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Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.54
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A sweet malty beer with lots of toffee & caramel notes from the pale and crystal malts. Fresh dry hop taste comes from the challenger and goldings which also give a satisfying easy drinking bitter finish.
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5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Keg at Station Bar, just on the north side of the city centre of Glasgow. Dark clear amber with a thick creamy-frothy head. Smooth fairly dense best bitter, towards the lower end of the bitterness scale.
Tried
from Draft
at
Station Bar
on 05 Feb 2024
at 21:21
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft, pint. @No2 Baker Street, Stirling (Scotland). 31/07/2023 [#6.619 Global - #161 Scotland - #1 Belhaven (My Scottish brewery #50)] Pours clear amber with a creamy white head. Aroma: sweet malts, caramel and some berries. Taste: creamy malts, lot of caramel and some honey. Very creamy mouthfeel. Next one please!
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Aug 2023
at 10:20
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Lett uklar amber med hvit varende topp. Aroma; lys karamell, hint av lys sjokolade, humle. God men svak aroma. Smak; malt, karamell, melkesjokolade, humle, toffify. Wagleys bar - Aberdeen.
Tried
on 21 Aug 2023
at 21:13
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours mid amber and slightly hazy. Slightly off-white head, quite big and very compact as you would expect from a draught pour; shows good enough retention but actually not much lacing. A quite subdued aroma with biscuity and slightly toffeeish malts followed by hints of fruitiness and caramel. There's also a slight background of cola-like feel that gives it a bit of fresh feeling. Taste notes as per aroma, as the smell suggested not much going on in terms of both intensity and depth. Overall definitely on the sweet edge of the style but manages to finish dry enough and still slightly refreshing. Light bodied with quite light, extremely delicate, thin-bubbled carbonation, resulting in a very smooth and easy mouthfeel. A very mild take on the style that aims mainly at quaffability; quite good at that.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2023
at 19:24
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
can @ interspar (budapest) black colour, light body, low carbonated, silky beige head, thin watery texture, creamy taste, smokey taste, grainy, easy to drink
Earlier Rating: 2/24/2019 Total Score: 3.2
tap @ kaledoni pub (budapest) amber colour, normal body, low carbonated, briliant white head, malty, creamy, thin watery texture, easy to drink
Earlier Rating: 2/24/2019 Total Score: 3.2
tap @ kaledoni pub (budapest) amber colour, normal body, low carbonated, briliant white head, malty, creamy, thin watery texture, easy to drink
Tried
from Can
on 20 Dec 2022
at 17:16
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
On keg at Ferry Boat Inn, Ullapool, Highlands, Tuesday 27th September 2022. Pours amber, with a chill haze, there is a creamy textured white head, cold, devoid of flavour, pretty grim.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2022
at 11:48
Tried
on 21 Sep 2022
at 20:31
1/10
Tried
on 14 Aug 2022
at 18:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Creamy white head on a clear amber coloured body with extreme lacing. Sweet malt & berry aroma. Medium bodied, smooth & soft. Sweet malt, caramel & berry tastes with a tangy finish. Decent.
Tried
on 28 Apr 2022
at 16:10
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Keg at Glenesk Hotel. Surprised I haven't had this before. It pours clear brown with a small white head. The aroma is earthy, woody, dusty, brown bread, nutty and leather. The taste is soft, smooth, sweet, toffee/caramel, cola, brown bread, rivita, toasty and nutty with short, dry finish. Light body and soft carbonation. Inoffensive brown liquid.
Tried
on 12 Mar 2022
at 12:52