Arbor Ales

Microbrewery in Bristol, Bristol, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Arbor Bottleshop & Taproom

Established in 2007

Contact
181 Easton Road, Bristol, BS5 0HQ, England
Description
Our current kit can produce up to 20 brewer’s barrels, depending on the beer and how heavily hopped it is. We have 10 fermentation vessels, with the most recent additions being oversized to allow double brews of our more popular beers. Having started as a one-man operation, the business has slowly expanded to the current team of eight as demand, production, brew house and premises size have increased.

We put a premium on quality and consistency, which means monitoring the beer at every stage of the brewing process and beyond. Much of our equipment, i.e. our keg washing & filling machine and our bottling machine, were chosen with this in mind.

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6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can from Appellation Wines. Appearance - dirty yellow brown. Thin lacing. Nose - funky lemon and zest. Taste - more lemon zest and funk. Palate - light bodied, zesty finish. Overall - OK.
Tried from Can on 17 Jun 2024 at 13:49

5/10
can at ashs tasting ...hazy amber ..thin white lacing ..soft earthy woody lemon nose ..soft sharp tart lemon ..massive tart lemon ..but im not liking the back edge
Tried from Can on 17 Jun 2024 at 13:45

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can thanks to Ashton McCobb. Pours murky yellow with a thin white head. Aromas of lemon and vanilla, faint funk. Taste is sharp sour lemon. Sour finish. Dirty vanilla linger.
Tried from Can on 17 Jun 2024 at 13:45

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Panda at home, thanks to Kenny, 16/06/24. Moderate haze on an orange to golden pour topped with a white cap that thins edgewards. Nose is lemon rind, herb, airy malts, citric sherbets, grass. Taste comprises tangy lemon, lemon sorbet, citric tinged straw, light puckering bite and some acidic elements. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a sharp lemon zing in the close. Okay tangy refresher.
Tried on 16 Jun 2024 at 15:39

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
440ml can. Pours pitch black with a tan head. Aroma of oak, whiskey, chocolate. Taste of chocolate, roast malt, whiskey, oak, the walnut isn't really that prominent at all, sweet and boozy. Full bodied.
Tried from Can on 14 Jun 2024 at 23:39

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can from Vino, Broughton Street. Pours hazy yellow gold with a thin white head. Aromas of grapefruit and dank resin. Taste is quite sweet and fruity. Sweet finish.
Tried from Can on 14 Jun 2024 at 17:03

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Can split at CBJ, thanks to Kenny, 18/10/23. Golden orange topped with an off white head. Nose is orange zest, grapefruit, pine needle, mango splash. Taste comprises ripe melon, orange peel, mixed tropical fruit esters, mango, light pine. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juicy hop bitterness. It's okay but stuck between 3rd and 4th gear, expect more from this brewer normally, never mind for a special brew.
Tried from Can on 27 May 2024 at 09:00

7/10
From backlog. Can, at The Black Heart, Camden, London. Straight from The Can. Malts, hops, yeast, Fruity, some mild bitterness.
Tried from Can on 22 May 2024 at 20:23

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
18th May 2024
Can. Hazy orange gold beer, small and short lived pale cream colour head. Light palate, semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Light malts, a thin creamy sweetness. Rather obvious and slightly tart lemon with a somehow contrasting lemon marmalade and ripe lemon peel vibe. A mildly salty lemon semi dry finish. Don't hate this but I get neither the Limoncello vibe nor any Lemondrop hop goodness. Just a lemon zest brew that is overall slightly tart and it makes for a somewhat one dimensional IPA.
Tried from Can on 19 May 2024 at 12:10

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at The Alma Tavern, Bristol. Surprised by the very high rating here. It was easy English cask drinking with a slightly more mature profile than most session ipas. Caramel colour. Didn't do much for me. (18/5/24)
Tried from Cask on 18 May 2024 at 10:12