Bighorn

Black Sheep Brewery in Masham, North Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular

Score

6.34

ABV: 4.5%

IBU: -

Ticks: 15

Introducing Bighorn: the first seasonal brew developed in our micro-brewery for full UK distribution.

The beer is made from a mixture of UK and American hops, taking its name from a breed of sheep found in the Rocky Mountains.

A full-flavoured Anglo American IPA (4.5% abv) featuring both UK and American hops. It’s very different to anything else we’ve brewed. It has floral aroma, citrus fruit, raisins and malt; an initially sweet taste followed by complex fruitiness and a dry, bitter finish.

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eurosoba (18570) ticked Bighorn from Black Sheep Brewery 3 years ago

21/03/2016. ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 147-153 High Street, EPSOM, Surrey, England (WETHERSPOONS)

Tried on 10 Nov 2022 at 10:49

Downender (11275) reviewed Bighorn from Black Sheep Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol March 2016. Amber in colour, with a slight, white, head. Aroma of sweetish, hedgerow fruits, with a touch of leafy hop. Flavour had sweetish, biscuity, malts, more fruit and a moderately bitter finish. Fine.

Tried from Cask on 28 Mar 2016 at 11:36

4.9

minutemat (16258) reviewed Bighorn from Black Sheep Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Cask @ JDW Shrewsbury Hotel, Shrewsbury. Pours gold with off-white head. Malt aroma. Lightly sweet fruitiness tucked behind a biscuity malt character. Light bitter finish. Ok-ish.

Tried from Cask on 21 Mar 2016 at 16:15

6.2

allmyvinyl (21071) reviewed Bighorn from Black Sheep Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at the White Lady. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of light lime, cereal. Taste is more of the same. Thin finish, slight mineral bite.

Tried from Cask on 18 Mar 2016 at 12:20

6.5

McCash (16021) reviewed Bighorn from Black Sheep Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

On cask up the White Lady. Appearance - golden with a nice creamy head. Nose - lemon and pale malt. Taste - orange or lime. Dry astringent pithy finish. Palate - light to medium bodied with a creamy texture and a long dry finish. Overall - it grows on me. A bit astringent.

Tried from Cask on 18 Mar 2016 at 06:08

6.8

berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Bighorn from Black Sheep Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Old Manor (JDW), Bracknell. Golden amber with a tight cream head; malty aroma with some bitter herbal hops; a soft grainy body with a bitter orange marmalade taste; and then a dry finish with more marmalade. Pretty good.

Tried from Cask on 16 Mar 2016 at 09:06

5.6

Fergus (31329) reviewed Bighorn from Black Sheep Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask handpull at the crosse keys. Mid orange / amber coloured pour witja lasting thin off white head. Aroma is subdued nutty malts, little spicy English hop, Yorkshire yeast. Flavour is composed of grassy hop matter, nutty malts, considerable English yeast esters. Harsh bitter hops. Palate is medium to low bodied, decent cask condition, slightly grainy. OK. Lingering leafy vegetal hop.

Tried from Cask on 14 Mar 2016 at 14:56

6.6

BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Bighorn from Black Sheep Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask half-pint in my local Wetherspoons on 10th March 2016. Clean amber pour, the head a full off-white crown that stayed around. Malty lead in both the nose and taste with the hops coming through later in the aroma and flavour to give a decent and balanced brew that had a slight fruity undertone and a mildly bitter finish.

Tried from Cask on 14 Mar 2016 at 01:36

Stuu (34525) reviewed Bighorn from Black Sheep Brewery 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Cask at Victoria station spoons. Pours clear amber, nose is toffee, floral, taste is similar, dry finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Bighorn on 14 Mar 2016 at 07:51 - Score: 5. Original review text: Cask at Victoria station spoons. Pours clear amber, nose is toffee, floral, taste is similar, dry finish.

Tried from Cask on 09 Mar 2016 at 15:18

6.4

CraftBeerNick (11005) reviewed Bighorn from Black Sheep Brewery 11 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at Inn on Beach, Hayling Island, 18th April 14. Hoppy bitter, some sour notes, good malting. Advertised as an IPA, which of course it is not, none the less a nice bitter

Tried from Cask on 18 Apr 2014 at 10:14