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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6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Keg at the dockside tap. Pours golden, nose is herbs, grass, hay, toffee, lemon, taste is similar. --- Beer merged from original tick of Them on 02 Aug 2019 at 08:46 - Score: 6
Tried from Draft on 22 Jul 2019 at 06:59

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Keg at the dockside tap. Pours deep amber, nose is floral, berries, banana, taste is similar. --- Beer merged from original tick of Nisshoku on 02 Aug 2019 at 08:46 - Score: 7
Tried from Draft on 22 Jul 2019 at 06:59

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Keg at the dockside tap. Pours deep brown, nose is caramel, chocolate, fudge, cocoa, slightly earthy, taste is similar, quite sweet, dry, roasted, slightly sickly. --- Beer merged from original tick of Luna III on 02 Aug 2019 at 08:45 - Score: 8
Tried from Draft on 22 Jul 2019 at 06:58

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Keg at the dockside tap. Pours deep reddish brown, nose is meaty, roasted, liquorice, caramel, taste is similar, sweet, thin. --- Beer merged from original tick of On the Rum on 02 Aug 2019 at 08:45 - Score: 7
Tried from Draft on 22 Jul 2019 at 06:58

7/10
Plenty of coffee, roasted, quite dry and bitter.
Tried on 20 Jul 2019 at 15:18

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle thanks to James. Appearance - dark brown to black, opaque with a slight olive sheen. Fawn head. Nose - blackberry, light booze and toffee. Taste - more boozy black fruit (possibly prunes) plus caramel and light biscuit swinging by at the end. Palate - rich and medium to full bodied, boozy edge to it. The slight roast of the malt does a reasonable job of cleaning the finish up. Overall - very nice indeed.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Jul 2019 at 21:11

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to James. Appearance - dark brown to black and opaque. Fawn head. Nose - nuts and chocolate. Caramel too. Taste - dominant caramel this time, but nuts and chocolate still there in spades. Palate - creamy and roasty at the same time, verging on stout body. Dry, light roast while still light sweet at the same time on the finish. Overall - a really good example of the style. Not a style, I usually go for, but very well made.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Jul 2019 at 20:48

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to James. Appearance - dark brown to black and opaque. Nose - smoke, sweet toffee and definitely some black fruit coming through. Tres complex! Taste - chocolate, toffee and a touch of the blackberry thing again. Smoke less prevalent but still in there. Palate - creamy and roasty at the same time. Dry, roasty finish. Medium bodied, I'd say. Overall - good. Nose better than taste.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Jul 2019 at 20:22

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Keg at red squirrel... Hazy amber... Small off white head... Light sweet dusty fruit nose.. Soft banana.. Passion fruit nose... Foam and fruit salid sweeties... But also quite neutral
Tried on 11 Jul 2019 at 14:10

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Keg at red squirrel... Light hazy.. Thin white lacing.. Soft dry toffee fruit nose.. Soft dull caramel toffee.. Soft fruits
Tried on 11 Jul 2019 at 14:10