Bombardier Glorious English (Cask)
(Batch of Bombardier Amber Beer (Glorious English Ale))
Eagle Brewery in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.95
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ABV reduced from 4.3% to 4.1% in 2011.
Ingredients: Water from Charles Wells well; Pale Malt; Crushed Crystal Malt; Challenger and Goldings hops.
Rebranded from Glorious English to Amber Beer in 2019.
Ingredients: Water from Charles Wells well; Pale Malt; Crushed Crystal Malt; Challenger and Goldings hops.
Rebranded from Glorious English to Amber Beer in 2019.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Wharf Aalborg. Copper colour with a beige head. Aroma is malt, hop, fruit. Flavour is malt, hop, fruit, caramel. OK beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Aug 2009
at 00:41
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
draught at the pointer pub, budapest; i m very disappointed with this beer, i waited so much more, it has very watery body, no aroma, weak flavour, i m very disappointed
Tried
on 19 Aug 2009
at 13:43
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 8
From Cask at a Pub in central London. Hazy orange color with smallosh white head. Matly aroma with some hops and caramel. Malty taste with well balanced bitterness. Quite balanced beer and excellent companion to my pub lunch.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Dec 2008
at 08:42
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
From cask at Charlies. Pours hazy orange with a white head. Light malty and slight fruity aroma. Flavour is medium sweet and malty. Light bitterness arising out of this. Bitter and mild roasted malty with a light spice like note.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Dec 2008
at 04:27
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Smell and initial taste slightly eggy - not in the sulphurous gone-off-beer kind of way, but more in the home-brew-sold-at-a-beer-festival kind of way. In fact, it has more than a hint of the illicit beer that my mate Neil made at university in a sack in his wardrobe! Once you get beyod the egginess, this is not a bad beer. It’s mid-brown, with a thin but lasting head. There is a good balance of sweet and bitter (possibly tending more towards the sweet side than many best bitters), a fair amount of maltiness, a little spice (pepper) and some red fruits (ripe cherries?). In a way it’s nice that Wells haven’t gone down the route of the other big ale brewers (Greene King, Marstons) and made their standard beer a cleaned-up, machine-tasting beer. This beer still tastes like it’s been made in someone’s wardrobe! However, the eggy smell that occassionally returns through your nostrils, coupled with dodgy guts the next day do sometimes make you think "hmmm... maybe modern breweing processes aren’t so bad after all". On the plus side, at least it does taste a bit different to the majority of bitters!
Tried
on 16 May 2008
at 09:40
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask, half pint, at Calthorpe Arms, Holborn. Deep dark amber body under thin beige head. Firm lacing on the glass. Moderate aroma of dark caramel. More caramel malts in flavour added by a fruity component and a woody touch. Smooth bitter ending (11.03.2008).
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Mar 2008
at 02:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Amber colour with creamy head.Aroma of caramel and nuts,smooth mouth feels and mild,easy to drink.Has a note of wood.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2007
at 02:23
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask-conditioned at the Wheatsheaf, Winterbourne S Gloucs. Deep amber with next to no head. Aroma of caramel malt with some floral hops. Flavour was slightly fruity with a bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Sep 2007
at 14:44
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Cask at Traveller’s Tavern, Victoria Stn., London. Dark brownish amber. Heavily resiny nose with some buttery, roasty malt underneath. Bold, quite hard - almost aggresive malt with notes of vegetables and resin lingering onto the bitter finish. Unpolished, but with a certain amount of character.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Aug 2007
at 03:45
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask. Clear copper coloured, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is fruity hops, alot of caramel, wood and some slight malty touches. Flavour is wooden along with a smooth sourness and quite bitter. Caramellish hoppy aftertaste. Very smoothly balanced brew.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Aug 2007
at 02:48