About
Distortion Brewing started life in the garage of founder Andy North's home in South London. Originally from Battersea, he is delighted to have found premises back home.
Distortion Brewing was originally inspired by a road trip to the US West Coast back in 2007. Here, American Craft Beer was tasted for the first time and the hop addiction started!
Distortion Brewing was originally inspired by a road trip to the US West Coast back in 2007. Here, American Craft Beer was tasted for the first time and the hop addiction started!
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a hazy deep dark brown colour with a small thin beige head that settled to a film. Aroma is roasted coffee beans, roasted malts and some chocolate notes. A moderately sweet roasted taste, chocolate, coffee and roasted malt flavours with a light roasted and light drying bitterness in the finish. A bit thin but okay.
Tried
on 05 Feb 2023
at 17:48
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap@Distortion Brewery Tap, London (05/11/2022) - hazed yellow with a white head. Fruity and malty with notes of tropical and citrus fruit, pine needles, light resinous notes. sweet malty backbone , with a solid hoppy close. Nice. --- Beer merged from original tick of Quantam on 26 Mar 2025 at 12:32 - Score: 7. Original review text: Fruity and malty with notes of tropical and citrus fruit, pine needles, light resinous notes. sweet malty backbone , with a solid hoppy close. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Nov 2022
at 09:06
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap@Distortion Brewery Tap, London (05/11/2022) - Sweet bready doughy malty with notes of straw, cereal, grass, crisp on the palate, medium light body, drying refreshing bitter hoppy finish. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Nov 2022
at 09:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap@Distortion Brewery Tap, London (05/11/2022) - More traditional American west coast leaning here delivering lots of piney resinous bitter hops, some citrus fruity notes surfacing, zesty citrus peel, set upon a sweet pale malty base, resinous bitter hoppy finish. Good stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Nov 2022
at 09:04
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap@Distortion Brewery Tap, London (05/11/2022) - hazed up yellow with a white head. Juicy fruity with lots of nelson character to the fore, crushed gooseberry and tender juicy white grape, touch of mosaic blueberry chiming through, sweet pillowy pale malty support, robust hoppy finish. Great stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Nov 2022
at 09:03
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap@Distortion Brewery Tap, London (05/11/2022) - a lightly hazed golden pour with a white head. Fruity and malty aroma and taste with notes of citrus and tropical fruit, malty backing, piney light herbal grassy hoppy finish. Easy drinking and tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Nov 2022
at 08:51
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap@BrewDog Clapham Junction, London (04/11/2022) - Juicy fruity aroma and taste, some mango and papaya, grapefruit and tangerine, sweet malty backbone, piney hoppy bitter edged finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Up the Junction on 26 Mar 2025 at 07:46 - Score: 7. Original review text: Juicy fruity aroma and taste, some mango and papaya, grapefruit and tangerine, sweet malty backbone, piney hoppy bitter edged finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Nov 2022
at 19:20
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at BD Waterloo, 20/10/22. Murky orange with a frothy off white head. Nose is mellow citric flesh, grass, melon, bitter orange. Taste comprises tangerine, melon, touch of mango, grass, pine needle. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juicy come lightly resinous hop bitterness. Not bad.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2022
at 17:48
6/10
keg at brewdog dog house... haze amber.. thin white lacing... soft herbal fruit nose... Light green hop onion.. light bitter herbal fruit
Tried
on 25 Oct 2022
at 19:02
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at Brewdog shepherds Bush collabfest 2022. A hazed deep orange coloured pour with a frorhy off white head. Aroma is semi sweet juicy mango, orange, mellow dank, light plastic juicy. Flavour is composed of semi rounded. Soft wheat, mineral, bitter citrus, orange, grassy citrus, grapefruit. Palate is semi sweet, pithy, bitter moderate carbonation. Ok.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Oct 2022
at 14:38