Twyn BrewingBrewery and taproom · PontypriddPontypridd

The board

The board, as it is on the bar.

Every tap with its style, its strength to a decimal and its price, and the beers that are cans-only, updated when a keg changes. Filter by style or by the strongest you fancy; the filter is for the person who asked for the darkest thing under five per cent and watched three of us think about it.

A flight of four small tasting glasses of beer on a wooden paddle, from pale gold to black stout, on a long wooden taproom table with a hand reaching for one
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  • Tap 1
    West Coast pale ale

    Twyn Pale

    Welsh malt, American hops, bitter enough to be a pint. The one we sell most.

    4.2%£4.60 pint · £2.40 halfIn cans
  • Tap 2
    Helles lager

    Graig Lager

    Six weeks in the tank. Gluten below 20ppm. The one for people who do not like craft beer.

    4.6%£4.80 pint · £2.50 halfIn cans
  • Tap 3
    Dry stout

    Berw Stout

    Roasty, dry, no vanilla, no nonsense. The Sunday roast beer.

    5.0%£5.00 pint · £2.60 halfIn cans
  • Tap 4
    Best bitter, on handpull

    Pwll Bitter

    Cask, Thursday to Sunday. For the people who were here before the chapel was.

    3.9%£4.60 pint · £2.40 halfIn cans
  • Tap 5
    Hazy IPA

    Cwm Haze

    Citra and Mosaic, soft and juicy. This month's; a fortnight left in the tank.

    6.2%£5.60 pint · £2.90 halfIn cans
  • Tap 6
    Kettle sour with Rhondda rhubarb

    Rhubarb Sour

    The farm sends the rhubarb in June and it sells out in a fortnight. Last keg.

    4.0%£5.20 pint · £2.70 halfKeg only
  • Tap 7
    Smoked porter

    Smoke on the Taff

    Beechwood-smoked malt from Bamberg. Autumn only. Goes with the pizza.

    5.6%£5.40 pint · £2.80 halfIn cans
  • Tap 8
    Table beer

    Bwrdd

    The driving beer: all the hops, less of the strength. Gluten below 20ppm.

    2.8%£4.00 pint · £2.10 halfIn cans
  • Cans
    Imperial stout

    Black Twyn

    Cans only until December, when it goes on tap and gets rationed.

    7.8%£3.80 a canIn cans
  • Cans
    Alcohol-free lager, 0.5%

    Nos Da

    Cans only. Brewed, not de-alcoholised; tastes like the lager because it mostly is.

    0.5%£3.80 a canIn cans

Prices include VAT. Halves and thirds of everything; a flight of four thirds £9. Pwll Bitter is on handpull. The 0.5% lager and the imperial stout are in the shop fridge by the door.

The core four

Four beers all year, in cans and on the bar, so a pub can rely on them.

Twyn Pale is the one we sell most of; Graig Lager takes six weeks and is the beer for the people who do not like craft beer; Berw Stout is dry and roasty and wants a roast; Pwll Bitter is the cask one for the people who were here before the chapel was. The rest of the board rotates through whatever came out of the tanks that fortnight, which is why this page exists.

  • All four in 440ml cans at £3.80, twelve for £36
  • All the beers vegan; the lager and the table beer gluten below 20ppm
  • A 0.5% lager in cans, brewed not de-alcoholised
The beers, and how they are made
Hands holding malted barley and green hop cones over a brewing mash tun with steam rising

Questions about the beer

Is anything gluten-free or vegan?

All the beers are vegan (no finings). Graig Lager and the table beer are brewed with an enzyme that takes gluten below 20ppm and are labelled so; the rest are not.

Can I buy a keg for a party?

Yes: a 30-litre keg of the core range is £98 with a tap you return, and we lend a cooler jacket. Order by Wednesday for the weekend.

Saturday at two: the tour, a flight, and a can to take home.

Ninety minutes round the tanks with whoever brewed that week, malt and hops in your hands, a taste from a fermenter, then four thirds on the chapel floor. £25, twelve at most. The same form takes a mixed box, the gallery, or a trade order.

Book the tourWhat is on the bar