Eastgate Ale
Weetwood Ales in Tarporley, Cheshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.19
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Brewed for the centenary of Chester’s famous Eastgate clock. A Champion Beer of Cheshire, brewed exclusively with whole leaf Cascade hops for a fruity foretaste and distinctly hoppy flavour. Has a long sweet finish and a very large fan base.
Available in cask and 500ml bottles.
Available in cask and 500ml bottles.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Nose is cereal, slight caramel,grain. Taste is as promised, is honey, red currents, apples a little citrus leading to a short lightly bitter sweetish finish hoppy finish with a slight metallic note. Mouthfeel is slightly to carbonated. It’s largely good but the metallic note really lets it down. In a strange way it reminds me of the bitter my dad used to drink in the 80s....
Tried
on 11 Nov 2013
at 12:23
5.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Glowing copper coloured ale with a light bitterness. Has a fantastic creamy head and slightly thin in its texture. It has a light fruitness for its flavour, more evident in its aftertaste, but not so in aroma.
Tried
on 05 Apr 2013
at 08:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Two hand-pulled pints in The Cock Hotel Wellington on 20 April 2012. Golden brew with a good deep head of white bubbles on top: tried to stay the distance and almost managed too. The nose a mixed bag of smells: mild malts with a pleasant fruity hop content. The taste is also a good, interesting blend with again the malts coming first followed by the bittering hops with a more citrus hint than in the smell. Well balanced and semi-sweet in the after-taste, makes a change from the now almost normal blonde hoppy brews being brewed up and down the country.
Tried
on 19 Jul 2012
at 14:32
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Alexanders, Chester. Poured dark golden with a medium head. Aroma was honey, floral hops a some egg. Had a sweet malt start and a sweet floral finish. Slightly artificial honey aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Oct 2010
at 04:28
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask-conditioned at the Albion, Warrington, 21/1/09. Amber coloured with a decent white head. Fruity aroma of pears and citrus. Flavour began with sweet malts, before some red fruit, orange and a citrus hop kick to finish. A break from the ordinary and served in excellent condition.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jan 2009
at 17:28
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask, roadside tavern, Cheshire. Golden orange colour. Citrus, hoppy aroma. Taste is sweetish with more fruit .Very smooth with a nice dry lingering finish. A tidy session bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2008
at 06:55
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Church Inn, Ludlow, Salop, 10-03-07. Pours an amber colour and has a sweet malty nose which pretty much gave me an indication of what this might taste like. Tasted very nice if a tad safe and was simple, malty, sweet, a touch of citrusy hoppiness and very quaffable.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Mar 2007
at 11:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask (gravity dispense), St Albans Beer Festival 2005. Orange/copper colour. Really nice hop nose with some complex malt. Sweet candy sugar and then good dry finish with a touch of sweetness.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Oct 2005
at 11:00