Left Bank Brewery

Microbrewery in Llangors, Powys, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Established in 2013

Contact
Tynewydd Farm, Llangors, LD3 7UA, Wales
Description
Simon Poffley wants to revive the tradition of farmhouse-brewed beer in the Brecon Beacons. He opened the Left Bank Brewery, located in a farm on the northern edge of Llangorse Lake, in the spring of 2019 and has been brewing since then, using Brecon Beacons water from a borehole. He wants to start fermenting using naturally occurring wild local yeasts and local malt, barley and hops if he can find them.

The first batches were brewed before Spring 2013 at the Hornbeam Cafe, Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London. Later production moved to the Blackhorse Workshop, Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow where we produced over a hundred brews. After brewing a few batches in Bermondsey production was moved to the Brecon Beacons.

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

Cask at the pigs ear beer festival 2021. A thick black brown coloured pour with a fading tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, marshmallow, coconut, farmyard roast. Palate is semi sweet, boozy, slick, lowish carbonation. Flavour is composed thick and chewy, oily roast, coconut, piney,.

Tried from Cask on 01 Dec 2021 at 15:47


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

Gravity cask at Pigs Ear 2021 - Hackney. Pours black with a bubbly, brown head. Light-medium sweet flavour with ashy roast, dark chocolate, burnt pine, earth. Medium bodied with fine carbonation and velvety texture. Drying finish, more ash, baking cocoa, grass and earth. Sound.

Tried from Cask on 30 Nov 2021 at 13:23


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

Cask-conditioned, on gravity, at the Tewkesbury Winter Ales Festival, 7/2/2020. Near black in colour, with a thin, off-white, head. Some dark berry sweetness, a touch of creaminess and some malty toastiness in the finish. A bit thin in the mouth, but ok overall.

Tried from Cask on 23 Apr 2020 at 09:24


5.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Camden Farm Stores, Brecon at 6.5%. Hazy gold with some lumpy sediment in suspension and a thin white head. Aggressively fizzy. Doughy white bread, light foam banana, marmalade, white pepper, ginger powder. Vodka and more ginger powder - it's quite spicy. A wisp of smoke in the lightly dry finish. Overall it's just ok - I'd have liked the smokiness to have come through a bit more.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2019 at 21:33


Tried on 01 Nov 2019 at 14:10


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

Bottle 330ml. @ The Shnoodlepip, London. [ As Left Bank Borodino ].Clear medium brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, rye, spicy. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, spicy, rye, roasted, dark malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20171207] 7-3-7-3-15

Tried from Bottle on 07 May 2018 at 13:58


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

Bottle 330ml. @ The Shnoodlepip, London. [ As Left Bank Otago ].Clear medium orange colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, oat, pale malt, moderate yeasty, saison yeast, vintage notes. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, dried fruit, yeast, oat - wheat, saison yeast, vintage notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20171207] 7-3-7-3-15

Tried from Bottle on 05 May 2018 at 17:36


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared in in Hackney - picked up at Pigs Ear. Pours clear gold with a creamy, white head. The nose ho.ds wheat bread, honey, dough, saison yeast. Medium sweet flavour, some ripe lemon, doughy wheat bread. Medium bodied with massaging carbonation. Sweet finish, more saison yeast, doughy wheat bread. Simple sweet saison. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2018 at 21:04


5.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

3rd May 2018
Chez Smith bottleshare. Thanks to Leighton for the bottle. Light haze on this gold beer, smal pale cream colour head. Palate is light, semi dry, decent.fine carbonation. Thin dry malts, grainy sweetness. Little dry floralness. Modest dried fruits. Dry finish. Not that drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2018 at 21:00


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle shared at Leightons place 3/5/2018. A crystal clear golden orange coloured pour with a a fine white head. Aroma is sweet honey, grassy, apple, fruitella, jammy fruits.. Palate is semi sweet moderate carbonation. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2018 at 20:55