Harry's Bitter at the Duke of Sussex
South Parade pub selling new beer to coincide with controversial Netflix series
A royally good tipple at the Duke of Sussex. Picture: Twitter
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December 11, 2022
Not only does Harry have a pub in Chiswick named after him, but now the same venue has created a beer in his honour.
Staff at the Duke of Sussex on South Parade say its new ‘Harry’s Bitter’ is proving very popular with customers. The beer is a rebrand of its house ale launched to coincide with the release of the Netflix documentary in which Harry and Meghan give their side of the story about the royal rift.
Nobody at the pub was able to give a definitive answer as to whether the apostrophe in the beer’s name was possessive or marked an abbreviation. The suggestion was that you could take it either way, depending on which side of the very fraught debate you stood.
The pint is a dark amber colour with a creamy head and has an ABV of 3.9%. The badge on the pump is red, white and blue with a picture of a bearded Harry and promises "a royally good tipple".
The Duke of Sussex is part of the Metropolitan Pub Company which is ultimately owned by Greene King. The pub chain is keen to point out that the beer is the pub’s initiative and not theirs.
A Greene King spokesperson said, "It was a decision by the Duke of Sussex pub to create that name and label for the beer, so that decision wasn't something Greene King brewery was involved in, so this is the only pub you'll find it in."
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