Norfolk-based Wolf Brewery have launched a pair of new beers for the English rugby league club, Widnes Vikings.

The two beers, which are the Golden Lager, or the vibrant Premium Real Ale IPA, have been created to help raise funds for the club.

Speaking on the launch of the beer, Vikings director Brad Fussell explained: “As a club, we need to make money that we can funnel into this team, not just for the mens team, we want to support our Wheelchair team, our LDSL team, our women’s team, and to do that, we have to build our brand.

“Widnes Viking beer is something that we’ve come up with the board, the great thing is, if you go out and buy one of these beers, you’re helping to fund our club.

“The aim will be to have it in all the pubs, but you will be able to buy it from the club shop, with the great thing being that every time somebody drinks a beer, that’s going straight back to the club. Please drink responsibly, but if you would like a beer, make it a Widnes Vikings beer.”

The beers are produced by Wolf Brewery, which opened in 1995 on the old Gaymers Cider site in Attleborough. Following 10 years of steady growth the business outgrew the premises and in 2006 they made a major investment in a new brewplant at a new premises, a couple of miles away in the village of Besthorpe.