Heritage Ales is a venture by Spitting Feathers with the help of brewing historian John Murray of Cestrian Brewery. Our aim is to recreate, as faithfully as possible, some of the great beers and styles of bygone ages. By scouring the archives and records offices, conducting local research and by consulting historians we hope to unearth and reproduce ancient beers and ales of historic and cultural significance.

A beer once favoured by Chester tipplers of by-gone centuries, unearthed at the Cheshire Record Office where archivists traced its recipe in the weighty records of the city’s former Northgate Brewery.
A record dated 1902 made it possible to derive the original recipes by blending a selection of modern grains to reproduce the characteristics of the original malts.

Northgate Ale is the resulting 'middle-amber bitter' with a strong malt profile producing a deep golden colour, whilst British hops deliver floral slightly fruity notes and aromas.