Deeside Brewery (prev. Hillside Brewery)

Microbrewery in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 2006

Contact
The Seading, Lochton of Leys, Banchory, AB31 5QB, Scotland
Description
Deeside Brewery is an independent craft beer producer based in Scotland’s crowning jewel – stunning Royal Deeside. We have been brewing since 2006 with a range of small batch hand crafted ales and lagers.

Deeside Brewery uses filtered spring water sourced from the River Dee, which starts 4000ft above seawater in the mountain ranges of the Cairngorms.

Our small team was enhanced in 2016 when we were joined by the founders of Loch Ness Brewery, Stephen Crossland and George Wotherspoon. This has brought us a new range of skills and experiences allowing us to develop our products further for the UK and Overseas markets with a focus on delivering consistently high beer quality as we continue to innovate and create new beers.

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6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at SRAF 2015... Copper,... Soft toffee malts nose... Dry woody toffee malts... Soft fruits

Tried from Cask on 09 Jul 2015 at 06:41


4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Clear copper colored, medium strong white head with good lacing. Aroma is malt, cardboard and some cooked veggies. Taste is low to moderate sweet malt, some biscuit, again cardboard, some lemon-grassy notes, and cooked veggies to top it off, low bitterness. Low+ bodied, moderate carbonation. Not very good, maybe a defunct bottle...

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jun 2015 at 13:07


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

500ml bottle. Pours golden with a big white head. Slight floral aroma, bitter, slightly sour taste with some apple in there. Ok

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2015 at 14:14


5.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3.5

Many thanks to Sean for this bottle. The beers tarts fresh with hints of grain. Not too much aroma, hints of sweetish wheat. Hints of sourness in the background, not too special.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Apr 2015 at 15:39


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Larbert beer festival. Pours clear pale amber, nose is toffee, floral, taste is dry, sweet fruit, floral.

Tried from Cask on 03 Apr 2015 at 11:22


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at the Larbert Beer Festival 2015. Pours clear pale gold with a thin white head. Aromas of light sweaty socks, light lemon. Taste is buttery, lemon biscuit. Sweet finish.

Tried from Cask on 03 Apr 2015 at 10:26


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Many thanks to Sean for this bottle! Malzig-aleiger Antrunk. Tolle trockene Malzaromatik. Frisch-bitter, leichte Süße. Malzig-fruchtig, leicht herb, frisch-fruchtig. Lecker!

Tried from Bottle on 14 Feb 2015 at 04:05


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Cask at Anchor; hazy golden amber pour with a frothy off white head, slight citrus in the aroma, taste has biscuity malts, grass, some lemon basic.

Tried from Cask on 25 Jan 2015 at 08:35


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle thanks to big bro. Clear light golden yellow coloured pour with a thin white head. Aroma is semi sweet grains, light caramel, little creamy. Flavour is composed of pale grains, little toffee and not much else. Pretty plane with a little creamyness. Palate is moderate carbonation, grainy on the tongue. OK not much to it.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2014 at 17:31


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask and bottle. Clear ruby/amber body with a thin off-white head. Faint lacing. Aroma of toffee, earth and Ryvita. Flavour of caramel, stewed apple and pepper. Thin to medium body with an oily texture. Soft fizz. Simple and tasty.

Tried from Cask on 27 Dec 2014 at 19:02