Best Bitter
Palmers in Bridport, Dorset, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.11
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A full-drinking, well-balanced beer with a delicious hop character, brewed with classic English malted barley.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask at the New Inn, Cerne Abbas, 25/10/15. Clear copper with a well appointed light beige covering that retains well. Nose is caramel, light orchard fruit, floral notes. Taste comprises toffee, light vanilla, earthy, biscuit malt. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with light bitterness. Ok bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Oct 2015
at 08:37
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
part of my 2013 backlog, and drunk in the new Inn Cerne Abbas, Dorset. Amber colour with a white head. Aroma has fruit and nut and caramel, the taste has this too. very easy to drink.
Tried
on 01 Jan 2015
at 12:53
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at a random pub in Dorset. It pours deep copper with a medium white head. The nose is wood, leather, varnish and twig. The taste is bitter, earthy, wood, leather, light spice, varnish, chewy malt and a touch of alcohol with a dry finish. Medium body, soft carbonation and chewy mouth-feel. Fairly standard best bitter. OK.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Jul 2014
at 02:16
6/10
Tried
on 25 Mar 2014
at 11:42
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hand-pulled half-pint in The Lamb & Flag, Oxford on 23 Nov 13. Light amber body, bright and clan, on top an off-white coating of tight bubbles. No huge aroma, some hints of fruit and nuts, maybe a hop smell here and there, but overall not much. The taste was of a typical UK session Bitter: malts win the flavour battle over the hops, but only just with the hops giving a good dry and bitter base for the malts to show their medium sweetness. Well balanced and easy to drink: this isn’t going to test your senses too greatly but it is a fine example of a UK Bitter.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2013
at 04:11
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of caramel and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and caramel, as well as a touch of butterscotch. This was presented as a traditional IPA - which is plainly wrong, some bartenders should study their beerstyles and beer history a lot more.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2011
at 00:41
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask@Lamb And Flag, Oxford. Amber colour, small head. Aroma is wood, fruits, some floral notes as well as mild spicyness. Flavour is caramel malts, some earth, mild fruity and floral hops.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Jul 2011
at 03:49
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (Wellington Arms, Southampton) - Amber in colour. Malty aroma with hints of dried fruit and caramel. Malty and fruity taste with notes of dried fruit, nuts and toffee.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jun 2010
at 08:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
As Palmer IPA ... at cropredy ... amber ... sweet toffeenose ... sweet toffee malt ... cream ... tiny touch metalic.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2009
at 03:00
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ Bon Accord, 153 North Street, Glasgow G3 7DA, Scotland.Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, light to moderate hoppy, orange, toffee nad butter notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090410]
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Jun 2009
at 02:06