Northern Monk and Timothy Taylor's release collaborative stout

The 4.4% stout, called Northern Rising, marks the first collaboration from the two award-winning northern breweries and is a culmination of more than a year’s worth of work.

Brewed using roast barley and crystal malt, the beer was described as “malt-forward” with a “satisfying chocolate flavour”. Timothy Taylor’s “staple” Golden Promise was also added to the mix, giving the stout a full body.

Northern Rising will be released in cask and keg within Northern Monk’s and Timothy Taylor’s own venues, and in pubs across the UK, plus 440ml nitro stout cans in supermarkets and online.

Different concepts 

Northern Monk co-founder and managing director Russell Bisset said: “We’ve been huge fans of Timothy Taylor’s for many years and a collaboration with them has always been on our bucket list.

“It’s a collaboration years in the making from when we first floated the idea of working together.

“We settled on a beer style that’s 300 years old, started in London and made famous in Dublin.

“We had fun getting together and developing different concepts on what we could do together and landed on a stout, an exciting challenge.

Real ale expertise 

“Stouts are the fastest growing beer style in the UK, and we’re stoked for people to try our take on a classic.”

Northern Rising will be pouring at Timothy Taylor’s at the Keighley & Worth Valley Beer Festival from 17-20 October and in selected bars and pubs across the UK from mid-October.

Timothy Taylor’s head brewer Andy Leman added: “Northern Monk is a fellow Yorkshire brewery we’ve been proud to call a friend for many years, and one that has produced some of the most exciting craft beers in the country.

“It’s been fantastic to blend their craft beer credentials with our real ale expertise to produce Northern Rising, a truly delicious stout.”