Play Brew Co

Microbrewery in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2017

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8 Cannon Park Way, Middlesbrough, TS1 5JU, England
Description
We're a Leeds based craft beer brand hell-bent on producing exhilarating and kick-ass beer!

We bring you craft beer with a nostalgic twist, born from influential culture of the 80's & 90's.

At the heart of Play Brew Co is an obsession for creating quality beers. That all started back in 2014, when our founder Phil embarked on a journey of home brewing after being inspired by the craft beer cropping up in Leeds.

2017: It’s been a long road but we are delighted to announce that Play Brew Co’s first trio of beers is hitting bars and stores in the North of England. The Arcade ‘86 Series is a collection of three recipes that pay homage to Phil’s favourite beers – tying his experience of home brewing and his on hand experience at brew labs together.

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

440ml can. Pours very dark brown with a small head. Aroma is heavy roast and chocolate yoghurt. Taste has yeasty chocolate yoghurt with a slightly sour finish.

Tried from Can on 30 Sep 2024 at 19:09


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cask-conditioned at the York tap 17/9/2024. Near black in colour, with a slight, beige, head. Chocolate and coconut sweetness, a hint of leafy hop and ripe malts, leading to a lightly roasted finish. Good.

Tried from Cask on 29 Sep 2024 at 13:10


Tried from Draft on 18 Sep 2024 at 11:29


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can at ash's. Pours hazy orange, nose is honey, orange, grassy, taste is bitter citrus, grassy, honey.

Tried from Can on 16 Sep 2024 at 12:10


6

Can thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance -very murky yellow. Beige head. Nose - hay and honey. Taste - honey and yeasty, still hay too. Palate - light bodied, sweet middle and dry finish. Overall - OK.

Tried from Can on 16 Sep 2024 at 11:55


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can from the Low Cost Beer online shop. Pours opaque orange with a thin white. Aromas of honey, light lemon. Taste is honey up front, bitter lemon finish.

Tried from Can on 16 Sep 2024 at 11:52


7

can at home . murky amber ..thin white lacing ...soft sweet honey floral fruit nose ...soft herbal fruit .big honey but very bitter finish

Tried from Can on 16 Sep 2024 at 11:51


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

11th September 2024
Can. Hah! Right then the hops. Amarillo, Bru-1, Citra, Dana, El Dorado, Falconers Flight, Galaxy, Huell Melon, Idaho 7, Jester, Kazbek, Loral, Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin, Olicana, Perle, Rakau, Queen of Jasmine Tea, Sabro, Taiheke, Ultra, Vic Secret, Waimea, X033, Yakima Cluster and Zappa. There's yer A-Z of hops! Except.. Falconers Flight is a blend, Cluster is well .. Cluster, even if it does come from Yakima Valley and best of all, Queen of Jasmine Tea, is tea and not a hop at all! Still, good show! It's a hazy orange gold beer, with a decent pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, quite light and mildly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Light but creamy sweet malts. Hops.. hmm, I have had a few of these offerings with 25 hops or more, the only hop that would ever punch through the others and clearly announce itself was the mighty Sorachi Ace. Here, as in others of its kin, you get a great richness of hop flavour. The citrus is rich and rounded with a touch of lime. The tropical fruits are rich and ripe as are the stone fruits. Pine rides throughout and then some mild hop spice on the end. A nice juicy hop DIPA and the flavour is wonderfully complex-rich. Sometimes, more is more..

Tried from Can on 11 Sep 2024 at 18:15


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

Keg at Tilt, Brummy vice Cotts Bimble, 03/08/24. Black topped with a khaki head. Nose is mellow roast, banana chews, toffee, chocolate. Taste comprises chocolate melt, banana ice cream, vanilla, raisins, brown sugar dusting. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Fun enough stout with a reasonable bitter sweet balance.

Tried on 09 Sep 2024 at 10:36


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

Keg draught at Crafty Merlin's, Darlington with danlo. Pink and hazy with a ring of white head. Raspberry dominates the aroma, with some citrus peel. Sweet taste with just a bit of sourness. More raspberries here, with a tart lemony finish. Reasonable body with medium to heavy carbonation. It's a faithful re-creation of pink lemonade, and a good beer as well.

Tried on 05 Sep 2024 at 13:31