Two of the North’s most celebrated breweries have collaborated for the first time to launch a 4.4 per cent stout Northern Rising.

The culmination of more than a year’s work between the two award-winning breweries, 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 cans in supermarkets and online.

The brewers used roast barley and crystal malt in the brew, to create a malt-forward chocolate flavour. Golden Promise malt is also in the mix, a staple of Timothy Taylor’s cask ales, which gives the beer that trademark full body and satisfying mouthfeel.

Northern Monk founder and MD 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.

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

Timothy Taylor’s head brewer Andy Leman said: “Northern Monk is a fellow Yorkshire brewery that 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.”

Northern Rising can be found in select bars and pubs across the UK from mid-October.