Best
Three Tuns Brewery in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.75
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A most traditional brown ale, Best is richly hopped and smooth throughout. Crafted with all English hop varieties, enjoy a pleasing bitter-sweet finish from one of our signature ales. Authentically brewed, this distinctive velvety beer is one to remember.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Brown with a frothy off-white head and malt and hops on the nose. Light bodied, fresh with fruit malt and floral hops nicely balanced, a touch of bitterness and a hint of spice ahead of a dry bitter finish.
Yockleton Arms, Stoney Stretton, Shropshire
Yockleton Arms, Stoney Stretton, Shropshire
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Oct 2025
at 12:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Friday afternoon, 31st January 2025; hand-pulled pint in the Castle Hotel, Bishops Castle, about 100 yards from the brewery. Clean and clear brown, copper bronze body, off-white crust that hung around for a while. Hop bitter with a decent malty base that gives a slight nutty flavour; no Citrus fruits were harmed brewing this beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Jan 2025
at 18:00
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tried
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
31/1/2024. Cask at the 15th Colchester Winter Ale Festival. Pours clear bright copper amber with a small frothy just off-white head. Aroma is fruity, malty, biscuit, hops, flowers, bready edge. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness and body. Slightly oily, average to soft carbonation. Well done.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Feb 2024
at 10:42
Tried
from Cask
on 18 May 2023
at 12:26
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 5.6
Bottle online from The Hop Vault, Stourbridge. Pours clear mid brown with a cream cap. Aroma: malts, caramel & nutty hints. Taste: light sweet & bitter, brown bread, hedgerow fruits, light caramel. Light body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
from
The Hop Vault
on 04 Aug 2022
at 20:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at Hops, Crewe. Pours “bitter brown” with a small white head and good lacing. There’s not much of an aroma, just whispers of malt and herbs. A bit more bite in the mouth, which features breadrolls, nuts, malt and traditional hops plus traces of herbs, honey and ginger. Overall it’s sweet, but there’s an underlying bitterness as well. A decent solid bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Jan 2022
at 17:34
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask. Pours a generally clear brown, small off-white head. Aroma bears some soft malt, lightly nutty. Taste is pillowy soft malt, lightly grainy, nutty, faint earth, brown bread with an underlying sweetness. Decent sessionable best bitter, though I find myself yearning for a stronger version.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Mar 2018
at 12:33