Winton Brewery

Microbrewery in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Established in 2017

Contact
Hospital Rd, 10 Station Yard Industrial Estate, Haddington, EH41 3PP, Scotland
Description
We are a small craft beer micro brewery based in East Lothian. We were born in Pencaitland but now brew our artisan beers in our own custom built 10hL brewery in West Barns. Both our directors are Haddington born and bred, our brand design is by a Haddington designer, our grain is sourced from Drem and our spent grain is eaten by the coos in Athelstaneford! We are extremely proud of our East Lothian heritage and use the quality produce of the county where possible to produce our superior quality beers.

Our company slogan is drink, blether, be happy and we have developed our beers and branding with that in mind.

We absolutely love what we do and what we create and aim to put a smile on the handsome faces of our customers from our bright and eye catching branding and Scottish slang themed names through to the handcrafted fresh, crisp, tasty beers we produce! Slàinte!

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7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at the Haddy Tap. Pours black with a thin beige head. Aromas of smoke and toffee. Taste is more of the same. Roasty finish. OK.

Tried on 28 Feb 2026 at 12:26


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

Keg at the Station Yard, Dunbar. Pours dark brown to black with a thin beige head. Aromas of coffee, chocolate and roast. Taste is more of the same. Dry finish.

Tried on 23 Feb 2026 at 16:14


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On keg at the Haddy Tap.
Appearance - opaque black and beige head.
Nose - smoke, chewy toffee and fudge.
Taste - smoke, toffee and fudge again.
Palate - light to medium bodied roasty and chewy middle and roast finish.
Overall - good.

Tried from Draft on 22 Feb 2026 at 14:52


On keg at the Haddy Tap.
Appearance - dark brown to black and opaque. Beige head.
Nose - coffee, chocolate and roast.
Taste - chocolate, roast and still an edge of coffee.
Palate - light to medium bodied, dry roast finish.
Overall - good.

Tried from Draft on 22 Feb 2026 at 14:46


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

keg at the bow bar ...dark black ..thin tan lacing ...soft sweet smokey chocolate roast malts nose .....dark dry woody smokey chocolate ..too much smoke for me

Tried on 28 Jan 2026 at 14:48


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

Sampled on tap at North Berwick West Golf club in Scotland. Very nice post round beer

Tried from Draft on 25 Aug 2025 at 20:47


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

Keg at the Heriot watt beer festival. Pours hazy golden, nose is toffee, pine, citrus, taste is zesty citrus, bitter. 6/7/7/6/6

Tried on 23 Mar 2025 at 16:50


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

440ml can, thanks to Ashton McCobb. Pours hazy yellow with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of flora, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, biscuit & malts. Medium body. Dry moderate bitter finish. Excellent

Tried from Can on 23 Jan 2025 at 15:15


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

330ml can from Beer52 at 4.5%. Cloudy light gold with small white top. Aroma is doughy with citrus pith and a light yeast/earthy note. Taste is more on the grassy bitter side with citrus and grains. Semi-dry, fine to moderate carbonation, medium bodied. A bit 'old hat' in so much as it lacks a hop intensity and is something I would expect to come from an old fashioned regional 'churn it out to the Co-Op' type brewery like Robinsons. It's pleasant enough though.

Tried from Can on 02 Jan 2025 at 03:07


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

330ml. can. @Oban Accomodation, Oban (Scotland). 07/08/2023 [#6.699 Global - #233 Scotland - #1 Winton Brewery (My Scottish brewery #78)] Pours mahogany with a small lacing tan head. Aroma: dried fruits, sweet toffee, dark malts and brown sugar. Taste: roasted earthy hops, toffee and burnt caramel. Sweet raisins finish. Next one please!

Tried from Can on 05 Sep 2023 at 07:53