Vale Brewery

Microbrewery in Brill, Buckinghamshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Vale Brewery

Established in 1995

Contact
Tramway Business Park, Ludgershall Road, Brill, Brill, HP18 9TY, England
Subsidiaries
Vale Brewery owns 1 brewery:
Description
In 1995 Vale was founded to bring beautiful ales packed full of flavour to the people of Buckinghamshire.

Four years later in 1999, our current Head Brewer Dave Renton joined the team, putting his signature stamp and seal of approval on every Vale beer in the 23 years since.

With a host of awards following in quick succession, we expanded out of our Haddenham home, settling in the hill-top village of Brill, known for being JRR Tolkien's inspiration for the village of Bree in The Lord of the Rings.

In 2021, brothers Joe & Jimmy Brouder purchased the brewery from founders Phil & Mark Stevens.

With a new chapter beginning at Vale, our priorities remain the same: to make wonderful ales each and every time, nothing else.

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6.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Gravity cask at the 28th St Albans Beer Festival, 26/09/25.
Golden blonde topped with a just off white crown.
Nose is citric tinged straw, melon, orange peel.
Taste comprises grass, melon, tangerine, soft malts.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close splashed with mellow light juicy hop bitterness.
Okay cask pale but a little subdued for an APA.

Tried on 26 Sep 2025 at 11:30


6.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Gravity cask at the 28th St Albans Beer Festival, 26/09/25.
Golden blonde topped with an off white head.
Nose is pale malts, straw, biscuit, stewed fruit esters.
Taste comprises melon, breads, orange peel, grass.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close with modest hop bitterness.
Okay ... a bit muted.

Tried on 26 Sep 2025 at 10:44


6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Copper coloured with an off-white head. Despite opening with a dry, twiggy bitterness, this turns out to be quite a fruity little number. Red apples and strawberry jam are backed up with plenty of malt and a touch of caramel. I rather enjoyed this - a pleasant surprise from a brewery that I'm not normally that fond of.

Tried from Cask at Back of Beyond on 28 Aug 2025 at 16:08

gave a cheers!

7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at Bird In Hand, Stafford. Pours a slightly hazy “bitter brown” with a medium sized foamy almost white head and good lacing. There’s malts and mixed hops in the aroma alongside yeast and summer fruits. In the mouth there is a flirting taste of sweetness before it is swept away by traditional hoppy bitterness. Flavour is quite fruity with apples and lemon marmalade, plus hints of nuts and oranges later. Sweetness returns to a certain extent in the dry finish. This is quite decent – best beer of the day.

Tried from Cask at Bird in Hand (Black Country Inns) on 27 Aug 2025 at 16:15


6

Tried from Cask on 26 Aug 2025 at 17:10


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tried from Cask on 25 Aug 2025 at 14:22


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Tried from Cask on 25 Aug 2025 at 14:22


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6.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

22/8/2025. Cask at the 33rd East Anglian Beer & Cider Festival, Bury St Edmunds.

Tried from Cask on 23 Aug 2025 at 13:21


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6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

22/8/2025. Cask at the 33rd East Anglian Beer & Cider Festival, Bury St Edmunds.

Tried from Cask on 23 Aug 2025 at 13:20


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

[Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading.] A pale amber pour with a loose white head; citrus aroma; crisp biscuity malt body with a pithy citrus bitterness to finish; and a dry herbal finish. Very moreish.

Tried from Cask at Back of Beyond on 15 Aug 2025 at 12:08