Best

Three Tuns Brewery in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular

Score

6.69

ABV: 3.8%

IBU: -

Ticks: 8

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

reidyboy (3578) reviewed Best from Three Tuns Brewery 3 months ago

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

Tried from Cask on 12 Oct 2025 at 12:10

6.8

BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Best from Three Tuns Brewery 1 year ago

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

Andy_TF2 (1138) ticked Best from Three Tuns Brewery 1 year ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tried on 31 Dec 2024 at 02:14

7.5

Grumbo (24387) reviewed Best from Three Tuns Brewery 2 years ago

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

eurosoba (18570) ticked Best from Three Tuns Brewery 2 years ago

Tried from Cask on 18 May 2023 at 12:26

5.8

Cheeseboard (6269) reviewed Best from Three Tuns Brewery 3 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5

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

Martinsh (3610) reviewed Best from Three Tuns Brewery 4 years ago

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

minutemat (16258) reviewed Best from Three Tuns Brewery 7 years ago

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