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

Delt med Rune. Veldig lys gylden. Klar. Lavt tett skum. Litt lacing. Lett lime-aroma. Smaken sitrusfrukt. Fortsatt lime-preg. Lett tørr syrlig bitter avslutning. Frisk!

Tried on 12 Oct 2022 at 09:05


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Tried on 03 Oct 2022 at 19:45


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Pours a lightly hazed amber colour with a small frothy off-white head that settled. The aroma is malty, caramel with some light fruit and spicy hop notes. A moderately sweet malty taste, cereal grain, malt and caramel flavours with some fruit and a medium-light bitterness.

Tried on 20 Sep 2022 at 16:48


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

On keg at the Green Dragon, Stoke Fleming. Appearance- golden and well carbonated. White head. Nose - orange and melon. Taste - orange and melon again. An edge of mango skin. Palate - light bodied and dry finish. Overall - pretty good.

Tried on 10 Aug 2022 at 13:28


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

500ml bottle. Gluten Free. Golden colour, foamy white head leaving lacing and aroma of citric hop, grassy. Taste is sweetish, biscuity malt, grain, fruity, with some tangy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry citric bitter finish. Quite OK

Tried from Bottle on 04 Aug 2022 at 19:32


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Very surprised this isn't rated. Nose is yeasty, malty, hint of bread between sugar and fruit. Taste is yeast, make loaf, fruit, bread, malt.

Tried on 26 Jul 2022 at 20:13


Tried on 16 Jun 2022 at 15:19


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

Tap at the Samuel Jones Exeter. A clear golden orange coloured pour with a a fine off white head. Aroma is subdued, pine, orange rind, grass, pine tips,. Flavour is composed of crisp biscuit grains, chalk, piney spicy hop, super crisp,. Woody finish. Palate is crisp, highish carbonation. Ok.

Tried from Draft on 02 Jun 2022 at 16:33


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

Panda thanks to Fergus: Poured a deep black with a ring tan head. Aroma is full on smokey peat, loads of that Islay barrel, charr, roasted malts. Taste is smokey, charr, roasted malts, medicinal, herby.

Tried on 29 May 2022 at 23:19


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle split at Watford Tasting, thanks to Danny, 11/03/22. Black with a tan cap that dissipates to a swirl. Nose is big on smoked malts, TCP, chocolate, herb, medicinal notes. Taste comprises peated malts, bonfire, fruit cake, peat bog, smoke, herb, spice, cocoa powder, charr, ashen tones. Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a kiss of alcohol. A bit OTT on the smoke machine for my liking but an OK sipper none the less.

Tried from Bottle on 16 May 2022 at 09:31