Crouch Vale Brewery

Regional Brewery in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: The Queens Head (Crouch Vale)

Established in 1981

Contact
23 Haltwhistle Road, South Woodham Ferrers, CM3 5ZA, England
Description
Crouch Vale Brewery was established in 1981 by two beer enthusiast. The brewery was cobbled up from whatever was available cheaply. In 2006 a new brewery, purpose-built and capable of much more consistent and better product quality, was opened. However, the original production ethos was (and still is) maintained – ingredients are purchased on quality rather than price and the brewery is still manned by real people, who hand-craft the beers.

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6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Half pint from the cask at Queen's Head, Chelmsford. Pours amber with next to no head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, biscuit & malt. Medium body. Moderate bitter finish. Passable
Tried from Cask on 13 Jan 2025 at 21:21

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Bottle shared at the Ben Burrows memorial virtual bottle share. Cheers Grumbo. Aroma of garlic bread, parsley, grass and citrus. Not for me.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2025 at 11:08

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Shared with Dan and Grumbo. Aroma is of caramel, pine and hoppy. High carbonation and earthy. Not bad.
Tried on 12 Jan 2025 at 11:06

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle 0,55ltr: Golden coloured ale with great thirstquencing abillities, like they used grapefruits and lemons?
Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:43

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle 0,5ltr: Amber coloured ale with an slightly American hoppy bitter taste and ist got some hints of caramel.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:40

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
17th July 2024
Cask at Chelmsfaasarhd Beer Fest. Near clear gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Airy and semi dry palate, decent fine carbonation. Overall, good condition. Light smooth pale malts, a thin creamy sweetness. Ernest hops deliver a softish sweet pine into a light bright slightly mango, slightly tangerine mandarin affair. Maybe a whispet or lime before a light and semi dry finish. Tangy fruity linger. Well , I am assuming this is an Ernest single hop affair. If so, a lot more tropical than I can recall. A very solid hop in a very solid gold.
Tried from Cask on 18 Jul 2024 at 10:50

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask. Slightly hazy golden colour with a mediumsized white foamy head. Aroma is floral, some honey and mild sweet floral tones. Flavour is sweet malts, some floral, honey and mild herbal taste. Nice bitterness and somewhat dry palate too. Refreshing brew.
Tried from Cask on 22 Nov 2023 at 19:03

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Cask@The Fat Cat, Norwich. Amber colour with a mediumsized creamy off-white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, some wooden tones with mild toffee as well. Flavour is floral, fruity, some nectary mild green apple skins with some herbal tones too.
Tried from Cask on 31 Oct 2023 at 19:02

4.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 4
Cask ale at Wenlock Arms. Half-pint shared with Finn. Off-white head over a next-to-clear copper coloured body, spotty lacing. Caramel nose with a sourish hint. Caramel-fruity flavours with a strange off-taste. Ends dry, still with an off-taste to it. Not in its best condition. (Hoxton, London, 28.09.2023).
Tried from Cask on 11 Oct 2023 at 08:47

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Stråfarget. Klar. Skumring. Lett sitrusaroma. Smaken klementin. Tørr, forsiktig bitter avslutning.
Tried on 28 Sep 2023 at 18:38