Cranborne Poacher
Badger Brewery, Hall and Woodhouse
- From:
- Badger Brewery, Hall and Woodhouse
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 5.7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.22 | pDev: 2.48%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 22, 2026
- Added:
- Dec 26, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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A local legend with a penchant for jewel toned treasures, the Cranborne Poacher lives a fruitful, yet elusive lifestyle. Some say you would only know its existence by the damson trees picked clean in Cranborne Chase.
Enigmatic, rich and full-bodied, this ruby ale hoards a cache of complex flavour with notes of wild fruits, liquorice and chocolate malt. What a find.
Enigmatic, rich and full-bodied, this ruby ale hoards a cache of complex flavour with notes of wild fruits, liquorice and chocolate malt. What a find.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by EmperorBevis from England
3.3/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.3/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Purchased as part of a three for £6.50 from a connivance store that was once Timperley Village's Bargain Booze, a much missed nearby ale resource
Pours a a dark cherry redwood coloured body with okay slightly off white head
smells like cranberry and raspberry juice aroma
syrupyred liquorice flavour, i taste adjuncts but it comes out okay
Mar 22, 2026Pours a a dark cherry redwood coloured body with okay slightly off white head
smells like cranberry and raspberry juice aroma
syrupyred liquorice flavour, i taste adjuncts but it comes out okay
Reviewed by hopley from Massachusetts
3.14/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
3.14/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Everything was nice about this beer other than the artificial cranberry (or plum) flavor added - if you like that kind of thing - give it a try but for me - this was pretty gross. Not undrinkable or anything, but just nothing I would ever choose and was ignorantly kinda misled by the labeling, and not knowing what a “damson” is. Damned Americans….my bad.
Dec 26, 2025
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