About
Founded in 1995, The Grainstore Brewery was formed through the collaboration of two friends, Tony Davis formally Head Brewer and Production Director at Ruddles Brewery and Mike Davies of Davro Fabrication. With Tony’s 30 years of brewing experience behind them, and Mike’s engineering and steel fabrication expertise at their disposal, the two set to work on a derelict Victorian grain store situated next to Oakham Railway Station. Following renovation of the building and the lowering into position of the large fermenting vessels, copper and conditioning tanks, the brewery tap opened its doors in September 1995. The 15 barrel brew house plant with its capacity to brew 60 barrels per week, started brewing its first brew, ‘Cooking Bitter’ a few months later. This tradition has since been continued by Tony’s son William Davis and his business partner Peter Atkinson, as the brewery and Tap go from strength to strength.
Part of the group
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Peterborough beer festival 2022 day 1. Golden colour with no real head. Aroma and taste are biscuit malty sweet. Thin body.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Aug 2022
at 13:59
6/10
Tried
on 21 Jul 2022
at 12:58
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pandaaaa! Enormous thanks SHIG for a Rutland tick! Misty orange-golden body, white head. Seems that it continued to work and turned towards sour, light sulphury touches, appley. Sweetish taste, caramelly, buttery, appley, syrupy indeed, actually quite pleasant that way. One of the stranger ciders I've had, sweet, but not the typical fake or French sweet cider, but something undefinable, hah.
Tried
on 15 Jul 2022
at 21:43
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Handpull cask at the Grainstore Tap, Oakham. Light to mid-gold and clear with a thin white head. Waxy lemon character in the aroma. Taste is bittersweet with an intense happiness taking hold mid-sip. Long dry finish, light vegetal character throughout. Pretty decent stuff, and certainly a cut above Rutland's normal offerings.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Jun 2022
at 15:52
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Gravity cask at the Rutland CAMRA Festival, Rutland County Museum, Oakham. Light gold, clear with a loose ring of white head. Bready yeasty aroma, white grapefruit pith. Sweetness in the taste turning to bitter quite quickly and leading to a dry finish. All through there is that odd yeasty character. A fairly typical strong-ish Grainstore beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Jun 2022
at 12:41
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
# 3021; 6/2022. Aroma of chocolate and licorice. Brown body, off-white head. Chocolate, fruity, licorice, earthy. Very good mild ale. Half of pint, hand-pulled, brewpub, Oakham (East Midland, Englad).
Tried
on 22 Jun 2022
at 18:11
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured a golden with a white colored head. Aroma is sweet, apple, sticky to the nose, perfume. Taste is semi-sweet, apple, sticky, tannins.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2022
at 23:15
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
# 2957; 5/2022. Aroma of caramel, malt and berries. Dark copper body; persistant lacing off-white head. Fruity, herbal, malty, caramel. Good bitter. Half of pint, hand-pulled, pub, Bishop's Stortford (Essex, England).
Tried
on 25 May 2022
at 12:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask. Rail Ale fest. Pale amber gold. Foamy head. Big buttery notes. Grassy hop. Taste is dry and bitter. Alright.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 May 2022
at 15:41