Wiper and True

Microbrewery in Bristol, Bristol, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2012

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2-8 York Street, Bristol, BS2 9XT, England
Description
We first fell in love with brewing on the stove at home, surrounded by pots, pans and raw ingredients. Tinkering endlessly, we studied the ancient art of our vocation. Nomadically brewing around the country, we learned from fantastically generous, knowledgeable artisans, honing our craft along the way.

Today, we’ve outgrown our roots as nomadic brewers, and operate out of two production sites. The first, a brewery we built in St Werburghs, Bristol, is where we focus on our core range of beers, constantly refining the recipes to bring you an ever evolving, perfect pour. New challenges continually arise and are met by our talented team of resourceful brewers, as we continue producing top notch beers whilst adhering to strict social distancing measures. Usually host to our tap room, we’re already looking forward to re-opening the York Street brewery to our friends, family and local community for fresh beers once we all come out the other side. At our second Bristol site, the Barrel Store, work continues on our complex, mixed fermentation and wild yeasted beers. Here, we serve as custodians over our barrel-aged brews as they develop on different kinds of wood.

Ever evolving in the quest for refinement, all of our recipes stem from the desire to create something beautiful and delicious.

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

Bottle from Corks of North Street, Bristol. Copper coloured, with a decent, off-white head. Citrus fruit and hop aroma, with a touch of caramel and earthy malt aroma. Easy drinking, with solid, almost bready malts, more fruit and a decent, bitter finish. Very good.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jun 2014 at 12:05


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Corks go Cotham. It pours deep orange-amber with a medium bubbly white head. The nose is passion fruit, grapefruit, orange, mango, bread, earth and a dash of herbs. The taste is crisp, bitter, pine, varnish, resin, passion fruit, pineapple, dried mango, earth, peppery grapefruit, light alcohol and wood polish with a lingering dry-bitter finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Crisp and flavoursome. Works for me!

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2014 at 09:29


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

Bottle from Corks of Cotham. It pours dark amber with a medium off-white head. The nose is sweet pineapple, tangerine, persimmon, earth, pine and varnish. The taste is bitter-sweet, earthy, spice, varnish, pine, resin, roasted pineapple, nectarine and orange peel with a dry finish. Touch of alcohol in the background. Medium body and fine carbonation. Perhaps a touch sweet, but very nice nonetheless.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2014 at 09:06


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle from Corks of North Street. Opaque and almost black in colour, with a big and billowy beige head. Aroma of muscovado sugar, dark fruits and plan chocolate. Flavour of roasted malts, more fruity sweetness and chocolate, leading to a slightly dry finish. Very good.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2014 at 07:15


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

3rd May 2014
Mikkeller & Friends. Keg. Cloudy amber beer, good head - very pale cream colour. Palate is light and airy with good fine carbonation. Mild malt. Only a touch of rye spice. Mild citric hops. Light crisp finish. Not bad.

Tried on 08 Jun 2014 at 03:22


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at Bag of Nails. It pours hazy amber with small off-white head. The nose is fresh, doughy, orange peel, sherbet, tangerine and candi1ed peel. The taste is crisp, bitter, orange peel, tangerine, sherbet, earth and candied peel with a dry, crisp finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Tasty.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jun 2014 at 12:01


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at bag of nails, Bristol. It pours hazy golden-amber with a small white head. The nose is fresh, orange, tangerine, earth, muffin and sherbet. The taste is crisp, bitter, earthy, orange peel, grapefruit, tangello, spice and minerals with a dry, citric finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Nice citrussy bastard.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jun 2014 at 11:23


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at No. 1 Harbourside, Bristol.It pours clear deep Amber with a medium beige head. The fresh, piney, resin, varnish, icing sugar, marmalade, limequat and stewed orange. The taste is bitter, earthy, brown bread, pepper, earth, orange peel, scone and marmalade with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jun 2014 at 10:18


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at Royal Navy Volunteer, Bristol. It pours cloudy golden with a decent bubbly white head. The nose is fresh, pineapple, citrus peel, creamy, coconut, florals and orange. The taste is smooth, bitter, orange peel, creamy, grapefruit, earth, grass/herbal with a dry, bitter finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Pretty true to its word, especially on the nose - big lilt action. Rather nice.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jun 2014 at 05:49


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Royal Navy Volunteer, Bristol. It pours clear golden-amber with a tiny white head. The nose is fresh, doughy, biscuit, lemon poppy seed muffin, orange and straw. The taste is crisp, bitter, biscuit, grapefruit, lemon peel, soap and straw with dry, citric finish. Light body and fine, prickly carbonation. Crisp, clean and very drinkable stuff. Great low abv number.

Tried on 07 Jun 2014 at 05:10