Cold Town Beer

Microbrewery in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Associated Venue: Cold Town House

Established in 2018

Contact
8-10 Dunedin Street, Edinburgh, EN7 4JB, Scotland
+44 (0)131 221 9978
thirsty@coldtownbeer.com
Description
Scotland has a deeply fascinating history when it comes to brewing and we wanted to pay homage to these roots when creating our name. Calton Hill Brewery in Edinburgh was the first brewery in Britain to create lager way back in 1835. The small suburb that the brewery called it’s home earned the name Cauld Toon as it sat directly in the in the cold shadow of Arthur’s Seat. Over time, this colloquially became Cal-ton. Carlton Hill could therefore be known as Cold Town Hill, and suddenly our name was born.
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SinH4
SinH4 (15555) reviewed
Chocolate Cake Stout from Cold Town Beer
7 years ago
5.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Tap. Opaque dark brown color with almost no head. Aroma is buttery muffin, chocolate, a touch nuts. Taste is buttery, chocolate, a bit bready. Buttermilk mouthfeel, almost flat. Not great.
Tried from Draft on 20 Mar 2019 at 17:50
SinH4
SinH4 (15555) reviewed
Gingerbread Brown Ale from Cold Town Beer
7 years ago
6.3/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Tap. Clear copper color with white head. Aroma is ginger, christmas spices. Taste is gingerbread indeed, pickled ginger. Surprisingly clean ginger finish. Oily mouthfeel. Alright!
Tried from Draft on 20 Mar 2019 at 17:48
SinH4
SinH4 (15555) reviewed
NEIPA from Cold Town Beer
7 years ago
5.5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5
Tap. Hazy golden color with white head. Aroma is milky yeast, cheesy hops, yeastcakey. Taste is milky yeast, biscuity malts, really quite cheesy. Silky mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Ok.
Tried from Draft on 20 Mar 2019 at 17:45
SinH4
SinH4 (15555) reviewed
Saison from Cold Town Beer
7 years ago
5.3/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Tap. Clear pale golden color with white head. Aroma is bananas, slightly peppery, bubblegum. Taste is the same. Oily mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Not really a saison.
Tried from Draft on 20 Mar 2019 at 17:42
SinH4
SinH4 (15555) reviewed
Pale from Cold Town Beer
7 years ago
5.3/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Tap. Clear golden color with small white head. Aroma is a bit buttery, pale malts, Topfen. Taste is a bit buttery, pale malts, some grapefruit. Oily mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Ok.
Tried from Draft on 20 Mar 2019 at 17:40
SinH4
SinH4 (15555) reviewed
Raspberry Berliner Weisse from Cold Town Beer
7 years ago
6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Tap. Hazy red-orange color with white head. Aroma is raspberry, wheat, tart lacto. Taste is raspberry, wheat, milkshakey. Silky mouthfeel with fizzy carbonation. Quite alright, perhaps a bit too sweet in flavour.
Tried from Draft on 20 Mar 2019 at 17:38
SinH4
SinH4 (15555) reviewed
Lager from Cold Town Beer
7 years ago
6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Tap. Rather clear yellow color with white head. Aroma is earthy hops, lightly lemony, lightly sulphuric. Taste is earthy, lime, pale malts. Silky mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Fun, and quite authentic, though a bit more of a Helles in terms of malt body.
Tried from Draft on 20 Mar 2019 at 17:35
cagarvie
cagarvie (40287) reviewed
Saison from Cold Town Beer
7 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 4 Overall 8
Keg at brew pub... Light golden yellow... Small white head... Light floral.. Almost no nose.. Tiny peach nose... Little over fizzy.. Little over cold.. Light dry peach.. Soft peach lemonade.. Tiniest salty Edge
Tried on 11 Mar 2019 at 15:13
McCash
McCash (16320) reviewed
Chocolate Cake Stout from Cold Town Beer
7 years ago
7.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
On.keg at Cold Town. Appearance - dark brown to black with a crema head. Nose - dark chocolate and definitely cakey. Taste - rich chocolate cake, indeed. Some caramel and molasses in there too. Some sweet spice also. Palate - creamy and medium bodied. Overall - lovely.
Tried on 11 Mar 2019 at 13:28
McCash
McCash (16320) reviewed
Gingerbread Brown Ale from Cold Town Beer
7 years ago
7.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
On keg at Cold Town. Appearance - light brown. Thin lacing. Nose - big ginger and cake notes. Taste - more ginger cake, with some other sweet spices lurking. Maybe nutmeg. Palate - medium bodied and tangy. Tangy and crunchy finish. Overall - good. But I'd have loaded this as Spice / Herb / Vegetable , Stuu!
Tried on 11 Mar 2019 at 13:24