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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5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask gravity at SIBA BF, Paddock Wood. Brewed to an old recipe found somewhere by the brewery. Very deep red, thin beige head. Syrupy malty ESB style beer. Could be in better condition. Some deep strawberry jam fruit. Just needs ab it of conditon to be a bit less obviously syrupy. Very dry on finish.
Tried from Cask on 21 Sep 2008 at 05:27

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask gravity at SIBA BF, Paddock Wood. Clear orange, a bit like a toned down Irn Bru colour with a thin pinky white head. Some faint cherry on aroma. Some faint cherry on end. The rest is a bitter. Not sure the sweet sour of the cherry and the bitter all mix very well. A rather bizarre cherry ber, which I’m not sure works. the cherry softens a little. Fine. Very dry finish.
Tried from Cask on 21 Sep 2008 at 05:25

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cask at GBBF08. Clear dark amber colour. Small creamy white head. Mild malty flavour. Low to medium bitterness. Hint of aroma hops in the finish.
Tried from Cask on 08 Sep 2008 at 17:12

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Cask@GBBF2008. Golden colour, not much head. Flavour is fruits, wood, some perfumeish notes. Flavour is basic nectar and fruits. Quite mild aroma and flavour.
Tried from Cask on 11 Aug 2008 at 15:51

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
500ml Bottle - Golden/amber with a bit of a haze. Malt and grain aroma with some citrus hops. Fruity and hoppy taste with some grapefruit and grain notes.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Aug 2008 at 03:39

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask gravity at Rare Breeds BF 08. Copper colour. Bit of a yeasty aroma. Good fruit. Good condition, nice in mouth, good hops, bit of sherbert, bit of farty years. Bramling Cross presence on end is lovely.
Tried from Cask on 04 Jul 2008 at 03:32

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.Clear medium yellow orange color with a small, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, buttery notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (020508)
Tried from Cask on 09 Jun 2008 at 16:00

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Cask gravity at Reading BF 08. Gold with thin white head. Decent English IPA. Rather lovely citrus hops, over a fullish toffeeish malt base. Hops are outstanding. Really good balanced beer. Lovely drying tasty hop on finish. Superb.
Tried from Cask on 02 Jun 2008 at 08:02

7.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
500 ml. bottle. Pours copper amber color with a good white head. Something of floral hop overlaying light caramel for flavor. Medium body with near sharp, but creamy, carbonation. Ale turns bitter and bready. Develops more powerful flavors as consumption continues. Pretty dry and bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 25 May 2008 at 03:16

3.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2
Cask handpull at Market Porter. I like Westerham, but this was just so full of diacetyl that I drank about a 1/3 of a pint and left the rest. 2 fairly beer geeky people next to me, quite liked it.
Tried from Cask on 01 Apr 2008 at 07:51