Grimsby-based Docks Beers has launched two beers in can — its first lager, and a collaboration with Magic Rock Brewing.
Overtime lager (4% ABV) is in a striking, red, black, and white can, featuring a docks scene illustration, with the ABP Port Office clock tower centre stage.
Docks Beer director, Will Douglas, said: “Our customers have been asking us to can Overtime for months, but our thirsty taproom drinkers get through so many pints that saving any for canning was proving difficult.
“Our designers, Source 4, have again blown us away with their artwork. The
bigger canvas of the 440ml can has given Kirk Arnold a chance to shine, and his illustration really smashes it. We love the grittiness of the shackle and chain and the clocktower is so cleverly incorporated to represent Overtime. It’s pure Docks.”
The Magic Rock collaboration is Golden Hour, a 6.5% ABV double-dry-hopped mimosa pale ale.
‘A beer with a buck fizz-esque tangy zest’
Docks Beers brewer, Lewis Birch, who formerly worked at Magic Rock, said: “I was really keen to get Docks Beers brewing with my ex-colleagues at Magic Rock, in Huddersfield. Stuart Ross is one of the UK’s most highly regarded brewers, and so it was a coup to get him over to Grimsby.
“We are thrilled with Golden Hour. It’s unmistakably a beer, but bucks fizz-esque tangy zest and juicy citrus notes really shine through. We have managed to get this with a complex mix of malts, which provide a rich mouthfeel balanced with a low bitterness and citrus from orange, lemon and lime. It has been double dry hopped with punchy Mandarina Bavaria and Amarillo hops to give a full citrus, mimosa-like flavour.”
Docks Beers director, Shahram Shadan, added: “Golden Hour is obviously a nod to the explosion of fruit in this beer, but I suggested it because it also evokes the magical orange hues of the first and last part of the day as the sun rises and falls.”
