarter of a turn

Preparing to Dispense

Place the barrel at the edge of the table. Bend the red tab on the front of the barrel towards you and pull out the tap. The stem will ease straight out of the keg

Pouring the beer

Hold a tilted glass under the stem end. Turn the tap anti-clockwise until the beer comes out. Pour the beer down the side of the glass.

Closing the Tap

Close the tap by turning clock-wise holding a glass underneath to catch any drips. It is not necessary to push the tap in after every drink

KEG FAQS

How long will a 5L keg stay fresh for?

Once opened and as long as you can keep it in the fridge as much as possible we can last around 3 days.

How many glasses of beer can I enjoy from a Mini-Keg?

There are just under 9 pints.

Is it an environmentally friendly product?

Yes, the packaging is 100% recyclable. It is also extremely efficient considering that one single keg holds five litres of beer. For easy disposal, the empty packaging with the tap pipe can also be thrown out with the household bin.

When I try to draw beer, all I get is foam, why?

This is usually because your Mini-Keg is not cold enough. It must be placed in the refrigerator for at least 10 hours to ensure the temperature of the beer in the keg is around 5°C. Even though the keg usually feels cold to the touch when it’s refrigerated, this is because the metal exterior becomes cold much more quickly – it doesn't always mean that the beer is actually cold enough. For the perfect pour, make sure you open the tap pipe quickly and completely when drawing beer.

Festivals

Now you can drink Zerodegrees at a festival near you!

Bristol Harbour July 19th - 23th