An award winning new cheese made with Moorhouse’s famous Black Cat beer is on exclusive promotion with Booths’ supermarkets as a Christmas gift pack.

The pack comprises a 200gm piece of Dew-lay’s hand-crafted Creamy Lancashire blended Black Cat and a 500ml bottle of the celebrated dark ale.

At Cheshire’s annual Nantwich International Cheese Show earlier this year – even before it had been on sale – the cheese took gold in its class (Mild and Soft cheese with additives)

Award-winning cheese producer Dew-lay of Garstang, Lancashire, collaborated with Burnley’s internationally acclaimed ‘Pendle Witches’ cask-ale brewer to develop the beer flavoured cheese for leading North West supermarket retailer Booths. Priced at £5.85 the gift pack is now on sale with 28 store strong chain in the run up to Christmas

A family business established in 1957, Dew-lay is the only cheese company ever to be twice voted Supreme Champion in the North West Producer of the Year Awards while Burnley based Moorhouse’s has won more brewing awards for its cask-conditioned ales than any other brewer of its size*. Black Cat was voted Supreme Champion Beer of Britain at the Camra (Campaign for Real Ale) Great British Beer Festival 2000.

David Grant, Moorhouse’s managing director said: “This is the first time that any of our beers have been blended with a cheese. It brings together two champion Lancashire brands and is a terrific combination, an ideal complement to a Christmas meal. We expect it to go very well with Booths over the festive season.”

Award winning Dewlay Black Cat cheese