Boddingtons Draught Bitter
(has 1 batch)
Samlesbury in Preston, Lancashire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
4.99
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5.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Very pleased to see this, a real throwback. Hand-pulled half-pint in Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, Oakengates on 9th July 2026. All a bit bland and uninteresting to be honest, shame really as I have happy memories of this beer.
Tried
from Cask
at
Old Fighting Cocks
on 09 Jul 2026
at 17:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at The Griffin, Carlisle. It pours clear blonde with a reasonable white head. The aroma is damp spent grain, toasty, biscuit, oatcake, fragrant, grass and leafiness. The taste is dry and snappy, upfront, fair rawness/ tangy, grassy, leafy, floral, grain, biscuit, porridge and dry wood. Average body and fine supportive carbonation. Was hoping for a bit more given the history and who is brewing it. Fair.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Griffin
on 24 Jun 2026
at 13:11
5.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Handpull cask at the Circus Tavern, Manchester. Mid-gold, slightly bronze, clear with a smallish even off-white head. Malty and slightly metallic aroma, a hint of sulphur. Taste is fairly sweet, some caramel and toffee, with a bit of bitter hite-back at the finish. Light body with soft carbonation. Pretty ho-hum.
Tried
from Cask
at
Circus Tavern (Tetley's)
on 18 Jun 2026
at 15:40
5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 4.5
Flavor 4.5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Cream of Manchester my ****! Golden amber with a frothy white head and a hop malt aroma. Light bodied with just a hint of creaminess, sweet cereal malt, a hint of hop bitterness and a dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2026
at 16:00
6.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried
on 16 May 2026
at 17:55
6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried
from Cask
at
The Cock
on 28 Mar 2026
at 20:38
4.5/10
It is a long time since I had proper Boddington's but this didn't taste as I remember it. Boddies was always a very bitter Bitter, this was more like John Willie Lees Bitter. Pint in The Crown, Didsbury.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Mar 2026
at 19:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Lee's boddings ... golden amber ..thin white lacing ..soft bready floral yeast nose . .. sot bready mslts ...soft fruity yeasty finish
Tried
on 30 Nov 2025
at 14:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at The Star & Garter, Bromley. Nose is banana,digestive biscuit, peach. Taste is the first two of the above. Doesn't have the bitterness of the original. Quite pleasant though.
Tried
from Cask
at
Star & Garter
on 20 Sep 2025
at 15:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Cask at White Lion, Stockport. Pours bright copper with a small almost white scummy head and good lacing. The aroma is quite simply bitter hops. In the mouth in is superficially sweet but with underlying bitterness. Flavour has bitter hops and corn with some underlying citrus initially (though this fades). Hints of honey and ginger later. Finish is quite bitter. This is decent – a good attempt as recreating the much missed classic.
Tried
from Cask
at
White Lion Coaching House
on 12 Sep 2025
at 12:40