Golden Duck Brewery

Microbrewery in Swadlincote, Leicestershire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2012

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Unit 2 Red Hill Farm, Appleby Magna, Swadlincote, DE12 7AH, England
Description
Golden Duck Brewery is based on a farm in Appleby Magna in North West Leicestershire. Being ideally locatated about a mile from the M42, we are able to distribute our beers across the Central Midland areas of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire.

This is a Father and Son operation with son Harry being the Head Brewer. Harry studied at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh for 4 years to obtain his degree in ‘Brewing and Distilling’. At 23 years old Harry had gained valuable work experience with Burton Bridge Brewery, Tower Brewery and the National Brewing Centre in Burton, and Stewart’s Brewery in Edinburgh, before spending the last two summers at Derventio Brewery in Derby and Hopback Brewery in Salisbury. There is some history of brewing in the family too with Andy spending a short time at the Bass Malting’s site in Burton, and father Ray and brother Chris also spending a considerable amount of time working at Bass in Burton. Nephew Eddie still works for the now ‘Coors’ brewery in Burton and was responsible for the installation of our brewery in Appleby Magna. Andy will take on the role of General Manager/Brewery Apprentice. Andy’s full time role is working as a Management Consultant with ‘Complete Lean Solutions’ a company specialising in providing training and management support.

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6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Tried at the Nottingham beer festival 2015. Hazy gold with a white head. Aroma is fruity and citrus. Taste is light sweet.
Tried on 10 Oct 2015 at 14:12

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
8th July 2015
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Cask. Lightly hazy amber beer, few pale cream colour bubbles. Palate is light and dry. Sweetish and tangy caramel malts. Light tangy fruits. Little floral bitterness. Light finish. Not bad.
Tried from Cask on 12 Jul 2015 at 09:49

3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 1 Texture 4 Overall 1
Cask at the Broomfield Tavern, Coventry, 22/04/15. Clear golden with a decent white cap that retains well - a good opening for this rate, as good as it ever got ! Nose is bland, light citric, bread dough, but no hint as to the foul flavour to follow! Taste is chemicals, TCP, infected from every angle, cleaning solution, garbage. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, chemical rinse. Reading Glen’s review below I have and had no doubt this mess was anything to do with the pubs cellar keeping. Was of time !
Tried from Cask on 28 Apr 2015 at 08:17

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Halifax Beer Festival. Golden with a thin head. Session ale with a light malty character.
Tried on 17 May 2014 at 04:52

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Halifax Beer Festival. Copper with a thin head. Has a sweet nose and a bitter-sweet flavour with some grainy malt evident.
Tried on 17 May 2014 at 04:51

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Halifax Beer Festival. Golden with a thin head. Has some light malts and a small lingering fruit in its taste, but mainly a medium bitterness.
Tried on 17 May 2014 at 04:46

5.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Cask at the Merchants Inn, Rugby, 12/03/14. Clear golden with a good sized off white head. Nose is bready malts, caramel, straw. Taste comprises bitter orange, bready malt, straw, caramel tones. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, drying close. So so affair, lacks depth for ABV.
Tried from Cask on 13 Mar 2014 at 06:41

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned, served by gravity at the Tewkesbury winter beers festival, 7/2/2014. Medium brown with next to no head. Sweet, brown sugar, cinnamon and orange peel, with a gentle finish. Fine.
Tried from Cask on 10 Feb 2014 at 13:58

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
Cask @ The Dolphin, Shrewsbury. First off, lots of roasted coffee with a grainy mouthfeel.. some bitter chocolate in the coffee dregs, with roasted malts teasing the tongue. Not as bad as others at the bar had me believe pre-order, but an interesting one.
Tried from Cask on 08 Jan 2014 at 14:08

7/10
Tried from Cask at Dolphin Inn on 01 Jan 2014 at 15:40