Pope's Yard Brewery
Microbrewery in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England 🏴
Established in 2012
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft @ Brett Fest 2015. Dark pour. Aroma of whisky booze and red fruit. Taste has red fruit, malt, whisky and some roast. Neat.
madmitch76 (40205) reviewed Strong Dark Mild from Pope's Yard Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
1st July 2015
Tropical Croydonia Bottle Share. Thanks to Fergus. Almost clear amber - brown beer, small pale tan head. Palate is fairly smooth with mild fine carbonation. Caramel malts, slightly twangy. A trace of something marmite like. Finishes semi dry with spicy bitterness. All right.
Leighton (34888) reviewed Strong Dark Mild from Pope's Yard Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared in London - many thanks to Fergus. Pours clear brown with a frothy beige head. The nose has burnt toast, light solvent, earth, faint cocoa. Light to medium sweet flavor with so,e milk chocolate, dried berries, earthy hops, more toast. Light bodied with lively, velvety carbonation. Decent balance on the finish, some bittersweet cocoa, mild ash, more earth. Fine overall.
77ships (14509) reviewed Keeping Porter from Pope's Yard Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sampled cask @ In De Wildeman during Carnivale Brettanomyces #4. 2013 Vintage. Dark brown, black with zero head. Nose is hugely vinous, coffee, red wine, sour oak,.. Taste is odd, too heavy on glue with far more pleasant aspects of vinous liquorish, cold coffee, oddly bozzy, roasted malt,.. Flat,.. Quite an interesting old style UK beer,… Interesting & fun but the glue taste etc. takes it down a bit. It would have probably benefited from some carbonation. (Thanks for sharing Benzai, Ceasar, tlahav,…. )
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Sampled cask @ In De Wildeman during Carnivale Brettanomyces #4. Black, mocha hued with zero head. Nose is strongly vinous, coffee, malty, puckering & thinned out, quite sour,… Taste is liquorish, cold coffee, chicory, strong vinous, lightly ashy, this is quite vinous to me, not getting any whisky, light roast, oak,… Completely flat,… Quite an interesting old style UK beer,… Very thinned out, vinous, big on coffee, liquorish, flat,… Might have benefited a bit maybe from some carbonation. (Thanks for sharing Benzai, Ceasar, tlahav,…. )
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask @ In de Wildeman at Carnivale 2015, small sample. Dark color, short frothy head. Aroma of some roast, coffee, slight smooth vanilla and oak wood. Soft sweetness in taste, slight malty bitterness. Barrel works pretty good here, not much funk yet. Decent balance. Nice stuff.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at In De Wildeman. Pours brown with no head. Aroma of caramel, whiskey, wood, toffee and malt. Flavour is over moderate sweet and moderate bitter. Medium bodied with near flat carbonation.
fonefan (84235) reviewed Whisky Cask Dark Ale from Pope's Yard Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 330ml. - [ during RBESG14 ], [ As Popes Yard Whisky Cask Dark Ale ].Clear dark brown color with a average to large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, chocolate, dark malt, whisky, wood, prunes, light roasted. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a long duration, chocolate, wood, sweet fruit - prunes, alcohol. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft - fizzy. [20140807]
Tinus (5080) reviewed Whisky Cask Dark Ale from Pope's Yard Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Black colour, off-white head. Aroma of chocolate, caramel, malts, only a hint of whisky. Caramel flavour, malts, whisky, light wood, light vanilla. Finish vanilla, whisky cask, caramel and malts.
(from 33cL bottle @ RBESG, London 2014. Thanks for sharing, madmitch76!)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle split at LKS ’Beers of London’ Tasting, high up, thanks to Fergus 10/12/14. Rich chestnut brown with moderate beige spotting and edgework. Nose is nutty, toffee, biscuit, light cocoa. Taste comprises toffee, spice, chocolate biscuit, lactic notes, red berry pangs. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, semi drying close. Ok porter.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.61 |
| Beers | 48 |
| Ticks | 210 |
Top Reviewers (Not including batches)
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Fergus | 35 |
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Leighton | 11 |
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Grumbo | 7 |
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Bierkoning | 5 |