The UK's first state-of-the-art beer spa at a Norfolk Broads hotel has been named one of the country's best places to relax. 

The Norfolk Mead Hotel in Coltishall introduced its boozy baths in August as part of a £3.5m investment. 

The refurb included a new thermal suite boasting a hydrotherapy pool, herbal steam room and an "outdoor oasis" area featuring an aromatic sauna, hot tub and cold shower buckets.

Inside the new spa at The Norfolk Mead HotelInside the new spa at The Norfolk Mead Hotel (Image: Simon Watson Photography)The spa was named in the UK's top 50 as well as East Anglia's spa of the year in The Times and Sunday Times guide.

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The judges loved its “state-of-the-art complex” with “son-et-lumiere showers” and described it as an “independently-owned hotel that offers ambitious dinners and world-class massages".

The beer spa includes your own beer tapThe beer spa includes your own beer tap (Image: Tatum Reid Photography) The Beer Spa is a UK first but is a popular European treatment "celebrated for its antioxidant effects".

Guests enter a wooden tub filled with vitamin-rich malt and hops and get their own beer tap with Woodforde's Brewery as the supplier.