The 4.8% beer is a straw-coloured, Munich style lager brewed with Saaz and Perle hops and the lager yeast strain from Weihenstephan.

‘Storr’ is slow fermented and undergoes cold maturation for several weeks to deliver floral and fruity aromas with a “slightly grassy herbal note and a dry biscuit profile”.

The beer is lightly carbonated, but not filtered or pasteurised, before being packaged into keg.

Peerless founder and managing director Steve Briscoe said: “Storr in cask was something very new in craft brewing and quickly won a strong following.

“With today’s craft beer revolution lager drinkers are expecting more from their tipple.

“Storr is real lager produced to true brewing tradition and we expect the keg version to become very popular as an easy on the palate, thirst quenching, beer with real taste.

Briscoe hopes the new beer will enable Peerless to build on its recent growth that involved a doubling of brewing capacity at the Pool Street, Wirral brewery.