The Swale Brewery Co
Microbrewery in Grafty Green, Kent, England 🏴
Established in 1995
Closed in 2003
Contact
Little Telpits Farm, Woodcock Lane, Grafty Green, ME17 2AY, England
Description
Established in 1995 in Milton Regis, Sittingbourne, moved to Grafty Green, Maidstone in 2001. Sold to the ancient Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company in 2003, becoming Whitstable Brewery.
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black, creamy, but no real head. Roasty aroma with hints of sugars. Medium roasty and chocolatey flavor. A smoked quality and some bitterness emerge later in the flavor, which I guess makes it good for having with seafood. A decent sweet stout, but not a great one.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2003
at 20:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
A black beer with a dark brown head - that disappears extremely fast (the fastest I've seen). Second to none aroma - slight hints of smoke. The flavor is strictly opposite. It's smooth with powerful notes of tar, smoke, and rope to start of, then a little thin in the middle (for a stout), but it ends on a smoked dry bitterness. A great stout.
Tried
on 14 Mar 2003
at 11:08
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Nose like a tropical fruit basket - rambutan, winter melon, mango and passion fruit; the palate is appetizingly hoppy with more tropical fruit notes alongside woody flavours and toasty malt.
Tried
on 30 Apr 2001
at 10:23