Bath Ales

Commercial Brewery in Bristol, Bristol, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Owned by St. Austell Brewery
Associated Venue: Graze Bar, Brewery & Chophouse (Bath Ales)

Established in 1995

Contact
Hare Brewery, Southway Drive, Warmley, Bristol, BS30 5LW, England
Description
Started brewing in 1995 by two former employees of Smiles Brewery using the same plant as Henstridge Brewery.
Moved to Siston Lane, Bristol in the summer of 1999.
Having outgrown these premises a further relocation to their current site at Units 3-7 Caxton Industrial Estate, Crown Way, Warmley, Bristol was carried out during March 2004.
A 50 barrel brewplant is used. A small on-site brewery was installed at their new (2013) Graze pub in Bath and was used to brew Platform 3 beer (originally 5.7%, latterly 4.5%) and the occasional special.
The beers branded as Beerd were from a small-batch plant within the main brewery at Warmley.
Mid 2016 brewery bought out by St. Austell brewery, with the inevitable cessation of the Beerd brand and the brew plant in Bath.
Production of Bath Ales cask range has been reduced to just Gem, with the spare capacity used by St. Austell for overflow production of Tribute and other St. Austell beers.
Since late 2025 Bath Ales became just a brand of St. Austell

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

330ml can. Pours light gold with a small head. Aroma is light corn and lemon. Taste is grassy corn and lemon.

Tried from Can on 12 Jul 2018 at 18:23


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

50cl bottle from Aldi, Bracknell. A pale amber pour with a tight cream coloured head; grapefruit aroma; others have described the taste as custard and I have to agree - an intriguing blend of custard and grapefruit; followed by a pleasant bitter citrus finish. Interesting.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2018 at 16:52


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

Danke an minutemat. Rauchig alkoholischer Geruch. Intensiver, torfig malziger Beginn, trocken, geringe Karbonisierung. Rauchig, erstaunlich süffig, feine Herbe, der Alkohol bleibt gut versteckt. Intensiv, der Hintergrund wirkt aber schwach und kann mit de, intensivem Torfaroma nicht mithalten. Nett! 10/10/10/11/12/11

Tried on 05 Jul 2018 at 18:43


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

500ml bottle. Pours dark orange with a medium head. Aroma is citrus hops, a little grapefruit and caramel. Taste has light citrus and straw to start. Bitter caramel finish with some citrus on the aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jun 2018 at 20:05


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5

Bottle at home from Tesco. A fruity, surprisingly rich and very smooth English and new word hybrid pale ale. Very tasty, but I preferred the Venus & Mars from the previous night.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jun 2018 at 07:47


7

Tried on 25 May 2018 at 13:22


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Pours unclear deep brown with small off-white head. Nose: faint roastiness, coffee, toasted malts. Light body. Dry taste. Malty. Roast & coffee. Low bitterness. Very drinkable but no solid body.

Tried from Bottle on 23 May 2018 at 18:28


5

Dit drinkt niemand voor z'n plezier. Not really a gem

Tried from Cask at The Louisiana on 20 May 2018 at 19:29


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Tesco. Deep gold in colour, with next to no head. Some citrus notes, a vague spiciness, crisp malts and a moderately bitter finish. Fine.

Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2018 at 20:14


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

50cl bottle from Tescos. Very thin white head. Clear golden pour. Lovely bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 10 May 2018 at 22:15