Williams Brothers (Heather Ales)
Microbrewery
in
Alloa,
Clackmannanshire,
Scotland 🏴
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 1988
Contact
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.
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.
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Golden beer with a white head. No carbonation. Spicy aroma with ginger, caramel and malt. Malty flavor with spices and caramel. Lightly dusty mouthfeel. Dry, bitter finish. Rating: 7-3-7-3-14-3.4. (060422)
Bottle. A slightly hazy golden beer with a fingerthick white head. Heathery nose with sweet pale malts and a flowery touch. A hint of ginger too maybe. Sweet malts, heather and some flowery notes. There’s some ginger-like notes in the flavor too, but without the almost soapy touch there’s to ginger. Medium body. Sweet, almost sugary towards the finish with heather, pale malts and some bitterness. Drying up in the very end. A nice and slightly quenching beer, but a bit on the sweet side. Like it. (090629)
Bottle. A slightly hazy golden beer with a fingerthick white head. Heathery nose with sweet pale malts and a flowery touch. A hint of ginger too maybe. Sweet malts, heather and some flowery notes. There’s some ginger-like notes in the flavor too, but without the almost soapy touch there’s to ginger. Medium body. Sweet, almost sugary towards the finish with heather, pale malts and some bitterness. Drying up in the very end. A nice and slightly quenching beer, but a bit on the sweet side. Like it. (090629)
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2006
at 06:58
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled. A still, copper-colored beer with a small beige head. Malt and caramel-sweetness in the aroma. It’s pleasant, almost bock-like. Malty flavor with some alcohol and sweetness. A bit dry. Lightly sticky full to medium body. Rating: 6-4-6-4-13-3.3. (060422)
Bottle. It pours a hazy orange-golden color, with almost no trace of head on top. Malty-sweet, citrusy and woody nose with some alcohol sweetness. Full-bodied and warming. The flavor is caramel-sweet and quite fruity, with some bitterness, but the tree-flavors seems to disappear in the alcohol. Still, it’s a quite nice beer. Nothing I could drink a lot of though. (090513)
Bottle. It pours a hazy orange-golden color, with almost no trace of head on top. Malty-sweet, citrusy and woody nose with some alcohol sweetness. Full-bodied and warming. The flavor is caramel-sweet and quite fruity, with some bitterness, but the tree-flavors seems to disappear in the alcohol. Still, it’s a quite nice beer. Nothing I could drink a lot of though. (090513)
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2006
at 06:52
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle Dec 05 had a bit of a splurge on this brewerys beers. Hazy brown colour, aroma quite fruity, taste was not as good as I was hoping still it had a nice bite and was a little tart didn’t detect the gooseberries but some yeasty and wheatv flavours there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2006
at 01:54
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled Dec 05. Gold coloured beer nice fresh citrusy aroma, good hoppy malty taste, very pleasant beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2006
at 01:49
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle Dec 05, Almost black in color small off white head, nice roasted malt and chocolatey flavours but whilst quite decent overall I found it a bit thin and nothing out of the ordinary.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2006
at 06:18
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
First ratingRating added 4/9/2006Bottle at Haket in Gothenburg, Sweden.The last bottles were sold April 8.Light yellow color, small non-lasting white head. Sweet scent from honey and heather. Pretty thin sweet taste with very low bitterness. Heather and sweet aftertaste.8/2/6/2/8=2.6RerateBottled 50 cl at Haket, on June 30, 2017.BB marked as 0772018.Clear golden color, white head. Sweet, malty, honey, perhaps an imagined light heather scent. Sweet, sugary, light fruity taste. Sweet aftertaste. Thin mouthfeel, very low bitterness.6/3/4/2/8=2.3
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2006
at 01:54
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 08-04-06. Hadn’t had this for some time but it reminds me very much of Youngs double chocolate stout, very dark, nice balance, quite sweet, couldn’t really notice the Bladder Wrack, but otherwise a very good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2006
at 01:39
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh. Sweet and sour berry aroma, same kind of taste. Bit sticky palate. Some licorice in a beer where you don’t expect it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2006
at 11:14
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy light brown color with a thin frothy white head. Aroma of spice and floral hints. Sweet spiced flavor with some floral and fruity flavors lightly sour.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2006
at 20:14
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark black color with a thin light brown head. Sweet malt aroma, slightly astringent. Sweet fruit flavor with light malt hints.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2006
at 04:26