Hopcraft Brewing

Microbrewery in Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Owned by Pixie Spring Brewery

Established in 2012

Closed in 2019

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Pontyclun, Wales
Description
First brewed in Spring 2010 as the Wheatsheaf Inn based at Wheatsheaf Inn, High Street, Llantrisant, Pontyclun. It was originally owned by Celt Experience. In 2011 it brewed for a short time using the name Korev, before settling on the current name in Spring 2012 when it separated from Celt Experience. It moved to its current address in Spring 2013 where an 11BBL plant was used. Experimental beers are produced under the Hopcraft banner. Brewing ceased in early 2019.

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7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Keg at the Plasterers Arns - Norwich. Pours deep brown with a dense, lasting beige cream head. Toasty pine in the nose, mellow cocoa, notes of grapefruit and orange. Medium sweet flavor with further rindy citrus, orange and grapefruit, moderate roast, some baking cocoa, scorched earth. Medium bodied with average carbonation and massaging carbonation. Lightly resinous not the finish, with bitter orange rind, pithy grapefruit, baking cocoa, scorched earth, ashy roast. A good all-around CDA.
Tried on 17 Nov 2015 at 11:58

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Cask at CP&K. It pours hazy golden with a thick white head. The nose is soft, sweet, juicy, pineapple chunks, mango and fruit salad. The taste is crisp, clean, bitter, grassy upfront, doughy, pine needles, juicy tropical fruits, pineapple, tangerine and brioche with a lingering dry-bitter finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Juicy and rather fruity. Very tasty
Tried from Cask on 15 Nov 2015 at 07:13

8/10
Mon the hops! Oakham Citra good. Great work Gazza. Loads of
lemons, oranges and grapefruit and tangerines. Banging
Tried at The Ale House on 12 Nov 2015 at 14:52

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cask handpull at Craft Clerkenwell. Clear gold lasting white head. some tropical fruit. A golden ale. Some white pepper finish. The tropical fruit is attractive. Quite bitter on the finish. Quite distinctive hop wise. Malt again is a little watery. Good condition. Dead interesting golden ale.
Tried from Cask on 12 Nov 2015 at 11:40

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask handpull at Craft Clerkenwell. Clear gold lasting white head. Slightly odd pale ale. Good hops. Body drinks more like a lager. Some tropical fruit. Hoppy dry drinkable. Hoppy. Odd malt and mouth feel that has a little watery but fine
Tried from Cask on 12 Nov 2015 at 11:31

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask at CP&K. It pours clear gold with a medium white head. The nose is soft, sweet tropical fruits, light peach, pineapple, lychee, sweet biscuit, straw and grass. The taste is pretty bitter upfront, clean, lemon, grapefruit, sherbet, lychee, grassy, straw, resin, cereal and some biscuit with a dry finish. Medium and fine carbonation. Decent.
Tried from Cask on 12 Nov 2015 at 06:43

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Cask at the CP&K, 10/11/15. Clear golden with a well appointed off white covering. Nose is bready, straw, airy malt, light citrics, caramel. Taste comprises bready malts, grassy, light vanilla, citric peel, earthy. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with light hop bitterness. Ok hoppy mild.
Tried from Cask on 10 Nov 2015 at 10:36

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at CPK - London. Many thanks to Welsh Daniel! Pours totally clear yellow with a frothy white head. The aroma holds a bit of pine, pale grains, lemon peel. Light sweet flavorbwith spicy pine, herbal hops, grain husk, more lemon peel, some grass. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Some oily hops in the finish, a bit of pine, pale malts, grass, husky grains, rindy citrus. The bitterness is a bit too aggressive and hard. So so overall.
Tried from Cask on 07 Nov 2015 at 11:42

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask at 2015 Birmingham Beer Festival; clear straw yellow pour with a frothy white head, aroma has a hint of pine and citrus, taste has citrus, biscuity malts and light bitterness.
Tried from Cask on 29 Oct 2015 at 10:56

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cask at 2015 Birmingham Beer Festival; opaque dark pour brown pour with a bubbly tan head, aroma has sweet demerara sugar, roast malts, taste has a hint of pepper, sweet sugar, chocolate, ok.
Tried from Cask on 29 Oct 2015 at 10:26