Lidl’s Scottish Craft Beer Festival hits shelves next week, and it includes seasonal ales such as a winter warming whisky-barrel aged stout, rich chocolate malts and a spiced pear saison, with prices from £1.29.
Spey Valley Brewery tops the bill with a new, and exclusive to Lidl, Supernova Imperial Stout (10.5% ABV).
This beer has notes of coffee, chocolate and treacle, and the Speyside-made ale comes as the popularity of higher-ABV beers grows.
Harviestoun’s Ola Dubh whisky barrel-aged stout (8% ABV) will return by popular demand.
Aged for six months in Highland Park whisky casks, this offers a smoky, sweet beer with notes of chocolate and roasted peat.
Sticking with the indulgent theme, long-standing Lidl craft brewer, Loch Lomond Brewery, will feature in the range with an exclusive ‘What’s Your Name’ malt bomb (5.5% ABV) made using First Gold hops.
Meanwhile, Drygate will bring a level of delicious decadence to the party with its Peanut Butter Chocolate Imperial Stout (7.4% ABV).
For those looking for rich toffee and dried fruits notes, Dundee-brewery 71 Brewing will feature a new baltic porter called Frontal Skies (8% ABV) - a complex, yet smooth, brew fermented with lager yeast - which is only available from Lidl stores in Scotland.
The festival will also see Grangemouth-based Hybrid Brewing beers being sold at Lidl for the first time.
The brewer’s Jar Nektar (5.7% ABV) is a rustic and slightly hazy Farmhouse Saison brewed with spiced pears.
Meanwhile, its Citra Storm (4.5% ABV) focusses on Citra hops to create a light and juicy pale ale with a mild bitter finish.
The range features Scottish brewers spanning the length of the country.
South Scotland Broughton Brewery will be listed in the promotion with a Hopo Double IPA (7.5% ABV) alongside two brewers from as far north as Orkney - Atlas Brewing’s Atlas Latitude Pale Ale (3.9% ABV) and a Loch Strong Ale (8% ABV) from Orkney Brewery.
The range is available across all Lidl Scottish stores from 14 October while stocks last.
| Brewery | Beer | Category | Size | ABV | Price |
| Atlas Brewing | Atlas Latitude | Pale Ale | 330ml | 3.9% | £1.29 |
| Broughton Brewery | Hopo Double IPA | Double IPA | 330ml | 7.5% | £1.69 |
| Drygate Brewing | Disco Dirigible | Pale Ale | 330ml | 5.1% | £1.49 |
| Drygate Brewing | Astro Zombies | Smoked Märzen | 440ml | 5.5% | £1.79 |
| Drygate Brewing | Peanut Butter Chocolate Stout | Imperial Stout | 440ml | 7.4% | £1.99 |
| Harviestoun Brewery | Ola Dubh | Whisky-Barrel Aged Stout | 330ml | 8% | £2.89 |
| Hurly Burly Brewery | Hare of the Dog | IPA | 330ml | 5% | £1.49 |
| Hybrid Brewing | Jar Nektar | Farmhouse Saison | 440ml | 5.7% | £1.79 |
| Hybrid Brewing | Citra Storm | Pale Ale | 440ml | 4.5% | £1.79 |
| Loch Lomond | What’s Your Name | Malt Bomb | 440ml | 5.5% | £1.79 |
| Loch Lomond | Prospect Street | West Coast IPA | 440ml | 5.5% | £1.79 |
| Orkney Brewery | Loch | Strong Ale | 330ml | 8% | £1.69 |
| Spey Valley Brewery | Supernova | Imperial Stout | 330ml | 10.5% | £1.99 |
| Spey Valley Brewery | Spey’s Software | New England IPA | 330ml | 4% | £1.29 |
| St Andrews Brewing | Yippie IPA | American IPA | 330ml | 6% | £1.49 |
| Stewart Brewing | Forbidden Fruit | Pale Ale | 440ml | 4.6% | £1.79 |
| Stewart Brewing | NEIPA | New England IPA | 440ml | 5.3% | £1.79 |
| West Brewery | West GPA | German Pale Ale | 330ml | 5.2% | £1.49 |
| West Brewery | West Black | Stout | 330ml | 4.6% | £1.49 |
| West Brewery | West 4 | Session Lager | 4 x 330ml | 4% | £4.99 |
| 71 Brewing | Frontal Skies | Baltic Porter | 440ml | 7% | £1.99 |
| 71 Brewing | East Coast Kölsch | Kölsch | 440ml | 4.7% | £1.49 |
