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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7.5/10
8/10/2010. Cask at the 28th Ipswich Beer Festival.
Tried from Cask on 07 Oct 2010 at 23:00

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Three Tuns, Bristol 3/10/10. The usual Arbor single hop colour of golden with a slight white head. Aroma of sweetish malts, and grassy hops with a touch of citrus fruit. Flavour was similar, with some black pepper in the background and decent bitter finish. Enjoyable.
Tried from Cask on 03 Oct 2010 at 13:38

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
From a polypin at the Three Tuns, Bristol 1/10/10. Slightly hazy gold in colour.Aroma of sweet malts and leafy, herbal hops. Flavour was similar, with the green edge to the hops very evident, before a dryish finish. Fine.
Tried on 01 Oct 2010 at 12:50

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
@Raven, Bath. Golden colour, bright. The aroma has some dull, slightly chewy hop stuff (old centennial? Kind of smells like it). On the palate, this is more bitter, with a resiny character not normally found in Britain. Not as bright as I like
Tried on 28 Sep 2010 at 14:39

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask handpull at Evening Star, Brighton. Pale gold, thin white head. It’s an ok slightly ascetic blond ale with above average hop on the finish. Very drying. It’s decent if maybe a tad light on the malts for me.
Tried from Cask on 17 Sep 2010 at 08:33

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Cask-conditioned at the Watershed, Bristol 6/09/10. Clear gold appearance with a slight white head. Grassy hop aroma, with a hint of sweetness. Easy drinking, with a touch of fruit, peppery hop and dryish finish. Enjoyable.
Tried from Cask on 06 Sep 2010 at 23:09

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Golden-straw. Toasty and a little bit caramelly. Toasty with an earthy, spicy hop character. Fruity and tasty - had this a few times.
Tried on 06 Sep 2010 at 13:34

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Cask@GBBF2010. Quite much black colour with small brown head. Aroma is roastes malts, some nuts, mild dark dry fruits, some wood and a bunch of chocolate as well. Flavour is chocolate, caramel and roasted malts, some coffee as well as mild dark dry fruits.
Tried from Cask on 23 Aug 2010 at 02:26

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
humle malt citron UD: gylden klar Skum: ingen E.smag sød lidt Bitter meget Slut E. smag: bitter moderat Krop: medum For: vandede Brus Flad Cask ggbf10
Tried from Cask on 18 Aug 2010 at 06:21

3/10
Tried from Cask on 13 Aug 2010 at 12:16