Cooking
Grainstore Brewery in Oakham, Rutland, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.18
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Cooking is a smooth, full flavoured golden bitter which drinks better than its gravity, with a bitter-sweet balance and drinkability, essential in a true session beer.
With its DNA dating back to the days of Ruddles Best, once brewed in Langham just two miles away, Cooking was the first beer produced at The Grainstore Brewery and is still a firm favourite amongst the local cask ale drinkers and landlords.
It is a classic British Pale Ale brewed using Maris Otter and the Kings of British Hops, Challenger and Fuggles.
With its DNA dating back to the days of Ruddles Best, once brewed in Langham just two miles away, Cooking was the first beer produced at The Grainstore Brewery and is still a firm favourite amongst the local cask ale drinkers and landlords.
It is a classic British Pale Ale brewed using Maris Otter and the Kings of British Hops, Challenger and Fuggles.
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5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask @ Grainstore, Oakham. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and toffee. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 161018
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2018
at 12:35
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the brewery... Deep brown... Small off white head... Soft caramel woody toffee fruit malt... Soft toffee malts.. Light bitter fruits
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Aug 2018
at 18:28
6/10
Tried
on 01 Feb 2018
at 15:08
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask at the source. Clear golden amber color, medium white head. Aroma is lightly floral. Taste is lightly bitter. Pretty light.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2015
at 07:45
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask @ Saxon Crown, Corby. Clear golden with a thin head. Bitter with a very palatable bitterness. It’s light tasting with its malt and has a touch of sweet fruit in its nose.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Jul 2015
at 16:38
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pint at the Lazy Otter, Stretham near Ely. Golden brown, a wee bit hazy, small head but considerable lacing. Smells not up to much: vaguely floral with some light apricot. The taste is an improvement, a pleasant tender juicy bittersweet, changing fairly quickly to a more pronounced bitter in the finish. Not spectacular but certainly very drinkable.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2015
at 13:06
5/10
Tried
on 11 Jul 2014
at 15:42
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pint in the Brewpub on 9th June 2014. I’m driving, so a Cooking Bitter is the beer of necessity rather than choice. Anyway it comes a nice amber golden colour and has a caramel/malty lead in both the aroma and taste. In the background hops work away to give a slight bitterness and balance to a pleasant session ale that went well with my ’Pulled Pork’ meal I had with it.
Tried
on 09 Jun 2014
at 21:30
6/10
Tried
on 05 Apr 2014
at 08:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Golden amber. Aroma of light hop. Taste is malty-caramel, light hop but decent dryness in the finish. Good basic bitter.
Tried
on 20 Feb 2014
at 14:16