North Riding Brewery

Microbrewery in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2015

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Unit 6, Barkers Lane, Snainton, Scarborough, YO13 9BD, England
Description
We’re a friendly bunch of Yorkshire folk with a passion for all things ale. Since 2015, we’ve been driven by a passion for innovating ales, while sticking to the traditional methods and high quality that you know and love.

The North Riding Brewery is based in the village of Snainton, just outside the seaside town of Scarborough, Yorkshire. Every day we’re blessed with chocolate box views of God’s own county and refreshing sea air. You could say there’s a little taste of Yorkshire in every brew.

Our production process is simple. We currently brew three times a week in our microbrewery, focusing on hop-forward modern ales with the finest ingredients.

Our mission is to delight your taste buds with a little love from Yorkshire. We’ll drink to that.

First brewed during March 2015 using a 10BBL plant. Initially it was based at the Betton Business Park, East Ayton, Scarborough. It is a sister brewery to North Riding Brewpub. In Summer 2019 the brewery relocated to their current location.

The majority of the output now comes from East Ayton but the brewpub also continues to operate, primarily for small batch beers sold at the pub, test brews and the occasional festival special.

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Cask @ Sportsman, Huddersfield. Clear golden with a thick head. It's crisp and hoppy with a citric fruitiness lingering behind this. There's lots of this in its nose too.
Tried from Cask on 12 Mar 2018 at 19:35

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Cask @ Crown & Kettle, Manchester. Golden with a creamy head. Hoppy with a sweetened tropical fruitiness. The rye influence is low if any, but it's a fine ale anyhow.
Tried from Cask on 11 Mar 2018 at 00:48

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Bottle. Beer Central, Sheffield. Medium gold colour. Moderate haze. Tidy, off white head. Nose has clean, dry, biscuity malts. Some lightly savoury notes of tomato skin and wood herb. Touch of hop spice. A little minty and floral. In the background some pineapple flesh and overripe orange. Taste follows suit with a woody, herbal, floral bitterness. No sweetness here, particularly. Medium body. Oily and slick on the palate. Low carbonation. Bitterness lingers on the finish. Off the beaten path, definitely, and really enjoyable for it.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Mar 2018 at 18:54

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Cask @ Drink? Hebden Bridge. Blonde with a head. Its soft water enhances a lovely light hoppy fruitiness.
Tried from Cask on 08 Mar 2018 at 22:54

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Cask @ Drink? Hebden Bridge. Clear golden with a thin head. It's a crisp, light hoppy ale with a low fruitiness. Certainly a session ale.
Tried from Cask on 03 Mar 2018 at 00:50

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Cask. Shakespeare’s, Sheffield. Clear, pale, amber gold. Thick foam of lasting, off white head. Nose has buttery malts. Some chewy citrus. Not too much else going on. Taste is fairly bitter, feeling oily and a little stewed. Medium body. Soft carbonation. Stewed bitterness to finish. A Citra IPA from this brewer should definitely not be a buttery malt bomb.
Tried from Cask on 01 Mar 2018 at 12:57

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Manchester Beer Festival 2018. Black with no head. It has sweet- hoppy dark malts that nearly get roasted. Might have been a little better kept away from this festival.
Tried on 26 Feb 2018 at 16:13

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Bottle. Beer Central, Sheffield. Mostly clear, dark chestnut brown. Swirl and bubbly ring of light tan head. Nicely leggy in the glass. Nose has Raspberry Ruffle chocolate bar. Freeze dried raspberry. Chocolate brownie. Caramel. Vanilla pod. Smells pretty fantastic and is nailed on fudge brownie, without falling into the trap of coming across artificial and sickly. Taste doesn’t necessarily follow suit, and has a fairly intense, fruity, roast malt bitterness up front, that evens out really well with that chocolate and caramel sweetness. Smooth and silky mouthfeel. Soft carbonation. Nice stickiness on the lips. Twang of raspberry and roast malt bitterness on the finish. Wow. This is really good.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Feb 2018 at 01:20

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Tired at the Vat and Fiddle Nottingham. Almost black colour with a tan head. Aroma roasted malty and light chocolate. Taste light bittersweet. Such a full body. Nice beer
Tried on 24 Feb 2018 at 12:16

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Cask at The Alexander, Derby, Derbyshire, Friday 16th February 2018 Pours gold with a great clarity, a tiny bit buttery, soft in the mouth, quite a sweet beer but gives a little resin edge. Like it despite the light butter edge. A5 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.3
Tried from Cask on 16 Feb 2018 at 19:40