Boutilliers

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

Established in 2016

Closed in 2022

Contact
The Hop Shed, Selling Road, Faversham, ME13 8XF, England
Description
We are Boutilliers, a small brewery based around the back of a farm shop in Faversham (Macknade fine foods if you were the curious sort.) Originally founded by 2 former uni buds, Boutilliers is now run by Rich, a former english teacher, and Drew, professional loud mouth. Our core focus is to brew creative styles and innovate with the resources we have to hand. When possible we like to use produce from local companies including tea and hops but we’ve not limited ourselves to this philosophy. Beer is an infinitely sprawling landscape with an equal number of potential possibilities, we don’t wish to simply make the same beer every time we brew, we want to explore, we want to play, we want our beer to be fun.

Closure announced on December 13th 2022.

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7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours golden amber, nose is vanilla, cinnamon, plum, caramel, taste is sweet, fruity, resinous, pine, tonka beans, creamy.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Nov 2019 at 11:30

7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle at home. Pours orange, nose is blackcurrant, vanilla, citrus, taste is sweet, fruity, jammy, light spice, vanilla, nutty --- Beer merged from original tick of Ding Dong, Landlord Here on 12 Dec 2019 at 11:44 - Score: 8
Tried from Bottle on 19 Nov 2019 at 09:24

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask handpull at Hop Stuff Tap room Ashford. hazy amber colour lasting white head. decent condition. it's a pale ale. served a bit cold. some white stone fruit flavour. odd. but ok.
Tried from Cask on 16 Nov 2019 at 12:58

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Keg at the Two-Tailed Lion, Leicester. Ruddy light to mid brown, muddy/hazy with an off-white head. Smoked malt, peat, some toffee notes. Sweet taste with the smoke to the fore, followed by earthy bitter hops toward the finish. Horehound and caramel notes on the finish. Tasty stuff.
Tried on 30 Oct 2019 at 21:06

6/10
Tried on 11 Oct 2019 at 18:26

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6
7th September 2019
Light haze on this orange amber beer patchy head, largeish cream colour bubbles. Palate is smooth and somewhat thin, mildly dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth malts, unsurprisingly thin given the palate, a modest creamy sweetness. Bitterish orange peel, ripe too. Nibbly spice. Finishes light and semi dry and spicy. Fine but lacks any depth.
Tried on 07 Sep 2019 at 15:20

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
7th September 2019
Light haze on this reddish amber beer, good bubbly pale tan head. Smooth palate, mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Fluffy malts, touch oc sweetness. Forest Fruits come through loud and clear, the tea much less so. Nibbly spice runs throughout. Softens into a kinda Forest Fruit pudding thanks to the underlying vanilla. Mercifully Tonka is well absorbed here, plays a part but dominating like it does in so many beers. A tasty number then, pretty unusual to. I'd be hard pressed to identify this as a Barleywine if I'd tasted this without prior knowledge. Amusing.
Tried on 07 Sep 2019 at 15:10

7/10
Tried on 30 Aug 2019 at 16:20

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
26th August 2019
Light smooth palate, semi dry, pretty modest carbonation. The slightly viscous malts bring a creamy caramel sweetness. Obvious vanilla and that weird Tonka pseudo chocolate. A little ripe citrus. Light semi dry finish. Nice idea, does it fully work? No but it's reasonably interesting.
Tried on 27 Aug 2019 at 10:30

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 9 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
On tap at Made Inn Ashford. Cloudy orange amber colour lasting white head. I like the passionfruit some mango light blood orange flavour. Very drinkable. Slightly sweet. Loved it, simple but nailable.
Tried from Draft on 25 Aug 2019 at 12:08