Spitfire Amber Ale (Bottle)
Shepherd Neame in Faversham, Kent, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.98
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Spitfire Amber Kentish Ale was first brewed in 1990 to commemorate the Battle of Britain which was fought in the skies above Kent 50 years earlier and is one of the leading ales in the UK. Spitfire Amber Ale combines the pick of Kentish hops to layer bitter orange marmalade flavour on top of sweet biscuits and caramel malts for a peppery dry finish. Hops: Target, Challenger, East Kent Goldings, First Gold.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Clear golden beer with a nice white head. Smell is dry and malty with a bit of fruit. Taste is bitter malt, a bit of grassy hop and some caramel. Not bad. A slightly watery aftertaste and a short finish on the whole let it down slightly but it's a perfectly drinkable beer.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2018
at 17:05
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours clear dark ambercopper. Small to no head. Smell is caramelly, spare ribs, for some reason.. raw maltyness. taste is sharp, bit thin even. Intense ambermalts, metallic. Toasty, bit dry, in taste, yet sticky as well , in mouthfeel. Possibly some sugars were used ? No skunk, even though a clear bottle ( tetra hops ? )
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2018
at 09:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2017
at 02:46
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle from Lidl. Clear amber, small to medium off-white head. Caramel, candy, metallic, low on hops. Socks. Light malty, toffee, brown bread. Light to medium body, moderate carbonation, abrupt finish. Watery. Some hops there after all, very strange mixture of aromas due to uneven balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2017
at 08:22
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
½ Pint keg @ hostel. Got a voucher for a free drink as welcoming gift. Neat, no great options obviously but hey they had this to tick. Dark amber. Nose is bland stale caramel, paper, cardboard UK malts, old cereal. Taste is stale cardboard UK cereal caramel malts, unpleasant bitter cardboard finish that got quite off-putting overtime.
Tried
on 12 Sep 2017
at 05:23
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Na prvy pohlad pekna farba piva. Vone nevyrazna. A chut prijemna s krasnym horkastym zakoncenim.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2017
at 14:07
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Još jedna loša lidlova "craft" piva. Ova je posebnija od prijašnjih zato jer ima nekakvu gorčinu u sebi.
Tried
on 14 Aug 2017
at 11:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
From old tasting notes. Amber gold color. Big rocky beige head. Soft fragrant malt nose. Bittersweet toasted malt flavor is soft and complex with hints of butterscotch and toffee.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2017
at 22:28
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle, thanks Natko! Dark amber body, clear, off white head. Sweetish perfumey grainy, honeyish aroma okay, vague fruity touch. Grainy malty tasty, dry, tart touch. Vague hoppy bitterness. Prickly carbonation. Ergh. Doesn’t work really.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2017
at 15:55
2.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Bottle, 500 ml from Lidl Zagreb. Pours orange with white head. Malty, some caramel, vague fruit, watery, some bitterness in finish. Light to medium bodied. What is it with this bottled supermarket bitters?
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2017
at 11:04