Phoenix (Oak Brewing Co.)

Microbrewery in Heywood, Greater Manchester, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 1982

Contact
Green Lane, Heywood, OL10 2EP, England
Description
In August 1982, our late founder Tony Allen opened Oak Brewery on an industrial estate in Ellesmere Port. After much success, he moved nine years later to a location more central to his trading areas. Phoenix Brewery, Heywood!

Phoenix Brewery was registered in 1874, brewing directly from the Brewery tower and owning over 100 pubs in the local area. Phoenix’s history is still proudly displayed on our seven-story tower.

Building upon our strong foundations, we continue to brew Tony’s longstanding classic beers, whilst introducing innovative new brews. The team are looking forward to welcoming you to our Brewery site – soon to be open to the public for the first time in our history!

In 1996 it took the decision to trade as the name of the brewery Phoenix Brewery.

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask. Citric hop aroma. Copper colour. A little sweet fruit in the aroma, peach? Quite bitter, a little rough. Flavour also has some peach.

Tried from Cask on 22 Oct 2005 at 05:54


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask. Very malty aroma, a little dusty. Chestnut colour. Very malty flavour, and a little hoppy. Good malty sweetness and alcohol flavour. 7 3 7 3 13

Cask, 6% at GBBF08. Good malty and fruity aroma. The flavour is much the same, with a little nut. Low carbonation. 6 3 6 3 11

Tried from Cask on 18 Oct 2005 at 05:43


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask. Fruity and a little bitter. The aftertaste is a little yeasty.........

Tried from Cask on 18 Oct 2005 at 05:41


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask Conditioned
Blond color. Very light aroma. Light taste, but a bit malty, with a reasonable hopping. Decent.

Tried from Cask on 17 Oct 2005 at 10:06


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

Cask handpull at Borough Market. Dark copper colour with thin beige head. Cookie dough and hoppy aroma. Caramel and op in mouth. More hop on end but disappinting and a bit of muddle of flavours. Like so many beers at this pub, never sure that this is exactly how it should taste. 2.5/5 Re rate County Hotel Ashford. Decent hoppy pale ale. Good pink grapefruit hops.

Tried from Cask on 09 Oct 2005 at 09:38


5.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

[Cask at Charlies Bar, Copenhagen] A pale yellow beer with a small white head. The aroma is sweet and citrusy hoppy - but quite light. The flavor is sweet grassy and hoppy with a very dry bitter end - it almost totally dries out the mouth. I’d call this a bitter ;-)

Tried from Cask on 07 Oct 2005 at 15:54


3.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

[Cask at Carlies Bar, Copenhagen] A slightly hazy orange beer with a thin slightly lazing off-white head. The aroma is slightly hoppy and slightly grassy. The flavor is extremely dry, with absolutely no sweetness and no alcohol, which makes it very thin - like a Danish light pilsener. A boring beer - order only a half.

Tried from Cask on 07 Oct 2005 at 15:52


5.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

[Cask at Charlies Bar, Copenhagen] A hazy light yellow beer with a white head. The aroma is sweet and lightly hoppy. The flavor is sweet, lightly hoppy and lightly flowery. A really good thirst quencher on an Indian Summer day in Copenhagen.

Tried from Cask on 26 Sep 2005 at 15:22


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

Cask handpull at Head of Steam Euston May 2005. Good hop flavour on this bitter. Phoenix normally make interesting beers and this one is no differnt. Made you want to keep tasting it

Tried from Cask on 04 Sep 2005 at 06:46


5.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

[Cask at Volunteers Arms, GBBF 2004] An orange beer with no head. The aroma is sweet hoppy, while the flavor is sweet and very hoppy, but on a thin body.

Tried from Cask on 23 Jul 2005 at 13:31