Grumbo (24387) reviewed Waste Not Want Not from Grain Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
27/9/2023. Cask at the Spread Eagle, Ipswich. Pours clear dark amber with a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma of toffee, malt, bread, fruits, mild spicy edge. Quite sweet with mellow bitterness. Moderate body, oily, low carbonation. Quite liked it, though it lacked a bit of life.
Grumbo (24387) reviewed Okapi from Grain Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
8/7/2023. Keg at the Grain Brewery Taproom. Pours cloudy/murky pale peachy orange with a small just off-white head. Aroma is peach, papaya, pineapple, grass. Moderate sweetness, medium bitterness. Moderate body, prickly carbonation. Drying finish. Pretty decent.
Grumbo (24387) reviewed I'm Not A Robot from Grain Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
8/7/2023. Cask at the Grain Brewery Taproom. Pours clear straw gold with a small bubbly just off-white head. Aroma is hoppy, citrus, orange, malt, grain, grass and a hint of honey. Moderate sweetness, bitterness and body. Soft carbonation. Drying finish. Nice summery pint.
Olut (21769) reviewed Empire Slate from Grain Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Hopsters, Ipswich. Almost black with an extremely thin head. Velvety smooth in texture, its strength seems to usurp an recognisable porter taste, although dark malts are evident in its aroma.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Strangers No More from Grain Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
20 May 2023. At Leuven Innovation Beer Festival. Shared with the lovely Anke!
Keg.
A: hazy brown, big, frothy, tan head.
A: peanut, chestnut, old brown bread, mocha, butter.
T: sweetish apple, chestnut, old brown bread.
F: earthy hops, diluted mocha, nuts.
P: light to medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation.
Watery and rather messy. Cask version was better, but I didn't take separate notes.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Slate from Grain Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Smoked porter – the concept so brilliantly pioneered by Allagash in the nineties – as interpreted by this craft brewery in old England. At LIBF. Pale yellow-beige, moussy, slowly breaking but generally well-retaining head on a very dark chestnut brown robe, almost black but not quite, with hazy, ruddy-red glow. Aroma of cigar ashes, old brown bread crust, smoked mackerel but with the emphasis on actual smoke rather than fish (or meat), a barbecue in full swing, hard caramel, walnut shells, dry leather, tea, dry forest floor. Dry onset, dried apple peel and burnt raisins, very low in sweetness with medium carbonation; beef stock-like umami comes up much stronger than any sweetness, accompanying a dry, nutty, hard-caramelly and brown bread-crusty malt core with continuous toasty bitterness at its sides, while an eventually indeed pronounced ‘ashy’ smokiness grows, aided by leafy hops. Dry, ashy, charcoal-y Rauchbier form of an oldskool English brown ale – simple, but solid.