Bang The Elephant Brewing
Microbrewery in Langley Mill, Derbyshire, England 🏴
Established in 2018
Description
Back in 2017 the idea was born, how do you fancy starting a brewery! and so it began with some homebrew knowledge we started bang the elephant brewing co, brewing on a grainfather brewing system for the first year, learning whatever we could and gaining feedback from freinds and family along the way, even double brews just to fill one cask to send off to beer festivals and start getting some real feedback.
In 2018 after some great feedback and some good success we decided to ramp up production and see what we could do! renting a 4bbl kit we quickly started to brew cask beer for sale to pubs in the surrounding area and then onto keg.
In 2019 we were presented with an amazing opportunity to move into the abstract jungle brewery and purchase it under the expert turorlidge of Mr Simon King the head brewer which brought us to where we are today.
We really do love what we do, thats why we always set out to make this our day job, we may have not reached that point yet, but its coming.
In 2018 after some great feedback and some good success we decided to ramp up production and see what we could do! renting a 4bbl kit we quickly started to brew cask beer for sale to pubs in the surrounding area and then onto keg.
In 2019 we were presented with an amazing opportunity to move into the abstract jungle brewery and purchase it under the expert turorlidge of Mr Simon King the head brewer which brought us to where we are today.
We really do love what we do, thats why we always set out to make this our day job, we may have not reached that point yet, but its coming.
7.5/10
Demalty malty bitterness, creamy body. Full. Decent stout.
Tried
from Can
at
The Strugglers Inn
on 30 May 2026
at 11:42
7.5/10
Hazy pale with a white head. Aroma and taste are citrus and herbal. Slight grassy hop. Medium body.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Strugglers Inn
on 30 May 2026
at 11:34
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught keg at the Blue Boar, Leicester. Greenish blue, clear with a large aqua/cream head. Sour sweets on the nose with a surprising note of coconut. Taste is very sweet with a dusting of sour which somehow is also sweet. Light to medium body with a little carbonation. I agree with both of the previous reviews: it almost isn't Beer anymore but it's oddly delicious.
Tried
from Draft
at
Blue Boar
on 29 May 2026
at 16:03
6.5/10
Tried
from Can
on 24 May 2026
at 16:53
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Tried
from Can
on 24 May 2026
at 16:53
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
24/5/2026. Can at the ITFC beer share. From 3at3, Ely. Very limey. Sweet and very tangy sour.
Tried
from Can
on 24 May 2026
at 16:52
7.5/10
Roasted malty rich slight coffee and bitter. Medium body.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 May 2026
at 14:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Cask
at
Totally Tapped Micropub & Bottle Shop
on 16 May 2026
at 14:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Wellington, Birmingham. The aroma is roasty, light chocolate. The flavour is moderate to light bitter, with a smooth, somewhat light, watery, dry, herbal, earthy light liqourice bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Wellington
on 01 May 2026
at 22:12
4.3/10
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Appearance 3
Aroma 7
Flavor 4.5
Texture 2
Overall 3
Keg at Siren, Reading. New brewery for me. Turquoise to aquamarine with a thin white head; looks like loo cleaner, so hardly an appealing appearance. The aroma is of coconut cream. It tastes of blue raspberry slushy followed by more coconut cream. There's almost no sourness here at all, just a lot of sugary sweetness. The coconut is rather nice; the fake raspberry distinctly less so, and it leaves an artificial-tasting, sticky, tooth-dissolving residue. It's gone too far - this ain't a beer any more, it's some sort of ghastly American soda, and it can fuck right off.
Tried
from Draft
at
Siren RG1
on 29 Apr 2026
at 12:06