Cardigan Brewery / Bragdy Aberteifi

Microbrewery in Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Associated Venue: Y Bryn a'r Bragdy

Established in 2004

Contact
Brynhoffnant, Llandysul, Cardigan, SA44 6DU, Wales
Description
Welcome to Cardigan Brewery, a union of Penlon Beers & Innkeeper Wales, creating great Welsh beers that can be enjoyed at home, from a range of great shops across the land, or at the pub, including our very own Teifi Waterside Hotel or Brynhoffnant Inn.

Started brewing in October 2004 initially as Penlon Cottage Brewery. It is a small scale operation which brews are range of bottle conditions beers. It was initially based near Pencae moving to its location in 2015. In 2020 they merged with Innkeeper Wales and changed to the current name although Penlon Cottage Brewery is still used.

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5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a white head. The aroma is sweet malty combined with spicy and flower hop notes and a light touch of heather honey. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of flowery hops and heather honey. The body is slightly thin.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Nov 2007 at 08:06

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottled. Hazy golden colour, small white head. Aroma is honey, heather and some bittering hops. Flavour is hops, honey, heather and a lot of herbal notes. Not that exciting, but nice to drink still.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2007 at 13:04

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Yellow with a big white head. Lots of heather aroma, very herbal with a hint of honey too(!) Sweet and rather plain honey-beer flavour.
Tried on 21 Aug 2007 at 10:24

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle @ Chris_o shindig 2007. Unclear medium yellow amber color with a small, fair lacing, fully diminishing, light brown head. Aroma is honey, heather-honey. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watey, carbonation is soft.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2007 at 04:45

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle at Chris_o Shindig. Never heard of this brewery before. Bottle conditioned ale. Gold, lasting beige head. Rather lovely. Tastes like a dark beer. Fragrant. Really good. I like it. Fragrant with good heather notes.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Aug 2007 at 10:37

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle (purchased in Pwllheli): Cloudy with clumps of yeast, amber coloured, small white stable murky off-white layer; distinctive floral hoppy nose with traces of liquorice; medium bodied, soloid sweet-bitter flavour, becoming drier towards the lingering hoppy and lightly malty and sourish ending. A well crafted brew........
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jan 2007 at 01:44

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
(bottle) Hazy, murky amber coloured hue with yeast floaties and a medium-sized yellowish foamy head. Aromatic, slightly sweet malty, shy fruity nose with woody hops and liquorice. Bitter flavour, medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Initially toast-malty with liquorice and a touch of caramel and spicy hoppy notes; dry, bittersweet, slightly malty and pleasantly hoppy finish.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2007 at 15:20

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Bottle: Hazy, amber to orangey coloured, small stable creamy off-white head; moderate, mainly herbal-hoppy nose, slightly metallic with a faint sweetish fruitiness in the background; moderate bitter-sweetish flavour, soft MF, light bodied; herbal, spicy, hoppy finish with a sweetish fruity touch and a very faint acidity. Easily drinkable, friedly Ale.............
Tried from Bottle on 26 Nov 2006 at 08:56

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Bottle (purchased at Thirst for Beer, Pwllheli): Near black coloured...with a small tanned head; bisquity roasted barley nose with a bit of vinous fruit; sweetish, slightly bitter flavour, light to medium bodied; a bit drier, roasty bitter finish with the same hint of fruit and traces of coffee or cacao. A pleasant Stout, a bit on the sweet side.......
Tried from Bottle on 25 Nov 2006 at 03:00

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle, picked up at Tuckers Maltings, Newton Abbott 14-11-06. Hazy amber coloured beer with a good citrusy bite, having had this so soon after the Edwin Tuckers East India IPA which was very good I was expecting this to be a case of ’after the Lord Mayors show’ but I was pleasantly suprised by this plucky IPA which was reasonably hoppy, had a good aroma and drank very well indeed.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Nov 2006 at 15:50