Stancill Barnsley Bitter

Tasting Summary

These comments are the opinion of the individual reviewer and represent what they thought of the beer on a particular day in a particular pub. If a review is less favourable, it may be because the beer suffered somewhere in the supply chain between them and the brewery.

The River Ale House, East Greenwich, Greater London

Who	Score	When	Notes
Philip Pirrip		05 Oct 2025	Held good head and lacing
Hogan Sampling		05 Oct 2025	Second night on for this Sheffield bitter, brewed north of the city, and in tip-top condition and following on from the evening before. Still sporting all that head and lacing and staying the course. A very dry bitter first hit. A dry hoppy bitterness rising. A malty note or two competing with the fruitiness from its mix of UK hops: First Gold, Fuggles and Golding. It was continuing to be a very quaffable brew and apparently less than 20 pints remained when I enquired after my second pint. I could only stick with it as it was so moreish and without doubt one of the best bitters for me this year!
Hogan Sampling		04 Oct 2025	Fresh on and sporting very good head and lacing and lasting throughout on this Sheffield bitter, brewed north of the city. A very dry bitter first bite. A hoppy bitterness rising care of its UK hops, First Gold, Fuggles and Golding, and lending it a pleasantly hoppy fruited note or two. A subtle maltiness also in on the mix. This brew followed the original Oakwell Brewery recipe aided by its surviving yeast strain. Barnsley Bitter won Silver Champion Beer of Sheffield in Sheffield’s Steel City Beer & Cider Festival in 2022. Stancill set up brewing in 2014 having rescued the kit and the cherished Barnsley bitter following the closure in 2013 of Barnsley's Oakwell Brewery. Certainly a very moreish brew and so stuck firmly to it as for me one this year's all-time best bitters!

Charters, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Who	Score	When	Notes
Magnus Greel		14 Jul 2023	Probably the benchmark of what a traditional English bitter should be!

The Victoria Hotel, Beeston, Nottinghamshire

Who	Score	When	Notes
ChrisE		16 Jun 2018	A good traditional copper coloured bitter, I had more than one pint of this.

Cask Pub & Kitchen, Pimlico, Central London

The Corner Pin, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Who	Score	When	Notes
Philip Pirrip		24 Jul 2017	Rather on the sweet side perhaps normal for the style

Fighting Cock, Bradford, West Yorkshire

The Head of Steam, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

The Gate House, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Who	Score	When	Notes
Stephen Harris		13 Oct 2014	Amber-coloured and a bit cloudy. A ‘malt forward’ bitter.

Wetherspoons (also known as Station), Leeds, West Yorkshire