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Humber Doucy Brewing Co.

Stowmarket, Suffolk, England

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Score

3.06/ 5

Popularity

Barely rated

Beers tracked

17

Humber Doucy Brewing Co. is a brewery in Stowmarket, Suffolk, England. We grade it Limited, with a score of 3.06 out of 5 on the beer it brews — #16 in Suffolk. Of the 17 beers we track, 38% are Pale Ale and 32% Amber Ale.

Ranked

Suffolk
#16
England
#862
Worldwide
#17,499

About Humber Doucy Brewing Co.

They’re meandering, relaxing, and a little bit shady – like an afternoon under oak beams. Or like Humber Doucy Lane, from which we take our name: modern Ipswich houses on one side, the countryside on the other. It’s named for the ‘refreshing shade’ (‘ombre douce’) found there by Napoleonic War prisoners relaxing after their labours. Or is it? Like a lot of the mardles you’ll hear in a Suffolk pub, that one is … debatable. Some say it’s named for The Humber Doucy, a dance beloved by peasants and gentlemen alike between the wars. Or The Humble Deuce, a gambler’s pub that stood on the Martlesham road – until it was burned to the ground by a cheated card shark. Or even that it comes from the legendary ‘Amber Dais’, an Anglo-Saxon treasure worth untold riches, said to be buried somewhere north of Ipswich. Of a more certain provenance is our beer. Humber Doucy Brewing founder John Ridealgh comes by the trade honestly. As a child, he went to survey the county’s barley fields with his father Alan, a Stowmarket maltster. So when John came of age, it seemed as natural to make beer as to drink it. After a few years of running Ipswich’s premier homebrew shop, John set up Humber Doucy with a simple idea: make beer that understands the Suffolk pub tradition. And he’s succeeded, by brewing great-tasting beers that combine modern hops with traditional Suffolk barley.

What they brew

  • Pale Ale38%
  • Amber Ale32%
  • Stout / Porter21%
  • Saison8%
  • Other1%

How their beers score

Every beer we track from Humber Doucy Brewing Co., grouped by score.

  • 5.0
  • 4.5
  • 4.0
  • 3.58
  • 3.01
  • 2.5
  • 2.0
  • 1.5
  • 1.0
  • 0.5

Find them

Address
Broad Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk
Website
humberdoucybrew.co
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