Fathom, beer review

Fathom is a dark ale from a homespun brewery just outside of Glasgow with plenty of personality, says Ray Philp

Published 8th Mar 2015
Updated 24 th Mar 2015

Brewery: Jaw Brew
Style: Stout/Dark Ale
ABV: 4.0%

Jaw Brew, a Hillington-based brewery a couple months short of its first birthday, is run by husband-and-wife team Mark and Allison Hazell. Born from a passion for home brewing and a throw of the dice (Mark Hazell was made redundant from his job at an IT firm at the beginning of last year), Jaw Brew is slowly making its way into pubs and specialist retailers. Mostly stocked in the greater Glasgow region, the brewery is reaching eastwards via a couple of places in central Scotland and a sole retailer in Edinburgh. Fathom is the duo’s third and newest beer, following Drop, a hoppy pale ale, and Drift, a crisper bottle that foregrounds its malt content a little more.

Jaw Brew’s Fathom is a flat and smooth ale with plenty of personality - but its manner is understated, even tactile once it swishes around in your mouth. The Hillington brewery dark liquid - oily in colour, but not quite so viscous - is not the stuffy concoction its appearance might suggest and its chocolatey colour encourages you to think of it as being rather sweet. So long as you don’t refrigerate it (it takes away a lot of the beer’s earthy flavours) it serves as an excellent companion that can be supped slowly, to better savour its silkiness, and at reasonable length.

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Ray Philp has been at the Scotsman since 2011. Since then, he has written widely about music in magazines such as Red Bull Music Academy Magazine and Resident Advisor, and was a former editor and regular contributor at The Skinny magazine.
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