About
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.
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.
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
3rd July 2014
Craig on Heat Tasting at ChrisO’s. Hazy pale gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and dry. Light fine carbonation. Light malts, little dry cream, mild sweetness. Dry dusty mid!! Spicy start to the orange and marmalade hops. Dry crisp finish. Okay.
Craig on Heat Tasting at ChrisO’s. Hazy pale gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and dry. Light fine carbonation. Light malts, little dry cream, mild sweetness. Dry dusty mid!! Spicy start to the orange and marmalade hops. Dry crisp finish. Okay.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2014
at 04:42
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of Peter Fowler, Shoulder of Mutton, Wantage, Oxon, (cheers Peter!) consumed in Frank (camper) at Bell Inn campsite, Purton, Friday 4th July 2014 We are sat in candlelight in Frank so tricky to be exact on colour but it sort of looks amber and its called amber so thats good enuff’ for moi. Another belter of a beer, citrus and pine intermingle, its bittersweet and a furryness is left across the tongue, really lovely. A8 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 4.0
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2014
at 02:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; clear amber pour with a thin fluffy magnolia head, tangerine and grapefruit aroma, taste had a touch of biscuit sling with pine, envelope stickiness, it’s true but this beer is wiper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2014
at 13:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at chriso’s. Pours mostly clear gold with a frothy white head. Lovely citrusy hops in the nose, nice tangerine, orange. Light-medium sweet flavor with some minerals, oily hops, pine, hay, grapefruit. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Soft citrus fruits on the finish, mellow pale malt sugars, some sand, lemon peel. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2014
at 12:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Craig on heat tasting. Some simcoe hop. Nice enough pale ale. Nice pale ale goid peppery finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2014
at 12:03
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at chrisOs... Hazy amber... Thin white head... Soft fruits... Juicy fruits nose ... Soft orange... Juicy fruits.... Dry zezty orange finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2014
at 12:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
330ml bottle from Great Grog. Pours clear amber, thin white head. Aromas are quite light, lime, mandarin, not much else. Taste brings a little maltiness, but only a faint tropical bitterness. Really not much going on here, more like a souped-up bitter than an IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2014
at 15:54
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at home, 28th June 14. Good hoppy brew, loved the malt undertones, the aroma is slightly more than the taste, a very decent IPA though
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2014
at 13:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; clear amber pour with a bubbly off white head, tangerine aroma, taste has fresh tangerine, citrus, some grapefruit, bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2014
at 08:12
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; clear copper pour with a creamy off white head, tropical hop aroma, taste doesn’t quite live up to the aroma, light pine, grapefruit, some vegetable stock, ok bitterness, decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2014
at 04:52