Okell's

Commercial Brewery in Douglas, Isle Of Man, Isle of Man 🇮🇲
Associated with 10 Venues

Established in 1850

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Old Castletown Road, Kewaigue Hill, Douglas, IM2 1QG, Isle of Man
Description
Beer for purists. Pure & Simple. Here, amidst the pure shores and rolling glens of the Isle of Man, Okell's has been defined by our beautiful Island for over 170 years and guided, in all that we brew, by its unique Brewing Purity Law.

Dr. William Okell, a Cheshire surgeon, started Okell's Brewery in Castle Hill, Douglas, Isle of Man in 1850. He was a man of singular drive and ambition - by 1874 Dr. Okell owned many of the pubs on the island, had convinced Tynwald (the Isle of Man's parliament), to create an act ensuring the purity of beer brewed on the Isle of Man, and built The Falcon Steam Brewery just outside Douglas.

It's A Continuing Tradition...
We care about the beers we make, and for our Head Brewer Kevin Holmes, it's a never ending passion to create the perfect pint of Okell's. Making the perfect pint from only 4 ingredients is a special skill handed down by generations of Master Brewers.

Continuing our tradition of innovation, Okell's has the only wide gap plate and frame heat exchanger for heating the wort in the Copper in the British Isles.

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5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Sampled cask conditioned at GBBF.
Reddish amber. Rather malty, fruity. Hint of vanilla, Lightly salty finish with medium bitterness.

Tried from Cask on 21 Aug 2002 at 00:03


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Brewed for the Albert, an old school boozer down by the SeaCat terminal in Douglas. Copper colour; smoothly malty, lightly earthy with an off-dry finish. One of the better Manx ales.

Tried on 20 Aug 2002 at 20:48


2.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5

Light gold; watery, fizzy, bland. Given that you can't buy it in any serious Okells pub, but you can get it at the ferry terminal, I guess the rating isn't that big a surprise.

Tried from Can on 20 Aug 2002 at 20:45


3.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

Brown; sweet; bland; light, hint of caramel. Too thin and undeveloped......

Tried on 20 Aug 2002 at 20:42


4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Light amber; light body, vaguely lemony; slightly malty in the back; drinkable, but light. While I was enjoying this a cat came by. Bastard had a tail. I couldn’t have been more disappointed. Sampled at the pub at the end of the Manx Electric Railway station in Laxey.

Tried on 20 Aug 2002 at 20:41


5.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ Shore Hotel, Laxey

Amber - not in the beer sense but literally like a piece of amber; kind of watery, caramel, touch of copper, wood, finishes slightly sweet.

Tried from Cask on 20 Aug 2002 at 20:39