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Courtyard Tap (Courtyard Brewery)
| Beer (sort) | Average Score (sort) | No. Samples (sort) |
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| Courtyard - Groovy Gang - Golden Ale |  | 1 |
| Courtyard - IPA | Not Tried | 0 |
Visits Details
12 Sep 2026 (Hogan Sampling)
Fourth visit of the outing: Just one other customer in on my mid-afternoon arrival and so promptly served by the friendly barmaid with a choice of two real ales on. This two-roomed micropub was very much in the old-fashioned pub style with bare floorboards and beamed ceilings, lending it an extra charm. They also had a range of their local brewery’s ales in bottles and I went for a 50cl bottle-conditioned porter at the very reasonable price of £4.00 to take away.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Courtyard - Groovy Gang - Golden Ale | 4.20 | | Served with a very good head and lacing lasting superbly on this English Session Golden Ale brewed by The Courtyard Brewery, a microbrewery located in Gosfield, Halstead*, Essex, and which operates out of a historic mid-19th-century coach-house. A fruited first bite. A sweetened hoppiness rising from the locally sourced Essex-based hops. For this American-style golden ale, they are likely to be UK Cascade lending a punchy grapefruit and citrus note or two, First Gold behind its strong citrus, orange peel and marmalade flavours, and UK Chinook aiding a resinous, grapefruit rind bitterness present in the finish, alongside UK Harlequin or Jester, which are newer, celebrated British hop varieties bred to replicate American and New Zealand tropical hops. They are likely to be lending here hints of passion fruit and melon. An orange zest and woody marmalade flavouring for me pervading. A malty resinous hop bitterness putting in an appearance. A marmalade-infused fruitiness sailing out with a bitter grapefruit lingering. Served in very good nick. *Halstead is located roughly 2 miles east of the village of Gosfield and because so close, Halstead serves as the postal town for Gosfield’s addresses. |
| Courtyard - IPA | 3.80 | Not Tried |
About the Courtyard Tap
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The pub is found in Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2EU.
A micropub operated by Courtyard Brewery and converted in 2023 from a shop. The timber-framed premises has two small rooms and serves real ale by gravity from the Courtyard Brewery's range of beers. The brewery also has another taproom a few miles away in Halstead in Essex and declared by CAMRA as 2026 Rural Pub of the Year Runner Up. Courtyard Brewery uses a six-barrel plant housed in a 19th-century coach house in the north Essex village of Gosfield from research for a visit in September 2026 to their Sudbury taproom.
We have visited this pub once, seen 2 different beers and tried 1 of them.
Postcode: CO10 2EU