Vocation Brewery
Microbrewery
in Cragg Vale,
West Yorkshire,
England 🏴
Associated with 5 Venues
Established in 2015
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at CASK. It pours near black with a small beige head. The nose is sweet, sticky, chocolate, dandelion & Burdock, sweaty, resinous, dank and charred wood. The taste is bitter-sweet, bitter pine, some astringency, resin, charred wood, rocky road, varnish, dirty, citrus rind, peppery, chocolate, tar, burnt treacle, dark fruits and booze with a dry, bitter finish. Medium body, soft carbonation and slightly sticky mouth-feel. Chewy stuff. Punchy, but a bit rough around the edges.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at the CP&K, 02/06/15, thanks to LKS for the nod. Dark mahogany brown with a decent beige covering that retains well. Nose is light charr, pine needle, light floral, earthy hop, tropical fruit notes, caramel, light Ribena berry. Taste comprises perfumed notes, charr, liquorice stick, light cocoa, earthy hop presence, pine resin, shades of parma violets. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close peppered with semi aggressive hop bitterness. Decent cask XDA, quite bitter but contrasts with a perfumed / floral effect. Re rate can 23/03/16. More pine bite, charr, earthy hop, bitter citric, light pine. Sharper and cleaner than the cask offering I rated first. Solid XDA. Original 3.4 new 3.7.
Theydon_Bois (45766) reviewed Bread & Butter from Vocation Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at CP&K, 02/06/15. Clear golden blonde with a moderate off White covering. Nose is pale malt, tangerine, grassy, light hop tunes, soft bread, citric pith. Taste comprises straw, lemon rind, tangerine, toasted bread, pale malt. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with light floral and citric hop bitterness. Ok GB.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at CPK - London. Pours deep down with a creamy khaki head. Rich roasted malts and oily pine in the nose, some chocolate. Medium sweet flavor with s bit of hitter lime rind, earthy hops, heavy grass, more pine, bittersweet cocoa. Medium bodied, chewy, with fine carbonation. Heavy, aggressively bitter finish with lots of grass, citrus peel, earth, pine. A little out of balance towards the bitter end of he spectrum. Otherwise, it’s nice.
Olut (21691) reviewed Chop & Change - Amarillo from Vocation Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Fox & Goose Beer Festival, Hebden Bridge. Golden coloured ale. Has an acutely sweet hop, but very pleasant tasting. Some dryness.
Olut (21691) reviewed Heart & Soul from Vocation Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ Calans, Hebden Bridge. Golden with a small head. Certainly a session ale with nice light tropical fruit character.
Olut (21691) reviewed Chop & Change - Centennial from Vocation Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask @ Baum, Rochdale. Clear gold with a thick frothy head. Has a hoppy and high tropical fruit taste, although not as stated in its nose. There’s some dryness here too.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.89 |
| Beers | 484 |
| Ticks | 4337 |
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