McMullen Brewery
The McMullen family has brewed in Hertford since 1827, the first three years somewhat bootleg until the Beerhouse Act of 1830. The brewing water has come from a chalk aquifer 140 feet below the brewery since 1891, the malt from French & Jupps five miles down the river. Today a small modern brewhouse at Old Cross, designed by Head Brewer Chris Evans, makes cask and kegged beers, from heritage ales like AK to the newer Rivertown range, for a pub estate of almost 100 houses.
Beers by McMullen Brewery
13 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
McMullen Brewery brew a broad range across 6 style families.
Across these 13 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 McMullen Brewery
The McMullen family has brewed in Hertford since 1827, the first three years somewhat bootleg until the Beerhouse Act of 1830. The brewing water has come from a chalk aquifer 140 feet below the brewery since 1891, the malt from French & Jupps five miles down the river. Today a small modern brewhouse at Old Cross, designed by Head Brewer Chris Evans, makes cask and kegged beers, from heritage ales like AK to the newer Rivertown range, for a pub estate of almost 100 houses.
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