Tower Brewery
Microbrewery
in Burton upon Trent,
Staffordshire,
England 🏴
Associated Venue: Tower Restaurant & Brewery
Established in 2001
IMG_0063-300x293Over a period of nine months and with a lot of hard work, John and his father Geoffrey converted the handsome water tower, in which the brewery is now based.
Steeped in brewing history and known as Walsitch Maltings, the tower was built in the 1870s by Thomas Salt & Co Ltd., and later in 1927 owned by Burton brewers Bass & Co.
With the conversion finished and the building returned to its former heritage, production began on 10th April 2001.
dragnet101 (5171) reviewed Burton Strong Ale from Tower Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at 6%. Pours amber with small head and a fading retention. Bready caramel malts with a mild hoppy spice aroma. Taste is like a chewy toffee malt bomb, quite sweet. Finish carries that sweetness to partly offset a decent bitterness and a very mild hoppy spice note at the end. Its decent stuff and a nice change from some of the hoppy session IPAs and NEIPAs recently consumed. It does lack something to elevate it to another level, maybe a dark fruity note or an increase in the level of that spiciness.
RichTheVillan (12544) reviewed Burton Strong Ale from Tower Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Morrisons; clear burnished amber pour with a thin beige head, aroma has sweet toffee and dark fruits, taste is quite bitter with mellow toffee, big malts and some autumnal fruits.
c0axial (8313) ticked Imperial from Tower Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
Keg at the Ale Wagon's 20th Birthday Beer Festival, Leicester. Ruddy brown, clear and very flat. Homemade caramel aroma with medicinal hop conyrast in the aroma. There's a sweet pulled taffy taste alonside the bitter hop note. Molasses and mecurochrome exist side by side in the aftertaste. There's a lot going on here, not all of it makes sense but I can dig that.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Keg at the Ale Wagon's 20th Birthday Beer Festival, Leicester. Golden and clear with ring of white head. Sweet aroma with light banana chip, brioche and orange peel notes. Sweet taste with a light souring toward the finish. Medium to heavy carbonation. Very nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Gravity cask at the Ale Wagon's 20th Birthday Beer Festival, Leicester. Dark gold, flat and clear. Light sulphurous aroma with light grassy notes. Beautiful bittersweet taste, resplendent with Mount Hood hops. Finish and aftertaste tends toward the bitter. Oily body. Nice.
jjsint (8566) reviewed Hoskins Brothers 04 Ale from Tower Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Gravity cask at the Ale Wagon's 20th Birthday Beer Festival, Leicester. Light to mid reddish brown, clear with almost no head. Very little aroma, a bit of nondescript malty offerings alongside a sharp metallic character. Taste is much better: bittersweet with vanilla, tobacco, hazelnut carrying to the finish. Astringent hops are prominent in the aftertaste. A mixed bag.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Gravity cask at the Ale Wagon's 20th Birthday Beer Festival, Leicester. Mahogany, very translucent, with a combover of off-white head. Smokey aroma, firewood, a sharp metallic note and a more delicate floral character. Sweet taste with a strong smokey flavour, but there's a slight unwelcome vegetal character: nothing wrong with the condition but it's got a touch of something messy. Body is way, way too watery and flat as can be. Decent but far from world beating.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Gravity cask at the Ale Wagon's 20th Birthday Beer Festival, Leicester. Golden, clear, flat. Nice use of fruity US hops alongside a biscuity malt note: I'm getting loads of citrus peel and lemon cookie. Taste is very interesting: bittersweet and hoppy with an inense astringency present in most Tower Beers. Not an English pale ale, but rather an unlikely cross between a Bueton Ale and an APA. The result is certainly different from the usual 'trad brewery trying new recipes'. A strange and moreish concoction.
jjsint (8566) reviewed Hoskins Brothers Premium from Tower Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Gravity cask at the Ale Wagon's 20th Birthday Beer Festival, Leicester. Dark gold, clear with an uneven white head. Sweetish smell, a little bit medicinal with some woody and earth notes. Taste is sweet with a tangy/spicy notes, and some flavourful asteingent hops in the finish. The overall effect is a bit weird, I like it well enough and it certainly isn't a bitter by numbers, but it's messy.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.50 |
| Beers | 56 |
| Ticks | 122 |
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