Guardsman
Windsor & Eton Brewery in Windsor, Berkshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.28
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As the first new beer to be brewed in Windsor for nearly 80 years GUARDSMAN is how we think every Best Bitter should taste. Guardsman is a lovely copper-coloured session strength ale with a tangy taste and a really fresh hop finish. It is brewed with premium Maris Otter pale malt and a blend of Pilgrim, Styrian Golding and Fuggles hops.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured a copper golden with a white frothy head. Aroma is malty, caramel, bready. Taste is nice bitter forward, malty, bready, caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2026
at 02:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Pours copper with a lacing white head. Aroma: dried fruits, caramel and bread. Taste: bready malts, caramel and a light toffee touch.
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Tried
from Cask
at
Windsor and Eton Brewery
on 20 May 2025
at 10:56
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From cask at The Crown Rivers, Heathrow. Malty aroma with bread, hoppy notes, dough, hints of nuts and caramel. Some herbal notes with leaves. Flavour is mild sweet and bitter. Body is light. Thin but kinda enjoyable Bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Feb 2025
at 12:17
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Chestnut pour with a small white head; aroma is malt, grain and berries. Taste is quite similar. Not bad at all
Tried
on 18 May 2024
at 17:19
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask. Rich amber beer with a dark cream head. Light citrus aroma. Citrus and light malt flavor. Medium bodied. Citrus and light malt linger.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Feb 2024
at 18:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from Co-op, Chobham. Aroma is fruity, berries. A vinous edge. Opaque brown. Thin frothy white head. The flava replicates the aroma... berries. Even vma vinous element. Light. Thin. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent finish. Much more interesting than I was expecting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2023
at 19:33
18/10/2012. CROSS KEYS, 31 Endell Street, LONDON, WC2, England
Tried
on 20 Feb 2023
at 06:47
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Moon Under Water, Wolverhampton. Pours “bitter brown” with a medium sized off-white head and good lacing. The aroma has malts and cream. Malts again to the fore in the mouth, along with autumn fruits and hints of nuts and ginger. A little lemongrass and citrus as well. This is OK, but somewhat bland.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Feb 2023
at 22:25
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at the Greyhound, Finchampstead, with, Barbara, Peter and Mariska, 18th March 22. Pours a chestnut brown. Aroma is malty, caramel. Taste is bitter, malty, Caramel, quite standard stuff
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Mar 2022
at 17:01
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
[50cl bottle from the Windsor Farm Shop] A bright golden amber pour with a fast fading white head; sweet barley aroma; fruity caramel taste; then a light bitterness with a touch of spice and a hedgerow finish.
Earlier Rating: 9/11/2010 Total Score: 3.2
Cask at the Two Brewers, Park Street, Windsor. Amber gold with a dense cream head; malty aroma; malty taste with orange fruit and crisp apples; and a dry lightly bitter finish. Could do with more assertive hops.
Earlier Rating: 9/11/2010 Total Score: 3.2
Cask at the Two Brewers, Park Street, Windsor. Amber gold with a dense cream head; malty aroma; malty taste with orange fruit and crisp apples; and a dry lightly bitter finish. Could do with more assertive hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2021
at 23:37