Zest Brewery

Microbrewery in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 1996

Contact
2 Barkston Heath, Grantham, NG32 2DE, England
Description
Brewery founded by Gary and Diane Oldershaw but under new ownership since 2010. Renamed to their current name in early 2020.

At Zest brewery we make an excellent range of beers brimming with quality, character and passion all infused with a touch of Planet Rock!

Zest Brewery has been borne from merging centuries’ old brewing techniques with progressive thinking to deliver a range of both traditional and innovative beers of outstanding quality in cask, bottle and canned format.

The lessons learnt from our Oldershaw Brewery roots are being used to continue to look after our local customers, to start our mobile bar business offering both static pop up bars of various sizes and also a converted horsebox bar – Bar Zest – and to broaden our bespoke bottling capability.

Beers are available to trade through direct delivery and wholesale distribution. Casks of beer are available for parties, weddings, corporate events and all celebrations.

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

Cask@GBBF. Golden colour, mediumszied white creamy head. Aroma is really nectary and flowery hops. Flavour is wooden and slightly citrusy with some slight hints of mild nectar.

Tried from Cask on 29 Aug 2007 at 05:44


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

Cask at Peterborough Beer Fest. Deep golden. Rich aroma of hay and fruit. Dryish and light bodied with a solid core of malt. Sweeter finish with good bitterness. A 3.0% bitter, and all this flavour...

Tried from Cask on 29 Aug 2007 at 05:19


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

Cask at Merton Summer Beer Festival 06-07-07 . Warm golden colour with white head, quite fruity and sweet bitterness ok, but overall felt a bit disappointed by this beer, never really did much for me A6 A3 F5 P3 Ov11 2.8 Had this again at The Hop Pole, Aylesbury, Bucks 20-07-09 Pours gold with a tiny white head. The aroma is slightly boozy and malty. Taste is quite strong, its malty, alcohol is there and its also a little dry at the end, much better beer than I recall so re-rated. A6 A3 F7 P3 Ov14 3.3

Tried from Cask on 10 Jul 2007 at 02:06


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask gravity at Battersea BF 2007. Gold colour with thin white head. Yeasty aroma, bit eggy. Decent golden beer. Tangy lemon citrus finish.

Tried from Cask on 16 Feb 2007 at 07:01


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Cask gravity at Battersea BF 2007. Slight hazy copper colour with no head. Yeasty aroma with some citrus hop. Dullish with some more citrusy hop on the finish. Yeast runs throughout. Bit of stale malt on the aroma. Better in mouth.

Tried from Cask on 13 Feb 2007 at 12:06


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

(Bottle 50 cl) Hazy, deep golden with an off-white head. Lightly citrusy aroma. Quite a light body with a soft mouthfeel. Some fryity and caramel flavours. A bit low in carbonation and a subdued bitterness. 291206

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jan 2007 at 14:47


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. A hazy orange beer with a disappearing white head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel, while the flavor is sweet malty with notes of peaches, leading to a dry lightly bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2006 at 13:50


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

[Bottled] Clear golden, rich head. Citric, grapefruity hop aroma. Medium dry with clean, rounded mouthfeel and light to medium body. Fairly hoppy and lightly dusty. Salty finish with good bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Sep 2006 at 11:18


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

[Bottled] Deep golden, minimal head. Fruit and somewhat sulphury. Sweet with clean, rounded mouthfeel and medium body. It’s streamlined character doesn’t let too much interestin´g flavours out. Resiny finish.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Sep 2006 at 11:16


7.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

[Cask at Volunteers Arms, GBBF 2004] A black beer with a brown head. The aroma is primarily of roasted malt, while the flavor is sweet with notes of chocolate and coffe, as well as a roasted end.

Tried from Cask on 24 Jul 2005 at 06:52