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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6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle from Coed Y Dinas, Welshpool. Pours cloudy copper, clear malts. Supposed to have a thick fluffy head but I got nothing of the sort. Grassy with some berries, fairly uneventful but drinkable nonetheless.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Sep 2013 at 12:56

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottled. Clear deep golden, rich head. Fruity nose. Sweetish with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Fruity, hay-likeflavour. Resiny really bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2012 at 12:39

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Bottled. Clear golden, coarse head. Fruity viola aroma. Fairly sweet with clean, rounded mouthfeel. Light-medium bodied. Rather malty. Low bitterness. On the sweet side.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Sep 2012 at 11:36

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle, Sunday 2nd September 2012 7.8% Pours hazy gold/orange with no head. Definate honey nose, in fact it has a lovely aroma. Quite a bit of honey in the mouth, I never got the honey at first but now it really shows. There is some fruitiness, but the honey is all over this. Good but not great. A7 A3 T6 P3 Ov13 3.2
Tried from Bottle on 02 Sep 2012 at 11:28

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
50 cl. bottle shared / thx to tderoeck – very slightly hazy, apricot, amber coloured with a white head, smells like a canned fruit salad, punch-style, peaches, canned cherries, pineapple,… fruity yeast, taste is touch toned down canned fruit salad, mainly peach, fruity yeast, pineapple, citrus, flowers, very fruity for an ESB, medicinal bitterness in the finish, hay, way too carbonated, apparently we were supposed to pour it in a jug before drinking it, evidently
Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2012 at 06:19

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
pint size bottle, thanks Tderoeck for the share. Dorée/foin brumeuse, col blanc. Arôme est assez fleuri et houblonné avec pas mal de fruit. En bouche, fruité agréable allant vers ananas, la pêche restant douce, le tout fini sur un pointe d’épice venant de la levure, assez épais en fin de bouche. Pour une ESB, j’apprécie bien le profile fruité tropical pour une amertume de fin de bouche fleuri.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2012 at 05:41

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Pen-lon Cottage Cardi Bay Best Bitter (by Penlon Cottage):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5

14/IV/2012 - 50cl bottle @ home - BB: IV/12 (2012-356) Thanks to Bryn for the bottle!

Clear blond beer, aery big white head, unstable, little adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity, apple sauce, upon adding some of the yeast it gets even more fruitier with hints of pineapple and ripe peaches. MF: very carbonated, light to medium body. Taste: fruity start, some pineapple, citrus, grapefruit, bit grassy hops. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, bit medicinal, citrus fruits, touch of barnyard. Not too bad.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Apr 2012 at 09:11

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottled. Cloudy golden, mid sized head. Evident honey aroma. Mid sweet with light body and clean mouthfeel. Floral honey flavour. Low bitterness.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2012 at 05:08

4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Bottled. Clear pale golden, minimal head. Sweet and fruity with light body and clean mouthfeel. Very light and shallow. Low bitterness.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2012 at 05:06

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottled. Clear golden, small head. Fruity canteloupe aroma. Mid sweet with light body and rounded mouthfeel. Some orange lemonade. Salty bitterisgh finish.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2012 at 05:05