Arbor Ales
Arbor Ales was founded in 2007 by Jon Comer and Megan Oliver, who started brewing behind the Old Tavern in Stapleton before moving to Kingswood a year later and then to the current site on Easton Road in the Easton district of Bristol. The brewery is still controlled by its two founders and produces around a million litres a year. Its beers are unfiltered and unfined, hop-led pale ales and IPAs make up most of the range, joined by stouts, a few lagers, fruited sours and several gluten-free beers. Since 2018 the cans have held a full British pint.
Beers by Arbor Ales
24 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Arbor Ales brew a broad range across 6 style families.
Across these 24 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
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About Arbor Ales
Arbor Ales was founded in 2007 by Jon Comer and Megan Oliver, who started brewing behind the Old Tavern in Stapleton before moving to Kingswood a year later and then to the current site on Easton Road in the Easton district of Bristol. The brewery is still controlled by its two founders and produces around a million litres a year. Its beers are unfiltered and unfined, hop-led pale ales and IPAs make up most of the range, joined by stouts, a few lagers, fruited sours and several gluten-free beers. Since 2018 the cans have held a full British pint.
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