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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Historic check-in --- Beer aliased from original tick of Dark Hare on 08 Nov 2022 at 08:48. Original review text: 12/03/2011. GRAZE, 63 Queen Square, BRISTOL, Bristol, England (BATH ALES)

Tried on 08 Nov 2022 at 08:51


15/03/2015. KING OF WESSEX, 5-10 James Street West, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (WETHERSPOONS)

Tried on 08 Nov 2022 at 08:44


Historic check-in

Tried on 08 Nov 2022 at 08:41


11/02/2011. SALAMANDER, 3 John Street, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (BATH ALES)

Tried on 08 Nov 2022 at 05:30


02/09/2000. HOP POLE, 7 Albion Buildings, Upper Bristol Road, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (BATH ALES)

Tried on 08 Nov 2022 at 05:28


02/02/2013. GRAPES, 14 Westgate Street, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (SHEPHERD NEAME) --- Beer aliased from original tick of Barnstormer on 08 Nov 2022 at 05:26. Original review text: Historic check-in

Tried on 08 Nov 2022 at 05:22


13/04/2019. EAGLE, 144 West Street, BOSTON, Lincolnshire, England (CASTLE ROCK)

Tried on 08 Nov 2022 at 05:21


26/08/2015. GRAZE, 9 Brunel Square, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (BATH ALES)

Tried on 07 Nov 2022 at 15:57


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up from Tesco. Pours crystal clear honey-gold with a modest, foamy white head. Lightly sweet flavour with nice, restrained piney hops, decent bitterness, sun-kissed pale malts, orange rind. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Subtly resinous finish, further lightly toasted malts and grains, more citrus peel. Quite drinkable. Solid overall.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Nov 2022 at 00:04


6.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ Regal Moon, Rochdale. Clear golden-blonde with a creamy head. Penultimate beer found in the 2022 Wetherspoon Autumn Beer Festival, but as a week has gone by since it ended this is probably the last one for me in this particular festival. Hoppy session ale, mildly herbal and grassy.

Tried from Cask on 31 Oct 2022 at 18:27