J.W. Lees

Commercial Brewery in Middleton, Greater Manchester, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 44 Venues

Established in 1828

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Greengate Brewery, Middleton Junction, Middleton, M24 2AX, England
Description
JW Lees is a family brewery company, founded in 1828 by retired cotton manufacturer John Lees. We’re based in Middleton in the North West of Manchester and own JW Lees Brewery, JW Lees Pubs, The Alderley Edge Hotel, The Trearddur Bay Hotel and Willoughby’s Wine Merchants. We’re a sixth-generation family business which employs over 1,300 people, 140 at the brewery and site in Middleton Junction and over 1,100 in our 42 managed pubs, inns and hotels. We also let a further 105 pubs to our Pub Partners.

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8.4 oz can. Pours and orange/mahogany with full head. Aromas of candied orange, floral caramel, dried stoned fruit and toasted malts. Flavors of dried orange, caramel, apricot and toasted malts with possibly some sweet sherry. Interesting.
Tried from Can on 15 Nov 2024 at 04:19

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
8.4 oz can. Pours an orange/mahogany with light head. Aromas of meaty dried apricots and raisins, wet wool and bready malts; plus there is some funny cleaning fluid notes. Odd. Flavors of vinous oaky port, dry jammy stoned fruit, and bready malts
Tried from Can on 15 Nov 2024 at 01:00

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Clear pale gold with a bubbly white head, plenty of bubbles and a fruity, floral aroma. Crisp and clean with grassy hop bitterness and fruity notes, pretty fizzy with a dry bittersweet finish
Tried from Draft on 27 Oct 2024 at 12:26

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Hand-pulled pint in the Lion & Antelope at Manchester Airport on 1st October 2024, pleasant surprise to find a new cask rate while waiting to fly out to Berlin. Clean amber body, wispy white head. Traditional twiggy Bitter with a malty/nutty front.
Tried from Cask on 01 Oct 2024 at 10:08

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On tap leggero ambrato leggera gasatura un filo legno un lieve caramello discreta nota amara piuttosto terrosa
Tried from Draft on 12 Sep 2024 at 11:46

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask at the Plough & Flail, Mobberley. Pours dark gold with a medium head. Aroma is bready straw. Taste has bready straw with an acrid finish.
Tried from Cask on 01 Sep 2024 at 09:35

6.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Cask @ Founders Hall, Manchester. Clear golden with a thick creamy head. Easy and light hoppy in character, with a small dryness attached and a nice bit of froth on the nose after you pull the glass away! Perhaps a tad watery.
Tried from Cask on 30 Aug 2024 at 23:43

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Keg @ Founders Hall, Manchester. Golden with a small head. Crisp and clean tasting watery texture in the palate, which feels good. Fairly ordinary lager though with hints of floralness.
Tried on 30 Aug 2024 at 23:43

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Keg @ Founders Hall, Manchester. Slightly hazy golden colour with a creamy head. It has a very suppable, crisp texture with some citrus fruits in both aroma and taste, but nothing zesty, nothing that stated. Pleasant though.
Tried on 29 Aug 2024 at 02:04

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Cask @ Founders Hall, Manchester. Glowing clean copper-amber with a head. Earthy taste, almost chocolate malts, boozy nose and aftertaste.
Tried from Cask on 27 Aug 2024 at 04:37