Bang The Elephant Brewing

Microbrewery in Langley Mill, Derbyshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2018

Contact
Unit 14 Bailey Brook Business Park, 21-21a Amber Drive, Langley Mill, NG14 4BE, England
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.

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7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can at nicks. Pours golden, nose vanilla, caramel, lime, tequila, taste is similar, quite salty.
Tried from Can on 12 Oct 2022 at 07:38

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can at nicks, burst in bag. Pours golden Amber, nose is huge mint, honey, funk, light smoke, taste is sweet honey, minty, quite salty, could do with longer in the barrel.
Tried from Can on 12 Oct 2022 at 07:31

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Can sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Cloudy yellow. Tea, honey note, a bit of fruitiness, spicy note, quite dry, sourish touch, bitterish note.
Tried from Can on 10 Sep 2022 at 19:54

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
440ml can at The Wrekin Inn, Wellington Shropshire on 25th August 2022. Dark body, beige head. The Maple syrup makes the beer very sweet, the Pecan nuts and Bananas also add their own brand of sweetness; the dark chocolate helps to calm it down a little, but this is a high alcohol sweet Stout and I liked it!
Tried from Can on 01 Sep 2022 at 07:04

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can thanks to my bro. It pours oily jet black with deep yellow - tan head. The aroma is sweet, unctuous, oily, intoxicating, rich chocolate cake, gateaux, vanilla, toasted coconut, bourbon biscuits, choc chip cookie dough and chocolate syrup drizzled on ice cream. The taste is slick, oily, chewy, toothy, unctuous, toasty, bitter - sweet, cake batter, cookie dough, a shit tonne of chocolate, gateaux, vanilla, toasted coconut, bounty bar, chocolate brownie, baked Alaska, charred, light umami and a touch of espresso with a slick, fifthly finish. Thiccccc kkk body, fine carbonation and slick, oily mouth feel. A big filthy number. It works well for a thick, dessert stout. Novel.
Tried from Can on 27 Aug 2022 at 15:30

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can at home. Pours black, nose is maple syrup, pecans, chocolate, banana, taste is sweet creamy banana, bitter, roasted, treacle, maple syrup, a little harsh. --- Beer merged from original tick of Who's Been Drinking My Breakfast!? on 02 Aug 2022 at 08:33 - Score: 7
Tried from Can on 02 Aug 2022 at 07:41

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Cask at the Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a slightly hazy golden colour with a bubbly white head. The aroma is grainy malt, light citrus fruits. The flavour is moderate sweet, light bitter, with a light, slightly watery, smooth, lemon citrus, light floral, woody hop bitter palate and a long bitter finish. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried from Cask at The Wellington on 26 Jul 2022 at 19:48

8.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Draft at the Nottingham Craft Beer Festival 2022. Deep mahogany colour with a tan head. Aroma bourbon and slight chocolate. Slight sweet. Full body.
Tried from Draft on 18 Jun 2022 at 15:45

9.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 10 Flavor 10 Texture 10 Overall 9
On tap at the Nottingham Craft Beer Festival 2022. Thick black colour with a deep tan head./. Aroma is pure chocolate, roasted and deep bitter, more chocolate too finish. A smooth rich velvety finish.
Tried from Draft on 18 Jun 2022 at 11:19

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Handpull cask at the Blue Boar, Leicester. Brownish gold and clear with a loose white head. Light, sweetish aroma with orange peel and a little TCP. Sweet taste, fruited caramel with some astringent almost sulphurous notes. Long balanced finish... I say balanced but the astringency sticks in the back if the throat and the the bittering hops flutter about the tongue. Flat, thick body English as fuck. Maybe too much so, although I'm enjoying it, it isn't their best beer.
Tried from Cask on 31 May 2022 at 18:19