Allkin Brewery (prev. Good Things Brewing Co)
Client Brewer in Eridge, East Sussex, England 🏴
Established in 2017
Good Things has created the most sustainable brewery we have seen, creating our own power, pulling our own water from beneath the ground outside the brewery doors. Turning spent brewers grain in to beautiful flour, delivering beer in our electric van & very soon treating all our own waste on site.
Until...
Good Things Brewing Co. of Tunbridge Wells changed name and turned to a roaming brewery in the summer of 2021, when tragedy struck and their brewery was destroyed in a lightning storm.
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Can at home picked up from Good things online shop. A clear amber toffee coloured pour with a lasting tidy magnolia head. Aroma is light toffee, brown bread, light grassy, some dried fruit raisin. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, toffee, nutty, grassy , hedgerow hop, chalky finish, brown bread, light raisin. Palate is semi sweet, fine carbonation, light chalk. Decent ESB
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440ml can. Hazy golden orange, white head. Aroma of tropical fruits, mango, pineapple, orange. Taste is sweet and juicy, mango, pineapple, orange marmalade, ripe peach, low bitterness. Medium-full bodied, smooth, creamy. Considering this is a 4 month old can this is tasting banging.
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Thin white head left a spotty cover on a hazy dark golden body. Sweet citrus, marmalade & hoppy aroma. Medium to full bodied, smooth, sticky & cloying on the back. Bitter, citrus, marmalade, orange & spicy tastes with a long tangy pine finish. Tasty.
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Tight white head left a spotty cover on a hazy pale gold body. Punchy hopped up aroma with stone fruit & mango. Medium bodied, smooth with lively cloying back. Stone fruit, mango, lemon & cracker tastes with a tangy finish. Refreshing
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Can at home picked up from Good things online. A dark brown colored pour with a lasting creamy dark tan head. Aroma is dry earthy roast, charred wood, damp smoke, little soapy. Flavour is composed of bitter dry roasted barley, charred wood, drying ashy finish. bark. Just a hint of brown sugars in there rounds it out a little. Palate is medium light bodied, light tang, highish fine carbonation, Good robust roasty stout.
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Frothy white head left a rocky cover on an unclear amber coloured body. Marmalade, pine & confectionery aroma. Medium bodied, tingly with fuller smooth back. Stone fruit, pithy, marmalade, pine & resinous tastes with a long bitter finish. Very drinkable
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Rocky beige head left a spotty cover on a black still body. Espresso & demerara aroma. Medium bodied, smooth & silky with a cloying back. Grape, chocolate, smoked, roasted & lightly hopped tastes with a cherry finish. Complex but damn tasty.
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Tight foamy white head stayed on a hazy dark golden body. Pine, stone fruit & marmalade aroma. Medium to full bodied, super smooth & with tickle down the throat. Stone fruit, mango, pine & bitter citrus tastes with a long pithy finish. What an quality brew!
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Tight foamy light brown head stayed on a reddish brown still body. Sweet malt, demerara & berry aroma. Medium bodied, smooth with a tingle on the back. Caramel, toffee, malt, sweet berry & jam tastes. Excellent pint.