British Heavy Metal fans are in for a treat this week after Iron Maiden launched their own beer, named after one of their songs, 'Trooper'.
The beer will make its debut in pubs in Cheshire where it is brewed, and singer, Bruce Dickinson, hopes the casket ale will make its way around the globe, offering headbangers a taste of something definitively British.
The ale will have an alcohol volume percentage of 4.7 per cent, and puts Iron Maiden on the map alongside other bands who have produced their own alcoholic beverages, including AC/DC, and Motorhead.
The launch comes amid recent uproar on the high amount of tax added to beer in the UK compared to other European countries, with the popular tabloid, 'The Sun', starting a campaign called, 'Axe Beer Tax', in the hope that the amount of excise duty will be lowered, and less pubs will face closure due to the increasing cost of pints of beer.
Currently, a pint of beer in Britain will set drinkers back £3.22 - 54p of which is VAT and 55p excise duty, compared to the more reasonable price of just £1.70 in Spain.
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