Kinver Brewery is an award-winning, family owned, independent craft microbrewery located near Kinver Edge and the rock houses on the outskirts of Kinver, South Staffordshire. Kinver Brewery was founded in 2004 using a 4-barrel (6.5 hectolitre) plant purchased from Brewster’s Brewery. We have since increased production capacity to a custom-built 10-barrel (16 hectolitre) plant.
Kinver Brewery use only four ingredients: malted barley, hops, yeast, and water, to produce cask and bottle-conditioned ales. All of our beers are available as vegan, on request. Our hops are sourced from a range of locations including Worcestershire, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, and USA. We are a SIBA-assured independent craft brewery, recognised by multiple prestigious awards.
Cask at Hogshead, Wolverhampton. Pours a pale gold with a small white head and good lacing. The aroma is slight, but what there is includes straw and malts. In the mouth is is sweet and watery with traces of lemon. But there is also an acrid undertone similar to cleaning fluid. Some bitterness in the finish. Veers between innocuous and unpleasant !
Cask at the Robin Hood, Amblecote. Pours bright gold with a medium head. Aroma is flinty and minerally. Taste is dry and flinty straw with a touch of egg.
Bottle delivered by the Blue Boar, Leicester, and drunk at home. Golden and hazy with a small creamy white head. Light aroma: some raisin, apricot, bready malt. Taste has a chalky bitter edge to it after the very initial malty sweetness.Bitter hops cling to the back of the tongue through to the long finish. A touch of apricot in the aftertaste. Carbonation is fairly heavy. it isn't bad but I was hoping for a bit more.
Gravity cask at the Dog House, Stourbridge. Pours very dark brown with a small head. Aroma is dark fruity liquorice. Taste has dark fruits throughout with liquorice and coffee on the finish.
Third by cask, on the second day of GBBF Winter 2020, Elgar Bar. Shared with Finn. Next-to-clear golden body, filmy layer, scattered lacing. Herbal hops on the nose. Mixed taste of oily hops and grain. Okay bitter tail. Medium bodied. Quite alright. (Birmingham 05.02.2020).
Third by cask, on the second day of GBBF Winter 2020, Elgar Bar. Shared with Finn. Clear late straw coloured body, filmy layer, scattered lacing. Grassy aromas, ripe fruits. Grass-fruity flavours. Mid-dry bitter end. Fair enough. (Birmingham 05.02.2020).
Half-pint by cask at Post Office Vaults. Shared with Finn. Clear warm golden body, filmy layer, dotted spots. Moderate herbal hops on the nose, hints of grainy malts. Malt-fruity flavours, hints of caramel and dusty hops. Oily hop bitterness to the ending. Satisfying. (Birmingham 04.02.2020).