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 - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Half pint on cask. Golden brown with good clarity. Small head. Aroma has notes of flowers and malt. Malty flavour supported by light fruitiness. Light bitter finish. Medium palate. Standard English bitter (enjoyed while eating full English breakfast at Britannia, Euston 19.09.2006).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at The Britannia London NW1 19 Sep 06. Clear golden brown coloured. A small white head. Dry bitter flavour with fruity hints.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask (handpump) at The Cottage Inn, Cannington TA5. No head, Good bitter after taste, Smooth on the palate with a malty aftertaste
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Sainsbury’s, Banbury 27-04-06. Dark Golden in colour, smooth and malty with good hoppy flavours present, a very enjoable tipple. Apparently brewed to commerorate the 25th Anniversary of both the Butcombe Brewery and the Bristol Balloon Festival, strange that they then call it gold, you’d have thought they could have brewed something with silver connections?
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask handpull at County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. This beer is on Wetherspoons spring list of guest ales, so should make its way round to everyone. Copper colour with thin off white head. Good earthy hop. Warm malts in mouth with touch of chocolate. Smells like an orchard in autumn. Lots of good white flesh fruit, earthy bitter, drying hop finish. Very tasty. Full in mouth with heavy dose of Fuggles and Goldings on the end.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap, Jan Primus. Slightly hazy golden color, medium head. Aroma of hop, some malt. Bitter taste, bit oily, some hop, bit citrus, malt. Decent bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask handpull at County Hotel JDW, Ashford. Nice pint. Good citrus fruit and hoppiness on end
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle (from Bierzwerg): Deep golden, clear, stable fluff - almost off-white - head; pale malt, lemony hops and a subtle fruitiness in the nose; light to moderate bitter-sweet flavour, light to medium bodied, soft; slightly lingering fruity and sweetish-malty finish with a nice balancing bitterness in the aftertaste. Nice archetypal english stuff.......
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at Yew & Ewe Brookland, Kent. Mid brown bitter with little head. Slightly hazy. Fruity malt nose, full in mouth with good deep dark fruit malt on end
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Clear dark orange color, short head. Aroma of roasted malts, rye, hops. Taste is malty, caramel, rye, sweet. Sticky palate.