Launched this week at the Logan Rock Inn in Treen, St Austell Brewery’s Man Engine Ale is a Cornish-brewed pale ale that’ll be accompanying the giant mechanical puppet himself on his new journey across the Cornish Mining landscape and up into England.

Kicking off on Saturday March 31 at Geevor before taking in Heartlands and Wadebridge Royal Cornwall Showground, the tribute to Cornwall’s mining heritage will travel on to Devon, Wales and the Black Country.

Man Engine creator and keeper Will Coleman poured the first pint of the ale at the launch.