Hawkstone Advent Calendar

Hawkstone Advent Calendar 2026: 12 beers, 3 ciders and a brewery-shaped box

The Hawkstone Advent Calendar 2026 is Jeremy Clarkson’s brewery packed into 24 doors, and this year the box itself is the headline. It is built as a cardboard model of the Hawkstone brewery, a little gold bow sitting on the roof. Open it across December and you work through 12 beers and 3 ciders, the backbone of a proper beer advent calendar, drawn from the range brewed with barley grown on Diddly Squat Farm.

Last year’s calendar, a different shape, vanished faster than a sheep through a broken fence and sold out. So Hawkstone built a new one. The drinks are the point, but the box is designed to be kept, and at £95 it sits firmly at the premium end of the shelf. This is less a daily chocolate swap and more a Christmas gift box for someone who already watches Clarkson’s Farm with a pint in hand.

What’s inside the Hawkstone Advent Calendar

Behind the 24 doors Hawkstone confirms 12 beers, 3 ciders and 4 never-before-seen drinks, a genuinely new release for this year’s box. Alongside the cans and bottles you get miniature bottles of the Hawkstone gin and vodka, so the calendar reaches past beer into spirits, and a run of exclusive Hawkstone merchandise you cannot buy on its own. The brewery has not published a door-by-door list, so a chunk of the countdown stays a surprise until you open it.

=> The full breakdown of what’s inside is in the SPOILER tab.

A premium gift, and the Golden Ticket draw

Five calendars across the run hide a Golden Ticket, tucked in at random. The top prize is a Cotswolds weekend: two nights in a hotel, dinner at the Farmer’s Dog and at the hotel, and a brewery tour with lunch at the Hawkstone Arms. The other winners get a year of the Hawkstonian membership, 24 bottles a month. It is a lottery, so most boxes will hold no ticket at all, and it is best seen as a bonus on top. What you are paying £95 for is the collector box, the four new drinks, the spirit minis and the merch, with the ticket as the long shot. Divide the £95 launch price across the 24 doors and each one comes to about £3.96, though that is only a rough guide, since several doors hold merchandise or a Golden Ticket.

My verdict on the Hawkstone Advent Calendar 2026

What wins me over is that the box is honest about being a gift. The brewery-shaped carton, the four new drinks and the gin and vodka minis give it a reason to exist beyond 24 cans, and the Clarkson’s Farm link is real rather than licensed on. For a fan, that is genuinely hard to match elsewhere.

Two things give me pause. The first is value: a six-pack of Hawkstone Premium Lager runs about £17, roughly £2.80 a bottle, so the drinks alone do not get you near £95. You are paying for the packaging, the exclusives and the ticket draw, which is fine as a gift but worth knowing. The second is the surprise: with no published door-by-door list, you are trusting the brewery on a good share of the 24 doors. As I put it, ‘you’re buying the brewery and the box as much as the beer, so make sure that’s what you want’.

• Not for you if you just want 24 drinks at the best price per can, or you need to know exactly what is behind every door before you commit.
• Worth it if you are buying for a Clarkson’s Farm fan and you treat the box, the exclusives and the Golden Ticket draw as part of the gift.

Hawkstone, beer from Diddly Squat Farm

Hawkstone is the brewery behind Jeremy Clarkson’s Clarkson’s Farm, and the thing that sets it apart is that it is beer from the farm, brewed with barley grown on Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds. Its line, ‘Beer from the farm, hard to make, easy to drink’, is the whole pitch: the grain starts in the ground Clarkson films himself ploughing, and ends up in the can. That farm-to-glass story is why the calendar lands, because the drinks carry the same programme people already watch.

The range has grown from a single lager into beers, ciders and now spirits, which is exactly what fills this calendar. A box shaped like the brewery is on-brand to the point of being a little daft, and that is rather the appeal for the Jeremy Clarkson audience it is built for.

Where to buy the Hawkstone Advent Calendar 2026

The Hawkstone Advent Calendar is a premium luxury beer advent calendar sold through Hawkstone and Laithwaites, with free delivery once you spend £40, so the calendar qualifies on its own. No discount code has been confirmed at the time of writing. Compare the current offers at the top of this page, and see our wider pick of advent calendar deals if you want to weigh it against other Christmas boxes.