Cwmbran Brewery Reviews

Beese	0.8 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) 500ml bottle picked up in Wales and drunk on 18/06/2009. Really quite unpleasant. Seemingly infected, but not to the point of total undrinkablity, but rather a building, unintended sourness. Sunday, May 31, 2020
Beese	2.4 Cwmbran Crow Valley Stout (Deryn Du) Cask at The St. Albans Beer Festival on 30/09/2006. Fairly thin stout on the sweeter side. Monday, January 13, 2020
Beer5000	3 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) 500 ml bottle sampled in 2008. Deep, reddish golden body with a small off-white head. Light aroma of burnt malt and caramel. Flavor is light roasted malt, some caramel, slightly sour and low bitterness. Medium body and not so much aftertaste. A bit boring. Thursday, April 25, 2013
BlackHaddock	3.6 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) Brown 500ml bottle drank on its best before date of Oct 2008. Poured into a straight pint sleeve glass. It has a deep amber/terraccota red colour, clear and clean looking, on top sat a white covering of foam. The aroma was of a rich raisen, plum pudding type of smell, toasted malts also in the bouquet. The taste has all the flavours mentioned in the aroma section, this is a good beer. I thought it a bit watery after a while, the flavours hung around, but it lacked a true body feel that you would expect from such a rich smelling and first mouthfeel bitter. Apart from the weakness at the finish I thought this a fine beer. The head fell away too swiftly too. Tuesday, May 15, 2012
fonefan	2.7 Cwmbran Crow Valley Ale Bottle 500ml. @ ChrisOs. Clear medium to dark amber orange colour with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, nutty dusty, light hoppy. Flavour is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101204] Tuesday, July 19, 2011
madmitch76	3.2 Cwmbran Full Malty 9th May 2009 Amber coloured clear beer. Nice carbonation. Rich malt dominates with a creamy touch. A little hop fruit at the end and a splash of banana provides a counterpoint to what is otherwise an unashamedly malty beer! Saturday, May 21, 2011
chriso	3.1 Cwmbran Crow Valley Ale 500ml bottle from Utobeer (courtesy Jan) drunk on 4 December 2010. No best before date but may have been a bit long in the tooth as the brewery closed in 2009. Didn’t seem to have suffered too much though. Amber colour. Clean and bright appearance. Good condition. Dry. OK, fairly standard brown bitter in a quite traditional style. Sunday, March 13, 2011
madmitch76	3.5 Cwmbran Plum Porter 30th April 2007 Warning! Early amateur rating! Very drinkable porter, nice fruitiness from the plums. Trace of smoky malt. Monday, January 3, 2011
bembelembe	2.9 Cwmbran Full Malty Biscuity sweet lightly roasted malt. Caramel nutty aroma with herbal hints. Light bitterness. Medium carbonation. Watery texture. Amber body. Sunday, June 6, 2010
cgarvieuk	3.4 Cwmbran Full Malty Bottle at home ... copper ... thin white lacing ... sweet fruity malt nose ... soft fruity ... light smokey malt ... decent if uninspired bitter Monday, May 31, 2010
Quack-Duck	3.2 Cwmbran Full Malty bottle from Bacchus Crickhowell. Clear amber-golden colour, mid-sized head. Malty, slightly fruity with a citrusy-bitter hoppy finish. Saturday, May 8, 2010
fonefan	3.2 Cwmbran Plum Porter Bottle 500ml. Clear dark red amber color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, moderate caramel, plum, coffee notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration, coffee - roasted bitter, light peppery finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100102] Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Quack-Duck	3 Cwmbran Golden Wheat bottle, bought in Crockhowell. Clear pale golden colour, mid-sized white head. Aroma of banana and yeast. Wheaty, quite tart with a fruity touch 8mainly banana) and a yeasty background. Rather mild, nearly watery. Monday, February 15, 2010
DonMagi	3 Cwmbran Golden Wheat Cask in the Market Porter. Alround rating: pale sweet malt that got some strange wheatyness, but nothing i could recognise well, small bit of old cellar, slightly nutty, but manages to stay balanced in the finish despit very little to no hop character. Tuesday, January 5, 2010
hughie	2.7 Cwmbran Santa's Tipple Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Dark mahogany with a small beige head. Ashy aroma with some honey malt in the background. Malty taste with a late and rather watery cloying sweetness of a type I don’t really like. Slight bitterness. Monday, December 21, 2009
Beer5000	2.6 Cwmbran Santa's Tipple 500 ml bottle, 5,2%. Clear mahogany body with a beige head. Aroma is pretty straight forward malt and caramel. Flavor as well, plain malt and caramel with a certain degree of bitterness. Drinkable but pretty average all the way. Friday, October 23, 2009
RichardGretton	3.2 Cwmbran Full Malty Bottle. Plain looking brown beer with a malty and hopped aroma. The flavour is rich, malty and chocolatey. Overall an average beer. Monday, October 5, 2009
fonefan	3.1 Cwmbran Full Malty Bottle 50cl. Clear light to medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting - diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, nutty, dusty, earthy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average duration. Flavor has some fruity - berry maybe blackcurrant. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20090724] Friday, October 2, 2009
Papsoe	3 Cwmbran Full Malty Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Clear amber golden with a small rough off-white head. Sweetish malty and a little perfumy nose. Light body, a little perfumy, sweetish nutty. Finishes dry but not bitter. 240709 Monday, September 14, 2009
Papsoe	3 Cwmbran Crow Valley Ale Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Comes as "Cwmbran Crow Valley Ale". Clear amber golden with a small off-white head. Aroma of nuts and a little caramel and British hops. Medium body, a little sweet caramel and toffee. Dry finish. 270609 Monday, September 14, 2009
PaulsPissed	2.7 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Cask) Full marks on looks, lovely dark ruby colour with a small head. Smells a little fruity tastes a little fruity. Good amount of fizz helps make it nice and refreshing although theres not much of a flavor, bit of an aftertaste leaves you wanting more. goes down well but remains fairly average. Saturday, September 5, 2009
Quack-Duck	3.5 Cwmbran Plum Porter bottle, Tesco Pont-y-pŵl. Deep dark brown, nearly black colour with a creamy beige head. Malty, hints of caramel, chocolate and toffee as well as very shy but pleasant plum flavours. A delicious porter, ideal to accompany my Scotch egg and Wiltshire ham. Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Quack-Duck	3.2 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) bottle, Waitrose Abergavenny. Clear golden colour with a small white head. Shy malty base, lots of dry and aromatic hop flavours that add a dominating bitterness. Nevertheless well-balanced and really good. Tuesday, September 1, 2009
gam	2 Cwmbran Full Malty Head good carbonation weak red brown coloured pour.Aroma mild chocolate,caramel,nutty.Flavour almond like chocolate caramel,smooth to a degree but watery and a lack of bitter,dull tasting finish of malt,NO! Sunday, August 16, 2009
madbeer101	2.3 Cwmbran Full Malty Bottled. Golden coloured. Clear. Off white head. Sweetness and light herbs in the aroma. Flavour is grassy and quite fruity. Has loads of apple notes.Medum bodied. Dry. Very fruity end. Not realy my kind of beer. Saturday, July 25, 2009
Ungstrup	3.2 Cwmbran Full Malty Bottled. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of candy. The flavor is sweet with notes of toffee, home made caramel, and malt, leading to a bitter finish. The body is thin. Thanks Papsoe for sharing. Friday, July 24, 2009
yespr	3 Cwmbran Full Malty 50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Mild spiced and hoppy dry aroma. Sweet, caramelish and vague herbal/floral note. Roasted and medium dry finish. Friday, July 24, 2009
yespr	3.2 Cwmbran Crow Valley Ale 50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Roasted and dark toffee malt aroma, light spiced. Light acidic, vague cornish and roasted breadish malt flavoured. Bitter and slight acidic finish. Saturday, July 18, 2009
Fin	2.8 Cwmbran Full Malty Bottle, 11-07-09 passed to me at Mikey and Barbara’s party. Had this after a good few pints of Woods Shropshire Lass, so I was probably not in best rating form, despite this I still found this to be a so-so beer at best. Poured dark amber, with sweetness on the nose. As the name suggests this is a rather malty beer, but other than sweetness I got very little else. A5 A3 F6 P3 Ov11 2.8 Sunday, July 12, 2009
oh6gdx	3.2 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) Bottled. Amber colour, not much head. Aroma is biscuits, sweet malts as well as some wooden and grassy notes. Flavour is wood, smoked malts, some yeast, honey and mild wooden and herbal notes. Wednesday, July 8, 2009
bobinlondon	2.2 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Cask) Handpulled cask at the Wellington Arms, Bedford. Dark amber with an off white head. Dry malty flavour without too many hops. Rather bland I thought. Monday, July 6, 2009
Pinball	2.6 Cwmbran Crow Valley Ale dark orange, large offwhite head. malty toffe based aroma, also sweet. flavor is faint toffee, faint malty sweetness, some bitterness. palate is a bit watery, but otherwise nice Tuesday, June 30, 2009
joergen	2.8 Cwmbran Crow Valley Ale Bottle. Clear amber coloured with a medium sized white head. Aroma of malts, caramel and liquorice. Fruity flavour of malts, caramel and liquorice with notes of hops. Spicy finish. Sunday, June 28, 2009
KimJohansen	3.1 Cwmbran Crow Valley Ale Clear deep golden with a tiny off white head. Sweet malty aroma with with caramel notes. Flavour was sweet and malty with grassy hops, caramel and malty notes. Finished bitter. Saturday, June 27, 2009
Ungstrup	3.1 Cwmbran Crow Valley Ale Bottled. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of sweet malt, butterscotch, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and caramel as well as light notes of butterscotch. The finish is lightly bitter. Thanks Papsoe for sharing. Saturday, June 27, 2009
johndoughty	3.4 Cwmbran Santa's Tipple Bottle. Tawny with no carbonation. Very flat with some maltiness.Pleasant but not really a Christmas beer. Sunday, June 21, 2009
johndoughty	2.9 Cwmbran Golden Wheat Bottle. Yellow clear and very lively.Strange citrus like flavour. A weird and not really pleasant beer. Saturday, April 11, 2009
cgarvieuk	3.1 Cwmbran Santa's Tipple Bottle at home ... 5.2% ... dark copper thin lacing ... light sweet malt ... light sweet toffee malts ... little spice... from Average score didnt expect much but its fairly decent... medium body ... soft carbonation ... Saturday, March 14, 2009
bembelembe	3.9 Cwmbran Santa's Tipple Roasted & smoked caramel sweet malt. Nice deep copper color. Complex aroma - nutty, spicy, syrupy, burbony, woody, bittery. Low carbonated. Dry roasted sweet aftertaste. Friday, March 6, 2009
Beth101	1.5 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) Dark amber with a thin white head. Sweet smell of hay. Tastes of watery chocolate. A nasty horrible beer would not be tempted to buy this again. Thursday, January 1, 2009
JFURYCAT	3.2 Cwmbran Santa's Tipple Smokiness inherent in the aroma and aftertaste with some sweet malty raisin tones which seem pleasant to the mouthtone at first but become dominated by a sour charcoal like yeasty-ness. Overall, not a bad beer except for what lies in the finish. Friday, December 26, 2008
Garrat	3.1 Cwmbran Santa's Tipple Bottle.Chestnut with a medium head,aroma of malt with a light sourness,taste is malty nutty with toffee and a dry finish. Wednesday, December 24, 2008
jbrus	2.8 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) Bottle@Home. Sharp herbs and rusty aroma. Light brown color, beige head, good lace. Light sweet, bitter, licorice, rusty. Pretty light. Bit mediocre bitter. Thursday, November 20, 2008
hughie	2.1 Cwmbran Golden Wheat Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Gold with a small white head. Faint citrus aroma. Taste is again rather insipid, perhaps reminiscent of weak lime juice. Is there a hint of wheatiness to justify the beer’s name? Perhaps. Nothing more to add. Monday, October 20, 2008
ante	2.4 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) Bottled at Monks Cafe, Stockholm. Pours out in a clear amber colour with a firm white head. Clean aroma of caramel and rose hips. Light-bodied and clean with notes of caramel, sweet red berries and papery hops. Slippery mouthfeel. Short malty finish of fudge with a late bitterness of papery hops. Friday, September 5, 2008
omhper	2.1 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Clear dark amber, minimal head. Caramelly nose. Sweet and medium bodied. Simple and lifeless flavour od paper and caramel. Cardboardy finish without bitterness. Thursday, September 4, 2008
Beth101	2.4 Cwmbran Plum Porter No head another one that looks like flat coke but this time with a slight purple hint. Very fruity aroma with malt coming through. Not much flavour but more coffee than plum. Has a slightly malty aftertaste. Abit disappointing. Tuesday, August 12, 2008
gunnfryd	2.9 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) Bottle @ Maria tasting. Dark golden colour with a beige head. Aroma is hop, malt, caramel. Flavour is caramel, malt, hop, roasted. OK easy drinkable beer. Wednesday, June 4, 2008
yngwie	2.9 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) Bottle. It pours a clear, quite dark golden body with a nice off-white head. Weak nose with some caramel and a little fruityness. Sourish, roasted flavor with caramel and malts. Low on bitterness, also in the finish, which is slightly fruity with caramel. Medium body. Wondering if this one was going bad, at least there were some signs of that. Rating: 4-4-5-3-9-2.5. Old rating stand. (080829) Bottle. It’s a clear, dark golden beer with a beige head. Malty aroma with caramel, some roasted malt and a vague fruityness. Malty, roasted, toffeeish flavor with a decent bitterness. Nice carbonation level, and a bitter and malty finish. Sure a decent bitter, but there’s nothing special to it. (080412) Saturday, May 24, 2008
fonefan	2.8 Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter (Bottle) Bottle @<a href=http://ratebeer.com/forums/thisted-kalder---%F8lsmagning-den-1204_87119.htm target=_new> Thisted Tasting by Maria.. Clear medium amber orange color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, nutty, cellar, dusty. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (120408) Sunday, May 11, 2008