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The Potato Shed, Symondshyde Farm,, Symondshyde Lane,, Hatfield, AL10 9BB, England
Description
Let’s raise a glass and toast the way it should be - local beer brewed by local beer lovers using local ingredients, including fresh water from our very own Hertfordshire borehole.
No fuss, no pretension - just passion and a year’s hard work at our nearby farm to brew ales we, and hopefully the people of St. Albans, can be proud of.
Here’s to radically better beer!
No fuss, no pretension - just passion and a year’s hard work at our nearby farm to brew ales we, and hopefully the people of St. Albans, can be proud of.
Here’s to radically better beer!
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Bedford CAMRA Beer & Cider Festival 2024. Pours deep gold to amber with white foam. Aroma: cereal, light citrus, earthy hop. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, more citrus, mild caramel, earthy hop. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Oct 2024
at 21:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the St Albans beer festival 2024. A hazed nutty brown coloured pour with a lasting dirty khaki head. Aroma is big earthy coffee green pepper. Ash, tangy coffee. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, earthy, nutty roast, big coffee, green pepper, ashy coffee. Big coffee roast. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, milky light tang, ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Sep 2024
at 16:06
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at The Park Tavern, Eltham. Gold pour with a white head. Sulphury, citrusy aromas. Nutty bitter taste. Quite a bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Sep 2024
at 21:36
6/10
On cask at the Prae Wood. Appearance - amber and clear, snow white head. Nose - brown bread, like Ray. Taste - orange and brown bread. Palate - medium bodied, dry finish. Overall - OK.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jul 2024
at 16:01
6/10
On cask at Ye Olde Fighting Cocks. Appearance - golden and clear. Nose - honey and lemon lozenge. Taste - astringent orange and malt. Palate - light bodied, lightly astringent. Overall - so so.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jul 2024
at 13:22
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at St Albans Camra Beer Festival 2023. Pours chestnut brown with a beige foam. Hedgerow fruits, nutty, malty. Moderate bitter. Medium body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2023
at 21:07
Tried
on 28 Oct 2022
at 11:12
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the St Albans beer festival 2022. A mostly clear golden orange coloured pour with a fine white head. Aroma is nutty malts, sweaty hop, grassy. Pine. Salt. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, nutty malts, grass, wet hop, sileage, grassy hop. Rustic grains. Ok. Spicy hop. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Sep 2022
at 18:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Great Northern, St Albans on 28th June 2022. Clear amber with shallow whitish foam and spot lacing. Caramel malt aroma. Malty in-mouth - caramel. A finish of the same, with a little bitterness developing. Light bodied with an engaging texture.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jul 2022
at 22:42
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Wellington Arms, half pint shared with Finn. Tiny, bubbly white head, clear dark golden body, lacing rings down the glass. A bit restrained smell of cereal malts and herbal hops. Decent taste character of ripe citrus, earth, and grain. Mid-dry, bittersweet finish. Pretty fair. (Bedford 18.11.2021).
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Dec 2021
at 12:10