A KEIGHLEY brewery has teamed-up with an award-winning micropub to produce a special cask ale.

Wishbone, based on the Worth Bridge industrial estate, has brewed 900 litres – about 1,500 pints – of the new tipple, Collarbone.

The venture is a collaboration with the Cap and Collar micropub, in Saltaire, whose staff visited the Wishbone site to assist head brewer Adrian Chapman in creating the ale.

Collarbone will be distributed within a 40-mile radius of the brewery, to locations including the Cap and Collar.

The micropub's owner, Phil Garvey, said: "It has been an amazing first 18 months for us and the team was keen to do a collaboration brew to understand more about malts, hops and the brewing process.

"We have a great relationship with the guys at Wishbone and their beers are well respected by our customers for being both progressive and flavoursome.

"It seemed a perfect fit for our micropub to collaborate with a local, family-run microbrewery.

"We had a fun day there."

Mr Chapman said the brewery was delighted to be involved in the initiative.

He added: "We have been really busy brewing, selling and delivering our beers and had little time to think so when Phil asked if we could do a collaboration brew with Cap and Collar it gave us the nudge we needed.

"We already had plans to do an experiment that would showcase British hops in a session-strength India pale ale, so we took some of Phil's ideas and worked-up a recipe.

"The recipe also includes a hefty level of dry hopping, done while in the fermentation vessel.

"We feel Collarbone has a firm bitterness with a distinctly British undercurrent of flavour, yet it is brewed in a progressive style to suit today's increasing thirst for upfront flavour-led beers."

Wishbone opened last year in the sheds of a former textile mill and now distributes its popular range of beers nationwide.

Cap and Collar, established in 2014, last summer won the Campaign for Real Ale Pub of the Season Award.