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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can picked up from Morrisons, Leominster, Herefordshire and consumed at Jude and Baz's, shared with Baz at Spond, Herefordshire listening to New Music Fix with Nathan Shepherd and Deb Grant on 6Music Tuesday 3rd March 2026. Pours hazy slightly murky yellow with a mid sized white head. Aroma is a little exotic, with hints of pineapple but then some apricots, peach and then melon. Taste is more weighted towards citrus with pink grapefruit a little lemony but some apricot and peach, the mouthfeel is very soft. Not bad at all, pretty decent stuff. Score 7.3
Fin (18516) reviewed Past Future from Polly's Brew Co. 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Can picked up from Morrisons, Leominster, Herefordshire and consumed at Jude and Baz's, Spond, Herefordshire listening to Huw Stephens on 6Music Tuesday 3rd March 2026. Poured murky milky yellow in colour with a mid sized white head. There's a little bit of stone fruit, peachy, apricot, a soft mouthfeel, a little bit of a biscuit maltiness, it's good, however not as good as the other beer I had from Polly's a day or two ago. Score 7.1
Fin (18516) reviewed Twin Pines from Northern Monk Brew Co. 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can picked up from Morrisons, Leominster, Herefordshire and consumed at Jude and Baz's, Spond, Tuesday 3rd March 2026 Herefordshire listening to Huw Stephens on 6Music. Pours hazy gold with a sticky white head, there's a little bit of a resinous rub across the tongue, bitter and with a nice mid malty sweetness, dry finish, furry rub. Good. Score 7.5
Setting - 8 | Selection - 9 | Service - 7 | Food - | Value - 8 | Overall - 8
Visited here Sunday 1st March 2026, I came here met my brother briefly beforehand and surprised my mum who thought that I was at home in Germany. So visited in the presence of Mum, Scott, Keith, Oscar and Mandy.
It's located about a 3-4mins walk from Worcester Foregate St railway station just set back off the main road (Tything) and by the Castle Street and Tything junction, btw you cannot access it from the Tything you must head around the back it's on Brittania Rd. As I recall it's level access so suitable for wheelchair access, prams etc.
There are a few seats outside, otherwise inside it's a straightforward oblong layout with bar immediately on the right a stage at the far end and plenty of seating. It's a little bit dark as you move away from the entrance and further inside. Toilets are upstairs and there is a further large room up here presumably for larger groups or a separate booking.
The beer list is behind the bar and there are 14 taps including a cider. There is a fridge opposite so behind you as you stand at the bar where some of their cans are available for takeaway. Food is simple. so mostly crisps and maybe peanuts I forget but suffice to say limited to usual simple pub snacks. All of the beers I tried were good to very good, so a great visit to a new place for me. It was a little quiet when we first arrived but was picking up before we left with 3-4 separate tables taken and a couple with their dog sat outside. Staff member was friendly enough, all told a great place.
Fin (1692) reviewed Zur Wache 1 month ago
Setting - 8 | Selection - 7 | Service - 9 | Food - | Value - 8 | Overall - 8
We visited here 24th October 2025 on our way back home following a visit to the UK. This is located reasonably central in town, it's sort of in a covered arcade area. It's not so obvious to find but once you have it's a really fab' place. Before heading here we tried to get to the brewery tap but it was rammed, two other places were rammed, we finally managed to find somewhere to eat that sold the local beer, however this was a gem of a place.
From the outside it looks like a sort of alpine chalet, all wood and all wood inside also. It's not so big, probably seating a maximum of 25-30 people, it really is a little alpine chalet appearance, love it. The owners, I presume husband & wife were really friendly, it had a lovely friendly vibe, the beer was excellent, really great condition. I cannot recall how many were on tap but they also had bottles and we had 2-3 each, prices were very good and condition of beer superb. I think that we were in here around 8pm to 9:30pm 'ish' looking at my photo date/timestamp and it was quite busy when we left, a few people were playing music, we sat at high stools by the bar.
I would highly recommend this place particularly as an alternative to the busy taproom, it's one of those little gems you find by chance.
Fin (18516) reviewed Ultra Phase from North Brewing Co 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can picked up from St Peters Tesco, Worcester and consumed at Mum and Keith's, Kempsey nr Worcester Monday 2nd March 2026 after a walk into Worcester from Kempsey. Pours hazy/murky yellow with a mid sized white head. Taste is mostly citrus, nose is also predominantly citrus, however there is also mushy overipe fruits with touches of tropical fruit. Decent beer and drinks fine for the abv. Score 7.1
Fin (18516) reviewed Cartwheeler from Thornbridge Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can picked up from Hereford Beer House and consumed at Mum and Keith's, Monday 2nd March 2026 listening to Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts and cooking a Leek and Potato Soup. Pours amber/actually mid brown with an off white head. Pleasant maltiness throughout with touches of caramel and toffee, nice smoothness, good mouthfeel. A fruity tang, reminds me a lot of a classic english ESB, biscuit maltiness, hops are a little berry and hedgerow. Nice beer, very nice. Score 7.5
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updated a venue:
Hop Lord's Taproom & Bottle Shop
located in Worcester, England
1 month ago
Fin (18516) reviewed One Night in Laguna from Copper Beech Brewing Co 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Had this Sunday 1st March 2026 at Copper Beech brewery and taproom, Worcester, in the company of Mum, Scott, Mandy, Keith and Oscar. I turned up to surprise Mum and it worked, she thought that I was still in Germany. Pours murky dirty yellow with a small white head. The aroma is a nice combination of both citrus and tropical fruit citrus just winning with a little lemon, grapefruit and sweet orange, cannot be exact on the tropical elements but they're there. Taste following a similar trajectory, solid stuff, a little resinous, nice bittersweet touch, juicy but actually this appears to blend elements of both NEIPA and a West Coast IPA. Really good. Score 7.8