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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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


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

Pours a clear pale gold colour with a small mostly lasting, foamy white head. The aroma is lemony with some straw and light grassy hops. A moderately sweet taste, sweet malts, citrusy; lemon and grapefruit; and light grassy flavours with a light drying citrusy bitterness.

Tried on 30 Oct 2022 at 16:42


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Tried from Cask on 29 Oct 2022 at 10:43


5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Third-pint glass, festival beer, cask at Roebuck Inn (JDW). Shared with Finn. Scattered lacing from a covering white head, clear golden in the glass. Moderate smell of lemony hops and berry skins. Moments of citrus and berries to the taste buds. Rounded, discreet bitter fruity end, short. Fair enough, (Nottingham 12.10.2022).

Tried from Cask on 23 Oct 2022 at 13:27


5.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Keg @ Victoria Inn, Salcombe. Blonde with a carbonation and a thick creamy-frothy head. It has an extremely light lager character in taste, is crisp, and descent for the aforementioned. Has a heavy lager nose.

Tried on 17 Oct 2022 at 18:07


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Tap @ Last Inn, Land’s End. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are grass, malt, hops, fruits, flowers and has a nice bitter finish.

Tried from Draft on 16 Oct 2022 at 12:18


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

[Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading.] A pale straw coloured pour with a thin white head; lemony aroma; grassy citrus taste; with a clean citrus finish. Very tasty.

Tried from Cask on 14 Oct 2022 at 11:47


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at Wheatshef, Stoke on Trent. Pours a pale straw with a small white head and good lacing. Is slow to settle. The nose has floral hops and some citrus. Pretty much the same in the mouth where the citrus can be split into lime and orange with some underlying malts. After a while traces of ginger and coriander come through. Finish is slightly dry. Not bad at all.

Tried from Cask on 12 Oct 2022 at 22:29