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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5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Cask @ Bon Accord. Clear golden colour, medium off-white head. Aroma has faint malts. Flavour has sweet malts, and grassy hops. Boring.

Tried from Cask on 12 Mar 2009 at 08:37


5.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottled (BB 01/2010). Clear golden color, small white head. Grapefruity and apple fruity, hayish hoppy nose with hints of balsa wood. Lemon, green apples amd pears in the flavor ... cidery. Finish has grapefruity bitterness. Short dry finish. Flat mouthfeel. Original.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Mar 2009 at 09:25


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

Bottle:
Pours dark -almost black- brown with a smallish head. Smooth toffee aroma with notes of smoke and peat. Flavour is coffee with a long roasty bitterness. A very quaff-able session porter.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2009 at 12:56


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden deep amber with a small off-white head. Aroma is mild spiced and dense butterscotch. Mild malty, slight caramelish and medium dry butterish with a light spice note. Growing bitterness into a mild spiced finish. Goes a slight breadish malty and vague herbal too into the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2009 at 05:23


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottled. A deep red beer with a bubbly tan head. The aroma is very buttery combined with some caramel, metal, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes caramel, metal, butter, and bread, leading to a dry metallic finish.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Feb 2009 at 13:53


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

Bottle at home ... brown ... light white head ... light sweet toffee nose ...over carbonated ... deep caramel tofeee malts with little metalic hop background... bit one dimensional

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jan 2009 at 12:43


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

cask at JDW edinburgh ...amber ... light honey hop nose ... light sweet almost honey hop .

Tried from Cask on 01 Jan 2009 at 06:53


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle, kindly excavated by Quack-Duck ! Deep ruby amber coloured with a small, slowly diminishing beige head. A mix if dry roasted malt and sweetish caramel malt < with a tinge of cacao > in the nose. Moderate bitter and slightly sourish flavour, light bodied. Short bitter-fruity finish with toasted malt and chocolate. Nice brew, a bit slim.......

Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2008 at 06:11


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

Cask handpull at Humphrey Bean JDW, Tonbridge. Gold, thin white head. Aroma of diacetyl. OK im mouth, creamy, then ok hop on finish, but just full of butterscotch. Oh dear. Diacetyl all over it. Im guessing I will probably like it, if I can find a non diacetyl barrel some where. Pretty undrinkable for me. 1.6 out of 5 Rerate at County Hotel, Ashford. I wanted to have this again, as the times I had it before, it was full of diacetyl. Still a little bit of butter, but good condition in mouth, good bitter hop. Drinkable golden bitter, just a bit too buttery still.

Tried from Cask on 27 Dec 2008 at 08:21


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

Dark brown with medium beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, rye bread and coffee notes. Sweet flavour with roasted malt, chocolate and liquerice and coffee notes. Sweet roasted finish.

Tried on 24 Dec 2008 at 07:26