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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7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle at Yespr’s - black pour with small tan head. Aroma and taste is dark roasted malty, caramel, prominent wooden whisky tinged barrel, vinous mouthfeel, very good.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 08:53

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottled. A black beer with a thin brown head. The aroma has notes of peated smoke and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol, peated smoke, and alcohol, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 08:50

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle at Yespr’s - black pour with tan head. Heavy roasted dark malty aroma and taste, prominent whisky oaky wooden flavour, great mouthfeel.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 08:48

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle at Yespr’s - black pour with tan head. Roasted malty aroma and taste, caramel, chocolate, mocha, wooden tinged notes, lovely.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 08:45

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottled. A brown beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, and soy sauce. The falvor is sweet with notes of straw, soy sauce, and straw, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 08:44

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottled. A black beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of straw and malt, as well as alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of smoke, alcohol, and roasted malt, leading to a dry roasted finish..
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 08:40

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottled. A brown beer with an orangey head. The aroma has notes of caramel, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol and roasted malt, leading to a dry alcoholic finish.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 08:34

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle at Yespr’s - black pour with thin tan head. Roasted malty aroma and taste, wooden whisky notes, chocolate, caramel, light burnt notes, roasted finish. Lovely drop.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 08:32

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle at Yespr’s - amber pour withs all white head. Aroma and taste is sweet malty toasty and dried fruity, nice spicy bite to this, nice mouthfeel. warming boozy finish. Very nice.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 08:16

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
33 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is dark malty and roasted. Sweet, roasted and caramelish. Sweet, toasted and caramelish. Bitter and roasted. Dark smoked finish.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jul 2014 at 08:10