Top Notch
Brains in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.27
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madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Top Notch from Brains 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
4th November 2008. Clear brown beer, small white head. Tangy malt and fruit. Caramel, orange and a trace of grapefruit. Gives way to a dry finish where cinnamon, banana and bubblegum notes make themselves known at the very end.
Anders37 (30296) reviewed Top Notch from Brains 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask @ JDW, Victoria SW1. Pours a clear amber color with a small creamy off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma with some hoppy hints. Fruity malty spicy caramel flavor with some hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish with some hoppy hints.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Top Notch from Brains 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
cask at JDW edinburgh ...red copper ... thick loose white head ... fruity toffee light licorice ... nice fruity caramel toffee... light spice ...
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Top Notch from Brains 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Cask handpull at Crosse Keys, London. Chestnut, lasting thin beige head. Its a malty chalky bitter. Pretty awful. Not a big fan of Brains and this hasnt changed my mind.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Top Notch from Brains 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Cask Conditioned at J.D. Wetherspoon - Shakespear´s Head, London
Beautiful amber color, thin creamy head. Quite simple Bitter, the caramel flavor shows also a soapy side, light apples and very light cookie touch. Correct bitterness. Easy.
yespr (55501) reviewed Top Notch from Brains 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
From cask at Tennents. Pours clear and golden brown to deep amber with a small and creamy dense and light tan head. Aroma is mild caramel malty. Vague vanilla like flavoured to a dry malty base flavour. Light bitterness showing through. Mild and dry caramelish finish with a mild vanilla like note.
Fin (18365) reviewed Top Notch from Brains 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at The Penny Black, JDW Bicester, Oxon . Pours chestnut brown with reddy hue and white head Toffee apples and brambles combine in the mouth with a fruity and dry finish, also quite tangy. It leaves a bitter fruity furriness in the mouth but ts the dryness that’s most telling.
wheresthepath (3674) reviewed Top Notch from Brains 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
[gravity cask at Back of Beyond, Reading] Chestnut, small white head. Deep, rich, earthy, malty, woody bitter. One of the better efforts from Brains. c7
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Top Notch from Brains 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Gravity dispensed cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Dark copper with a thin white head; woodland aroma of damp leafs; woody flavour with a touch of licorice; thin to start, then becoming quite full with an oily sweetness, undercut by an earthy bitterness. Interesting with unusual flavours.