Woods Brewery

Microbrewery in Craven Arms, Shropshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Plough Inn - Out of business

Established in 1980

Closed in 2022

Contact
Wistanstow, Craven Arms, SY7 8DG, England
Description
Brewing ceased in April 2022. A Shropshire brewery has shut due to "unfavourable trading conditions".

The Wood Brewery was founded by Edward Wood, his brother and his father in the outbuildings of the Plough Inn in Wistanstow, Shropshire in 1980. Wood’s was one of the founding members of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) and a firm supporter of CAMRA. At a time when there was a surge of keg beer companies flooding the market and threatening the existence of traditional English ale, Wood’s championed the traditionally brewed product and ensured it remained a firm favourite in the county.

Wood’s has been at the forefront of Shropshire brewing since then and continues to be after it was taken over by new owners in 2018. The new owners have worked with the existing team to make a range of impactful and progressive changes to the brewing process and quality control, to ensure that Wood’s beer is of the highest possible quality. By continuing to make consistent and innovative products, the brewery can remain successful in an increasingly crowded market place.

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5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottled. Golden with a diminishing white head. Sediments in the bottle, but they stayed there. Metallic notes in the aroma, along with hops and some malt. Malty flavor with a quite pronounced bitterness and a citric background. Medium body and a light bitter finish. Flavor improves towards the end of the bottle, but it is a bit too one-dimentional all the way. (060624)
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jun 2006 at 15:04

5.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
(Bottle 50 cl) Pours amber golden with a slight haze - no head. Fresh and fruity nose. Medium-bodied, fruity - lightly citrusy - sort of vitamin C like. Light bitter finish. Quite fresh and nice. 090606
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jun 2006 at 08:38

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Picked this up at Malvern Spring show which I attended the other week. Not sure that it was straw coloured thought it appeared a bit darker. Once again a Woods beer that failed to excite, some maltiness present and a little sweeter than some of its stable mates but it’s most stand out feature was that it didn’t stand out at all. I went to this brewery many years ago whilst with Worcester CAMRA and had a great day, it’s not that they make bad beer they don’t it’s just that their beers fail to excite.
Tried on 24 May 2006 at 07:41

5.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle picked up at Malvern Spring Show 13-05-06. Poured a very hazy mid gold colour with a weak head. A little hoppy and citrusy in the nose, very dry and some grapefruit flavours detected in the mouth, once again Woods have come up with another ok bitter.
Tried from Bottle on 18 May 2006 at 01:11

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Picked up a bottle from Malvern Spring show 13-05-06. Amber beer pours with a small white head, bit malty hoppy in the finish and reasonable all told but nothing special.
Tried from Bottle on 16 May 2006 at 06:42

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Had this from cask at Malvern Spring show 13-05-06. Thought that I had already rated this before but never mind. Much fruitier and better than the parish that i also had with good malt flavours also present, quite dark brown and a touch on the sweet side.
Tried from Cask on 16 May 2006 at 06:39

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Picked up a bottle from Malvern Spring show 13-05-06. Also have had this last year picked up in Herefordshire. Amber coloured, little bit Malty and Floral in the overtones (unless that is the picture on the bottle deceiving me into thinking that) a reasonable hoppy and slighly citrusy beer, but like many of Woods beer’s nothing special.
Tried from Bottle on 16 May 2006 at 06:35

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Picked up a bottle from Malvern Spring show 13-05-06. A lot more depth of flavour than the Parish I drank from the cask earlier in the day. Nice hoppy aroma, hops also present in the taste but nice level of bitterness some citrus as well very decent beer.
Tried from Bottle on 15 May 2006 at 16:00

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask conditioned at Malvern Spring show 13-05-06 Very refreshing hoppy bitter, that is pleasant but a touch on the bland side.
Tried from Cask on 15 May 2006 at 15:56

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottled purchased from fancy garden centre farm shop betwen Hereford and Ledbury Sat 4th March hadn’t realised this was actually out of date by 5-6 weeks until I had drank it. Amber beer very clean, sharp bitter taste wasn’t up too much really.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2006 at 16:42