Power
Gower Brewery in Crofty, Swansea, Wales 🏴
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
6.47
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Gower Power, like all of our ales is brewed using traditionally floor malted barley. To balance the powerful alcohol content, this beer is endowed with a good dollop of quality whole hops. The result is a warming, malt, fruity strong Welsh Ale.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
8/3/2026. Cask (not) at wetherspoon’s beer festival. At the Cricketers, Ipswich. Good pour. Very smooth. Aroma is malty, slightly nutty, hoppy, some overripe tropical notes, and a touch of resin. Nicely balanced bittersweet fruity hopped taste. Enjoyed this, more than the 3 festival thirds I tried.
Tried
from Cask
at
Cricketers (JDW)
on 08 Mar 2026
at 12:26
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7
Cask up the White Lady. Pours clear amber with a tight thin white head. Aromas of marmalade, caramel, light spice. Taste is more of the same. Clean finish. Decent.
Tried
on 21 Feb 2026
at 17:43
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading. Glowing copper with a thin off-white head and a light carbonation. Excellent condition on this one - well done 'Spoons. Lots of sweetish fruit up front - juicy orange, red apples. Rustic barley chaff behind, with a good balancing twiggy bitterness in the finish. A great brew that's enhanced by being served with top-notch cask conditioning. Lovely.
Tried
from Cask
at
Hope Tap
on 18 Feb 2026
at 13:00
5/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5
Cask at Archibald Simpsons, Aberdeen. It pours clear deep blonde with a thick, fluffy white head. The aroma is sweet and malty - driven, generic fruitiness, toasty grains , cereal, biscuit, earth and fruit cake. The taste is heavy sweet upfront, punchy, some dryness, bitterness, toasty grains, actually feels boozey for only 5.5%, biscuit, ryvita, rawness and old rope with a drying, almost oniony finish. Medium body and moderate, foamy cask carbonation. Rough around the edges and sita quite heavy for the abv. Lovely condition, so that can't be responsible. I reckon a full pint would be a challenge.
Tried
from Cask
at
Archibald Simpson
on 16 Jan 2026
at 12:37
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Pint on cask at the Gate House JDW 6:22 PM 17 Jan 24
Tried
from Cask
at
The Gate House (JDW)
on 08 Jan 2026
at 15:49
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 5
Overall 5
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2025
at 18:47
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 7
A 500ml bottle from Mermaids restaurant in Mumbles. A traditional Welsh IPA. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2025
at 09:43
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Wales Ales. Clear amber with nice looking frothy off white head. Aroma of bready malts, orange peel, some grassiness. Taste is quite sweet at first with orange and lime jammy citrus notes, then a semi-rich malt, grass and a long moderate bitter finish. Medium bodied, slightly tangy and chewy, fine to medium carbonation. Good traditional IPA style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:05
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Bodnant Welsh Food Hall. Aroma is fruity with a light hint of resin and underlying caramel malts. Clear gold. Thin foamy translucent white head. Light-medium bitter. Resin/quinine. Sweet fruit. A hint of chewy caramel. A latterly appearance of spice. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Average-fizzy carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent finish. Very old school. Would deffo have been added as a Golden Ale by our older brethren. If this is Gower Power then no wonder all the industry has left.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2024
at 18:04
6/10
Tried
on 06 Jul 2024
at 14:02