A multi award-winning dark strong ale. Complex deep fruit cake flavours form this delicious ale. Legendary amongst ale aficionados, quite simply a beer you have to try.

Tally Ho!

ALC 5.5% VOL


Strong, complex and full of deep distinctive flavours. A rich fruit cake flavour from roasted malt. First brewed in the 1940s, this prize-winning dark strong old ale has a loyal following among real ale connoisseurs.

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Awards

  • 2015 – Taste of the West GOLD
  • 2015 – CAMRA Champion Winter Beer of Britain Old Ale & Strong Mild SILVER
  • 2019 – SIBA South West Cask Ale OVERALL CHAMPION
  • 2020 – Taste of the West GOLD
  • 2020 – SIBA South West British Bottle & Can Dark Beers GOLD
  • 2020 – SIBA National Finals Bottle & Can Dark Beers BRONZE
  • 2021 – Taste of the West GOLD
  • 2021 – SIBA South West Bottle & Can Dark Beers GOLD
  • 2022 – Taste of the West GOLD
  • 2023 – SIBA South West Beer Awards Dark Beers SILVER
  • 2023 – CAMRA London & South East Regional Champion Beer of Britain Red Ales, Brown Ales, Old Ales & Strong Milds SILVER
  • 2024 – Taste of the West Bottled Ale GOLD
  • 2024 – SIBA South West British Dark Ales GOLD
  • 2024 – SIBA BeerX Bottle & Can Stout & Porter SILVER

Flavour profile

Bitter
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Looks
Mahogany
Smells
Roasted, spicy hoppy, 
complex
Tastes
Rich, fruitcake, hoppy

Food pairing suggestions for Tally Ho!


Strong, dark and handsome, Tally Ho! Needs an equally confident set of flavours from food to spar with. Slow cooked or chargrilled BBQ meats, rich game and bold sauces work well. Tally Ho! comes into its own when alongside well aged blue cheese, with chutney or even hidden in a Tally Ho! Fruit cake!

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A story of family, heritage, quality… and beer.


Palmers ales are brewed in one of Britain’s oldest and prettiest breweries and have been since 1794. The only thatched brewery in the UK, Palmers sits adjacent to the river Brit just a mile from Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. All our fine ales are brewed using water from our own naturally rising spring.

Our Head Brewer uses only the finest Maris Otter malt and carefully selected whole leaf hops to produce ales in a way they have been made for generations. Palmers historic brewhouse has a traditional Mash Tun, an open top Copper, along with top fermentation, this is the way ale should be brewed.

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Copper Ale IPA Dorset Gold Palmers 200 Tally Ho! The Dorset Pale

 

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