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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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Thin beige head on an unclear pale golden coloured body.
Tart aroma.
Medium bodied, soft with a sharp back.
Earthy, chalky, yeast, lemon & herbal tastes with a tart finish.
Nice drinker.
Tried from Can on 07 Jun 2025 at 18:41

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask at ORB, Darlington. Gluten Free. Golden amber colour, white foam head and aroma of peach, fruity. Taste is malty, biscuity, with peach flavouring, and some citrusy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying peachy bitter finish. Quite drinkable, although the peach is abit artificial.
Tried from Cask at ORB on 29 May 2025 at 20:59

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Can 44 cl. Pours black with an orange hue and a rough, beige head. Sweet roast aroma with a hint of diacetyl. Medium body, sweet roast and licorice with a low carbonation. Very British. 270525
Tried from Can on 27 May 2025 at 14:14

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Can 44 cl. Pours an almost clear amber with a rough, off-white head. Biscuity malt aroma with dusty hops. Medium body, again biscuity malts, lowish carbonation with rather generic bittering hops. 270525
Tried from Can on 27 May 2025 at 14:08

4.4/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 5 Overall 4.5
Can 44 cl. Pours an almost clear golden with a rough, white head. Very faint citrus in the nose, and is that a streak of diacetyl? Medium body, lowish carbonation, very dry fruitiness and again that hint of diacetyl. Ends watery and bland. Not good. 270525
Tried from Can on 27 May 2025 at 13:56

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Can 44 cl. Pours a clear golden with a smallish, roughish white head. Pineappley aroma indeed paired with other tropical fruits. A bit light in body and semi-low carbonation. Dry, tropical fruitiness with some bittering hops. Decent lil quaffer. 270525
Tried from Can on 27 May 2025 at 13:37

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can 44 cl. Pours a clear golden with a creamy, white head. Clean, malty nose with floral hops. Medium body, sweet pilsner malts and a faint touch of noble hops. Hardly any bitterness. Good and straight. Appears richer than 4,2% 270525
Tried from Can on 27 May 2025 at 13:32

7/10
Tried from Cask on 22 May 2025 at 16:23

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Time Capsule beer with events on this day as I drink this apparently peanut butter stout, but with hardly any of that taste including the President of the USA saying only a meeting between him and the Russian premier can solve the Ukraine war; a man is arrested over arson incidents surrounding the British PM's external properties; & Peru's Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén resigns. Feels quite a regular imperial stout, although the strength is only mild in taste with milky roasted malts still more dominant. The aforementioned peanut butter as well as the marshmallow take a back-seat here. The latter of these two is more evident.
Tried from Can from Tesco Supermarket (Various locations) on 15 May 2025 at 21:30

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cask at the Tiny Tavern, Lincoln. Light hazed deep golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are Malty and citrus sweet too slight bitter. Medium body.
Tried from Cask at Tiny Tavern on 04 May 2025 at 12:18