Quantock Brewery

Microbrewery in Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Quantock Brewery Shop & Taproom

Established in 2007

Contact
Westridge Way, Broadgauge Business Park, Bishops Lydeard, TA4 3RU, England
Description
Quantock Brewery was set up in December 2007 in Wellington Somerset. However it was born out of the love of brewing by our head brewer Rob Rainey. Rob purchased his first home brew kit from Boots but when this didn’t produce the quality of beer he wanted, Rob, a former nuclear engineer, built his own kit from scratch, and the rest is history.

Rob’s philosophy was to brew the highest quality ales using the best natural ingredients. He wanted all the beers to be brewed entirely from the highest quality grain and whole hop cones, the only other ingredients being yeast and water. No chemicals or sugar are added to the beers to ensure flavour is pure. Rob stives to produce quality beers that have flavour and character, far different from the mass-produced beers traditional found in pubs across the UK.

Our brew house is an 8-barrel size with 8 fermenters allowing us to produce 5 brews per week and over 2300 pints per brew. Currently we can produce over 160 casks or 11500 bottles per week. Recently the brew house has started producing kegged beer supplying over 40 key kegs a week. Our brewhouse also features our new HOPGUN. This exciting piece of kit replaces the traditional dry hop brewing process and allows our brewing team to infuse a more intense level of flavour and aroma directly into our new craft beers.

In an industry of endless possibilities, we will always continue to explore new ideas and add to our ever-growing range of beers crafted in the heart of Somerset.

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6.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can at home picked up from the brewery. A mostly clear bright gold coloured pour with a fading white head. Aroma is earthy, straw, light medicinal, hop, grass. Flavour is composed of light tangy, green apple, medicinal, straw, Palate is super crips, slightly abrasive, Ok. Earthy larger.
Tried on 17 Oct 2025 at 21:47

6.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 7 Overall 6
Can at home picked up from the brewery. A clear bight gold coloured pour with a decent white froth that fades. Aroma is semi sweet, cereal, apple notes, grass, hay, straw. Flavour is composed of crisp, light tangy, lemon, earthy cereal. Palate is super crisp, light tang, spritzy carbonation. Light grainy. Not bad.
Tried from Can on 14 Oct 2025 at 21:36

7.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
can at the Standing order ..hazy yellow ...thin white lacing ...Light dry floral fruit nose ..Light dry flora fruit..and a touch of the smashing orangy bit
Tried on 22 Sep 2025 at 12:09

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Keg at The Escapist, Petersfield. Aroma has lightest sweet and tart citrus sourness. Underlying porridge. Flavourwise is the same. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent finish. OK.
Tried from Can at The Escapist, Petersfield on 20 Sep 2025 at 20:46

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Keg at the Escapist tap, Petersfield, South Coast Jolly Boys Day Out 20/09/2025.
Hazed orange topped with a lasting just off white head.
Nose is bitter orange, grass, light pine nip, ripe melon.
Taste comprises mandarin, tangerine, papaya, mellow tropicana.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juicy hop bitterness.
Tidy session gear.
Tried on 20 Sep 2025 at 16:22

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Tried from Draft at The Escapist, Petersfield on 20 Sep 2025 at 12:31

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
28th June 2025
Can. A mild haze on this orange gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, reasonable fine carbonation on the back end. Soft creamy malts, quite a forward sweetness. Smooth cooling pine. Mellow but rounded orangey citrus. Traces of tangerine and mandarin. Smooth finish. A tad on the sweet side overall, needs some hop bite.
Tried from Can on 12 Jul 2025 at 11:37

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Old rating - A 500ml bottle from Waitrose. Pours a light brown with a small white head. Aromas & tastes of citrus, caramel, toffee, grain & sweet malt. Light to medium body. Dry light to medium bitter finish. Average
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jun 2025 at 20:40

Tried from Draft at Bridge Inn, Bristol on 28 May 2025 at 12:08

6.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Deadication beer to William Adams, the sailor with a big enough boat to reach Japan - the first Englishman to do so in the 17th Century, he died on this day . Hazy amber, carbonated fruity bitterness, strength evident and sugary-fruity enough to enjoy, found at Beer Shack in the pretty town of Clitheroe.
Tried from Draft at The Beer Shack on 16 May 2025 at 18:04