9 Lives Brewing

Microbrewery in Ystradgynlais, Powys, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Established in 2017

Contact
Unit 303 Ystradgynlais Workshops, Trawsffordd Road, Ystradgynlais, SA9 1BS, Wales
Description
Robert Scott is the proud owner / brewer of 9 Lives Brewing, a 5 barrel microbrewery based in Ystradgynlais, Powys, South Wales. Brewing began in June 2017 as a cask ale only enterprise and has steadily expanded into the bottled beer sector.

Robert is an award winning brewer, with more than 20 years commercial experience in craft beer making. Robert has won numerous awards including CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Wales twice. Robert’s beer also has an entry in the Roger Protz book – 300 More Beers to try Before You Die!

Robert is still passionate about brewing small batch craft ale and is continually looking to develop new recipes.

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Wales Ales. Pours a mahogany colour with small off white top. Aroma of malt, brown bread, berries, some spices. Taste contains a nice malt profile with a fruity tang but is surprisingly hoppy with leafy bitterness and spice. Its very good.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2025 at 03:05


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

[September 2023] Clear and golden with a small, bubbly white head and a grassy, fruity aroma. Fresh and fruity with floral hop bitterness

Tried on 20 Feb 2024 at 11:32


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

[September 2023] Clear dark brown with a bubbly off-white head. Soft, sweet caramel malt on the nose, light bodied, quite thin really, with sweet malt predominating

Tried on 14 Feb 2024 at 15:34


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Cask @ Shrewsbury Real Ale Festival 2023. Pours a dark ruby, off-white, nay, beige head. Light caramel malt aroma, continues to taste, very mild malt, gentle roast.. expected a little more malt layers.

Tried from Cask on 30 Sep 2023 at 18:23


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Shared third of a pint at the 31st Shrewsbury Beer Festival in St Mary's Church on 28th September 2023. Deep red body, beige topping. Malty little number with a fruity edge, leaning towards caramel sweet.

Tried on 29 Sep 2023 at 08:30


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

Shared third of a pint on 28th September 2023; 31st Shrewsbury Beer Festival in St Mary's Church. As the name suggests, this is a golden beer which has a white head. It poured clean and clear, with a citrusy front to the nose and taste, some malt action for balance.

Tried on 29 Sep 2023 at 08:26


Tried on 28 Oct 2022 at 11:47


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


Cask (gravity) @ 36th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2019, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England.

[ As 9 Lives Special ].
ABV: 5.0%. Clear medium to light amber colour with a small average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt, nutty notes. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, caramel, fruity malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20191204]
6-3-6-3-11

Tried from Cask on 28 Dec 2019 at 19:23


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

Cask at Pigs Ear 2019 - London. Pours clear, toasted gold with a small, foamy white head. So so, some bitter grass, leaves, English yeast, dirt. Light bodied with fine carbonation; OK condition. Moderately bitter in the finish. Eh.

Tried from Cask on 23 Dec 2019 at 19:53


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Cask at pigs ear 2019. A clear pale amber coloured pour with a halo of white head. Aroma is rustic, farmyard, sweet malts, grass,. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, light tangy apple, straw, palate is wet. Grassy. Lowish carbonation. Meh.

Tried from Cask on 05 Dec 2019 at 12:46