Wolf Brewery

Microbrewery in Attleborough, Norfolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Duke of Wellington

Established in 1995

Contact
Decoy Farm, Norwich Road, Besthorpe, Attleborough, NR17 2LA, England
Description
History of the Brewery

East Anglia is home to some of the best brewers in the whole of Europe.

They practice their art steeped in age-old tradition and surrounded on all sides by endless fields of the world’s best malting barley. These days brewers are keeping abreast of the times and harnessing modern technology to help produce deeply satisfying beers that are taking beer festivals across the country by storm. East Anglia has always been famous for it beers and smaller breweries thoroughly enjoy the challenge of competing against the big players in the region.

One of the leaders in the field is the Wolf Brewery, whose brewers are driven by a passion to make distinctive East Anglia beers known to a wider audience. Its founder, Wolfe Witham, was the driving force behind the hugely popular Reindeer brewpub in Norwich during its heyday in the 1980’s.

The Wolf Brewery opened in 1995 on the old Gaymers Cider site in Attleborough but after 10 years of steady growth the business outgrew the premises. In 2006, a major investment was made in a new brewplant at a new premises, a couple of miles away in the village of Besthorpe.

More recently, Wolf has installed a state of the art bottling plant so that ale aficionados further afield can enjoy more of the prize winning ales.

As always quality comes first and a genuine quality product, crafted with care and packed with goodness, is something we are very proud to offer. The Wolf brewery is also part of the East Anglian Brewers Co-operative. This organisation is, among other things, taking steps to work with local farmers aiming for ‘full traceability’ so that eventually the beer can be traced right through from the grain to the glass.

Our ingredients are local, our recipes and our methods are local - and we always want to keep it this way. We believe that East Anglia is the home of quality brewing!

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5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ Oddfellows, Pakefield. Dark amber bitter with a thin head. Has a low bitterness verging on a sweetness.

Tried from Cask on 03 Jan 2023 at 21:44


7

Bottle online from Beers Of Europe. Pours a deep chestnut colour with a thin throthy beige head. Aromas of berries, sweet jam, toffee and caramel. Taste has stewed fruit with more berries, sweet jam, toffee and caramel. Medium body with a slightly fizzy mouthfeel. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2023 at 19:00


7

Bottle online from Beers Of Europe. Pours a slightly hazy light amber colour with a large fluffy white head. Nose and taste buds out of sync due to head cold so no tasting notes recorded. Will revisit another time.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2022 at 20:06


7

Bottle online from Beers Of Europe. Pours a very dark ruby colour with a huge thick foamy beige head. Aromas of dark fruits, berries, caramel, toasty brown bread and some nuts. Taste has more dark fruity notes, caramel, toasted malts, brown bread and nuts. Added notes of chocolate. A touch of sweetness and slight roasty burnt notes on the finish. Nicely balanced. Another decent beer i have tried from this good Brewery.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Oct 2022 at 20:15


7

Bottle online from Beers Of Europe. Pours a clear golden colour with a medium sized throthy white head. Aromas of doughy white bread and biscuits with light hints of citrus and caramel. Taste is biscuits and caramel with a touch more citrus and a dry earthy hop finish. Thinnish body with average carbonation. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Oct 2022 at 19:29


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

Cask-conditioned at the Knights Templar (JDW), Bristol September 2022. Golden in colour, with a thin, off-white, head. Leafy hops, light, rich tea malts, a hint of tangerine fruit and gently bitter finish. Fine.

Tried from Cask on 08 Oct 2022 at 10:18


7

Bottle online from Beers Of Europe. Pours a hazy ruby/rust colour with a huge thick foamy off-white head. Aromas of red berries, jam, toffee, caramel and doughy bread. Taste has the same notes as detected in the aroma. Very fruity, lots of red berries, jam and toffee. Malty with low bitterness and very subtle tangy hops on the finish. Medium body, soft carbonation on the palate and sticky mouthfeel. Very good beer i will definitely be having this again.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Oct 2022 at 20:12


7

Bottle online from Beers Of Europe. Pours a slightly hazy golden/amber colour with a huge thick foamy white head. Aromas of citrus, floral, biscuits, caramel and light peppery spice. Taste is more upfront citrus and floral with more biscuits, caramel and peppery spice. Also some orange sherbet. Nice hoppy citrus finish. Some bitterness but just the right amount and a touch of sweetness. Nicely balanced. Medium body, low carbonation and smooth mouthfeel. Very nice beer.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Oct 2022 at 14:20


7

Bottle online from Beers Of Europe. Pours an almost clear caramel brown colour with a medium sized creamy off white head. Aromas of toffee, caramel, biscuits and citrus orange, tangerines. Taste has more toffee, caramel and citrus orange with some peppery spice and earthy hops on the finish. Medium body, low carbonation and smooth slightly oily mouthfeel. Lots of good flavour for the low abv. Very good English Bitter this one.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Sep 2022 at 18:10


7

Bottle online from Beers Of Europe. Pours a hazy copper colour with a large foamy off white head. Very faint aromas of caramel, biscuits and nuts. Taste has notes of toffee, caramel, and biscuits with a hint of citrus and nuts. An earthy hop bitterness on the finish. Thin to medium body, average carbonation and fairly smooth mouthfeel. It’s a decent and well made beer, very oldskool but just a bit boring.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Sep 2022 at 20:00