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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6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask @ Stafford Beer & Cider Festival. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, vanilla and fruity. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 280717
Tried from Cask on 28 Jul 2017 at 06:13

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Cask @ Stafford Beer & Cider Festival. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are vanilla, fruits, flowers, malt and hops. Sweet vanilla and yet bitter finish.
Tried from Cask on 28 Jul 2017 at 06:12

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask gravity Kent Beer Festival 2017. Hazy gold lasting white head. Lots of passionfruit on aroma and flavour. A little rough maybe later but a fun beer. Bit extreme.
Tried from Cask on 20 Jul 2017 at 14:03

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
5th July 2017
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Cask. Almost clear gold beer, small white head. Palate is smooth with modest carbonation. Mildly sweet malts, light cream. Ripe floral fruits. Nice raspberry led berry fruits. Smooth semi dry finish. Nice. Another example of a slight shabby cask condition beer that would have been lively on KeyKeg.
Tried from Cask on 15 Jul 2017 at 12:30

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
5th July 2017
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Cask. Almost clear gold beer, residual white head. Palate is smooth and a little soft, modest carbonation. Smooth malts, some caramel. Ripe citrus fruits. Dry banana and bubblegum esters. Little floralness. Light dry finish. Flat and estery but just about passes muster.
Tried from Cask on 15 Jul 2017 at 12:26

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Tried at JDW Ritz Lincoln. Pale golden colour with a white head. Light malty caramel aroma and taste. Light body.
Tried on 15 Jul 2017 at 11:25

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Tried at Ritz. Just a bit too much sweetness and passion fruit for me on this golden beer.
Tried on 15 Jul 2017 at 11:19

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Tried at a Ritz JDW, Lincoln. Golden colour with a white head. Light citrus aroma and taste. Light bitter taste nefo body.
Tried on 15 Jul 2017 at 11:17

5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Cask at the Chelmsford Summer Beer & Cider Festival, Essex. Pours clear bright golden with a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma of syrup, sweet corn, caramel and malt. Quite heavy sweetness, light bitterness. Medium body, oily texture, soft to flat carbonation.
Tried from Cask on 07 Jul 2017 at 11:00

5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Cask (handpump) @ The Gooseberry Bush (JDW), Peel Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 4GL. [ As Grafton Encore ].Clear medium orange yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, pale malt, sharp, citric. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20151011] 5-2-5-3-10
Tried from Cask on 05 Jul 2017 at 07:39