Bottles of Leeds Best are now available in selected ASDA stores across Yorkshire.

The brewery’s classic Yorkshire bitter is 4.3% and uses entirely British ingredients to create a full flavoured beer with a great hoppy finish. It can be found on the shelves of Leeds stores including Adel and Pudsey, as well as in other local ASDA stores including York, Harrogate, Wakefield, and Huddersfield.

‘It’s great to have Leeds Best available in bottles’, said Head Brewer Venkatesh Iyer. ‘It has always been very popular in cask and we are extremly pleased with the final result and flavour characteristics of the bottles, it’s a really good match with the draught product’.

The listing marks a return to bottling for Leeds Brewery following further expansion at the Holbeck based site leading to increased capacity and the ability to add bottled products to its range of cask beers and lager.

Leeds Brewery has released its new lager Leodis.

Leodis, the Roman name for Leeds, is a crisp, dry, refreshing lager which has been traditionally brewed using bottom fermentation before being conditioned for four weeks and kegged.

The beer is 4.6% ABV and uses German grown Hallertauer Mittlefrauh and Slovenian grown Celeia hops which give it a delicate floral aroma and flavour.

Leodis is currently available in all Leeds Brewey pubs and makes the brewery one of only a handful of independent producers in the country to brew a genuine kegged lager product.

Leeds Brewery has been shortlisted for the 2012 Publican Awards.

The brewery has made it into the final four in the category ‘Best Pub Operating Microbrewer’ and will now be subject to judging by some of the industry’s top experts.

Beer writer Pete Brown is heading up the judging panel and will be visiting the brewery and its pubs before members of staff are interviewed by a further panel of judges in London during February.

Brewery director Michael Brothwell expressed his delight saying; ‘to have made it to the final four in a national competition like the Publican Awards is tremendous. It highlights the huge amount of hard work done by all of our staff and is well deserved recognition for their efforts’.

The awards will be presented in London during March at a ceremony hosted by comedian Jimmy Carr.