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Hunter's Brewery in Ipplepen, Devon, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
5.69
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A golden and full-bodied malt beer that makes for a strong pint. The first beer brewed by Hunter's it features a lovely malty flavour hopped with Goldings, a typically English hop.
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4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
500ml bottle brought back from my trip to Devon last September. BBE - 26-02-22. Pours a very flat amber with zero head. Aromas & tastes of sweet caramel & biscuit. Moderate body. Sweet flat finish. Disappointed & going to be difficult to finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2025
at 22:03
20/05/2016. BIG BUS, FAWLEY HILL, Buckinghamshire, England
Tried
on 15 Dec 2022
at 10:49
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 3
Bottle from Darts Farm, near Exeter. Pours clear amber with a smidge of beige head. Aroma: biscuit, toffee, caramel. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, light rich caramel, biscuit, dry-ish. Medium body with low carbonation. Decent enough although it could do with a little more carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Darts Farm
on 01 Jan 2022
at 02:38
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle from Mum & Dad - cheers! Dull pale amber, flat and no head. Nice and fruity up front, but then it's digestive biscuits and twigs with negligible bitterness and a musty finish. Poor, and being flat makes it worse. Based on the other rates here, the flatness wasn't unique to my bottle either. Clearly the brewery need to sort out their bottling.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2021
at 22:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from the Food Shop in Dartington. Appearance - amber with attractive lacing. Nose - crunchy biscuit and toffee. Taste - caramel biscuit this time. Palate - rich and medium bodied. Dry sweet but roasty finish. Overall - another solid bitter, I suppose just about an ESB.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2019
at 20:28
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Murky brown with no head. Aroma and flavour have a nice amount of caramel and toffee. A bit flat.
Tried
on 24 Dec 2017
at 17:49
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Fra cask på George´s Meeting House 29 Sep 16. Gyldenbrun. Filmskum. Aroma? Kanskje litt bær. Smaken ville bær. Tørr bitter ettersmak.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Dec 2016
at 05:07
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask ale, half pint at George’s Meeting House (JDW). Pearl white head, next to clear amber-gold body, fragile lacening. Malt-fruity aroma, mid-dry. Blended flavours of pears, mid-dry apples and caramel followed by a bittersweet finish. Medium bodied. Pretty alright (Exeter 29.09.2016).
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Oct 2016
at 01:49
3/10
Tried
on 27 Aug 2016
at 20:37