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Brass Castle Brewery Taphouse, Malton
Malton
YO17 7AB
Served areas
Reviews of Brass Castle Brewery Taphouse (Average Rating: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Old Boots left this review about Brass Castle Brewery Taphouse
Not much to add description wise to the others, especially PSM’s, it’s a shop conversion, the brewery is at the back across the yard and the toilets are off the stairwell at the back. Four pulls on the counter, only two of their beers on but my Hazelnut Mild was outstanding, there are eight keg taps on the bar back - unusually not in a straight line. Odd aged beer ticker types in one corner, bright young things in another during my early evening mid week visit, un-rammed unlike my normal weekend visits. A few dogs were littering the place. One of my favourite breweries a trip to their tap is worthwhile but they don’t usually have many cask beers, they’re not that committed to them I believe having spoken to one of the blokes who runs it.
On 20th February 2025
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Graham Coombs left this review about Brass Castle Brewery Taphouse
A mixture of shop, micro pub and brewery tap still much as described below - a bit of an industrial feel with the brick, timber and corrugated iron, but very friendly. There is also now an upstairs with a couple of decidedly undecorated rooms, one containing sofas and the other a bar billiards table (how on earth did they get that up there??). Three of their own cask beers on - in excellent condition if a bit cold - plus various keg.
On 1st December 2023
- rating: 7
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Pub SignMan left this review about Brass Castle Brewery Taphouse
This is a small brewery bar located in a shop-style unit on a busy junction right in the heart of Malton. You enter into a pleasant front bar area with rustic floorboards, a couple of brightly coloured lintels across an otherwise plain ceiling, and a mix of bare brick and neutral painted walls. The servery is directly opposite the front door and has a quaint little bar counter topped with what appeared to be a couple of old railway sleepers or something similar. The bar back is essentially just a small shelving unit hung from the bare brick rear wall, with the keg taps on a font to one side. To the left of the room, some fridges appear to be filled with various Brass Castle bottles and cans, available to either drink in or takeaway, and on top of the fridges, various certificates and awards are displayed, attesting to the brewery’s success in the few years since its establishment in 2014. One high shelf with bar stools runs under the front window on the left side, whilst a long L-shaped bench occupies the front right corner of the room, serving a low table underneath a wall lined with pump clips. One further low table with metal chairs beneath an unused TV screen rounds out the seating in this front room, but things open out to the rear right, where a few high tables and stools can be found in front of walls clad with corrugated iron, from which various bits of brewery merchandise have been hung. A door back here leads out to a rear yard that looks like a bit of a suntrap, although I didn’t venture out there, as a forklift was busy unloading something or other and I figured I’d only end up getting in the way. It’s unclear if the TV screens get much, or indeed any, use, but a decent soundtrack was bubbling away in the background unobtrusively as various customers came and went with their take-out orders, shortly after opening time.
There were three cask options available when I arrived at opening time on a Tuesday afternoon – Brass Castle Northern Blonde and Session Mini-IPA, plus a guest of Ossett White Rat – along with three or four craft keg options poured from the aforementioned font on the bar back. I gave the Session Mini-IPA a try and thought it was a decent enough example of a lower strength IPA, kept in good condition and served to me by one of the three very friendly and knowledgeable members of staff who invested a lot of time in talking numerous customers through their beer selection.
I think this place worked pretty well as somewhere to showcase Brass Castle beers and I certainly found it a considerable improvement on the usual industrial estate/railway arch taprooms that most breweries seem to operate out of these days. My main issue is that it felt far more like a bottle shop than a proper pub, with customers coming and going throughout my time here, although it may well start feeling a bit more pub-like once a crowd starts to build and off-sales dwindle later in the day. Definitely worth a look if you find yourself in town.
On 6th October 2021
- rating: 7
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Bar Billiards : Yes last updated 01 December 2023 by Graham Coombs
- Beer Festivals : Yes last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 06 October 2021 by Pub SignMan
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : No last updated 06 October 2021 by Pub SignMan
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Darts : Yes last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Function Room : No last updated 06 October 2021 by Pub SignMan
- Hot Food : No last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Jukebox : No last updated 06 October 2021 by Pub SignMan
- Karaoke : No last updated 06 October 2021 by Pub SignMan
- Live Music : No last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Micropub : No last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : No last updated 06 October 2021 by Pub SignMan
- Pool Table : No last updated 06 October 2021 by Pub SignMan
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
- Wheelchair Access : Yes - not toilet - last updated 01 December 2023 by Graham Coombs
- WiFi : Yes last updated 26 June 2019 by ROB Camra
