Musket Brewery
Microbrewery
in
Maidstone,
Kent,
England 🏴
Owned by
Grainstore Brewery
Established in 2013
Closed in 2025
Contact
Unit 7, Loddington Farm, Loddington Lane, Maidstone, ME17 4AG, England
Description
A family business producing fantastic Real Ales using the finest malts and Kentish hops and are now selling in more than 350 pubs throughout Kent.
Musket Brewery and taproom ‘The Armoury’ presents quality real ales brewed in the traditional manner, with carefully selected blends of malts, hops, and barley, captivating the best the Garden of England has to offer.
Trying to find a way to spend more time together and realising they had a mutual passion for beer, father and son duo Tony & Rhys Williams, started brewing in an old mushroom shed on the back lots of Loddington Farm in Kent in 2013. What set out as an activity for the father and son to bond over soon developed in to something more. The recipes they brewed in that old mushroom shed were just too good to keep to themselves and they wanted to share their passion and the chance for other people to be able bond over their fine beers.
Closed October 2025. Purchased January 2026 by Grainstore Brewery, with the brewing equipment relocated to Oakham.
Musket Brewery and taproom ‘The Armoury’ presents quality real ales brewed in the traditional manner, with carefully selected blends of malts, hops, and barley, captivating the best the Garden of England has to offer.
Trying to find a way to spend more time together and realising they had a mutual passion for beer, father and son duo Tony & Rhys Williams, started brewing in an old mushroom shed on the back lots of Loddington Farm in Kent in 2013. What set out as an activity for the father and son to bond over soon developed in to something more. The recipes they brewed in that old mushroom shed were just too good to keep to themselves and they wanted to share their passion and the chance for other people to be able bond over their fine beers.
Closed October 2025. Purchased January 2026 by Grainstore Brewery, with the brewing equipment relocated to Oakham.
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
cask at Nottingham beer festival 2025 Thursday ..copper ..thin tan lacing ...soft sweet caramel toffee fruit nose ...soft sweet malts soft fruity
Tried
on 09 Oct 2025
at 13:16
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 6
9/10/2025. Cask at the 2025 Nottingham Robin Hood Beer Festival.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Oct 2025
at 13:13
6.5/10
Light pine and citrus. Light sweet.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Oct 2025
at 10:57
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at The Park Tavern, Eltham. Gold pour with a white head. Honey & citrus aromas. Malty, citrusy taste. Pronounced bitterness. Standard easy drinking golen ale. Improves as it goes down.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2023
at 12:40
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ New Inn, Canterbury. Clear golden with next to no head. Sweetened hoppy ale with its strength giving it a decent enough body.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jun 2023
at 17:38
11/04/2016. OLDE THIRSTY PIG, 4a Knightrider Street, MAIDSTONE, Kent, England
Tried
on 09 Jan 2023
at 17:20
05/02/2022. STYLE & WINCH, 72 Union Street, MAIDSTONE, Kent, England
Tried
on 09 Jan 2023
at 17:19
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Gravity cask at the Handsome Sam, Whitstable. Poured a very slightly hazy medium amber colour with a short-lived, bubbly white head. The aroma is light malt and yeast. The flavour is light bitter, with a smooth, slightly watery, big floral yeasty, light hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with flat carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Jul 2022
at 13:06
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask at GBBF ‘19, day 3, 08/08/19. Extremely dark mahogany brown with a well presented beige head. Nose is nutty, toffee, dark malts, biscuit crumbs. Taste comprises brown bread, dried fruits, leather, toffee. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Decent enough mild.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Dec 2019
at 09:11
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Gravicask at Spa Valley 9th Beer & Cider Festival. Shared with Finn. Bubbly white head over a clear amber coloured body, clingy lacing. Moderate smell of green malty hops. Honeyed malt-fruity flavours. Ends with a short bittersweet bite. Satisfying. (Tunbridge Wells 18.10.2019).
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Nov 2019
at 09:22