Kirkstall Brewery
Leeds brewery founded by Steve Holt that began brewing in 2011 near the site of the former Kirkstall Brewery Company, which brewed on the River Aire from 1833 to 1983; the Cistercian monks of Kirkstall Abbey brewed here from 1152. Before that the team imported American craft beer, Sierra Nevada among it from 2003. Since 2016 it brews at 100 Kirkstall Road on a 50 hl brewhouse, keeping the original 8 bbl kit for specials and the historic Prize Ales. It runs several Leeds pubs, including The Tetley since 2024.
Beers by Kirkstall Brewery
30 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Kirkstall Brewery brew a broad range across 8 style families.
Across these 30 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:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
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.
Dissolution
Their beers place in the Top 45% of the catalogue on average, across 2 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Kirkstall Brewery
Leeds brewery founded by Steve Holt that began brewing in 2011 near the site of the former Kirkstall Brewery Company, which brewed on the River Aire from 1833 to 1983; the Cistercian monks of Kirkstall Abbey brewed here from 1152. Before that the team imported American craft beer, Sierra Nevada among it from 2003. Since 2016 it brews at 100 Kirkstall Road on a 50 hl brewhouse, keeping the original 8 bbl kit for specials and the historic Prize Ales. It runs several Leeds pubs, including The Tetley since 2024.
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