Carnival Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Liverpool,
Merseyside,
England 🏴
Associated Venue: Carnival Brewing Taproom
- Out of business
Established in 2019
Closed in 2025
Contact
Unit 3 King Edward Rise Industrial Estate, Gibraltar Row, Liverpool, L3 7HJ, England
Description
We first started Carnival in a kitchen in Liverpool after a fundraising event at the Clearview Carnival, 2017. It is where we met and started the journey of Carnival Brewing Company over a love of music and beer. Now here we are, developing our very own fundraiser for the future endeavours of Carnival.
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2024
at 20:57
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at The Dispensary, Liverpool. Pours opaque milky gold with white foam. Lots of coffee, with mild pistachio, creamy. Moderate sweet with lighter bitterness. Medium body with fine carbonation. Interesting stuff, white stout type vibes.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2024
at 21:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Can. Nose is fruity, citrus, moist dankness. Taste is fruity, citrus, leading to pronounced white grape, dank, almost mineral finish. Thinner than you would expect.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Dec 2023
at 20:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Carnival, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out rich roasted malt, some piney hops, and wood. Flavour is rich, with woody roasted malt, ample hops, and minimal booze that is well-hidden. Solid roast impie. Good stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Nov 2023
at 22:14
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Carnival, pours a cloudy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out dank hops, some citrus, and pithy stone fruits. Flavour is full of citrusy hops, some gentle dankness, resins, and bready malt. Not exactly WC, but also definitely not a hazy. Reasonably hopped, but not the most expertly curated. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Nov 2023
at 22:14
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On cask at Carnival, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out gentle English hops and bready malt. Flavour is bitter, with bitter fungal hops and some bready malt. Ugh, bitter, chaotic and imprecise. No good.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Nov 2023
at 22:13
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
On tap at Carnival, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma reveals lots of salt, lacto, and lime. Flavour is tart, with lots of lime, salt, lacto and who-knows-what cocktail adjuncts. Spicy, citrusy and salty. Decent for such an egregious concept.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Nov 2023
at 22:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at The Ship & Mitre, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma reveals oats, some tanginess (as though this is an oyster stout), and a hint of roast. Flavour is much the same, with medium roast, some oyster-like tanginess, and a dry earthy finish. Pleasant enough, but nothing special.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Nov 2023
at 22:04
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at home. Pours deep brown, nose is roasted, chocolate, oats, taste is sweet toffee, roasted, earthy, chocolate.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Oct 2023
at 16:56
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at The Colmore; Jet is a new, jet black, thick adjunct free stout. It's an absolute beast, full of deep liquorice, chocolate and roasted coffee aromas. It's got a bitter backbone, but just enough to hold the sweetness and roastiness at bay. They had me at adjunct free
Tried
on 30 Sep 2023
at 12:21