Elephant School Brewing Co
Microbrewery
in Brentwood,
Essex,
England 🏴
Owned by
Brentwood Brewing Co.
Established in 2014
Elephant School Brewing is named after the Elephant School that was in the base for the army barracks, which was a depot for the Essex Regiment. The school was run by the British East India Trading Company and they trained people to ride Elephants before going out to India. The beers are not along the traditional lines of its parent and so you can expect to see some rather different samples of beers being born.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Golden pour with a small white head. Mango (quite a bit), other tropical fruits, some grapefruit and malt. Not bad.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Dark brown pour with a small tan head. Malt/grain, licquorice, cocoa, coffe, malt/grain. Not a bad start to the Teddington Beer Festival
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at The Malt & Mardle, Norwich. Caramel, toffee & burnt sugar aromas. Taste is toffee cheesecake, caramel & chocolate. Sweet malty aftertaste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at The Malt & Mardle, Norwich. Unsurprisingly mango dominates the nose, spot of papaya, peach & zesty orange in there too. Similar approach in the flavour. Reassuringly tropical.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at The Malt & Mardle, Norwich. Nose is tropical fruits, peach, citrus. Taste is grapefruit, tangerine, peach, more tropical fruits. Rich bittersweet finish.
Tried at the Peterborough Beer Festival 2025.
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Cask at Ealing Beer Fest 25. Surprisingly light, opaque brown. Thin white head sticks to the rim. Aroma has coffee and creamy berries. Tangy berries. Instant coffee..Light-medium bodied. Oily. Soft-average carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Keg at Ealing Beer Fest 25. Aroma is sweet with a prickly bitter edge. Clear chestnut. Frothy foamy beige head. Medium bitter. Grainy. chewy malts. Tangy sour edge. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-average carbonation. Nice enough.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at Ealing Beer Fest 25. hazy lightntoffee brown. Th8n foamy white head. Aroma is sour and yeasty. Fruity. Grainy. Flavourwise there's sour edged sweet fruit and citrus. Honey. Peripheral herbs. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish. Refresher.
Theydon_Bois (45766) reviewed Bumbleduck from Elephant School Brewing Co 5 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Gravity cask at the 34th Ealing Beer Festival 2025, day one, 09/07/2025.
Chestnut brown topped with a beige head.
Nose is cocoa powder, mellow roast, dried fruit rinds.
Taste comprises chocolate biscuit, light honeycomb, roasted bite, dark fruit rinds.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close.
Okay porter.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.60 |
| Beers | 48 |
| Ticks | 160 |
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