Eight-Legged Groove Machine is a refreshing pale ale that’s been infused with ginger and lemon peel. Golden Promise pale malt provides the perfect backdrop for Cascade and Motueka hops to impart additional citrus notes and a quaffable level of bitterness.

The beer takes its name from The Wonder Stuff”s 1988 debut album, with the artwork taking on a comic theme. We originally brewed a beer called Eight-Legged Groove Machine as a one-off cask (and a few cheeky bottles) on our pilot plant for Glyn Roberts, of Utobeer ‘fame’. This beer didn’t have either ginger or lemon peel in it, but we loved the artwork so much we decided to use it on a larger scale, once we came up with the recipe for the beer as it is now.

We managed to get a bottle of the original beer into the hands of Miles Hunt, the singer and a founding member of The Wonder Stuff, which he was pretty chuffed about, so we’d like to think that it comes with his official stamp of approval.