Brass Castle Brewery

Microbrewery in Malton, North Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2011

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10A Yorkersgate, Malton, YO17 7AB, England
Description
Brass Castle commenced brewing in a garage as a commercial home brewer in August 2011 initially in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. In December 2013 they relocated to Malton, North Yorkshire and expanded to a 10BBL plant. Over time, new tanks arrived and a Taphouse was established next door. Success, friends, family and the odd bank loan have got us where we are now.

The brewery has always pushed itself to brew interesting beers, under the very deliberate constraint of doing so without the use of animal products. In turn, this caused Brass Castle to develop a house yeast strain and specialised processes that could guarantee the final product. From December 2017, every beer brewed at Brass Castle has been based on a gluten-free beer recipes – on the basis that beer should be made available to as many people as possible. Most recently, the brewery invested in canning line and carbonation tanks, to spread the beers further than they have gone before.

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6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Mother Kelly’s - London. Pours clear, deep brown with a creamy mocha topping. The aroma holds a bit of milk chocolate, some dark fruits and ashy roast. Medium sweet flavorbwith lots of liquefied dark fruits, mocha, bitter dark chocolate, raspberry. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Finishes with prominent ashy roasty bitterness, some further dark chocolate and raspberries, scorched earth, charred wood. Not bad.

Tried on 10 Apr 2015 at 13:23


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask at the Guildford arms.. Copper... Thick tan head... Soft sweet toffee fruit roast nose... Dry toffee woody roast.. Soft fruits malts.. Soft nutty finish... Nice

Tried from Cask on 10 Apr 2015 at 10:08


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared at ChrisO. Picked up at House of Trembling Madness, York. It pours deep mahogany brown with a decent beige head. The nose is toasty, brown sugar, dried fruits, raisin, sugared plums, dates and smooth brandy. The taste is smooth, bitter-sweet, toasty, earth, brown bread, vinous, rich fruit cake, leather, wood, brown sugar, brandy and warming alcohol. Full body, moderate carbonation and velvety mouth-feel. Good depth. Really well-rounded and rather quaffable stuff. Much more drinkable than the name might suggest…

Tried from Bottle on 08 Apr 2015 at 08:47


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle split at Chriso Easter tasting, thanks to Paulo, 04/04/15. Interesting bottle ! Rich amber/dark orange with a decent beige covering. Nose is caramel, spice, dark fruit rinds, earthy, dates, sweet tunes. Taste comprises caramel, sweet’n’sour notes, trace of aniseed, fruit cake mix, light spice. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok stuff, can’t say I picked up much in the way of the barrel ageing.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Apr 2015 at 15:51


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared at chriso’s Easter 2015 tasting - London. Big thanks to Paul for this whale. Pours hazy amber with a creamy tan head. The nose holds ripe fruits, bread, berries, fruit leather and caramel. Medium to heavy sweet flavor with some alcohol kick, toffee, fruitcake, honey, bread. Full bodied with average carbonation. Warming finish with more honey, rich bread, ripe fruits. Good depth, very drinkable. Probably the biggest surprise of the tasting - this was a really great beer.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Apr 2015 at 05:03


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draft at Craft 100 April 2015 - London. Pours clear gold with a creamy, white head. The nose holds minerals and ripe citrus. Medium sweet flavor with some lemon and orange, light piney resin, pale bread, hay. Medium bodied with fine carbonation; good condition. Lightly resinous on the finish with more ripe and juicy citrus fruits, simple pale bread. Very decent.

Tried from Draft on 06 Apr 2015 at 04:36


8

Tried on 05 Apr 2015 at 10:29


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle at chrisO... Copper.. Thin tan lacing... Soft sweet toffee fruit nose... Soft toffee roast.. Big alcohol.. Dark fruits... Heavy roast.. Big alcohol.. Big roast

Tried from Bottle on 04 Apr 2015 at 14:06


6

Tried on 04 Apr 2015 at 13:18


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

5.7% Cask gravity at Planet Thanet BF 2015. Clear gold lasting white head. Grapefruit and mango aroma. Tropical fruit led apa. Very likeable very drinkable. Some bitter hop on the finish. Delicious tropical fruit. Good condition. Beer of the day so far.

Tried from Cask on 04 Apr 2015 at 07:18