Red Breast (Bottle)
(Batch of Red Breast)
Jennings (Marston's) in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Winter Out of Production|
Score
6.18
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Daniel Tomlinson - thanks! Creamy tan head stayed on a reddish brown still body. Roasted & nutty aroma. Medium bodied, sharp on the tongue with smooth back. Malt, nutty, pepper, roast, berry & tea tastes. Nice one!
Olut (21769) reviewed Red Breast (Bottle) from Jennings (Marston's) 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Last Drop, Halifax. Copper-brown with a small head. Dry tasting winter ale with some malty-sweet dark fruit flavours.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle - Deep russet body, thin white head. Nose is a little nondescript, some maltiness, some caramel, a bit of nuttiness. Taste picks up a little, some bitterness, a bit of toffee, some sour fruits, with a long bitter finish. Not bad really.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Brown 500ml bottle best before Nov 2007, drank March 2007. Poured into a sleeve pint glass. Mahogany brown with a red Teak hue, good sparkle to it. Off white head, clings to glass side and stays. Toffee and burnt malts converge to give a heavy bitter sweet aroma. Dry and fairly bitter taste, with the burnt flavour of the malts taking over from the toffee in the aroma. Watery mouthfeel, some bitterness stays otherwise very poor. I have had this in cask form and thought it a very good beer, this bottle version is OK, but I prefer the cask.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
23rd October 2008. Clear red brown beer with a light cream coloured head. Light fruity start - a little malty nuttyness. Semi dry finish which has a hop bitterness that blooms but doesn’t overwhelm. Crisp.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Red Breast (Bottle) from Jennings (Marston's) 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark red-brown colour. Aroma of roasted malts. Flavour is rather bitterbut has enough complexity of malt and hop to carry it off. Overall a nice bitter with a good malt flavour.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Red Breast (Bottle) from Jennings (Marston's) 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3
a Ruby coloured ale, thats both sweet and bitter bitter, with a slightly bitter linger .
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours a reddish copper colour with an off-white head; the aroma reminds me of toffee apples; the taste is dominated by roasted malt with a metallic bitter aftertaste.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Red Breast (Bottle) from Jennings (Marston's) 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle from Morrison’s. Brown/chestnut colour with thin beige head. Good malt hop aroma. The hops in fact are really quite intense. Red/black fruits in the mix there with some toffee as well. Touch of yeast too. Good nose, not too hot in the middle and then this aggressive hop finish. Fine. Would probably have the cask version if I saw it.