OSB
Tomos Watkin in Swansea, Swansea, Wales 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.18
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mart (27297) reviewed OSB Old Style Bitter (Bottle) from Tomos Watkin 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
0,5L bottle (as a gift), BB 01.2015. Pours amber with off-white head. The head stays for some time. Aroma is sweet, malt, caramel, and some hops. Flavor is sweet, malt, caramel, and some fruity notes. Finish is dry-nutty bitter. Carbonation is high. Overall: ok brew.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Amber with a modest off-white head that lasts well. Floral aroma with some citrus and spices, caramel, light bread. Sweet with more bread than caramel, vague fruity notes, some mild roasty notes: interesting and slightly rustic malt side of thing. Dryish and quite bitter with pepper at the end. A pretty good best bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Cloudy brown with a short, off-white head. Sweet fruit, bread aroma...apple... Caramel and fruit taste........malty...with a slight bready bitter.... Not a fresh bottle, sadly.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed OSB Old Style Bitter (Cask) from Tomos Watkin 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask at The Parcel Yard. Pours dark amber with a transient beige head. Aroma of floral and fruit. Med body. Flavor is light caramel with floral and something suggesting green berry. I t doesn’t finish very bitter, tho it’s bitter. Brought well hopped barleywine to mind. With time there’s a suggestion of chocolate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Brown 500ml bottle, by Hurns Brewery, same address as above, but a brewery name change? Drank on 25th March 2009, best before the end of May 2009. Poured into UK pint sleeve glass. Bright and clear amber coloured body with a huge foaming off-white head. Plenty of carbonisation, well loads of bubbles rising through the beer anyway. Lighter in colour than I expected (old style bitter just made me think dark and musty). Good malty, beery aroma. It may well be Welsh but it has all the hall marks of a good English Bitter, yeast and hops can also be sniffed as you drink this very pleasant beer. Good flavours, of all things beery. This ale tastes like an ale, crisp, refreshing and clean. Wheat has been used, but I couldn’t detect any, just malted barley on the grain front. Very drinkable and one of the best beers I’ve had from Wales, ever.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Cask @ Snow Goose, Inverness
Appearance - Amber, off white head, hazy
Aroma - Fruity malt, slight peppery hop, not much on the nose.
Taste - Caramel, fruity malt, toffee, slight roasted malt, yeast, more complex than usual
Palate - Intially malty sweet finish with a slight layer of bitterness then bitter with a sour note.
Overall - Not really a bitter, as not much bitterness. Taste is good, but for the sour note in the finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Half litre bottle, $2 closeout @ Binny’s, Bolingbrook. I can only guess one of Binny’s distributors is shedding some brands from their portfolio, but this gives me a chance to try my first REAL Welch beer—InBev brewing Murphy’s Irish Stout there hardly worth counting. Fruity smell under the cap that I didn’t expect in a bitter. In glass it has an alcohol smell, bit of cough drop, so this may be a bit old. Light brown color, filtered clear, under a thin head. First thing I notice upon tasting is that there’s low carbonation, per style. Fruity ale taste. Despite the alcohol smell, there’s no burn on the tongue. Certainly a nice pub drink. Some citrus that may come from hop, or a bit of staling. Certainly worth revisiting if I get a chance.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet malty, light fruity and light hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 030710
Downender (11275) reviewed OSB Old Style Bitter (Cask) from Tomos Watkin 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Star, Talybont, Brecon 07/09/10. A reddish amber beer with a slight off-white head. A malty bitter, with plenty of fruit, touch of caramel, and decent bitter finish. Fine.
fonefan (84534) reviewed OSB Old Style Bitter (Bottle) from Tomos Watkin 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 500ml. @ home.Clear medium orange amber color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, hay, caramel, hay, light moderate hoppy, citrus - orange, grass. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration, malt and hop bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100414]