Grafton Fine Ales

Microbrewery in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2007

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Unit 3 & 4 Walters Yard, Dukeries Way, Claylands Industrial Estate, Worksop, S81 7DW, England
Description
Grafton Brewing Company is named after the Grafton Hotel on Gateford Road in Worksop. The Grafton was built in 1865 by a gentleman called Joseph Gardside. Joseph Garside was one of the founders of Worksop and Retford Brewery.

The multi award winning micro brewery, Grafton Fine Ales was founded, formerley known as Grafton Brewing Company in 2007. The first brewing premises were behind the Packet Inn on Bescoby Street in Retford, Nottinghamshire. We acquired our brand new premises in May 2014 back in Worksop after we outgrow our previous premises. Which also saw us increase our plant size from a 5 barrel plant to a 15 barrel plant for us to keep up with demand.

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5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
# 2904; 4/2022. Aroma of caramel and slightly stale. Clear brown body, persistant tany head. Caramel, milk chocolate, watery. Weird milk stout. Half of pint, hand-pulled, pub, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
Tried on 28 Apr 2022 at 18:27

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask at Standing Order, Derby. Pours a very dark reddish brown with minimal off-white head. Aroma has roasted malts and liquorice. In the mouth it is pretty sweet and quite watery, with liquorice and caramel dominating. Later on some chocolate comes through. Finish is fairly sweet. Reasonable but not wildly exciting.
Tried from Cask on 26 Mar 2022 at 22:11

6/10
Sample on cask at the Gate House JDW. Medium creamy white head. Hazy golden pour. Smooth apricot aftertaste.
Tried from Cask on 01 Mar 2022 at 17:59

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Cask at the Queens Head, Stourbridge at 4.2%. Pours light gold with a small head. Aroma is sweet warm ginger with a little lemon. Taste has grainy ginger, slightly acrid. A bit watery.
Tried from Cask on 27 Nov 2019 at 18:28

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol 31/10/2019. Dark brown in colour, with a slight, off-white, head. Sweet milk chocolate, caramel. light oastiness and a gently sweet finish. Ok.
Tried from Cask on 03 Nov 2019 at 16:21

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bradford Beer Festival 2019. Clear yellow-gold in colour. Passionfruit does offer up a sweetness to this ale amongst an otherwise hoppy bitter.
Tried on 26 Mar 2019 at 16:42

5.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Gravicask at 37th Fleetwood Beer & Cider Festival. Shared with Finn. Black in the glass. Beige head, dotted spots on the glass. Mint chocolate nose. Taste like after eight mint chocolate. Okay, rather sweet and unvaried though. (07.02.2019).
Tried from Cask on 17 Feb 2019 at 12:51

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Fra gravicask på 37th Fleetwood Beer & Cider Festival 2019. Delt med Rune. Svart. Skum langs glasset. Aroma av mint. Smaken flytende After Eight. Sånn passe vellykket. Uvariert.
Tried from Cask on 07 Feb 2019 at 15:26

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask at the Queens Head, Stourbridge. Pours very dark brown with a small head. Aroma is caramel, cola and chocolate. Taste is sweet to start with caramel. Watery cola and caramel finish.
Tried from Cask on 19 Jan 2019 at 08:39

6/10
On tap at JDW Ritz Lincoln. Pale golden colour with a white head. Aroma pod light malty and citrus with hints of caramel. Taste light sweet. Medium body.
Tried from Draft on 21 Dec 2018 at 19:56