Barsham Brewery

Microbrewery in West Barsham, Norfolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2017

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The Long Barn, Barsham Estate, West Barsham, NR21 9NR, England
Description
The West Barsham Estate in North Norfolk, home to the Barsham Brewery, is steeped in farming heritage. Susanna Soames’s family have owned and farmed the land here for generations. In an area renowned for its top quality agricultural soil, North Norfolk’s sea air and unique micro-climate help us produce some of the best malting barley in the world.

Having spent the year nurturing and growing our wide range of crops, from sugar beet to oil seed rape, wheat, vining peas and barley, summer arrives and our small team of just three embark upon the annual tradition of harvesting. Come rain or shine, darkness or light, and using a combination of traditional and modern techniques, the job gets done in time for the arrival of Autumn.

Our famous Maris Otter Barley is malted down the road at Crisp Maltings and returned to our state of the art brewery situated within one of the Estate’s ancient farm buildings. The malt is blended with beautifully pure water from our own bore hole and hop varieties from around the world to craft our collection of beers. We are proud to be the purveyors of a “Norfolk born and brewed” product in the very truest sense.

First brewed in mid-2017, having purchased the former Jo C's Ales, sharing the premises with Boudicca Brewing Co.

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of light tropical fruit and citrus. Taste adds some biscuit. Light bitter finish.

Tried on 01 Mar 2026 at 18:45


6.5

A clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of citrusy hops, flowers, pale malt. Taste of intense citrusy hops, piney hops, dank, pale malt. Long bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jan 2026 at 10:47


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

7/11/2025. Cask at the 13th Beccles Beer Festival. Hazy pour. Very nice sweet fruit aroma. Tropical, peachy, pomelo, white grape. Quite sweet with light bitterness and a slight husky tart edge. Moderate body, soft carbonation. Well done.

Tried from Cask on 07 Nov 2025 at 16:39


5.8
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

Süffiger, trocken bitterer Beginn mit dunklen Getreidenoten. Geringe Süße, wenig hopfig, spritzig, die deutliche Bitterkeit bleibt konstant. Nuancen von Karamell, mittellanger Abgang. 8/9/9/7/6/8

Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2025 at 20:15


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

A clear orange brown beer with a white lacing. Aroma of red malt, caramel, nuts, berries. Taste of intense caramelized malt, nuts, berries, moderate to long bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Nov 2025 at 19:07


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

Cask handpull at Ribs of Beef. Clear amber colour off white head. Caramel toffee bitter. Good condition tastes fresh. Some also fruit from the yeast but mostly toffee and caramel and a bitter finish.

Tried from Cask on 27 Sep 2025 at 14:32


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

Creamy white head on lightly carbonated clear golden coloured body.
Newspaper, digestive & malt aroma.
Medium bodied, creamy with limp dry finish.
Grain, cereal, bread, wet paper & metallic tastes with a bitter finish.
No citrus tastes, no hop tastes - Pants.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2025 at 20:08

gave a cheers!

6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Rocky off white head on a copper coloured body.
Toffee & malt aroma.
Medium, sharp dry & clean.
Malt, caramel & under ripe fruit tastes with a lightly hopped bitter finish.
Great Bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jun 2025 at 16:23


7.5

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jun 2025 at 01:13


7

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jun 2025 at 01:12