Craft Beer Kitchen

Microbrewery in Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Owned by Stewart Brewing

Contact
26a Dryden Road, Bilston Glen Inductrial Estate, Loanhead, EH20 9LZ, Scotland
Description
Craft Beer Kitchen is a Nanobrewery that produces small batch one off beers to trade. Craft Beer kitchen also operates as a brew it yourself home brewery run by Stewart Brewing. Members of the public can come along and brew their own beer to take home in your very own personalised bottles!

The Craft Beer Kitchen team will guide you through the brewing process from start to finish. From choosing a brew date to bottling and collecting your brand new creation. We will ensure that your Brewday is both fun filled and smooth sailing. Then it is over to you to stick your beer in the fridge and perhaps most importantly, toast your success!

Whether a complete beer novice or a self-proclaimed beer geek, we can promise that the Craft Beer Kitchen will be a unique and unforgettable experience. Having booked your brewday either online or by phone, you will be faced with the rather tricky challenge of choosing what beer you would like to brew. From a fruity, hoppy pale ale to a Belgian Tripel, we have over sixty delicious beery delights for you to decide between. Then comes the part where you get your hands dirty. Under the Brewmaster’s watchful and experienced eye, you will begin your step by step brewing process. The only thing that Craft Beer Kitchen team will do is ensure that your beer ferments and carbonates as required so that it is ready for when you return in 2 – 3 weeks for your hands-on/rather unglamorous bottling shift. The rest is down to you!

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6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle at home. Copper brown, some honey and citrus nose, taste is dry, toffee, sweet, light honey.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jun 2014 at 13:41

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
750ml bottle from Appellation Wines, cheers Ash! Pours pale gold with a light haze, thin white head. Aromas are light funk and cheesey hops, yeast and oranges. Taste is sweet - it is like drinking marmalade. Sticky finish. OK.
Earlier Rating: 6/13/2014 Total Score: 3.4
750ml bottle courtesy of AshtonMcCobb - cheers Ash! Pours clear golden orange, thin white head. Aromas of light honey, barley sugar sweets. The taste doesn’t quite come together, the booze remaining separate from the sweet malt flavours. OK.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jun 2014 at 07:16

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
75cl bottle from Appellation Wines. Appearance - golden but murky with some head. Nose - peach and mandarin with a hint of zest. Taste - oranges, going into marmalade. Palate - medium to full bodied, big tangy texture and a finish, that could be just a bit fresher, but still good. Overall - grows on me.Decent scoop!
Earlier Rating: 6/13/2014 Total Score: 3.4
75cl bottle from Appellation Wines Comely Bank. Appearance - golden orange with a thin head. Nose - floral and apple jelly. Taste - orange barley water. Some honey. Palate - medium bodied with a tangy texture and a dry tangy finish. Overall - enjoyable but it doesn’t completely meld together.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jun 2014 at 06:16

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Tap @ The Southern, 22-26 South Clerk Street, Newington, Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9PR. [ As Stewart Craft Beer Kitchen Popcorn Pilsner ].Clear light to medium golden orange amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, pale malt, sweet malt - corn notes, light to moderate hoppy, fruity hops. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, fruity, caramel, malty, corn - popcorn floral sweet. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20140314]
Tried from Draft on 14 Jun 2014 at 04:30

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle from Appellation Wines Comely Bank. Appearance - like kalamata olive skin. Purple/brown/black and shiny. Nose - spicy malt and that sweet green herbs. Taste - malty and menthol. Get the lemon balm and bay leave. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy yet tangy texture and a long dry finish. Overall - it grew on me. Good.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2014 at 07:55

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
500ml bottle shared with Ashton McCobb. Pours dark brown, thin off-white head. Big oregano nose, aquavit, menthol, general overpowering herbiness. Taste is more herbs, but avoids being soupy. Slightly sweet, but not a bad bitterness considering.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2014 at 07:54

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Tap @ The Southern, 22-26 South Clerk Street, Newington, Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9PR. [ As Stewart (UK) Craft Beer Kitchen Ka Pow ].Clear medium orange yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, wheat, caramel, pale malt, moderate to heavy yeasty, belgium yeast, fruity hops - yeast. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, yeasty, belgium yeast, fruity, herbs. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20140314]
Tried from Draft on 07 Jun 2014 at 11:44

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Keg at the Southern. Pours golden amber, burnt toffee, almost get the popcorn, sweet and dry.
Tried on 06 Jun 2014 at 11:51

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Keg at the Southern. Sweet, dry, yeasty, definite coriander, fruity esters, not sure I get carrot. --- Beer merged from original tick of 48 Carrot on 14 Mar 2014 at 18:53 - Score: 7. Original review text: Keg. Sweet, dry, yeasty, definite coriander, fruity esters, not sure I get carrot.
Tried on 06 Jun 2014 at 11:50

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Keg at the Southern. Sweet, refreshing, fruity, dry watermelon, toffee, funky.
Tried on 06 Jun 2014 at 11:48