S43 Brewery
Microbrewery
in
Durham,
Durham,
England 🏴
Associated Venue: Toronto Lodge (Sonnet 43)
Established in 2012
Closed in 2022
Contact
Description
Changed name from Sonnet 43 to S43 in 2019.
We started life back in 2012, focusing on developing our own British Style Cask Ales out of Country Durham based Brew House.
Back then we were known as Sonnet 43 back then (inspired by the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who was born and raised in Coxhoe, County Durham, the village our brewery calls home).
Three years into our brewing, in 2015 we had doubled production year on year and expanded our team and range of ales, including the award winning Raven and Aurora.
Another three busy years of brewing our beloved Cask Ales and, we noticed a change in our palettes. Whilst, we were still chugging cask specials at a rate of knots, we were getting excited by some of the more hop-forward flavours from over the pond.
This is when we got in touch with the Texan, to come and develop the craft arm of the brewery.
Brewing ceased at the end of 2022.
We started life back in 2012, focusing on developing our own British Style Cask Ales out of Country Durham based Brew House.
Back then we were known as Sonnet 43 back then (inspired by the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who was born and raised in Coxhoe, County Durham, the village our brewery calls home).
Three years into our brewing, in 2015 we had doubled production year on year and expanded our team and range of ales, including the award winning Raven and Aurora.
Another three busy years of brewing our beloved Cask Ales and, we noticed a change in our palettes. Whilst, we were still chugging cask specials at a rate of knots, we were getting excited by some of the more hop-forward flavours from over the pond.
This is when we got in touch with the Texan, to come and develop the craft arm of the brewery.
Brewing ceased at the end of 2022.
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Panda 🐼 at home big thanks to Danlo. An opaque oily black coloured pour with a loose light tan head. Aroma is big perfume, singed christmas spices, nutmeg, pumpkin, little cocoa. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, sweet nutty brown malts, pumplink spices, oily, soogy bark, mixed spicy, little thin for the abv. Palate is semi sweet, oily, mellow carbonation.
Tried
on 17 Dec 2022
at 19:59
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from the brewery online shop. Pours clear gold with a thin white head. Aromas of sour lime and vanilla. Taste is tangy lime and sweet vanilla. Tangy finish.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Dec 2022
at 19:27
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from the brewery online shop. Pours hazy golden with a thin white head. Aromas of blueberry and orange. Taste is more of the same. Light bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Dec 2022
at 18:41
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can from the brewery online shop. Pours murky golden with a thin white head. Strong tropical fruit aromas. Passionfruit and pineapple. Taste has a little citrus, but mostly a juice bomb.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2022
at 21:33
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from the brewery online shop. Pours light hazy golden with a thick white head. Lots of spice on the nose, some banana. Taste had bread, clove. Spicy finish.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2022
at 21:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from the brewery online shop at 6.7% Pours murky fruit juice with a yellow head. Aromas of sour mango. Taste is pineapple and mango. Sour finish.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2022
at 19:35
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Clear amber pour and a fine tan head Good intensity in the aroma Quite balanced sweetness for a beer like this Also a fine carbonation level Dried fruits, toffee, bread, and herbal flavor Fine thick malt base and no sticky alcohol [Can a Kokkekollektivet in Halden, Norway]
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2022
at 17:38
8/10
can at home... dark black.. thin tan lacing... soft dark chocolate roast malts....Light fruity nose.. dark chocolate roast malts... lightest bitter.. soft dark malts.. remarkably drinkable
Tried
from Can
on 11 Dec 2022
at 18:49
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from the brewery online shop. Pours hazy pinkish red with a short-lived thin white head. Aromas of lactose, raspberry and faint sour. Taste is more of the same, but of vanilla. Light sweet finish.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Dec 2022
at 17:25
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from the brewery online shop. Pours hazy yellow gold with a thin white head. Aromas of mango and passionfruit. Taste is sweet pineapple, more mango and passionfruit. Light sweet finish.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Dec 2022
at 15:11