Williams Brothers (Heather Ales)

Microbrewery in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1988

Contact
New Alloa Brewery, Kelliebank, Alloa, FK10 1NT, Scotland
Description
Williams Bros Brewing Company is a Scottish family-owned microbrewery, founded and operated by brothers Bruce and Scot Williams.

The Williams Bros. Brewing Co. started life in the humble ‘Glenbrew’ homebrew shop in Glasgow. The first beer brewed was the ‘Fraoch’ Heather Ale at a small 5-barrel brewery in Taynuilt, After the 2nd year of brewing in the Taynuilt brewery and with demand far out stripping supply the brothers decided to expand and also to diversify the range with five Historic Ales. These ales were produced at the new purpose built brewery and premises in Craigmill, Strathaven from 1998-2004.

In 2004 the brothers took over the ‘Forth Brewery’ at Kellibank, Alloa where Maclay’s had been contract brewing and packaging their beers since the sale of their old Alloa brewery. It was at this stage in proceedings that Heather Ale Ltd became Williams Bros. Brewing Co.

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6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
440ml can. Pours pale gold with a medium head. Aroma is greasy peach and lime. Taste has tropical fruit throughout with a little peach on the finish.
Tried from Can on 13 Aug 2024 at 19:23

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Copper coloured with a rich head. Aroma is chocolate, brown sugar and dried plums. Flavour is nuts, brown sugar and dried plums.
Tried on 10 Aug 2024 at 14:21

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
440ml can. Pours slightly hazy gold with a small head. Aroma is yeasty lemon and tinned pineapple. Taste has tinned pineapple syrup with a yeasty finish.
Tried from Can on 07 Aug 2024 at 20:12

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
440ml can at home. Poured light orange in color. White head. Aroma of pinapples mostly. Slightly sweet, bit sharp overall.
Tried from Can on 04 Aug 2024 at 11:09

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle in a friend's garden on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Great barbecued food, fantastic company and just plain old enjoyable. I was expecting more hops out of this one, but I definitely can't say it isn't very drinkable. A perfectly pleasant pint, but nothing amazing.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Aug 2024 at 17:42

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
500ml bottle from Asda. It pours clear yellow - gold with a medium fluffy white head. The aroma is fresh, fragrant, nice elderflower character, orangey citrus in the mix, apricot, peach and some biscuit. The taste is crispy, dry, snappy, touch of bitterness, peppery spice, grassy, fragrant, mellow elderflower, pithy, zesty, grapefruit rind and some biscuity milk with a drying, floral finish. Average body and moderate carbonation. Decent chugger. I like elderflower in beer, so happy to chug.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jul 2024 at 17:26

8/10
Samtig, röstig, fein
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jul 2024 at 18:54

7/10
Kräftig, bitter, süss, malzig, fast belgisch
Tried from Can on 14 Jul 2024 at 12:45

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
500ml can from Asda. Pours clear golden with a thick white head. Aromas of gooseberry and white grape, light lime and cheesecake. Taste is more of the same. Dry finish.
Tried from Can on 13 Jul 2024 at 16:58

5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
[44cl can from my local Aldi.] A clear pale amber pour with a loose white head; malty aroma with some tropical fruit; thin in the mouth with some pineapple, then lime and lime; but little to finish.
Tried from Can from Aldi (England) on 10 Jul 2024 at 18:10