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Sunbeam Ales is a Leeds based microbrewery run by Nigel Poustie. It was established in 2012 and has developed a reputation for multi award-winning cask ales. The brewery is only 2BBL so limited amounts of the sort after cask ales are distributed around Yorkshire.
Nigel mostly brews once a week, occasionally twice, rotating through a range of beers. Periodically he will brew a seasonal special, often incorporating foraged ingredients. The brewery doesn’t hold much stock, so it is a good idea to place pre-orders.
Nigel mostly brews once a week, occasionally twice, rotating through a range of beers. Periodically he will brew a seasonal special, often incorporating foraged ingredients. The brewery doesn’t hold much stock, so it is a good idea to place pre-orders.
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Hand pulled half pint at the Last Drop Inn, York on 20th May 2026. It's fine, pale golden body, white topping. Mild hop bitterness with a white wine like leaning (maybe).
Tried
from Cask
at
Last Drop Inn, York
on 20 May 2026
at 15:15
7/10
From the wood
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Sep 2025
at 18:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Beer 31 of the Bradford Beer Festival 2025. Golden, hoppy, certainly sessionable, slips down the palate with ease. Hint of fruit, slightly more sugars.
Tried
from Cask
at
Bradford CAMRA Beer Festival
on 01 Mar 2025
at 15:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Deeper golden colour. Beer 30 at the Bradford Beer Festival 2025. Quite a light tasting hoppy beer, easy through the palate. Just a hint of fruitiness, a smattering more of sweetness.
Tried
from Cask
at
Bradford CAMRA Beer Festival
on 01 Mar 2025
at 15:36
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Fox And Goose, Hebden Bridge. Clear tawny-amber with a creamy-frothy head. Steady bitter with a hoppy base, some breadiness, fair bitterness.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Dec 2024
at 08:11
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Halifax Beer Festival 2023. Dark reddish brown in colour. Has a good old ale sweetness, perhaps lacks depth of style through a lower strength, but flavoursome all the same.
Tried
on 29 Apr 2024
at 04:47
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bradford Beer Festival 2024. Hazy dark amber-red in colour. Has a strength-infused sweetness in both aroma and taste, as a festival special it also has been classed as a Belgian Dubbel and I get where that's coming from too.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2024
at 05:42
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Bradford CAMRA beer festival 2024. Pours near clear pale straw gold. Nice NZ hop vibes, gooseberry, white grape etc peeking through. Decent dry, light bitter finish. Nicely accomplished
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2024
at 08:45
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Cask @ Flying Horse Hotel, Rochdale. Golden with a creamy head. Hoppy with berry-sweet floral notes in both aroma and taste and at a session strength, although not particularly sessionable in taste in my opinion.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Feb 2024
at 20:39
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ Fox And Goose, Hebden Bridge. Light golden with a bubbly head. Has a pleasant mild bitterness to what is a pleasantly hoppy session brew.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jan 2024
at 05:32