30L ONE WAY KEG | 4.5% Alc/Vol
BBD Aug 2025
***THIS KEG REQUIRES AN 'A' TYPE COUPLER AND A GAS BOTTLE (CELLAR MIX, CO2, COMPRESSED AIR ETC) TO BE DISPENSED***
It is the customers responsibility to source these accessories; this keg does not come with the required coupler and gas.
This product is only available for collection from our Edwardstown SA warehouse only - it cannot be freighted.
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Masham's Greatest Secret! Ruby coloured premium strength bitter
XB is a rare delight, a real ale connoisseur’s masterpiece. A strong full-bodied ale with a subtle but superb blend of two types of bitter and three fruit hop varieties giving a most thirst quenching and satisfying ale.
XB was first brewed in 1982 to celebrate the purchase of the Carlisle Brewery by Theakstons a few years before. Brewed always and ever in Masham, XB was designed as a tribute to the classic ‘border’ style of beer, strong in gravity, low but complex hop. It was an instant success and has remained so, winning over real ale devotees all over the UK. Always in the shadow of its more famous stable–mate, Old Peculier, XB has quietly established itself as favourite among serious cask ale enthusiasts. Its name came not from some clever marketing expert but rather based on the more prosaic features of the Masham brewery. In the days when the only way to distinguish the contents from one cask to the next was by use of one of only two wooden stamps dipped in whitewash and applied to each cask, the only letters available were either an X or a B. We could have called in BX but we preferred XB!
