Teme Valley Brewery

Microbrewery in Knightwick, Worcestershire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Talbot Hotel (Teme Valley)

Established in 1997

Contact
The Talbot Inn, Bromyard Road, Knightwick, WR6 5PH, England
Description
We are an independent craft producer of cask and bottle-conditioned beers. Brewing behind the legendary & historic pub, The Talbot at Knightwick in Worcestershire.

The brewery was first opened in 1997 by the Clift family. Annie and Wiz Clift ran The Talbot at Knightwick, Worcestershire while their brother Philip ran the family farm at Lulsley Court nearby. The Clifts had been growing hops since the 19th century and a logical progression of the farm and pub businesses was to brew beer from their own hops to sell in their own pub. In August 1997 the brewery equipment was installed behind the pub and in September 1997 Chris Gooch joined as brewer.

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6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Light ruby, lovely syrupy fruit nose, with a sweet malt balanced with a little bitter finish

Tried on 01 May 2007 at 14:06


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Orange coloured ale, slightly sour nose, that fruity with lot and lots of bitter hoppyness in finish.

Tried on 01 May 2007 at 14:05


5.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Cask. A hazy pale amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet and rather citrusy on a light malty back ground. The flavor is sweet with powerful citrusy hoppy notes on a light malty back ground, leading to a rather bitter finish.

Bottled. An orange beer with a thin disappearing white head. The aroma is sweet combined with an acidic note, as well as some fruity notes. The flavor is acidic fruity, with a thin body. An extremely boring bottled conditioned beer. [3/3/3/1/5]

Tried from Cask on 31 Dec 2006 at 15:25


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

500 ml brown bottle, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. Bottle conditioned, ABV is 5.0%. According to the label, the beer is now available only in bottles. The beer gushes out of the bottle when opening. Hazy reddish brown colour, huge, creamy and long lasting off-white head. Vinous aroma with notes of moderate malts, barnyard and balsamic vinegar. Flavour is distinctly hoppy throughout, but there is also a moderately sweet maltiness with hints of caramel. Moderate carbonation in the glass. Bitter aftertaste. I get a "homebrew" feeling with this one. I like it!

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2006 at 09:19


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

Cask. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malty and nutty combined with lighter notes of caramel. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel, leading to a lightly bitter and nutty finish. A bit boring.

Bottled. An amber beer with a light yellow head. The aroma is sweet, but also with and acidic edge behind the fruity notes. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of dusty hops, leading to a bitter end. The body is thin. [4/3/5/2/10]

Tried from Cask on 13 Dec 2006 at 13:06


4.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

An amber beer with a lazing light brown head. The aroma is weird with notes of acidity and elderberries. The flavor is acidic malty with notes of caramel, leading to an end with notes of citrus, but where the acidity still lingers around. Not that nice.

Tried on 10 Dec 2006 at 16:45


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle, 6.0%. Very spicy hop aroma. Cloudy brown colour, light brown head, leaving good lace. OK flavour, good maltiness and nice spicy hoppiness. A bit sweet and peppery. Quite palatable.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Nov 2006 at 17:09


4.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

(Bottle 50 cl) Pours a hazy, dark amber with a dense, handsome and rather stable, off-white head leaving some laces. Somewhat unclean and not overly pleasant malt aroma. Medium body with lightly nutty and malty accents. A somewhat raw bitterness in the finish. Very high in carbonation. By far the best Teme Valley so far - and my first one that wasn’t ridiculously infected. 210906

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2006 at 15:49


5.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle. Creamy white excellent mostly lasting head. Brown colour. Heavy malty and yeasty aroma. Strange sweet bitter flavor. Tastes of rye!!! Average finish. Watery palate.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Sep 2006 at 15:59


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

Bottle at Kook’s Leaving Do at Chris_o’s. Braggot style of beer. Very deep chestnut, lasting beige head. Honey, roasty, toasty malt aroma. I like this. Warming lovely honey and malt in mouth. Like malt loaf. Prickly finish. Flavours are quite large in the mouth. Very drinkable, choccy malts improve as it goes on.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2006 at 12:06