Hawkshead Brewery
Microbrewery
in Staveley,
Cumbria,
England 🏴
Owned by
Halewood Artisanal Spirits
Associated Venue: Beer Hall (Hawkshead)
- Out of business
Established in 2002
At Hawkshead Brewery we make the sort of beer we like to drink - distinctive, full of flavour, handmade, and perfectly crafted. We are small enough to know most of our customers, not to care about the mass market, be able to brew lots of different beers, experiment and innovate. We are big enough to employ a team of five brewers, make around 140 barrels (23,000 litres) of beer a week, deliver direct throughout The North, and our Tap at our Staveley site is open every day.
In about 2017, a controlling interest in the company was taken by Liverpool-based Halewood Wines & Spirits, and this may result in further expansion.
cagarvie (39800) reviewed Cumbrian Five Hop from Hawkshead Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
cask at standing order ...dark amber ... thin white head ... zezty passion fruit citrus nose ... bright fruity hoppy ... again passion fruit ... light lemon zezt ... nice ... 3.9 cask at cloisters 05/12... deep copper ... thin white head ... zezty big hop ... pine and passion fruit nose ... sweet front ... mellow citrus linger ... big fruity hop punch in the middle ... light bitter linger ... soft oily body ... nice ... very hoppy ... but balanced 3.9 Bottle at home 05/12... golden amber ... bubbly white head ... soft juicy orange and passion fruit ... hint of pine nose ... little fizzy for me ... big passion fruit front ... light oily fruity body ... zezty citrus fruits ... pine and grapefruit ... soft passsion fruit ... very nice but a little too passion fruit for me 4.0 cask at common bar ...June 2013 ... golden amber ... small white head ... sofvt rich juicy floral hop nose ... soft sweet hop... rich soft and juicy ... citrus and summer fruits ... mellow soft easy and oh so drinkable 4.2
Leighton (34888) reviewed Cumbrian Five Hop from Hawkshead Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Cask at The Crosse Keys. Pours a thick, amber-gold with a slight head. Right from the nose you know this is a hoppy sucker. Aroma holds raw hops, pine, grass and earth. Flavor is light to medium sweet with a bit of caramel and bread, but quite bitter with more resinous pine, earth, citrus rind and grass. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sticky, hoppy finish, with some mild salt and caramel. Overall a damn solid beer.
madmitch76 (40205) reviewed Cumbrian Five Hop from Hawkshead Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
1st April 2011
Hamilton Hall Spoons. Very slight haze on this gold beer. Thin white head. Semi dry palate. Good fresh hops. Orange marmalade, a little grassy and a little piney. Citrus. Dry finish with some bitter hops lingering about.
14th September 2011
On tap at the Craft Beer.
Peach and orange in the hops, trace of apricot. Still a 3.5 but a decent beer this. Would be a good sessioner.
Convair880 (6901) reviewed Cumbrian Five Hop from Hawkshead Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask at Ruislip Manor W’Spoons. Golden coloured pour with a really decent fluffy white head on top. Decent hoppy, tropical fruit aroma. Tastes hoppy (citra, amarillo both evident), nice tropical fruit, malt, slight sweetness. American influenced and really moreish, so drinkable I had 3 pints. Really good stuff, one of the best at this latest JDW fest.
Harrisoni (26137) reviewed Cumbrian Five Hop from Hawkshead Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Cask handpull at Knights Templar JDW Chancery Lane. Last half pint so not expecting much. Clear gold thin lasting cream head. Citrus hoppy aroma. Like satsuma and tangerine and that really small orange fruit with a funny name kumquat? Very little condition in mouth due to being the last bit out. But the fullness in the mouth and girgeous hop finish is unmistakeable. I really is very good. I have seen Hawkshead as solud their stout is very good and remember drinking that and the bitter in the Ship and Mitre in Liverpool. And their red ale at Kent BF. So they clearly make memorable beer. This could be good but hard to tell in this condition. Citra is definite as is the Bramling Cross bitterness. I need this again. Good though
Ungstrup (52101) reviewed Organic Stout from Hawkshead Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask. A pitch black beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of sweet and roasted malt combined with caramel. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel and roasted malt, leading to a dry and roasted finish.
LordAlwold1970 (9620) reviewed Organic Stout from Hawkshead Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at NWAF, 2011. Black pour with a beige head. Licorice, chocolate, coffee and vanilla aromas. Flavours of cinnamon, vanilla, chocolate and licorice. Dry, malty finish. Quite sweet.
pivnizub (12825) reviewed Lakeland Lager from Hawkshead Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Almost clear, pale greenish-golden, big loose beaten-egg-white-like head; solid grassy-hayish hops in the nose; moderate to solid bitter-sweet flavour, soft, light to medium bodied; slightly lingering dryish bitter-sweet finish with zesty traces in the aftertaste. Good brew from a good brewery......
MoritzF (10568) reviewed Lakeland Lager from Hawkshead Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
(bottle, 33cl, gushing) Slightly unclear, pale golden colour with a tall but loose frothy white head. Slightly dusty, pale malty aroma with grassy hops. Moderately bitter flavour with a tinge of sourness, light bodied with a lively carbonation. Pale malty and grassy hoppy taste, leading into a dry, a bit slim and grassy hoppy finish. A rather lame Pilsener interpretation. 22.XII.10
fonefan (84235) reviewed Lakeland Lager from Hawkshead Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (handpump) @ The Back of Beyond, 104-108 Kings Road, Reading, Berkshire, England RG1 3BY.Clear medium yellow to orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, malty, moderate hoppy, grass, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is carbonation is soft to flat. [20100428]
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.79 |
| Beers | 174 |
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