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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7.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cask, third pint. @Nottingham Camra Beer Festival, Nottingham (England). 10/10/2024 [#7.842 Global - #41 Wales - #1 Facers Brewery (My Welsh brewery #21)] Pours dark brown with a bubbly head. Aroma: tobacco, liquorice and roasted malts. Taste: tobacco and roasted cocoa beans. Roasty palate. Next one, please!
Tried from Cask on 08 Nov 2024 at 12:19

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Cask at the Queens Head, Stourbridge. Pours very dark brown with a large head. Aroma is dey roast, coffee and a little chocolate. Taste has smooth roast, coffee and milk chocolate. Dry yeasty roast finish.
Tried from Cask on 15 Oct 2024 at 17:27

6.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
11/10/2024. Cask at Nottingham Beer & Cider Festival 2024. Pours clear bright golden amber with a small bubbly off-white head. Good looking beer. Aroma is sweet malt, caramel, hops, butter, flowers, stone fruits. Medium sweetness, light to moderate bitterness. Moderate body, slightly oily, soft carbonation. Lacked some body but quite liked it.
Tried from Cask on 13 Oct 2024 at 14:23

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11/10/2024. Cask at Nottingham Beer & Cider Festival 2024. Pours very dark maroon brown with a small bubbly/frothy off-white head. Aroma is light roasted malt, chocolate, liquorice, toasted, caramel, dried fruit. Moderate sweetness, body and roasted bitterness. Oily, soft carbonation, slightly watery, but overall good for its abv.
Tried from Cask on 13 Oct 2024 at 14:22

6.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
[February 2023] Dark brown, near black, with a reddish tinge and a creamy tan head. Chocolate malt and a roasted earthiness combine, some sweetness up front, on the thin side but smooth with hints of coffee and a subtle bitterness in the finish
Tried on 10 Oct 2024 at 10:15

5.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Clear golden in the glass and a fine head. Good lacing. Ok intensity in the aroma Decent sweetness and a mild bitterness Soft carbonation level. Very session able. Malty, fruity and herbal flavor. [Cask at Factory Tap in Kendal, England] Brewery # 2681
Tried from Cask on 17 Aug 2024 at 09:22

6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
19/7/2024. Cask at the 2024 Chelmsford Summer Beer & Cider Festival. Pours clear amber gold with a small frothy white head. Aroma is floral, malt, straw, citrus, orange, grass. Quite nicely balanced. Easy drinker and fair enough.
Tried from Cask on 19 Jul 2024 at 18:26

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18/7/2024. Cask at the 2024 Chelmsford Summer Beer & Cider Festival. Pours clear very dark mahogany brown with a small bubbly beige head. Aroma is roasted, malty, nutty, chocolate, caramac, light coffee and vanilla. Moderate sweetness, bitterness and body. Average to soft carbonation. Nice mild.
Tried from Cask on 18 Jul 2024 at 09:18

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Tried from Cask on 13 Apr 2024 at 19:57

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Cask @ Crown & Kettle, Manchester. Pours a deep amber with a reddish hue, good off-white head. Fine Welsh red ale, but seems a little lacklustre, not as bitter as some, gentle sweetness, faint stale notes.
Tried from Cask on 24 Mar 2024 at 18:15