Vocation Brewery
Microbrewery
in Cragg Vale,
West Yorkshire,
England 🏴
Associated with 5 Venues
Established in 2015
Boozehound74 (437) ticked Life & Death from Vocation Brewery 1 month ago
Boozehound74 (437) ticked Love & Hate from Vocation Brewery 1 month ago
Olut (21691) reviewed Victorian Porter from Vocation Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Victorian Craft Beer Cafe Back In Black Beer Festival 2025, Beer#2. Not quite black, this new house beer for them, but a very steady porter with good smooth dark malts.
Martinsh (3573) reviewed Victorian Porter from Vocation Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at Curious Gnome, Chester. Pours almost black with a small foamy tan head and good lacing. The aroma is mainly roasted malts with some hints of honey. In the mouth it is quite sweet, but with a little underlying bitterness. Flavour has roasted malts, chocolate and cocoa with hints of liquorice and vanilla coming later. A touch of fruitiness in the finish. This is decent.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 5
Can from Tesco, Reading. I'm not a fan of white stouts, but bought this nevertheless to boost my numbers for the style - my god, the hardships we raters have go through! This one's a crystal-clear deep gold colour with a lasting white head. Rather a musty aroma, with hints of raspberry. Tastes of dried raspberries, raspberry pips and cheap white chocolate. The mustyness returns as some elderly lemons limp into view. The mouthfeel is decent - quite a full body, although the fizz does detract from it a little. Despite a light bitterness in the finish, it's definitely a bit too sweet. White chocolate muffins arrived in the aftertaste - specifically the slightly browned and toasty white chocolate chips sticking out of the top of the muffin. Overall - it's not too bad, but I still didn't really enjoy it and it didn't change my opinion that white stouts are a daft marketing gimmick that should never have made it further than the brainstorming session flipchart.
Olut (21691) reviewed Hollow Tree from Vocation Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Enid Blyton wrote a story about a hollow tree. This hollow tree is hazy yellow-gold in appearance. It feels a little weak for this brewery, but it isn't, it's just a citrus fruity session beer, although its aftertaste is fairly bland and dryish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
440ml can from M&S Broadstairs. Pours very dark / black with a deep tan head. Aroma of unctious caramel and rich chocolate dessert. Flavour profile continues in this vein, I've always liked a nice caramel stout and this presents that nice smooth full bodied character well. However, it is labelled a caramel cookie chocolate stout, and there are no cookie notes at all, so have marked down slightly for that.
Olut (21691) reviewed Pulp Fusion - Collabfest 2025 from Vocation Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Orange-gold juicy appearance. Pulp Fusion is a series of jazz and funk albums with artwork closely resembling the Pulp Fiction film. Sweet nose, lower end sourness, strawberries abundant. Interesting.
gave a cheers!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4
Gold with a foamy, white head. Aroma of raspberry syrup and vanilla. Taste is bitter with a sweet underside. Chemical bitter and strongly medicinal finish, but I doubt this is curing much apart from a weakness at not better reading the can labels before buying. At least it feels good on the tongue, silky smooth and chewy. Not a fan of this, or white stouts in general.
Reubs (35338) reviewed Party Animal from Vocation Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Citrus and tropical fruity medley, getting notes of pineapple and grapefruit, orange, papaya, some sweet malts, medium to light body, light bitter hoppy finish. Ok supermarket brew.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.89 |
| Beers | 484 |
| Ticks | 4337 |
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