Craddock's Brewery

Microbrewery in Stourbridge, West Midlands, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 2011

Contact
The Duke William, 25 Coventry Street, Stourbridge, DY28 1EP, England
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Description
Reported by CAMRA in March 2025 that beers are now being brewed at Birmingham Brewing Co.

Please check when adding new beers but it would seem to appear best practice to add them as brewed there going forwards.

Before there was the brewery, there were pubs. The Plough and Harrow was the first, 2006. Then the Duke William 2009. These two beautiful and popular pubs are a short distance apart and are the reason that Craddock’s Brewery is rooted in Stourbridge.

The brewery was installed at the Duke William in March 2011. The next two years the focus of the company was on perfecting the beers and remaining traditional and true to the local heritage of small, family-run pub and brewery companies. This was when Dottie the Dray horse would work every Sunday delivering the beer to the Plough and Harrow.
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Harrisoni
Harrisoni (26525) reviewed
Crazy Sheep from Craddock's Brewery
13 years ago
6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask handpull at Duke William. Pale gold ascetic ok a bit harsh. Its another golden beer.
Tried from Cask on 06 Jul 2013 at 07:07
fonefan
fonefan (85958) reviewed
Billy the Kid from Craddock's Brewery
13 years ago
6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask (gravity) @ The 18th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2012, Reading, Berkshire England.Clear medium yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing to lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, citrus, light yeasty. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, thin. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120503]
Tried from Cask on 19 Jun 2013 at 18:59
RichTheVillan
RichTheVillan (12420) reviewed
Up & Under from Craddock's Brewery
13 years ago
5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Cask at The Duke William; cloudy yellow pour with white head, malty bitter with some hop, didn’t take many notes on this, a bit drunk. --- Beer merged from original tick of Up And Under on 27 Apr 2013 at 08:35 - Score: 5
Tried from Cask on 27 Apr 2013 at 03:04
RichTheVillan
RichTheVillan (12420) reviewed
Crazy Sheep from Craddock's Brewery
13 years ago
6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at The Duke William; cloudy golden amber pour with frothy white head, fruity aroma, very refreshing grapefruit taste very fruity balanced with malty backbone.
Tried from Cask on 27 Apr 2013 at 02:56
Tommann
Tommann (7783) reviewed
Capra from Craddock's Brewery
13 years ago
6.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at the Duke William, Stourbridge. Pours light gold with a small head. Aroma is grainy with a little lemon. Taste has a little lemon on the start, grainy throughout with a slightly acrid finish.
Tried from Cask on 26 Jan 2013 at 04:24
oh6gdx
oh6gdx (52790) reviewed
Billy the Kid from Craddock's Brewery
14 years ago
6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Golden colour, small head. Aroma is fruity, slight floral and grassy notes with sweet malts, earth and mild citrusy notes. Flavour is fruity, citrusy, wooden and a bit herbal.
Tried from Cask on 23 May 2012 at 08:33
Tommann
Tommann (7783) reviewed
Billy the Kid from Craddock's Brewery
14 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at the Duke William, Stourbridge. Pours light gold with a large head. Aroma is lemon with some sulphur. Taste has sherbet lemon to start. Some straw in a slightly watery finish.
Tried from Cask on 28 Apr 2012 at 01:40
Tommann
Tommann (7783) reviewed
Troll from Craddock's Brewery
14 years ago
6.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at the Duke William, Stourbridge. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is grainy and sandy with some slight hops, somewhere. Taste has some citrus hop and a medium bitter finish. Slightly astringent.
Tried from Cask on 28 Apr 2012 at 01:35
Fin
Fin (18707) reviewed
Crest from Craddock's Brewery
14 years ago
5.8/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask, handpump at The Hop Pole, Aylesbury, Bucks, 12th December 2011 Pours day old urine gold with slight haze and white rim of bubbles. Touch thin but with some bitterness and hoppiness, biscuity with a slight Rich Tea element. Its ok but unusually for the Hop Pole this may not be at its freshest. A6 A2 T6 P3 Ov12 2.9
Tried from Cask on 13 Dec 2011 at 22:48
Tommann
Tommann (7783) reviewed
Wanted Man from Craddock's Brewery
15 years ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at the Duke William, Stourbridge. Pours gold with a medium head. Aroma is citrus and dry crackers. Taste has citrus to start and peach and floral notes in the finish.
Tried from Cask on 09 Jun 2011 at 15:04