Bath Ales

Commercial Brewery in Bristol, Bristol, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Owned by St. Austell Brewery
Associated Venue: Graze Bar, Brewery & Chophouse (Bath Ales)

Established in 1995

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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 - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

2010 rating, on cask @ Salamander. Nutty brown colour. Malty-earthy aroma with lots of butter, which sadly is standard for this brewery nowadays. Taste is buttery, with some dark malts and light, vague fruitiness.

2002 rating: Very dark amber; resiny, malty, molasses aroma; bursting cherry, earth, wood on the palate - both complex and quenching. 6-4-8-4-15 = 3.7

Tried from Cask on 25 Aug 2002 at 16:16


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

Sampled cask conditioned. Dark brown. Sweet and fruity with nice soft maltiness and a roasty burnt aroma.

Tried from Cask on 05 Apr 2002 at 03:29


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

Sampled cask conditioned. Very dark brown. Fruity aroma with hints of coffee and, yes - rum. Medium body, rather sweet and slighly roasty. rather complex with licorice and salt in the finish.

Tried from Cask on 03 Apr 2002 at 01:41