Siren CCC 2026 is not another year of Caribbean Chocolate Cake. For only the second time, and the first since 2022, the Berkshire brewery is treating CCC as a “break year,” with the letters standing for Charm, Curiosity and Candour instead. The three beers — Cinder, Chasm and Crucible — launch on Friday, Nov. 13, at about 80 venues across the United Kingdom. No U.S. release has been confirmed, and none should be assumed.
The Siren CCC 2026 beers were brewed with three American dark-beer specialists: Revolution Brewing of Chicago, Horus Aged Ales of California and Phase Three Brewing of Lake Zurich, Illinois. Head brewer Sean Knight said the point was to experiment and push what the brewery can do, and that working with those partners has added to Siren’s own stout-making knowledge.
The three Siren CCC 2026 beers
Cinder is an 8.4% imperial stout brewed with Revolution. Siren describes fairground flavors of deep caramel, brown sugar, toasted marshmallow and a touch of fire, built from a concentrated oak-aged blend.
Chasm is a 9% imperial porter brewed with Horus Aged Ales. The brewery frames it as a search for a moreish umami character, with specialty malts, chocolate wheat, white miso, toffee and butterscotch notes, and kombu.
Crucible is a 10% imperial stout brewed with Phase Three. The tasting notes are charred pineapple, slow-caramelised honey and smoked vanilla, with enough cacao, Siren says, for Caribbean Chocolate Cake fans.
The theme this year is fire and heat, though Siren is careful to say that does not mean a set of smoky beers. In 2022, the break-year idea was a different bean in each beer. This time the brewery is talking about flavor forged by transformation: charred barrels, the Maillard reaction, toasted marshmallow, slowly caramelised honey and long boils. Knight said that by taking a break year, the team could “create some very different, really interesting beers that work around caramelisation, but with very different results.”
Where Siren CCC 2026 will be poured
Per Beer Today and a Siren announcement carried by The Beer Guild, the Nov. 13 launch of Siren CCC 2026 covers about 80 venues, including Siren RG1 in Reading, Siren Cheltenham and the TapYard in Finchampstead. Named stops also include The Nags Head in Reading, the Fox & Hounds in Caversham, A Hoppy Place in Maidenhead, Piccadilly Tap and Port Street Beer House in Manchester, Corks of North Street, The Steam Crane and the Famous Royal Navy Volunteer in Bristol, and Vessel Beer Shop in Plymouth. The brewery also lists more than 36 London venues and further accounts in Birmingham, the South Coast, Sheffield, Leeds, York, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Those are United Kingdom launch sites. Siren has not announced a United States release for Siren CCC 2026, so availability outside the UK launch list should be treated as unconfirmed.
