Bottle conditioned beers are effectively real ale in a bottle. They are unfiltered, uncarbonated, full of flavour and with a limited shelf life.

In recent years Booths used to have a ‘bottle conditioned beers’ section in their Keswick supermarket with a range of a few dozen assorted ales, but sadly no longer.

They have a vast array of bottled beers, but only two products are of the bottle conditioned genre, namely Coniston Bluebird and Coniston Old Man Ale.

A sad state of affairs.