Hawkstone.
Hard to make. Easy to drink. Barley grown on this farm, brewed an hour up the road at Bourton-on-the-Water, and now in more than two thousand pubs and every major supermarket.
The range.
Four beers, three ciders, two spirits and one thing at nought point five per cent for the people who have to drive.
Premium, Session, Pils, IPA and the black one that keeps selling out.
The gold-winning original, the hedgerow one and a strawberry cider that is basically a religious experience.
A gin from a brewery, and a bronze-winning vodka distilled by Woodbrothers.
Made properly, rather than by removing the good bit from something that used to work.
The mixed case is how most people work out what they actually like.
Tankards, pints, halves and an opener you will not lose.
Barley to beer is the whole business model.
Feed barley leaves a farm at somewhere around a hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds a tonne. The same barley, brewed and bottled and sold as lager, is worth roughly twenty to forty times that.
That multiple is not a marketing insight. It is the reason a farm that has never once made money can nonetheless support a drinks business that turned over £21.3 million in the year to March 2025, tripling in twelve months and taking twenty-third place on the Sunday Times 100.
Everything else on this estate is an argument about the same principle. Every tonne that leaves as beer, flour, bread or a branded box instead of as a commodity multiplies what the ground is worth. The farming loses money. The value-adding does not.
- 20–40×
- the barley multiple
- £21.3m
- sales to Mar 2025
- 134%
- annual growth
The famous ones.
Hawkstone Premium Lager
The one that started it. Brewed with barley grown on this farm, lagered properly rather than hurried, and good enough…
Hawkstone Cider
Freshly pressed British apples, never concentrate. Gold at the World Cider Awards in 2025. Also the subject of the 2023…
Hawkstone IPA
Hops, and quite a lot of them, without tipping into the resinous nonsense that the word IPA has come to…
Hawkstone Gin
A gin from a brewery, which ought not to work and does. Seventy centilitres of something considerably more considered than…
The Order of Hawkstone.
Sign up and you are enrolled automatically. Every purchase earns Runes, and so does checking in at a Hawkstone location — a pub, the brewery, the farm shop. Runes unlock discounts and perks on future orders.
It is a working, in-production loyalty scheme with a genuinely good name, and it is the thing the rest of the estate should be built on rather than replaced.
Become a Hawkstonian.
Fifteen per cent off a case every month, twenty per cent off merchandise at the brewery, first sight of every new brew, and a monthly newsletter from Jeremy — who signs himself Hawkstonian-in-Chief, which tells you roughly what to expect.
- 15% off your monthly case
- 20% off at the brewery shop
- VIP first dibs on new brews
- Minimum three charges, cancel any time after
