St Austell Brewery has come cup up with a new seasonal ale for Halloween – Bucket of Blood.

Befitting its name, Bucket of Blood is a red ale, infused with spicy hops and takes its title from St Austell Brewery’s Bucket of Blood pub, in Hayle.

Evoking dark deeds in history, folklore has it that the Bucket of Blood pub got its grizzly name after a body was found in the well under the pub 200 years ago. Instead of pulling a bucket of water, the pub’s shocked occupant pulled up a bucket of blood from the well and subsequently found a body, rumoured to be that of the local taxman – even now the victim’s ghost is said to haunt the inn.

Legend has it that the Bucket of Blood got its disturbing name many years ago when the landlord went to the on-site well to get a bucket of water but found there to be just blood. Further investigation found there was a badly mutilated body at the bottom of the well. Often visited by criminals and smugglers in the past, the pub now has reports of ghostly figures standing across the road, strange noises and lots of other strange phenomenae