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Drinks Wholesaler for Pubs, Bars and Restaurants

Keeping the Home Counties Pouring.

Cask ale, beer, cider, wine, spirits and soft drinks, plus the snacks, gas and glassware behind the bar. One account and one delivery for venues across the Home Counties and London, from a fourth-generation family business near Aylesbury.

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Dayla DrinksAston Clinton, 01296 630013

Delivery Note

Deliver To
Your bar
Delivery Day
Tuesday
An example of one Dayla delivery
QtyItemLoaded
2Oakham 3 Witches, 9 gal caskLoaded
1Grain Oak, 9 gal caskLoaded
2Keg lager, 50 LLoaded
1Brew York Coney craft keg, 30 LLoaded
12Spirits, 70 cl bottlesLoaded
6James Pettit house wineLoaded
4Cases of soft drinks and mixersLoaded
3Cases of crisps and nutsLoaded
1CO2 cylinder, swappedLoaded

One Dray
One Order
One Account Manager

An illustrative Dayla delivery note: cask ale, keg beer and cider, craft keg, spirits, James Pettit wine, soft drinks, snacks and a gas cylinder on one delivery.
  • 3,500+Products, from cask ale to crisps
  • 1,800+Pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants supplied
  • 500+Cask beers through the year
  • 170+People on the Dayla team

One Account. The Whole Bar.

Everything You Pour, on One Dray.

Most bars juggle a brewery rep, a wine merchant, a soft drinks supplier and a cash and carry. We bring the lot on one delivery, with one account manager who knows your bar.

“Big enough to cope. Small enough to care.”

That’s been our promise to the trade for four generations of the same family. It still is.

Cask Ale

Cask Is Where We Made Our Name.

Every cask comes to us straight from the brewer and waits in our chilled store until it goes out on your dray. Alongside an all-year list of more than 100 cask ales, every issue of Cooper’s Choice brings new specials, from Cornish stouts to brewers on our own patch like Vale, Tring and XT.

  • 1,500Casks our chilled store can hold
  • 100+Cask ales on our all-year list
  • 24Cask specials on the October list

On the Bar This Month

October’s Cask Specials

24 casks from the September and October issue of Cooper’s Choice, our trade magazine. Pick the ones you fancy and we’ll add them to your first order.

Showing all 24 casks

  • 3.8%Golden

    Grain, Norfolk

    Oak

    Golden Ale

    Light and easy-drinking, with a delicate biscuit malt character and notes of sweet honey.

    £96.00 per cask

  • 3.8%Copper

    Northern Whisper, Lancashire

    Blimey

    Bitter

    A proper pint with no fuss: toasty malts, earthy hops and a smooth, sessionable finish.

    £94.00 per cask

  • 3.9%Golden

    Northern Whisper, Lancashire

    Brewers Gold

    Pale Ale

    Lightly toasted biscuit malts with delicate floral and citrus notes and a clean finish.

    £99.99 per cask

  • 4.0%Amber

    Goffs, Gloucestershire

    Jouster

    Bitter

    An all-English hopped best bitter: light hoppiness that gives way to a malty finish.

    £92.00 per cask

  • 4.0%Copper

    Otter, Devon

    Witch Otter

    Red Ale

    A nutty, mysterious red ale for Halloween.

    £88.00 per cask

  • 4.0%Amber

    Skinners, Cornwall

    Betty Stoggs

    Bitter

    A Cornish twist on a classic bitter, with a floral, cedar taste and a grapefruit tang.

    £92.00 per cask

  • 4.1%Amber

    Cairngorm, Highlands

    Nessie’s Monster Mash

    Bitter

    Malty but well hopped, with a satisfying fullness of flavour and a lasting finish.

    £99.99 per cask

  • 4.2%Amber

    Grain, Norfolk

    Best Bitter

    Bitter

    An amber, malt-driven bitter with toasted grain, caramel and gentle biscuit sweetness.

    £104.00 per cask

Prices per 9-gallon cask (72 pints) as listed in Cooper’s Choice, October 2026. Some casks need a week’s notice to order. Download the October list (PDF) or the all-year casks (PDF).

Technical Services

When the Taps Stop, We Pick Up.

A dead font on a Friday night costs you money every minute. Our engineers support and maintain the beer and cider systems we supply, seven days a week, 364 days a year. Not sure whose kit has stopped? Call us anyway and we’ll tell you who to ring.

Technical Services01296 633343

Before You Call, Check

  1. Gas: Is the cylinder empty, or is its valve turned off?
  2. Keg or cask: Has it run dry? Change it, and reset the fob detector if your line has one.
  3. Cooler: Is it switched on at the wall?

Our Engineers Look After

  • Adnams keg range
  • Bitburger
  • Budweiser Budvar
  • Dortmunder
  • Korev
  • Stowford Press
  • Mortimers Orchard
  • Henry Westons
  • Vimto post-mix
  • Dayla post-mix

Other brands’ systems are serviced by the brewer that installed them. Call us and we’ll point you to the right engineer.

Our Wine Merchant

Wine Lists That Earn Their Place.

James Pettit began as the wine and spirits arm of the Aylesbury Brewery Company and has been part of the Dayla family since 2001. Our wine team builds lists your guests enjoy exploring and that protect your margin, with every wine chosen for hospitality, not the supermarket shelf.

  • On-trade exclusive wines you won’t find on supermarket shelves
  • Selections guided by Master of Wine Sam Caporn
  • No minimum order, so you stock exactly what your venue needs
  • Wine list and menu design included with your partnership
  • Free in-venue tastings and staff training
  • Vegan, organic and biodynamic wines, clearly labelled on your list

“Our heritage gives us perspective. Our customers give us purpose.”

Tim Nortje, Head of James Pettit Wine Merchants
Book a Wine List Review info@jamespettit.co.uk
A plum James Pettit Wine Merchants van with gold lettering and a small Dayla logo on the back
A James Pettit van in the plum and gold livery, part of the Dayla Drinks family.

Your Wine Team

  • Tim NortjeHead of James Pettit
  • Miguel FernandezWine Development Manager
  • Jon GoodwinWine Development Manager
  • Steve ChipperWine Development Manager
  • Charlie MaylinWine Development Manager

More Than a Delivery

Help for Every Part of the Bar.

  • Trade Counter

    Run short before your next delivery? Pop into our trade counter at Aston Clinton: more than 3,000 lines, a team to help load your vehicle, and cash or card.

    Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm, Saturday 9am to 12 noon.

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  • Equipment Hire

    Glasses for a big event, cask taps and stillages for a festival, or extra fridges for the busy season: we have a wide range of kit to hire.

    Plan a Festival

  • Cooper’s Choice

    Our bi-monthly trade magazine: new releases, the cask specials, team picks and the latest deals across Dayla and James Pettit.

    Read the Current Issue (opens in a new tab)

  • Wine Lists and Training

    From a tent card for your wine of the month to a full list, designed by James Pettit, plus tastings and training for your front-of-house team.

    Talk to the Wine Team

Beer Festival Planner

Plan Your Beer Festival in a Minute.

Beer festivals have been a Dayla speciality since the Great Dayla Ale Trail in the 1990s. Tell us roughly how big yours is and we’ll work out the casks, stillage and glasses to start from. We can find the weird and wonderful ales too, with festival programmes, pump clips and posters.

A 9-gallon cask holds 72 pints; we plan on about 68 servable after sediment. Casks need a day or two on the stillage to settle before serving, kept cool at cellar temperature. Rough guide only: our cask team will help you firm up the order.

Beer Festival Calculator

300
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Pints to Plan For
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9-Gallon Casks
27
Stillage Spaces and Cask Taps
27
Glasses to Hire
330

Selling alcohol without a premises licence? A Temporary Event Notice covers fewer than 500 people at any one time, staff included, and goes in at least 10 working days ahead.

Send This Plan to Our Cask Team

Our Story

Four Generations Behind the Bar.

Dayla grew from a Wendover brewery and a mineral water company. The Cooper family still runs it, and the family values Joe Holland started with still run through it.

Why “Dayla”? In the early 1970s Dick Cooper named a new soft drinks brand after his own business: Dick’s AYLesbury Agency.

  1. Late 1800s

    Joseph Senior Holland, builder, hotelier and licensee, brews at the Wendover Brewery, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills.

  2. 1919

    His son Joe, back from the First World War, buys North & Randall, a small mineral water company.

  3. 1943

    North & Randall Ltd is incorporated. It is the same company, Dayla Ltd, today.

  4. 1947

    Joe’s son-in-law, Richard “Dick” Cooper, joins the business.

  5. 1961

    Dick sets up the Hubbly Bubbly Organisation, taking a soft drink from South Africa to bottlers across the UK.

  6. 1970s

    Dick launches the DAYLA brand, and in 1977 North & Randall becomes Dayla Soft Drinks (Southern) Ltd.

  7. 2001

    James Pettit, once the Aylesbury Brewery Company’s wine merchant, joins the Dayla family.

  8. 2019

    A draught soft drinks business joins, taking Dayla’s post-mix to more than 800 outlets.

  9. 2024

    A second depot opens to serve London, alongside the distribution centre at Aston Clinton.

  10. Today

    More than 170 people, seventeen families among them, with the Cooper family still at the helm.

Recognised by the Trade

Trusted by Brewers. Chosen by Licensees.

  • Harpers Top 50 Drinks WholesalersRanked in 2017, 2018 and 2022, when the judges praised the number of craft beers and spirits on offer.
  • AB InBev Wholesale Excellence Awards 2024Social and Corporate Responsibility Leader. Our team supports Rennie Grove and Florence Nightingale hospices and the Chilterns Neuro Centre.
  • TUCO Approved SupplierOne of 13 suppliers on the universities’ alcohol framework, 2024 to 2028.
  • Unitas Wholesale and the Society of VintnersMembers of both buying groups, so you get national buying power with family service.
Two framed 2019 WEP Awards certificates from Budweiser Brewing Group, Gold Accredited and Best of the Best, made out to Dayla Drinks, with three glass and steel trophies
Dayla’s 2019 Wholesale Excellence Programme certificates and trophies from Budweiser Brewing Group.

Brewers on Our Lists This Season

In red: brewed on our own patch

  • Adnams
  • Allsopp’s
  • Anspach & Hobday
  • Brew York
  • Butcombe
  • Cairngorm
  • Dark Star
  • DEYA
  • Five Points
  • Fuller’s
  • Goffs
  • Grain
  • Greene King
  • Harvey’s
  • Hogs Back
  • Hook NortonOxfordshire
  • Kirkstall
  • Northern Whisper
  • Oakham
  • Ossett
  • Otter
  • Purity
  • Skinners
  • St Austell
  • Theakston
  • Thornbridge
  • Timothy Taylor
  • Tiny Rebel
  • TringHertfordshire
  • ValeBrill, Bucks
  • Wadworth
  • Wolfpack
  • XTOxfordshire

Questions

Good to Know Before You Switch.

Anything else, call our team on 01296 630013.

How Do I Open a Trade Account?

Fill in the form on this page or call us on 01296 630013. Someone from our sales team will call you back to talk through what you stock, set up your account and agree your regular delivery day.

Which Areas Do You Deliver To?

Our drays cover the Home Counties and the Thames Valley from our distribution centre at Aston Clinton, near Aylesbury, and a second depot serves London. If your venue is further afield, ask us anyway.

How Do I Place Orders Once I Have an Account?

Order any time in the Dayla app for iPhone (App Store, opens in a new tab) and Android (Google Play, opens in a new tab), by phone, or through your account manager. In the app, use the Special Requirements box for anything we need to know about your delivery.

Do I Need to Order Cask Ales in Advance?

Some of our cask ales need a week’s notice, so it pays to plan your guest ales early. Each issue of Cooper’s Choice lists the coming months’ casks, and our cask team will tell you what can go on your next delivery.

Who Do I Call If My Beer Stops Pouring?

Call Dayla Technical Services on 01296 633343, seven days a week, 364 days a year. We look after the systems for the beers and ciders we supply, and if another brewer’s engineer needs to come out, we’ll tell you who to call.

When Is the Trade Counter Open?

Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm, and Saturday, 9am to 12 noon, at Unit 2, 50 Aylesbury Road, Aston Clinton. We take cash and all major cards, and the team will help load your vehicle.

Do You Supply Beer Festivals and Events?

Yes. We supply the casks, plus stillages, cask taps, glasses and fridges to hire, and can help with festival programmes, pump clips, posters and point of sale. Talk to us well before the date.

Can I Buy Wine on Its Own?

Yes. James Pettit, our wine merchant, has no minimum order, so you can stock exactly what your venue needs, with list design and staff training included in the partnership.

Do You Stock Low and No Alcohol Drinks?

Yes: alcohol-free and low-alcohol beer, cider, wine, spirits and ready-to-drink cans, all year round, with a dedicated Low and No list each January.