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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.
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.
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can at home in Hackney - sourced from the Trembling Madness online. Pours deep brown with a creamy, tan head. Great beer overall, with a nicely layered dark malt character, some bitter ash, sweet chocolate, dark fruit accents, raisins, coffee. Medium to full bodied, lightly oily, with fine to average carbonation. Lightly warming finish, a touch sticky, with more bittersweet dark chocolate, ashy roast, scorched earth. Hits the right notes.
Tried
from Can
on 31 May 2020
at 20:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
28/5/2020. Sample courtesy of the SHIG, cheers! Pours pale amber with a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma of caramel, malt and fruits, a little earthy. Medium sweetness and light bitterness. Moderate body, average carbonation. Not bad.
Tried
on 28 May 2020
at 20:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Calderdale Beer Festival 2019, Halifax. Black in colour with its strength evident and there’s a good maturity to its mildly sweetened taste in this wooden cask version. There’s a mix of sweet, dark and roasted in its nose.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 May 2020
at 14:37
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
23rd May 2020
Can. Just a light haze on this deep gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, slightly soft, decent fine carbonation. Soft creamy malts, getting on for luxuriant. Unfortunately let down by a pretty clunky hop delivery. Pithy tangy bitterness that is at least offset by some resinous but pretty ripe citrus fruits, fair bit of orange peel. It's fine but hardly up there with modern craft DIPAs.
Can. Just a light haze on this deep gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, slightly soft, decent fine carbonation. Soft creamy malts, getting on for luxuriant. Unfortunately let down by a pretty clunky hop delivery. Pithy tangy bitterness that is at least offset by some resinous but pretty ripe citrus fruits, fair bit of orange peel. It's fine but hardly up there with modern craft DIPAs.
Tried
from Can
on 23 May 2020
at 18:10
6/10
Tried
on 19 May 2020
at 11:13
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can: Poured a brown with two finger creamy off white head. Aroma is sweet malty. Taste is nice rich, caramel, toffee, malts.
Tried
from Can
on 15 May 2020
at 21:46
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
440ml can. Pours very dark brown with a large head. Aroma is cola and yeasty liquorice. Taste has coffee and caramel, with a yeasty cola finish.
Tried
from Can
on 14 May 2020
at 16:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
9/5/2020. Sample courtesy of danlo, cheers Ed! Pours very dark ruby brown with a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma of chocolate, toffee, roasted malt, vanilla and coffee. Moderate sweetness and medium plus roasted bitterness. Medium to full body, sticky texture, soft carbonation. Slight ashy finish. Decent.
Tried
on 09 May 2020
at 17:21
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at København, Halifax. Golden with a small head. Its lemongrass is its dominant ingredient and it lingers in its aftertaste. Has a herbal heavy aroma and taste.
Tried
from Cask
at
København
on 09 May 2020
at 09:44
9/10
Very, very good.
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2020
at 22:29