Butcombe Brewery (Liberation Group)
Microbrewery
in Wrington,
Somerset,
England 🏴
Associated with 10 Venues
Established in 1978
You see, at that time, no one was risking it all starting a brewery, making simple, premium, easy-drinking ale. To do so was an act of defiance. Or madness. But, 42 years and a lot of hard graft later, by staying true to our beliefs and Bristolian roots, it looks like owning a resolutely maverick brewing company isn’t such a crazy idea after all. By going against the grain, to work intimately with it, we made our own statement with every pint. And what was true then is just as important today.
Butcombe now produces over 250,000 pints a week from our brewery in Wrington. As times and tastes change, so does our range of beers. Alongside Original, Gold and Rare Breed, you’ll find two craft lagers, Bohemia and Underfall, and two IPAs, Goram and Stateside, plus a range of exciting seasonal and small batch specials.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle 50 cl) Clear amber golden with an off-white head. Aroma of nuts and caramel. Medium body with sweet fruits and caramel. Rather clean and lightly bitter finish. Solid and classical ESB. 021108
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draught. Clear coppery amber with loose white head. Little aroma: just beery! Light body and light carbonation. Light malty, bready, yeasty flavour with gentrle bitter finish. Very quaffable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled@Monks Café, Stockholm. Pale orangeish amber colour with small white foamy head. Aroma is flowery and fruity hops. Flabvour is quite grassy with some wooden and caramelly notes. Rather mouthdrying, yet refreshing session beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled@Monks Café, Stockholm. Ambery golden colour, small head. Aroma is fruits, earth, some mild notes of wood as well as yeasty "mouldy" notes. Flavour is bitter grass along with some flowery and caramelly notes. Ends in a wooden dryness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottled@Monks Café, Stockholm. Pale golden colour, not much head. Aroma is hops, grass, mild notes of wood and that’s about it. Flavour is hops, wood and some grassy notes. Mild/smooth bitterish grassy finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle, 5% at EBF08. Clear golden colour. Small white head. The flavour is weakly fruity, not very bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
500ml bottle from Sainsburys, Bracknell. Amber with a loose white head; fruity aroma with apricot; earthy bitter taste with more apricot fruitiness and some citrus; and a salty earthy finish. Very drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask (Central Bar JDW,Cardiff) - Pale golden in colour with a bit of a haze. Lightly hoppy aroma with tea and some fruity notes. Refreshing fruity and hoppy taste with notes of tea and grapefruit. Easy to drink.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate. Standard nice but boring ESB
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Cask@GBBF.
Appearance: Brown, clear. Not much head. Aroma: Hops and malt, some dark fruit. Taste: Quite bitter, malt and some fruit. Bitter aftertaste. Info: 1/3 pint, 8/8-2008, 182/300