Artefact Brewing

Microbrewery in Ixworth, Suffolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2020

Contact
Bridge Farm, Bury Road, Ixworth, IP31 2HX, England
Description
We are a new microbrewery based in the village of Ixworth, near Bury St Edmunds. Our brewery is a small 200L system, set up in a converted shipping container on our family farm.

Run part-time by husband and wife team, James and Kat, Artefact Brewing’s ethos is to make good-quality, small-batch, artisan craft beers, with an emphasis on experimenting with local ingredients and seasonal releases. Artefact launched in May 2020.

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up from Beautiful Beers. Light sweet flavour, very soft roast, a little earth, burnt rubber, dried berries. Light bodied with delicate carbonation. Light earthy bitterness to finish, a little more burnt rubber, dark fruits. Basic but not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jan 2022 at 14:54


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle: Poured a murky brown with a beige colored head. Aroma is dark fruits, figs, raisin, malty, caramel. Taste is dark fruits, brown sugar, raisin, figs, plum, malty, caramel.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2021 at 21:58


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle: Poured a deep brown with a light brown head. Aroma is coffee, toffee, rich roasted malts. Taste is rich roasted malts, coffee, caramel, toffee, dark chocolate, lingers around on the palate.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Dec 2021 at 23:06


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up from Beautiful Beers. Pours clear, deep brown with a tight, creamy beige head. Light-medium sweet flavour with notes of dark berries, a little cocoa and roast, raisins, very mild acidity, slight earthy bitterness. Light bodied with fine, massging carbonation. Finishes with just a hint of burnt rubber, more earthy, tangy dark fruits, berries. Interesting and drinkable stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Dec 2021 at 21:59


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Brew Cavern and Day 8 of my Brew Cavern Advent Calendar. Amber colour with a white head. Floral orange and biscuits, slight spice and pepper. Light crisp body.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Dec 2021 at 20:04


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

330ml bottle bought at Beautiful Beers. Shared with Finn, Travelodge session. A pearl white head to a hazy orange coloured body, lacing rings down the glass. Moderate smell of farmyard and saison fruit. The taste character brings moments of yeasty fruitiness, ripe lemon, and grain. Ends with a farmyard, yeasty touch. Accepted. (Hotel room, Cambridge 14.11.2021).

Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2021 at 19:42


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

330ml bottle, gyle no. 63, bought at Beautiful Beers. Shared with Finn, Travelodge session. Firm fawn-coloured head resting over a deep black body, spotty lacing. Prominent brown malty aroma, hints of ripe fruit. Mixed taste profile of pine needles, caramel malts, together with Voss kveik yeast. Has got a malt-fruity finish, slightly tart. Satisfying. (Hotel room, Cambridge 14.11.2021).

Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2021 at 19:35


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

330ml bottle bought at Beautiful Beers. Shared with Finn, Travelodge session. Decent beige head over a deep dark brown body, fair lacing. Smell of nutshell and toffee. Quite well blended taste of nutty caramel and biscuit. Rater sweet ending, nuts and caramel. Fine depth. Satisfying (Hotel room, Cambridge 14.11.2021).

Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2021 at 19:28


5.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

330ml bottle, Gyle no. 55, bought at Beautiful Beers, shared with Finn, Travelodge session. Decent fawn-coloured head, near-black in the glass. Clingy lacing. Moderate malt-berry nose, dry. Blended taste of chocolate malts and cherries. Short malt-berry finish, mid-dry. Fair enough. (Hotel room, Cambridge 14.11.2021).

Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2021 at 15:43


3.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

330ml bottle bought at Beautiful Beers, shared with Finn, Travelodge session. Near black body, dotted spots on the glass, naked at the top. Distant smell of sour malts. Malt-berry tartness to the taste buds. Ends like that. Drain pour, and not my kind of good beer drinking. (Hotel room, Cambridge 14.11.2021).

Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2021 at 15:37