Winter 2026-2027 Preorder
6 October 2026
This year's seasonal offering is ready for you to help your guests get festive and share the best beer in the world with their loved ones for Christmas.
Below is a selection of this year's new products, please refer to our full brochure here for the entire range of gift packs, bottles, and draught, to make your Christmas selection special.
| Pre-Order Process Some of this year’s stock is available for delivery now, and we expect to have received all stock by mid-November.
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NEW FOR 2026
This year we’ve partnered with Manchester’s legendary Marble Brewery on an exclusive beer for the season. They’ve brewed Saturnalia a 4.1% pale Ale with X hops, the perfect option for your December house beer available in both Cask and Keg. Exclusive to James Clay and Sons, brewed with care by a partner with serious heritage when it comes to making modern classics.
In Belgian sharers, we've got the first ever magnums of Boon Oude Gueuze, this year's Chimay Grande Rèserve aged in Bourbon, and St Bernardus ABT 12 2026 Magnums too. To meet the season of excess, we've also got some options from Funky Fluid and Yonder.
Saturnalia
Style: Pale Ale
ABV: 4.1%
Gelato: Cherry Panetonne 20Ltr KK
Style: Ice Cream Sour
ABV: 0.055
Gingerbread Yule Log
Style: Pastry Stout
ABV: 7.0%
ST BERNARDUS CHRISTMAS
Hail, Hail, Let’s Have a Christmas Ale!
Come the festive season, the nights have fully drawn in, and collectively we gather for warmth. Whether that’s the warmth of an open fireplace, or the chaleur and camaraderie of a festive gathering, our beery minds can’t help but pivot towards luxurious, strong, and festively spiced Belgian Christmas Ales.
First brewed in 2007 St Bernardus Christmas Ale has now grown to be world renowned, and brewery CEO Julie Depypere comments that ‘Christmas Ale has become a real seasonal highlight for James Clay and Sons customers, and I can see why. It's a beer with character and warmth, made with the same care and the same yeast as our classic Abt 12, and it gives people a reason to come back every winter’.
Make the Christmas season extra special this year and buy 2x 20L Kegs, to receive a free POS pack containing a St Bernardus Bauble, Christmas bunting, St Bernardus Christmas Coasters, 6 glasses, and drip catchers.
Enter code SBXMAS at checkout to claim your POS Pack.
Christmas Ale
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
ABV: 9.5%
Christmas Ale
Style: Abbey Quad
ABV: 10.0%
Christmas Ale
Style: Abbey Quad
ABV: 10.0%
Gift Packs
Consumer data shows that at Christmas 1 in 3 British gift buyers turns to the specialist food and drink aisle for their gift shopping, with 50% of these gifts being alcoholic beverages.
Our own internal data shows that the trend continues to grow consistently year on year, and that 2025 Gift Pack sales in November were 18.8% up versus the year previous, tallying with the fact that consumers prefer to get their Christmas shopping taken care of early so they can enjoy festivities through December stress free.
We’ve built our range to help you maximise this opportunity with packs perfect for everyone whether their tastes lean Belgian, German, or even into Mixology.
Tynt Meadow Gift Pack
Style: English Trappist Ale
ABV: 7.4%
Bavarian Mixed Pack 8x50cl
Style: Gift Pack
ABV: 5.9%
BRITISH CHRISTMAS BEERS
Christmas has become an important time for the British Beer scene too. Whether that's locking something strong away in a barrel for the big occasion, or formulating the perfect house beer for the season, the ingenuity of British Craft brewers covers it all.
Colonel Custard's Christmas Ale
Style: Bourbon BA Scotch Ale
ABV: 10.1%
Festive Star
Style: Vanilla, Cinnamon & Chocolate Porter
ABV: 5.2%
Joy In The Simple Things 24x44cl CAN
Style: Pale Ale
ABV: 5.2%
PACKAGED CHRISTMAS CLASSICS
Many of our partners release unique beers to celebrate the festivities and this year is no different. For our traditional European partners, this is an opportunity to pull out all the stops and make something truly fitting for the season of excess. From strong Christmas Spiced Dark Ales from Belgium to robust festive lagers from Germany, they amp everything up for Christmas.
Most of these seasonals are annual one shot rarities, brewed just in time for markets, parties, and your customers’ Christmas tables.
De Ranke Pere Noel
Style: Belgian Christmas Ale
ABV: 7.0%
Avec les Bons Voeux
Style: Saison
ABV: 9.5%
CLASSIC KEG
Make a splash online and drive footfall by picking up some of the lesser spotted draught beers available this year. For 2026 we’ve got a small quantity of St Bernardus ABT 12 Nitro, the globally loved classic supercharged with an even more luxurious Nitro finish. A true highlight of the range from a very special brewery, Schlenkerla Eiche is an Oak Smoked Doppelbock that seems to deliver a different nuance with each sip.
Abt 12 Nitro
Style: Abbey Quadrupel
ABV: 10.0%
Eiche
Style: Oak Smoked Doppelbock
ABV: 8%
Schieve X-mas
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
ABV: 8.0%
Hinomaru
From the same family as Hitachino Nest Brewery, and Kiuchi Sakè, we're proud to bring Hinomaru whisky to the UK.
A distillery determined to present the very best of Japanese whisky, while respecting the land and nature of the surrounding area.
The distillery has collected numerous awards along the way, including Double Gold at the prestigious San Francisco World Spirits competition.
These three exceptional expressions represent some of the thought provoking production methods behind the distillery, and are sure to expand the horizons of any whisky enthusiast
