Malmesbury Brewery Reviews

DJMonarch	3.2 Malmesbury Athelstan Cask Handpump at GBBF 2014, Kensington Olympia 12/08/2014 Fruity aroma. Bronze golden coloured with berry fruit flavours. A hint of dryness in a lasting malt finish. Friday, June 24, 2022
Jerseyislandbeer	3.3 Malmesbury King's Wall Old rating from 2014 - Pint from the cask, pours amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of citrus, grapefruit, toffee, herbs, pine, alcohol & malt. Medium body. Dry finish. A English Strong Ale rather than IPA, enjoyable nevertheless Sunday, March 7, 2021
Martinus	3.2 Malmesbury Athelstan Clear copper colour, white head. Aroma of malts and straw. Malty flavour, quite bitter, hops and vegetables. Hoppy finish, malts and straw. (from draught @ GBBF ’14, London) Wednesday, October 21, 2015
fonefan	3 Malmesbury Athelstan Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2014, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Malmesbury Athelstan ]. Clear medium orange amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, riped fruit, earthy fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, earthy fruit, sweet fruit, malty. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20140812] Saturday, June 13, 2015
Aniela	3.2 Malmesbury Athelstan From my backlogg: Sample at Great British Beer Festival 2014. Clear amber beer with an offwhite head. Fruity caramell grassy aroma. Fruity citrus,caramell and berries flavour. Thursday, June 11, 2015
davidtjm	3.3 Killer Cat Circus IPA Cask as Killer Cat Citrus IPA. Pour is clear, gold, aroma is light, fruity. Taste is fruity, citrus, caramel, sweet. Good Saturday, March 14, 2015
Fin	3.8 Killer Cat Circus IPA *Cask handpump at the Shoulder of Mutton, Wednesday 25th February 2015* Getting towards the end of the cask but I was told to try this as it had been so popular in the pub and despite a no doubt cloudier than normal appearance which I’ll not mark it down for because close to the end of cask, this was great. Lovely and still tasting fresh, it’s zippy with a flurry of sweet citrus orangey hops, lovely bitterness, really good beer, I can see why this was so popular, loved it. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov16 3.6 Monday, March 2, 2015
BlackHaddock	3.6 Killer Cat Circus IPA Cask pint in The Oddfellows Arms, Wellington on 1st March 2015. Golden pour with a good white head that gave some heavy lacing. Hoppy, yet semi-sweet in places, citrus bite in the mixture too. Nice. Monday, March 2, 2015
MrBlueSky93	2.7 Killer Cat Circus IPA Bottle from Beers 52 Dark Orange, slightly cloudy, small white head. Fruity aroma (searching for it), dodgy cheese smell too.Tastes of grapefruit and malt, strong bitter finish also. Tuesday, January 20, 2015
yespr	3.1 Malmesbury Athelstan From cask. Pours cloudy orange with a small off white head. Aroma is fruity, slight phenolic. Fruity, toasted malty, kild metallic and slight yeasty. Bitter, toasted malty and dry. Bitter and slight herbal dry, yet also malted finish. Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Sjohnh	2.9 Killer Cat Circus IPA Dark orange and cloudy - small white head and some lacing. Fruity aroma - quite restrained - my bottle came from a mail order company and maybe is not that fresh. Tastes good though - mostly grapefruit sitting above the malt, and a strong bitter finish. Monday, December 29, 2014
anders37	3.2 Malmesbury Day Star Cask @ The Draft House Tower Bridge, Tower Bridge SE1. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel hoppy finish. Tuesday, December 16, 2014
WingmanWillis	4 Malmesbury Burnivale Hop Saturday, December 13, 2014
edsspoon	3.5 Killer Cat Circus IPA Bottle - amber with a small faint white head. Aroma of grapefruit, lemon and malt. Taste is malty and chocolate followed by some grapefruit, grass and a medium bitterness to finish. Medium body, high carbonation. Monday, December 8, 2014
minutemat	3.4 Killer Cat Circus IPA 330ml bottle from Stirchley Wines. Pours clear amber with big over-frothy white head. Taste presents initial fruity hops before a sharp smokey chili kick on the finish. Is that the intention? Not sure. S’ok tho. Monday, December 1, 2014
SarkyNorthener	3.7 Killer Cat Double Seven Bottle@cherry reds, birmingham. Hazy reddish dark amber beer with small head. Aroma is fruity red berries. Taste is smoke, red berries and dry leaf. A little chewy. Good stuff. Sunday, November 30, 2014
RichTheVillan	2.1 Killer Cat Double Seven Bottle at Cherry Reds; hazy amber thin beige head, aroma has some weird funk, taste how toilet duck smell, some weird chemical pine action. Sunday, November 30, 2014
jmgreenuk	2 Killer Cat Double Seven Tap at Cherry Reds, Birmingham. Poured a Hazy reddish amber with a thin broken white head. The aroma is fake sugar medicinal. The flavour is strong bitter with a truly awful aniseed hop bitter palate and a long bitter finish. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Saturday, November 29, 2014
harrisoni	1.7 Killer Cat Double Seven Bottle at Cherry Reds Brum with Sarky and Rich. Hazy red. Weird aroma Spice ugh thats horrible. Not even homebrew. Undrinkable. Saturday, November 29, 2014
FLBH	3 Killer Cat Circus IPA Saturday, November 22, 2014
WingmanWillis	3 Killer Cat Circus IPA Friday, November 21, 2014
niquillis	3.6 Malmesbury Day Star On cask at Malt n Hops, Fenton. Pours golden with white head. Light fruits, hoppy finish and a cracking session beer. My 2nd Malmesbury beer and both have been very good. Friday, November 21, 2014
niquillis	3.7 Malmesbury Westport On cask at New Smithy Inn, Wolstanton. Pours black brown with a light tan head. Well balanced porter, smooth mouth feel and good hit of roast bitterness and balancing of hops. Very good porter. Thursday, November 20, 2014
pricey290483	3.4 Killer Cat Circus IPA bottle from beer52 not much smell going on here a nice hop filled taste going on all through the beer with a good bitter finish at the end had two from killer kat and have liked them both Thursday, November 13, 2014
SarkyNorthener	3.9 Malmesbury Westport Cask@blackcountry arms, walsall. Black beer with medium head and good lacing. Aroma of chocolate and dark fruits with a touch of coffee. Taste is dark chocolate, smoke, dark fruits, coffee and roasted malts. Medium bodied and creamy. Very good. Friday, November 7, 2014
WingmanWillis	4 Malmesbury Westport Thursday, November 6, 2014
RichTheVillan	3.6 Killer Cat Manga Cask at Birmingham Beer Festival; clear amber pour with a frothy off white head, citrus aroma, taste has grapefruit, pine with a bitter finish. Friday, October 31, 2014
RichTheVillan	3.5 Killer Cat Circus IPA Cask at Birmingham Beer Festival; clear golden amber pour with a frothy white head, tropical hop aroma, grapefruit and pineapple taste, malty backbone. Friday, October 31, 2014
imdownthepub	3.3 Killer Cat Circus IPA Cask conditioned at Birmingham Beer Festival ’14. Gold with white head. Quite a fruity beer, hints of pineapple, lemon and kiwi fruit on a reasonably rich malty background. Decent. Friday, October 31, 2014
RichTheVillan	2.6 Malmesbury Day Star Cask at the Lord Clifden; clear amber pour with an off white head, some citrus hop aroma, taste has citrus action along with some dark fruitiness and a malty backbone. Thursday, October 30, 2014
jmgreenuk	3.4 Malmesbury Day Star Cask at the Lord Clifden, Birmingham. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin white head and some broken lace. The aroma is yeast, dry mineral. The flavour is moderate bitter with a wood hop bitter palate. Moderate to light bodied witn soft carbonation. Wednesday, October 29, 2014
madmitch76	3.1 Killer Cat Circus IPA 23rd October 2014 Light haze on this deepish gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Palate is airy and semi dry. Mild fine carbonation, Airy creamy sweet malts. My third beer under the Killer Cat banner and already the smoke is a characteristic in these murdering pussy beers! Little dried fruits and mild bruised orange before a light semi dry finish. Needs more hop punch and less of the bleeding smoke! Sunday, October 26, 2014
madmitch76	3.3 Killer Cat Double Seven 22nd October 2014 Hazy amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is smooth and semi dry, mild fine carbonation. Dry malts, sweetish. A strident but not totally dominant smoke streak. Touches of tangerine and marmalade. Crystallised fruits and a mild hop spice before a dry finish. Smoke and bitterness lingers on. Another curious brew from these guys, but decent. Sunday, October 26, 2014
madmitch76	2.9 Killer Cat Manga 20th October 2014 Bright clear gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry. Decent fine carbonation. Mild minerals. Light pale malts, some lactose sweetness. Hops bring a mild marmalade streak and bigger bitterness. Running string and wide throughout is a smoke flavour, presumably from the malts. Finishes light and dry. Any subtleties from the experimental hops are masked by the smoke! Sigh! Misjudged but okay. Sunday, October 26, 2014
robbgg	3.7 Killer Cat Manga On cask, deep amber colour. Full body gives way to massive late hop character of US varieties giving orange, lime and mango flavours. Sunday, October 26, 2014
Mr_Pink_152	3 Killer Cat Circus IPA Bottle from Favourite Beer, Cheltenham. Pale hazy golden colour, with thin white head. Aroma has hops and fruit. The taste has more hops with a sour finish. Thursday, October 23, 2014
anders37	3.1 Malmesbury Athelstan Cask @ GBBF 2014. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel hoppy aroma. Fruity malty citrus hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel hoppy finish. Tuesday, October 21, 2014
vinnielong	1.7 Killer Cat Manga first thing i noticed it that it has very little smell from the bottle, this dose improve when pored in to a glass. the color of this brew is a strange one, very orange ( a bit like iron bru ) taste is where it all goes down hill, all i can taste is burnt orange and toffee or caramel notes. would not recommend this tbh, only reason for having it was since beer 42 sent me it Friday, October 10, 2014
mrtmrt	3 Killer Cat Manga Wednesday, October 1, 2014
rlgk	3.2 Malmesbury Athelstan Sample at Great British Beer Festival 2014. Clear amber beer with a small offwhite head. Fruity caramel aroma, hay, grass, floral notes. Fruity citrus, flavor, berries, hay, some floral notes. Sunday, September 21, 2014
Desverger	2.9 Malmesbury Athelstan Cask@GBBF 2014, London (13/08/2014) - pours amber with white head. Toasty malty aroma and taste, some caramel, herbal and twiggy. Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Sledutah	3.3 Malmesbury Athelstan Cask at GBBF Clear dark golden with a small off-white hea, some lacing. Aroma of caramel and bitters. Flavors of caramel and fruity Ok Sunday, August 24, 2014
chriso	2 Malmesbury Athelstan Thursday, August 21, 2014
planky84	3.1 Malmesbury Athelstan Cask at GBBF, 2014. Amber pour with a white head. Orchard fruit and berry aroma. Malt and orchard fruit flavour. Ok. Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Benzai	3.3 Malmesbury Athelstan Sampled @ GBBF. Clear orange to lightly amber color, small beige head. Smell and taste malts, a touch of fruitiness, slightly bitter. Hard to describe this one, decent beer though. Monday, August 18, 2014
Judyvv	2 Malmesbury Athelstan Sunday, August 17, 2014
mR_fr0g	3.2 Malmesbury Athelstan Cask at the 2014 GBBF. Light amber orange coloured pour with no head. Flavour is medicinal berry hedgerow hop, light caramel. Aroma is berry and light citrus. Some caramel malts. Palate is light with good condition. Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Ferris	2.7 Malmesbury Athelstan Cask - Slightly soured malts and twig. Copper with a thin white head. Soured malts, caramel and a little twig. Not great. Tuesday, August 12, 2014
ManVsBeer	2.8 Killer Cat Circus IPA Cask @ Trades Club, Hebden Bridge. Mid-yellow with a creamy head. There’s hop in the nose and a soured English fruitiness in its taste, although this is in part due to the noticeable strength of the ale. Friday, July 25, 2014
ManVsBeer	2.8 Malmesbury Athelstan Cask @ White Lion, Heptonstall. Amber-brown with a thin head. Has a small fruity taste with a medium bitterness. Thursday, July 17, 2014