Westerham Brewery

Microbrewery in Westerham, Kent, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2004

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Beggars Lane, Westerham, TN16 1QP, England
Description
Established in 2004 by Robert Wicks, the Westerham Brewery Company is proud to bring brewing back to the historic town of Westerham. With a rich brewing heritage, Westerham can once again be proud of locally brewed, top quality real ales. Producing exceptional craft beer for the local market, we support the initiative to reduce food miles in the supply chain. Many ‘national brands’ are transported long distances and suffer from poor storage and handling.

Westerham Brewery Company has revived many of the much-loved flavours of the old Black Eagle Brewery, which closed in 1965 following the catastrophic consolidation by the ‘Big Brewers’ in the 1950’s. The yeast is re-cultured from the Black Eagle strain.

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4.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Golden with a small white head. Weak aroma of caramel with grassy hops. Dry and thin malty flavour with grassy hops.
Tried on 17 Aug 2009 at 01:37

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottled. Golden colour, small beige head. Aroma is flowery and fruity hops along with some mild grassness. Flavour is flowery and fruity hops along with home slight earthyness. Also mild nectar.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Aug 2009 at 09:55

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask @ Bon Accord. Dark golden colour, dense off-white head. Aroma has a lot of toffee. Flavour is toffee and biscuits, with fruity hops. Fairly bitter finish.
Tried from Cask on 12 Jun 2009 at 06:03

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ Bow Bar, 80 West Bow, Edinburgh EH1 2HH, Scotland.Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, fruity, caramel notes, chlorine light notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090410]
Tried from Cask on 10 Jun 2009 at 02:15

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
bottle from Waitrose Tenterden, bought while desperately looking for a toilet en-route to the channel tunnel. Amber colour, mid-sized fluffy white head. Malty and sweet but not too sweet. Citrusy hoppy flavours balance it. A nice brew.
Tried from Bottle on 17 May 2009 at 05:49

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
bottle from Waitrose Tenterden, bought while desperately looking for a toilet en-rute to the channel tunnel. Hazy amber colour, rather large and fluffy white head. Malty with lovely flavours of roasetd malts and caramel, rounded off with a floral-grassy hoppy bitterness.
Tried from Bottle on 17 May 2009 at 05:47

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
bottle, bought at Waitrose Tenterden, Kent, while desperately looking for a toilet en-route to the Channel Tunnel. Golden-chestnut coloured with a small and fluffy head. Malty-fruity nose. Malty background with hints of roasetd malts and caramel. Lovely hoppy flavours with a nice citrusy character. The combination of citrusy hops with caramel and the flavours of roasetd malts works really well. Smooth and velvety carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 09 May 2009 at 16:56

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
bottle as Little Scotney Pale Ale, bought at Waitrose Tenterden, Kent, while desperately looking for a toilet en-route to the Channel Tunnel. Hazy pale yellow colour, mid-sized white fluffy head. Aroma of hops and lemon. Shy malty background with lovely hop flavours. Hints of citrus fruit. A light and pleasant refreshing ale.
Tried from Bottle on 09 May 2009 at 15:31

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask gravity at Planet Thanet BF 09. Gold, lasting white head. Westerham yeast, decent hops, not too exciting, but the yeast character is excellent, just not sold on the rest of the beer.
Tried from Cask on 13 Apr 2009 at 14:17

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask @ GBBF 2008. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma with some citrus hints. Fruity malty hoppy flavor. Has a sweetish malty hoppy finish.
Tried from Cask on 06 Apr 2009 at 10:36