Musket Brewery

Microbrewery in Maidstone, Kent, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Owned by Grainstore Brewery

Established in 2013

Closed in 2025

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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.

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6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the King’s Head, Leicester 11/3/2017. Dark brown in colour, with a slight, beige, head. Aroma of milk chocolate and toasty malts. Easy drinking, with more chocolate and a bitter, roasted malt finish. Fine.
Tried from Cask on 19 Mar 2017 at 06:49

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask gravity at White Cliffs BF 2017. Black beer dark brown edges. Lasting tan head. Thinnish porter. Some malt some light milk chocolate. Some dark fruit not unpleasant. Ok
Tried from Cask on 04 Feb 2017 at 05:48

4.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Sampled @ GBBF Day 2. Clear yellow color, small white head. Smell and taste malts, lightly hops, some vomit, some bitter. Not very good.
Tried on 17 Aug 2016 at 03:45

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at GBBF Saturday, 13/08/2016. A pale yellow coloured pour with a fine white head. Aroma is sweet diacetyl, grassy, hint of smoke. Flavour is composed of pale grains, grassy, sweet toffee diacetyl. Lingering smoked malts. Ok.
Tried from Cask on 13 Aug 2016 at 10:11

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask at GBBF 2016 - Day 5. Pours clear gold with a frothy, white head. The nose holds biscuity pale malts, light citrus accents, straw. Light sweet flavour with touches of dry grain, faint butter, more bitter straw. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes with a faint ashy note, more lemony hops, biscuit. So so.
Tried from Cask on 13 Aug 2016 at 09:55

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Gbbf. Klares hell goldgelbes Bier mit einer mittelgroßen weißen schaumkrone. Geruch nach hellem malz, karamellig, mild hopfig. Geschmack mild hopfig, zitronig, getreidig, würzig bitter.
Tried on 10 Aug 2016 at 11:27

5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
Cask@The Lady Luck, Canterbury
Clear golden color, small white head. A bit musty aroma hints of citrus. Light-bodied. Pale malty. Finish has some citrusy hops. Easy Golden ale.
Tried from Cask on 30 Jul 2016 at 10:41

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Gravity dispense at Ealing BF, 06/07/16. Clear golden blonde with a decent off whtie head. Nose is pale amlts, straw, bread dough, light citric notes. Taste comprises toasted grain, soft bread, lemon rind, biscuit, faint banana. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok golde.
Tried on 23 Jul 2016 at 10:35

4/10
Tried on 02 May 2016 at 17:06

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Cask. Golden, with a foamy white head. Aroma of spice, malts, slight floral notes. Bitter, fruity taste, short finish. Fairly standard stuff.
Tried from Cask on 24 May 2015 at 11:58