Gower Brewery

Regional Brewery in Crofty, Swansea, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Established in 2011

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Unit 25, Crofty Ind Est., Crofty, SA4 3RS, Wales
Description
Inspired by the love of great beer and the lack of a brewery on the Gower Peninsula - the UK's first area of outstanding natural beauty - the Gower Brewery was born. Established in 2011, we are one of the fastest growing breweries in Wales. Armed with the best ingredients we can find, we pack our ales full of flavour and natural goodness and ultimately brew beers that we want to drink!

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6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask @ Salopian. Served a little too warm. Pours a deep dark brown, small off-white head. Aroma seems quite sweet. Taste presents a sweet malt character reminiscent of Thorntons toffee. Fairly dry finish with a light bitterness. Not bad.

Tried from Cask on 26 Jun 2017 at 07:30


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

Cask at the Post Office Vaults, Birmingham. Poured a crystal clear medium amber with a thin broken white head. The aroma is grainy malt, woody hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a light smooth, skunky malt, floral woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation and a lingering bitter finish.

Tried from Cask on 18 Jun 2017 at 12:37


7.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at Deep Ellum, 5/5/17.
Clear, bright goldenrod-beeswax with a firm white head atop. Looks to be in great condition.
Don’t get too much of the cascades in the nose, thankfully?, but there is a bit of leafy green goodness and certainly some citrus that could certainly be from almost any American hop. Obviously they didn’t go overboard on the hops here and thankfully a mineral-rich yeast, clean and sparkling, shines through atop fairly snappy base malts. Light grain, hints of marmalade and a touch of bread sit on the clean finish with no alcohol or resin noted.
A good helping of malt, nicely attenuated but still providing a soft, supple texture, kicks things off and adds honey, biscuit and light white bread. Moderately fruity yeasts mix delightfully with the gentle citrus character of the tastefully done hops while mineral and water sit on the finish. Light, quenching, watery and highly flavorful as a good cask bitter ought to be. Particularly impressed by the strong malt texture here, despite the high attenuation, and the restraint shown with the hops.

Tried from Cask on 30 May 2017 at 17:45


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Cask at the Post Office Vaults, Birmingham. Poured a crystal clear straw colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is skunky malt, light hop. The flavour is moderate to light bitter with a light watery grainy earthy cardboard malt light hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation. Pretty awful I must say. Way too light all round and with little flavour. Struggled to even drink a half of this.

Tried from Cask on 15 May 2017 at 15:14


6

Tried on 13 May 2017 at 10:59


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

500ml bottle from Brewer’s Stand at NEC Good Food Show - Deep ruby black body, off-white head. Nose and taste are standard roast and toast, coffee, chocolate and liquorice. Not too bad.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Mar 2017 at 05:59


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from the brewer’s own stand at the Good Food Show at Birmingham NEC. Brown-black with a beige head and a light fizz. Roasty malt and chocolate in a rather light body. Pretty average.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2016 at 16:33


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

Sampled @ GBBF Day 2. Clear golden color, average sized white head. Smell and taste both are quite faint. Perhaps the slightest touch of hops in there, but hardly detectable. I’ve had much better from the UK brewers at this years GBBF.

Tried on 15 Aug 2016 at 15:09


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ Ginger Goose, Bradford. Blonde with a sessionable texture, and hoppy in character.

Tried from Cask on 14 Aug 2016 at 05:17


5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Gbbf. Klare goldene Farbe. Geruch leicht hopfig, getreidig malzig. Geschmack getreidig hell malzig, gering hopfig bitter.

Tried on 10 Aug 2016 at 06:33