Beowulf Brewing

Microbrewery in Brownhills, Staffordshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 1997

Contact
Forest Of Mercia, Pool Lane, Brownhills, WS8 7NL, England
Description
When Phil Bennett began planning for the Beowulf Brewing Company in 1996 there was no brewing going on in Birmingham. The original site of the brewery was in Yardley, where independent beer production started in the city in 1997. Beowulf began in a disused ex Co-op shop. Our original “signature” beer, Heroes Bitter, is still popular and sits at the head of an capacious list of regular and occasional beers. Now on the shore of Chasewater near Brownhills, Staffordshire the brewery is awash with Regional and National awards. Beowulf’s dark beers attract particular praise, devotion and accolades. The brewery celebrated its first twenty years last year and in 2018 we will finally get it together to have a beautiful website… turns out the internet is not a flash in the pan! Please come back and see it. All our cask and bottled beers will be listed along with some other interesting stuff.

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6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
500ml bottle. Pours pitch black with a frothy, dirty brown head. Aroma is faint milky coffee. Not much to start on the taste, some cream, lots of bitter coffee on the finish.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Sep 2010 at 12:15

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
500ml bottle. Poursa hazy amber with a medium head. Aroma is orange and pithy hops. Starts with resin. Very bitter finish with some orange. Slightly medicinal. Unpleasent aftertaste.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Sep 2010 at 13:40

7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
500ml bottle. Pours very dark brown with a small head. Aroma is rich fruity malt. Some blackcurrant and licorice. Blackcurrant and licorice to start on the taste. Much the same on the finish. Very nice, warming, but not overpowering.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Sep 2010 at 13:12

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask@GBBF2010. Deep ruby colour, small beige head. Aroma is fruits, liquorice, malts, some raisins and mild syrupy notes. Flavour is quite much the same. Quite brutal. Finish has some dark honey as well.
Tried from Cask on 22 Aug 2010 at 23:18

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ Anchor Inn, 308 Bradford Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands England B5 6ET.Clear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate hoppy, grapefruit, citrus - orange, spicy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, chlorine, light notes of chili - peppery finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100116]
Tried from Cask on 06 Jul 2010 at 11:01

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ Wellington, 37 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham, West Midlands England B2 5SN.Clear medium to dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting - diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, light moderate hoppy, grapefruit. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100115]
Tried from Cask on 28 Jun 2010 at 12:59

8.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
BCA from the Dodgi Deli aka Classic Deli, Cowley Rd, Oxford, 05-05-10 Well fucksocks this is good and what a find, the range of bottles at the Classic Deli isn’t as good as it has been despite their best efforts but if it can still be relied upon to unearth treasures like this then I am a happy man. This isn’t the best looker, pouring as it does a hazy orange amber but it has a nice billowing white head. The nose is marmaladey, some malts but it is the soft sweetened citrus fruits you mostly notice. The taste is citrus, honey marmalade again showing, its soft in the mouth with a wonderful bitterness. There is a nice warmth from the alcohol, in fact there is very little wrong with this beer, very impressed to see a lesser light like Beowulf doing something as good as this, this is territory normally reserved for Thornbridge, Brewdog, Oakham etc, but well done to Beowulf this is a great beer! Btw it even shone with Loz who said "can we go and get some more". A8 A3 F9 P4 Ov17 4.1
Tried from Bottle on 05 May 2010 at 21:31

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Cask at the Three Judges, Glasgow, Scotland on 24th April 2010. Gold with vanishing white head. Cookie malts, citric hop and slight peppery notes. Smooth to light mouthfeel, bittersweet finish leaning on the sweet.
Tried from Cask on 24 Apr 2010 at 12:21

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask @ 3 Judges. Light amber colour, off-white head. Aroma is slight caramel and fruits. Flavour is caramel malts, fruits, some hoppiness. Slightly dry and bitter.
Tried from Cask on 23 Apr 2010 at 02:15

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, light caramel, moderate to light heavy hoppy, grass, orange, UK hops, hop dusty. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100119]
Tried from Bottle on 14 Mar 2010 at 15:27