Brewster's Brewery

Microbrewery in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 1998

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5-6 Burnside industrial Estate, Turnpike Close, Grantham, NG31 7XU, England
Description
Following in the footsteps of thousands of women who have brewed through the millennia, Sara Barton founded Brewster’s Brewing Company and the first beers flowed in 1998.

Over eons and through civilisations, women had brewed beer as naturally as they baked and nurtured their families. In recent centuries though, a woman’s role within the brewing craft had changed. Old fashioned societal norms and industrialisation had turned women away from being the natural brewers of beer. In modern times things have been changing and thankfully the world is different now; the new age of the Brewster is dawning.

After equipping herself with a Masters degree in Brewing and Distilling from Heriot Watt in 1989, Sara was to join the tiny band of female pioneers working in the brewing world and then in time she took the step to lead her own brewing company.

Sara took the name Brewsters for the brewery as it was an old English word for a female brewer. In the mid nineteen nineties when Brewster’s brewery was started it was a term seldom used or even understood.

Brewster’s brewery is now a 32 hectolitre (or 20bbl if you are old school) single infusion brewhouse located in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Cask conditioned ales predominate but brewery conditioning is developing to be an important element for the brewery and allows other beer styles such as kegged beers and canned small pack to develop. The small batch size gives scope for great variety in styles.

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Pint on cask at the Red Lion JDW.
Medium creamy beige head. Clear almost black pour. Light chocolate.

Tried from Cask at Red Lion (JDW) on 12 May 2025 at 08:46


6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Sample at the red lion jdw.
Medium creamy white head. Clear pale golden pour. Light bitterness

Tried from Cask at Red Lion (JDW) on 07 May 2025 at 17:30


6.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Cask at Square Bottle, Chester. Pours golden yellow with minimal off-white head and good lacing. Citrus is the mainstay of the aroma plus hints of kiwi and grapefruit. In the mouth it is quite bitter but with some underlying sweetness. Floral hops and summer fruits to the fore in the aroma with traces of grapefruit and bitter lemon coming later. Finish is slightly sticky. This is reasonable and quite refreshing. The citrus isn’t too prominent.

Tried from Cask at Square Bottle (JDW) on 23 Apr 2025 at 12:22


6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask NERAX. Clear gold frothy white noggin. Nose of pale malt some floral hops tastes perfume, melon, sourdough, cracker, popcorn. Light bodied.

Tried on 03 Apr 2025 at 00:43


6.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

440ml can at the William Wygston (JDW), Wigston. Bright brownish orange, clear with a full off-white head. Aroma of marmalade, caramel, iced tea, spiced orange. Taste is... whoa. Way, way, way too sweet. However as I drink I get used to it and find notes of toffee and pine, maybe a little cinnamon. Ooh, this is too weird to be good. It's one of those 'craft' beers that trad brewers do, often coming off badly. Brewsters have good beers. This isn't one of them although I've had worse.

Tried from Can on 01 Apr 2025 at 18:55


7

Spoons Spring Fest 2025 - citrusy fruity and malty aroma and taste, light grapefruit and lemon, zesty citrus peel, doughy bready malts, bitter lightly floral hpppy finish. Refreshing. Nice one.

Tried from Cask on 26 Mar 2025 at 06:05


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Cask, half pint.
Poured almost clear and light golden in color.
Nice citrusy hop flavors. Ends decently bitter, dry, marmaladey.

Tried from Cask at Willow Walk (JDW) on 25 Mar 2025 at 13:54


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Sample on cask at the red lion jdw.
Thin white head. Clear pale golden pour. Light bitterness

Tried from Cask at Red Lion (JDW) on 16 Mar 2025 at 17:47


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Gold with a white head. Lemon and orange flavours, but also sadly a touch of plastic. Quite crisp and clean though. Ok overall.

Tried from Cask at Back of Beyond on 07 Mar 2025 at 18:25


7.4
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Cask at Shrewsbury Hotel, Shrewsbury. Pours golden amber with a small foamy off-white head and excellent lacing. The aroma is a mix of hops with some added citrus. In the mouth it starts off sweet but bitterness gradually creeps in until it becomes dominant. Flavour has citrus, tangerine and marmalade with some hints of tropical fruits and peel coming later. Finish is bitter and fruity. This is decent.

Tried from Cask at Shrewsbury Hotel on 07 Mar 2025 at 12:29