Stag Brewery

Microbrewery in Woodchurch, Kent, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2016

Contact
Little Engeham Farm, Woodchurch, TN26 3QY, England
Description
Stag Brewery is a producer of handcrafted Real Ales, based in the rural Kent countryside, we produce premium products by using only the finest Malt, Hops and Yeast. Our beers are cask conditioned and unfiltered to give a range of ‘live’ beers that have a full taste and aroma. All our beers are named after the species of wild deer that exist in the UK.

Twenty years in the making, we finally decided to brew commercially Three years ago, our desire was to brew a range of beers that excite the senses by using unusual hops and malts. This has resulted in a range of beers that are reminiscent of how real ales used to taste with a modern twist.

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5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Pigs Ear 2025. Gravity. So so. Some toasted grain, little plastic, grain, earth. Faint twang. Doesn’t seem quite right.

Tried from Cask on 03 Dec 2025 at 22:33


5.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 5

Gravity cask at day 2 of the 41st Pigs Ear Beer Festival, 03/12/2025.
Reddish amber topped with an off white head.
Nose is tangy fruit esters, grains, herb, straw.
Taste comprises bitter sweet fruit notes, a touch twiggy, herb, hedgerow.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close.
Not the best ... overly tangy in its outlook.

Tried on 03 Dec 2025 at 10:52


5.6
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Cask gravity at K&ES railway BF 2025. Hazy red amber colour lasting bubbly beige head. Not great to be honest. A bit home brewery. Some earthyness some red malts. Some sweetness. Maybe a bit unattenuared. Not at its best I would say. A bit disconnected from each other. I liked the red malts. But the rest is a bit amateurish.

Tried from Cask on 07 Jun 2025 at 13:48


5.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Gravicask at Spa Valley 9th Beer & Cider Festival. Shared with Finn. Near-black in the glass, shiny black surface, poor lacing. Promising smell of liquorice and caramel malts. Toffee and liquorice flavours, lightly spiced followed by ripe fruity hops towards the end. Accepted, not great. (Tunbridge Wells 18.10.2019).

Tried from Cask on 03 Nov 2019 at 12:34


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Fra gravicask. Delt med Rune på 9th Spa Valley Beer & Cider Festival. Ultramørkebrun / svart. 0 skum. Aroma av svisker. Smaken tørket, overmoden frukt. Tørr avslutning.

Tried from Cask on 18 Oct 2019 at 14:17


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask handpull at Hop Stuff Taproom Ashford. Hazy mid brown colour no real head. Fruity malty flavour. Good malty English bitter. Light herby hedgerow. No real bitterness on the finish. I thought it was OK.

Tried from Cask on 05 Aug 2018 at 16:14


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2017 [ The 42th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 10th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Stag Brewery Magic Muntjac ].Clear medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a long duration, pale malt, fruity malt, tropical fruit, citrus - citric. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20171014] 7-3-7-3-13

Tried from Cask on 20 Jul 2018 at 15:30


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

4.8% Cask gravity at Kent and East Sussex Railway BF 2018. Almost black beer. Some liquorice . Some hop on the end Some blackcurrant. Not my thing. Too spicy liquorice juicy for me.

Tried from Cask on 29 Jun 2018 at 13:00


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask handpull at The Swan Ashford. Clear mid brown amber colour lasting off white head. Malty aroma with a bit of twig and earth. Like a proper British brown bitter. Cracking condition. Utterly drinkable. Good solid malty flavour. Some twig and hedgerow on finish. Sweetish malt carries on with some dryness in the mouth. Slips down beautifully. 3 gulps and the pint was gone.

Tried from Cask on 10 Jun 2018 at 11:51


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask handpull at The Swan Ashford. Black beer lasting tan head. Chocolate dark mild. Lovely condition and flavour. Good enough for 2 pints sat chatting with Chris Excell. Good fullness in mouth some dryness on the finish. Hint of dark fruit somewhere

Tried from Cask on 05 Jun 2018 at 18:16