Vocation Brewery
Microbrewery
in
Cragg Vale,
West Yorkshire,
England 🏴
Associated with 5 Venues
Established in 2015
Contact
Unit 8, Craggs Country Business Park, New Road, Cragg Vale, HX7 5TT, England
Description
Brewing bold beers from our hilltop in Hebden Bridge and pouring punchy pints from our very own taprooms. We’re resolutely in the business of setting standards, not following trends.
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Wenlock arms. A almost clear pale golden straw coloured pour with a loose white head. Aroma is semi sweet, jammy fruits, midget gems, floral orange, tangerine, straw, apricot. Flavour is composed of soft floury wheat, orange and peach melba, light mineral. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, good cask condition. Decent pale ale.
Tried
from Cask
at
Wenlock Arms
on 10 Jun 2026
at 17:22
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg draught at Tønne, Leicester. LIght cream/yellow, hazy with a small tight white head. Light spicy aroma, some bitter orange. Balanced taste, not too sweet, gentle cooking spice with a surprising bitterness in the finish. Watery body with not quite enough carbonation to mask this. Good enough, but too dialled back.
Tried
from Draft
at
Tønne
on 09 Jun 2026
at 19:19
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can from Kvickly Vejle. Pours opaque dark brown with huge dark brown head. Aroma is roasted malt, dark chocolate, cocoa, maple syrup, honey, and pour over coffee. Taste is medium sweet, medium bitter, faint acidic, and faint salty. Body is oily with fizzy carbonation. Finish is long and balanced sweet and bitter with notes of roasted malt, dark chocolate, cocoa, (roasted) hazelnuts, maple syrup and honey.
Tried
from Can
from
Kvickly Vejle
on 05 Jun 2026
at 22:22
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught keg at Tønne, Leicester. Cream/gold colour, hazy with an uneven off-white head. Light aroma of stone fruit, almost essence of peach. A bit weird but nice enough. Taste... whoah. Cardamom overwhelms everything else at first, but after you get used to it you can taste the beer beneath which is bittersweet with more stone fruit. A bit weird and unbalanced in the middle but rights itself for the finish more or less. Light body with soft to medium carbonation. Okay.
Tried
from Draft
at
Tønne
on 23 May 2026
at 15:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Welcome To The Jungle. A blonde coloured lightly carbonated special with an on the dirtier tasting hop and fruitiness side of things.
Tried
from Draft
at
Vocation & Co. - Hebden Bridge (Vocation)
on 23 May 2026
at 12:13
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Second of a trio from Vocation on the hottest weekend of the year so far, which I say because this is a winter ale all the way. Deep tasting with big heavy caramels and vanilla, it's perfect fireside beer, perhaps less so in the blazing sun. It's excellent stuff though. Mildly hazed amber with lingering flavour.
Tried
from Draft
at
Vocation & Co. - Hebden Bridge (Vocation)
on 23 May 2026
at 11:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
I've got three Vocation beers on deck, so it will be again and again after this one. Very mildly hazed pale golden, it's punchy enough in its dirty-sweet tropical notes, edging towards overbearing, but not quite. A session texture helps it go down.
Tried
from Draft
at
Vocation & Co. - Hebden Bridge (Vocation)
on 23 May 2026
at 11:38
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Cask at The Roseburn. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of light tropical fruit and citrus, light biscuit. Taste is more of the same. Light bitter finish.
Tried
on 23 May 2026
at 08:40
7/10
Chocolate but the orange is subtle and grows to the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 May 2026
at 15:16
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at BREWLDN, Olympia, London. A hazy golden/yellow coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, citrus, orange, melon, tropical fruit aroma and taste. Not very exciting.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2026
at 14:09