Compass Brewery

[calumscott]

My local!

They do a belter of a ginger'd ale but I got my sticky mitts on a pair of their other beers today. I was looking for a mild but instead I couldn't resist a bottle of Tannen-Baum (Christmas tree, German style) seeing as I was putting up the Christmas tree this afternoon. It's got spruce needles in it. It does have the faintest twang of tree. Bitter, really quite bitter, plenty of malt behind and hints of spice working through from behind. Oh, and tree...

Perfect beer for the job in hand (lopping the best part of a foot off a tree that "looks about right to me").

But now I'm half way down a bottle of Torp and I'm really disappointed. Disappointed that I only bought one. Stunning beer. Belgian in style, yeasty esters in spadefuls, fruit, fruit and more fruit, sweetness, sharpness, bitter backbone. It is ALL going on in this beer and every little bit of it works perfectly.

Compass brewery, you have come of age.

 

[Rhys]

My local!

They do a belter of a ginger'd ale but I got my sticky mitts on a pair of their other beers today. I was looking for a mild but instead I couldn't resist a bottle of Tannen-Baum (Christmas tree, German style) seeing as I was putting up the Christmas tree this afternoon. It's got spruce needles in it. It does have the faintest twang of tree. Bitter, really quite bitter, plenty of malt behind and hints of spice working through from behind. Oh, and tree...

Perfect beer for the job in hand (lopping the best part of a foot off a tree that "looks about right to me").

But now I'm half way down a bottle of Torp and I'm really disappointed. Disappointed that I only bought one. Stunning beer. Belgian in style, yeasty esters in spadefuls, fruit, fruit and more fruit, sweetness, sharpness, bitter backbone. It is ALL going on in this beer and every little bit of it works perfectly.

Compass brewery, you have come of age.

:thumb:
+1 to that . Enjoyed their Symposium last summer a wheat beer, that was excellent. They are now stocked in the new Carterton Morrisons

 

[calumscott]

My local!

They do a belter of a ginger'd ale but I got my sticky mitts on a pair of their other beers today. I was looking for a mild but instead I couldn't resist a bottle of Tannen-Baum (Christmas tree, German style) seeing as I was putting up the Christmas tree this afternoon. It's got spruce needles in it. It does have the faintest twang of tree. Bitter, really quite bitter, plenty of malt behind and hints of spice working through from behind. Oh, and tree...

Perfect beer for the job in hand (lopping the best part of a foot off a tree that "looks about right to me").

But now I'm half way down a bottle of Torp and I'm really disappointed. Disappointed that I only bought one. Stunning beer. Belgian in style, yeasty esters in spadefuls, fruit, fruit and more fruit, sweetness, sharpness, bitter backbone. It is ALL going on in this beer and every little bit of it works perfectly.

Compass brewery, you have come of age.

:thumb:
+1 to that . Enjoyed their Symposium last summer a wheat beer, that was excellent. They are now stocked in the new Carterton Morrisons

Now THAT is good to know! Saves paying Millets prices. :shock:

 

[Rhys]

Can also buy in slabs of 12 from the brewery, in Carterton, phone first, and from the off licence in Eynsham, well worth a visit in its own right. :

 

[Ren]

Nice one. I live in Witney and seen their beer in Waitrose but didn't know it's local.

 

[LeithR]

Interesting,
When I was posted to RAF Brize Norton in 1963 Carterton was a one street village.

Good to hear that it has grown into a near Metropolis, sporting its own brewery.

I love that!!

 

[calumscott]

Cartoontown is mahoosive now and there are plans for another 6-700 houses on a second huge estate.

They've bulldozed a load of the old RAF housing which is frankly horrid.

It's still not the prettiest place but it's thriving, mostly because it's the only place in West Oxfordshire that normal people can afford to buy houses in.

Got a brilliant curry shop and a half reasonable chippy too...

 

[krazypara3165]

Brings back memories hearing about Carterton and whitney, made a few giod friends there when I was at brize doing my jumps course.