Little Valley Brewery
Microbrewery in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England 🏴
Established in 2005
Contact
Turkey Lodge Farm, New Road, Cragg Vale, Hebden Bridge, HX7 5TT, England
Description
Set up by Wim van der Spek and Sue Cooper, commencing production in June 2005. All beers are vegan friendly and all but a few are certified organic. Most are available on cask and bottle conditioned.
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 3
Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm Very dark brown, average head. Lemony licorice aroma. Sweet, fruity and yasty with citric signs of early infection. Roasty malt competes against lemon and yeast, but it’s irrelevant who wins, as this beer is going nowhere. Finishes with a blast of resiny bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2007
at 15:31
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm Clear golden, airy head. Lemony wheat aroma. Fairly sweet and rather light bodied. Sweaty and fruity with coriander and orange marmelade. The British ale character clashes with Belgian witbier spices resulting in a mess. However it’s a highly quaffable mess.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2007
at 15:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm Pale amber, rich head, some sediment. Concentrated seville orange marmelade aroma. Sweet up front. Rather yeasty with light body. Evidenltly hoppy, creating a bittersweet flavour of Old English marmelade. Drier finish with striking bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2007
at 15:26
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Hazy golden, fairly rich airy head. Distict flowery hop aroma with notes of grapefruit. Dryish and light bodied with crisp mouthfeel. Very light buttery/bready malt rest underneath a field flowery hops. With it’s very ligh body the bitter finish gets very close to getting an metallic edge. A good, light quencher.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2007
at 01:39
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a darkbrown/black color with a longlasting tan head. Sweet malty roasted chocolate aroma. Smooth sweet roasted malty flavor with chocolate and coffee hints. Roasted finish with chocolate and coffee in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Apr 2007
at 08:16
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Cask conditioned at Merton Beer Festival 17-02-07. This beer poured a cloudy strawlike colour without a head. Of all the beers this dissapointed most, I’m not convinced there was anything particlualry wrong with this rather that it was just completely underwhelming. I for one could not get the coriander or lemon, getting only a slightly metallic smell with possibly some wheat there as well. The taste hardly picked it back up either and came across as being very flat and forgettable, I really couldn’t find much too taste at all, looking at some of the other comments maybe we didn’t get a particularly great one but I for one just felt it was totally devoid of character and had little or nothing to offer and yet some people I served were telling me that yes they could get the coriander and lemon, hey-ho!
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Feb 2007
at 07:08
2.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 1
Flavor 1
Texture 6
Overall 0.5
Bottle, 3.9%. Horrible burnt plastic aroma. Hazy golden colour with floaties. Plastic beer from hell. The horror, the horror...
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2007
at 12:04
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
(Bottle 50 cl) Pours a clear, fully golden with a nice, white head. Lightly floral aroma from the hops. Light body with vague malt notes. Dry finish. Disappointing.151206
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2006
at 10:19
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Bottle 50 cl) Slightly hazy golden with a small, off-white head. Fresh, citrusy aroma. Light body. Fresh notes of citrus - perhaps even grape fruit. Dry but not overly bitter finish. 311006
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2006
at 10:26
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Bottle from Hogs Back Brewery shop. Black with thin dark beige head. Very nice stout. Lots of choc and sticky dark fruit on aroma. Juicy malt in mouth with more choc, prune, damson, blackcurrant in mouth and then satisfying drying finish. Great stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Oct 2006
at 07:03