Facer's Brewery

Microbrewery in Flint, Flintshire, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Established in 2006

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Unit A8 Ashmount Enterprise Park Aber Road Flint CH6 5YL, Flint, Wales
Description
Facer's Brewery supplies quality, hand crafted real ales to pubs and other venues across North Wales and North West England.
We are the oldest Brewery in Flintshire

Dave Facer started his own brewery in Salford, Greater Manchester in February 2003, sharing premises and equipment with Bazens' Brewery, which had itself started a few months earlier. In 2005 Dave and wife Annette decided to move home (and hence brewery) to Flintshire. The new Facer's Brewery started production in Flint in February 2006.

Brewing - A life's work !

Dave's first job in a brewery was in 1977 in the Quality Control Lab at Wilson's Brewery in Manchester. He later became a fully fledged Brewer and when Wilson's closed he joined Tetley's Brewery in Leeds followed by stints at Chester's of Salford and Whitbread at Samlesbury before becoming a Brewer at Boddington's in 1991. In 1999 Dave was appointed Head Brewer at Boddington's. He left in February 2003 to start Facer's Brewery.

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7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Swan, Blackheath. Pours very dark brown with a small head. Aroma is sweet caramel. Taste has sweet caramel and roast.

Tried from Cask on 06 Mar 2025 at 21:01


6.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Shared with Finn, third. Crystal clear golden body, covering white head, spotty lacing. Inviting on the nose with leafy hops and mid-sweet malts. Moments of grain, biscuit, and leafy hops to the flavour character. Hints of leafy hop bitterness to the ending. Pleasing to a certain degree. (Liverpool, 13.02.2025).

Tried from Cask on 13 Feb 2025 at 12:00


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Delt med Rune.

Tried from Cask at Ship & Mitre on 13 Feb 2025 at 10:13


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at Bird In Hand, Stafford. Pours very dark reddish-brown with a medium sized tan head and good lacing. There’s roasted malts in the aroma, plus hints of tar and smoke. In the mouth it is sweet with a creamy texture. Flavour has roast malts, raspberries, caramel and toffee plus hints of citrus, melon and liquorice later on. Some bitterness in the finish. This is nice – plenty of flavour and well balanced.

Tried from Cask at Bird in Hand (Black Country Inns) on 11 Feb 2025 at 00:00


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Ninth brew sampled at the Pendle Beer Festival 2025. Slick textured hoppy ale with very mild caramel developing in its aftertaste.

Tried from Cask on 30 Jan 2025 at 22:13


6.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

29/1/2025. Cask at Ye Hole In Ye Wall, Liverpool. Pours clear deep amber with a small creamy off-white head. Aroma is biscuity, malts, caramel, fruits, hedgerow, berries. Moderate sweetness and bitterness, quite drying. Moderate body, soft carbonation. It was fine.

Tried from Cask at Ye Hole In Ye Wall on 29 Jan 2025 at 19:03


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

29/1/2025. Cask at Ye Hole In Ye Wall, Liverpool. Pours clear deep ruby amber with a small creamy off-white head. Good pour. Aroma is fruity, berries, hedgerow, malty, caramel, biscuit. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness, touch of tart. Moderate body, soft carbonation. Not quite what I expected from the name but it was fair enough.

Tried from Cask at Ye Hole In Ye Wall on 29 Jan 2025 at 18:30


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

29/1/2025. Cask at Ye Hole In Ye Wall, Liverpool. Pours clear dark maroon brown with a small creamy off-white to beige head. Aroma is sweet plums, jammy, malts, biscuit, caramel, touch chalky. Medium sweetness, mild bitterness. Moderate body, quite smooth, soft carbonation. Enjoyable plum porter.

Tried from Cask at Ye Hole In Ye Wall on 29 Jan 2025 at 17:55


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at Shrewsbury Arms, Stafford. Pours pale straw with minimal scummy almost white head. Mandarin and grapefruit in the aroma. In the mouth there’s a brief burst of sweetness before it become quite bitter and juicy. A mixture of hops to the fore plus grains, stone fruit and bitter orange peel leading to a dry finish. This is decent.

Tried from Cask at Shrewsbury Arms on 17 Jan 2025 at 00:00


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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Half pint from the cask at The Ship Inn, Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey. Pours a clear golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of light fruits, biscuit & light malt. Moderate body. Light bitter finish. Enjoyable

Tried from Cask on 09 Jan 2025 at 20:47