Previously known as Henry’s Original IPA
Our local bitter, extremely popular in Devizes and district and available throughout the Wadworth trading area - light, refreshing and sessionable.
An aroma of gentle malt with slight hoppiness combines with a good balance of flavours on palate, maltiness gradually dominating. There is a long-lasting after taste to match which eventually becomes biscuity.
Ingredients: 92% pale malt, 6% crystal malt and 2% cane sugar. The bitterness units of 20-22 are obtained from Fuggles hops (80% of total) in the copper and Goldings hops (20%) on the hop back plates. Colour rating is 22.
Our local bitter, extremely popular in Devizes and district and available throughout the Wadworth trading area - light, refreshing and sessionable.
An aroma of gentle malt with slight hoppiness combines with a good balance of flavours on palate, maltiness gradually dominating. There is a long-lasting after taste to match which eventually becomes biscuity.
Ingredients: 92% pale malt, 6% crystal malt and 2% cane sugar. The bitterness units of 20-22 are obtained from Fuggles hops (80% of total) in the copper and Goldings hops (20%) on the hop back plates. Colour rating is 22.
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5.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
3.3.15 Cask at the Bell, Wendens Ambo. The sulphur in the taste and aroma were so intense and unpleasant that I felt that I would need to knock it down a few notches.
Cask @ Cricketers Arms, Bedford. Noncommittal golden brown, decent full white head. Light aroma. Bit of malt and citrus notes with sulphur astringency. Taste takes a while to kick in, a decent sour bitterness followed by a bittersweet hoppy aftertaste. Good but not too distinct from other low strength bitters (it goes without saying that this is not an IPA).
Cask @ Cricketers Arms, Bedford. Noncommittal golden brown, decent full white head. Light aroma. Bit of malt and citrus notes with sulphur astringency. Taste takes a while to kick in, a decent sour bitterness followed by a bittersweet hoppy aftertaste. Good but not too distinct from other low strength bitters (it goes without saying that this is not an IPA).
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2015
at 00:00
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at The Wig and Quill, Salisbury, Wilts. A golden/amber coloured pour with a thin white head on top. Hoppy, malty aroma. Tastes vaguely hoppy, malty, fruity. Bland and lacking complexity.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Feb 2014
at 01:38
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Bree Louise. Slightly hazy amber/golden with no head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hop and a little caramel. Flavour is malt, fruit, caramel, hop, little citrus, medium sweet and a little bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Oct 2013
at 00:21
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Cask @ Bree Louise, London. Hazy amber without head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and light grainy. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. Thin. 041013
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Oct 2013
at 11:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Now 3.5%ABV: hand-pulled half-pint at the 34th Telford Beer Festival (Crown Inn, Oakengates) on 4 May 2013. Clear amber/golden body with a thin white head of bubbles on top. Malty for an IPA, in both the nose and mouth with just a hint of floral hops to stop it being an overly sweet smelling and tasting beer. Biscuit/bread more than sweeter molasses, the beer having a pleasant semi-bitter feel throughout. An ideal starter, it set my taste buds up nicely for the Mild and dark beer attack I was about to begin.
Tried
on 05 May 2013
at 06:39
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Great Queen Street, London. Pours clear good with a soft, white foam head. Very simple, classic bitter. Some lightly toasted bread, mellow leafy bitterness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Good condition. Mild sweet finish, bready malts, light grains and leaves. Pleasant.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Jan 2013
at 10:50
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Golden amber in colour with a thin white head. Hoppy aroma. Thin but creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts giving a chewy digestive biscuit flavour instead of the full blown citric notes expected from an IPA - a pleasant surprise indeed! Raisin fruit notes evident and slight hop resin dryness in the balanced finish.
Tried
on 17 Sep 2012
at 04:42
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Goat and Tricycle, Bournemourh. Poured a clear golden brown with a light frothy head but bags of lace. No real aroma of note. The flavour is all about the malt with just a hint of bitterness that lingers for a while on the palate. A very drinkable beer it must be said, but not the kind of IPA that I was expecting. A very good session ale though. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Sep 2012
at 14:02
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Half at the Master Builder, West End. Pours clear amber with a small white head. Light malt and hoppy aroma with a little caramel. Same in flavour, light sweet and light bitter. Drinkable but thin bodied and not very exciting.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2012
at 02:42
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@The Alexandra Tavern, Norwich. Amber/pale copper colour with a small white head. Aroma is sweet malts, floral hops, some caramel and mild resiny notes. Flavour is fruity, wooden, floral and herbal. Quite sweet in the finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Dec 2011
at 11:23