Original Bitter (Cask)
(Batch of Original Bitter (4.2%))
Davenports Beer in Smethwick, West Midlands, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.94
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A blend of pale and crystal malts, supplemented with torrefied wheat and no. 3 invert block sugar. Bitterness is provided by First Gold, Cascade and Styrian Golding hops.
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5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Half at Bulls Head, Birmingham. Pours an amber with small consistent beige head. Taste is malty, raisin, a bit dishwater. Good bitterness but that's about it. Very mediocre.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask at Butlers Bell, Stafford (at 4.2%). Pours golden amber with a small scummy off-white head and good lacing. Hops are the mainstay of the aroma, giving both fruity tones and bitterness. In the mouth it starts off with malts, traditional hops and dried fruit. After a while it becomes quite bitter with this lasting into the slightly dry finish. Overall this is a reasonable bitter – but somewhat boring.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 May 2024
at 21:32
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
På GBBF Winter 2020 i Birmingham. Spandert av BeerViking. Mørk gylden. Lett fruktaroma. Smaken tørket frukt. Litt sherrypreg. Tørr avslutning.
Tried
on 04 Feb 2020
at 15:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask ale, 4.2 % abv. half-pint at Postal Order (JDW). A clear amber-ruby body, ring to the rim of the surface, spotty lacing. Moderate aroma of biscuit. Mixed taste of caramel malts and marmalade. Mid-dry ending, more sweet than bitter. Accepted. (Worcester 09.07.2018).
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jul 2018
at 09:51
4.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask at The Bulls Head, Birmingham. Clear dark amber with a small cream head. Aroma of toffee, malt, fudge, licorice notes, hair spray and caramel. Flavour is above moderate sweet and moderate bitter. Light medium bodied with very soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Dec 2016
at 14:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On tap at the Felix holt, Nuneaton. Amber colour with mid white head. Aroma light fruit and malt. Taste slight caramel with a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Oct 2016
at 14:00
6/10
Tried
on 23 Oct 2015
at 15:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gravity cask at the Walsall Camra, beer festival 2015. Poured a crystal clear medium amber with a bubbly white head. The aroma is light hop, light creamy malt. The flavour is moderate bitter with a smooth malt, woody hop bitter palate. Light bodied with soft carbonation. A decent session bitter and a real blast from the past!
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Apr 2015
at 17:16
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Market Porter, London
Light amber color. Earthy malt aroma. Mellow malty taste, ordinary bitterness, some aromatic hop but not impressive.
Light amber color. Earthy malt aroma. Mellow malty taste, ordinary bitterness, some aromatic hop but not impressive.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Dec 2005
at 14:06
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
[Cask at Volunteers Arms, GBBF, 2004] A hazy amber beer with no head. The aroma is of diacethyl - as if it hasn’t finished fermenting. The flavor is yesty and like unfermented wort, though with a slight bitter or more dry finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Apr 2005
at 15:12