Golden coloured ale which is light and has a healthy hop aroma and hopped taste.

Bottled@PBF2012. Hazy goldeny colour, small white head. Aroma is mild yeast, some fruity and floral notes. Flavour is quite similar. Quite British IPA like.

Bottled 500ml (PBF)
Hazy yellow color, good white head, lace. A bit green vegetably hoppy aroma. Light-bodied. Sticky hoppyness and some sweetish fruity notes. Not very unbalanced.

Bottled at PBF. Hazy pale golden, lively mildly gushing head. Aroma of hay and bitter orange. Mid dry with medium body and soft mouthfeel. Bread, hay and salt. Long bitter finish.

Chorlton Beer Festival 2012. Deep cherry aroma, but not much taste other than from some hints of cherry.

Bottle from Deeside Drinks Emporium. It pours very dark brown, with a massive light tan head. The nose is cream, milk, roasted malt, meat, coffee and a hint of sourness. The taste is milk, roasted malt, charcoal, coffee, some bitter chocolate, ash and liquorice, with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. A decent milk stout.

Cask. Reddish-amber-brown colour with a small beigeish brown head. Aroma is cooffee, roasted malts, some ashes as well as mild toffee. Flavour is roasted malts, ashes, mild chocolate and some coffee. Bodied and nice.

24 Oct 2010 I wrote this: I visited the converted barn that has the brewery on the ground floor and the shop/tasting room above a few Saturdays ago and bought 12 different bottles from them. I will slowly review each one in turn. As I wandered around I noticed a small line of hops in a garden round the back. On enquireing I discovered the hops grown in the garden are used in this brew, the plants produced so many hops this year they managed to brew two kettles worth for the first time! The beer is bottle conditioned and was in a brown 500ml bottle, I poured it carefully into a ’Batemans’ badged English pint sleeve. No sediment left the bottle and a lovely pale amber/light orange body filled the glass, on top a foaming covering of white bubbles sat majestically. The head fell away to a tight collar and wispy island a bit too swiftly for my likeing, but the cheese I had with it might have accounted for that. I was expecting a really hoppy aroma but got just a mild wiff of the said ingredient, along with a little bit of maltiness and yeast esters. As the beer warmed in the glass the hop smells grew in intensity a great deal. The first sip however is all hop, more like an American West Coast IPA or even a DIPA. It isn’t however just about the hops, and first sips can be deceiving, there is a subtlety within the brew that allows the malts to have a say in the flavours too. Both wheat and barley are used in the brew, which would help the colour stay pale and also add to the lightness of depth in the body (I suppose). I had this beer with some ’Innkeepers Choice’ a creamy mature Cheddar with pickled onions and chives added, they complimented each other wonderfully. Although they only brew this when their hops are ready the bottles are for sale all the time (until they are all sold of course). They claim the beer stays fresh and drinkable for a whole year, plus. I’m sure they’d ship some, if you asked nicely and paid handsomely. Easy to drink and an ideal session beer with a ’Ploughmans Lunch’ or simular platter.

500ml Bottle conditioned version, best before Aug 2011, drank and reviewed Nov 2010. Poured into an Abbot Ale tankard, trying to ensure no sediment left the bottle. My second beer from this brewery in my bevy of twelve I’m slowly going through and reviewing. The beer is a clear reddy brown colour, almost an Irish Red look to it. On top a well formed white head helped to fill the tankard, it looked good. Plenty of lacing and the head stayed the whole distance. Toffee maltly smells, the sort used on toffee apples to be exact. Good malty flavour in the initial sip, a sharp hop bitterness reminds you very quickly this isn’t a one trip pony and has more than one taste within. Well carbonated and well balanced, a very nice beer indeed.

The third bottle in my twelve brews of Dunham Massey Breweries beers: 500ml, bottle conditioned, best before March 2011, drank and reviewed December 2010. Poured into a huge ’Judas’ glass, just for the hell of it! It looked superb, a mass(ey)ive foaming quilt head of tanned bubbles sat majestically above the darkest of dark bodies. Rarely have I seen a Jet black body, so Jet black. No idea if any sediment got into the glass, couldn’t see a bloody thing. The aroma is all about roasted/toasted and burnt chocolate malts all in equal quantities giving it a dark, dry chocolate smell. The taste is also heavy on the chocolate malt theme with a hop bitterness adding to the dark chocolate feel. Well carbonated and easy to drink, the beer however lacked a richness in the body and although not watery, seemed almost thin towards the end of the mouthfeel. Another fine beer from this brewery: 3 out of 3, so far.