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Tomos Watkin in Swansea, Swansea, Wales 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.18
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A rich red premium cask ale produced using pale ale, crystal and wheat malt. A full fruity/citrus hop flavour of willamette and fuggle with the light aroma of goldings.
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6.5/10
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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]
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2010
at 23:15
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Amber in colour with a decent, off-white head. Sweetish, malty aroma with a touch of fruit. Malty flavour with caramel, some earthiness and bittering hop finish. Good.
Tried
on 24 Sep 2009
at 19:15
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Finally Welsh Beer here in the States - I wonder if it’s because of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival?!? Deep dark brown amber tinted colour with some haziness and a thinnish tan head - nice! Aroma of bitter nuts, apples, malt, yeast and a light bit of hops. Med-bodied; Mild malty flavour with some apple tastes tucked in with a little yeast and caramel and some mild figs too. Aftertaste shows some bitterness, but relatively mild along with the taste. Overall, a fairly typical bitter, with perhaps a bit more carbonation, more apple tastes and some mild nuts - decent, but I’m happier to have my first beer from Swansea! I sampled this 50 cL bottle purchased from Chevy Chase Wine & Spirits in Washington, DC on 25-July-2009, sampled four days later at home here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2009
at 01:33
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours deep amber into an English pint. White micro head with excellent retention leaves spotted sheets as it slowly recedes to coat surface. Sweet fruity malt aromas. Thin with slight berry and caramel upfront. Lasting mild hop finish.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2009
at 18:42
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle 50 cl. Clear amber golden with a creamy off-white head. Lightly sweet fruit aroma. Medium body with a heavy carbonation and a little tart fruitiness. Dry and lightly bitter finish. 070209
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2009
at 11:17
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, 4.5%. Weak fruity aroma. Clear dark amber colour. The flavour is fruity and refreshingly citric. Not a distinct beer, but well-balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2009
at 17:54
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
50 cL bottle. Pours almost clear and golden orange with a huge and slight off-white head. Mild spiced and hoppy aroma. Mild caramel malty and with a mild spiced bitterness. Ends medium dry and slight herbal hoppy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2009
at 04:04
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. A red-amber beer with a lazing orangey head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of fruit and light notes of hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, malt, and fruit, as well as light notes of flowery hops. The finish is quite bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2009
at 13:11
5.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.Light unclear medium orange amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate yeasty, peat - burnt rubber. Flavor is moderate sweet and light tot moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. (070808)
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Oct 2008
at 08:22
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Light amber colour. Nice malty aroma. Moderate bitter lightcaramellic flavor. Oily palate. Moderate bitter nice finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2008
at 04:49