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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.
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.
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear golden amber with a short-lived thin white head. Aromas of light metal, faintest orange. Taste is caramel, faint orange. Thin finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2023
at 16:35
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear dark amber with a thin white head. Aromas of toffee and faint floral hops. Taste is fruitcake and caramel. Sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2023
at 14:45
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Gravity cask at Cambridge CAMRA Beer Festival 2023. Pours clear straw amber with a white cap. Aroma: malt, caramel, bread, floral hop. Taste: light to moderate sweet & moderate bitter, semi-dry, light citrus, some caramel. Light to medium body with soft carbonation
Tried
from Cask
on 30 May 2023
at 20:04
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Amber / chestnut brown with a creamy off-white head and twiggy aroma. Old school fruit malt with a solid dry bitterness
Tried
on 30 Mar 2023
at 21:18
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Ringstead Stores, north Norfolk. Clear gold malt forward pale with some peppery bitterness and a fair bit of butter. Prickly and a bit thin. Very Norfolk esque pale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2023
at 18:28
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Station House, Durham. Gluten Free. Orangey amber colour, white foam head and aroma of malt, grain, citrus, hop. Taste is malty, grainy, biscuit, straw, with some citric bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry bitter finish. Quite drinkable
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Mar 2023
at 14:31
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
From recently unearthed notes, drank April 2016. Cask at the Hare & Billet, Blackheath. Amber/ gold pour with a white head . Malty citrus aromas. Orange marmalade and bitter malt flavours. Good session brew.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Oct 2022
at 13:37
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@The Great British Beer Festival 2022 (Days 1&2) - Toasted sweet malty with some fudge and caramel sweetness, medium body, toasted malty and bitter hoppy finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Pilgrim�s Pale Ale on 26 Mar 2025 at 11:39 - Score: 6. Original review text: Toasted sweet malty with some fudge and caramel sweetness, medium body, toasted malty and bitter hoppy finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Sep 2022
at 13:44
5.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Forholdvis pålitelige notater fra en travel dag på The Great British Beer Festival, London 02.08.22: lett uklar gylden, tett skum helt ned. Flat munnfølelse med urter og gress. Besk avslutning.
Tried
on 16 Aug 2022
at 17:19
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Cask at GBBF '22 day 2, 03/08/22. Golden blonde with a moderate white cap. Nose is pale malts, grass, grains, straw, dusty fruits. Taste comprises pale malts, hedgerow, lemon tinged straw, crackers, grains. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, light drying close. Passable pale ... doesn't offer much.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Aug 2022
at 11:34