Little Backus Small Beer
Free State Brewing Company in Lawrence, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
7.25
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Cask - 10 oz pour in a small thinned tulip glass at the brewpub. Pour is slight haze ruby copper with a smallish 1/2 inch off white - tan head. Nice delicate splotchy lacing. Aroma of resin citrus hops, mineral earthiness and some straw and caramel malt. Pretty mild nose, but clean and fresh. Taste is really fresh floral resin hop, with a nice mineral grass malt with some fruit sweetness behind that. Really great integration and balance. Palate is medium to full mouthfeel, and really not a bit watery despite the low abv. Lowish cask carbonation and a great lingering resin earthy finish. Crazy drinkable. I would drink this a lot if it was continuously available - it was cool how different a beast this was from the Old Backus.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
At the brewpub cask served in a small thinned tulip glass. Big bubbly cask head that leaves a lot of sticky lacing as it fades. Color is orange/amber, its dark and hazy but not murky. Enough hazy to it to only allow medium clarity. Aroma is thick, malty, English biscuit. It is thick but not "big" and a rich aroma. Flavor is has a bit more English yeast fruitiness coming off. Overall becomes a fruity biscuit. Plenty of flavor yet light and quenchable. Sweet tea aftertaste. Has a nice full mouthfeel as well on top of the reduced carbonation cask feel.