Best Bitter
Picaroons Brewing Company in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 🇨🇦
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.25
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A full flavoured Best Bitter providing a complex taste experience, beginning with notes of nuts and toffee, and ending in lingering hop bitterness.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
473mL can. Pours clear light brown with a beige head. Dry grass and bread crusts on the nose. Flavour has bready malts, dry crusts, and dry crunchy grass. Nice bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Dec 2025
at 01:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap @ the brewery. Nice head with good duration. Color is dark amber. Aroma and taste are caramel, nuts, hops and malt. Nice bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jul 2023
at 23:24
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Modest beige head and foggy brown body, plenty of carbonation. Soft aroma of sugary malts. Flavour is hoppy graham cracker with a smooth finish. Good mouthfeel. Not bad, serviceable.
Tried
on 04 Jan 2018
at 15:01
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at the John Browns. Pours a clear amber with an off white head that lasts throughout the beer. Aroma has combination of sweet grains, biscuit and bread. Flavor has sweet bread and biscuit with sweet grains underlying.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Oct 2016
at 13:23
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg at Stillwell. It pours clear mahogany brown with a decent white head. The nose is soft, caramel, dried fruits, candied apricot, toasty brown sugars, nut and brown bread. The taste is bitter-sweet, earthy, woody, oily, toasted nuts, cereal, leather, brown bread and caramel with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Solid esb style action. Works well.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jul 2015
at 17:18
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from the Brewery shop in Fredericton. Pours a fairly clear deep amber color with a decent sized bubbly frothy off white head that persists for a while. Aromas of toffee and caramel with hints of earthy hop and a touch of mineral water, fruit, and butterscotch. The flavor follows the aroma quite well. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation. Decent bitter, again heavy on the diacetyl.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2014
at 17:12
3.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 1
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 4
Hazy amber,creamybeige head. Huge diacetyl nose, same but somewhat less in palate.Nothing but hops and diacetyl, one dimensional, lacks malt balance. The only reason it scored this high was due to the appearance.
Tried
on 02 May 2012
at 21:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ Home. Pours dark amber with a lasting offwhite head. Aroma of roasted malt, dark fruit, grassy hops, spices. Taste is malt, caramel, spices, fruit, grassy hops. Medium body, soft carbonation. 040911
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2011
at 04:36
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Sample, draught, at Garrison District Ale House, savoured on August 16 2010; eye: bronze, clear, no effervescence, tiny ring of head, average lacing; nose: hops, light malt, light caramel; mouth: hops, caramel, water, acridness, lightly bitter finale with presence of malt and caramel, light body, average carbonation, lightly bitter, thin; overall: disappointing FRANÇAIS Échantillon, en fût, bue chez Garrison District Ale House, savourée le 16 août 2010; œil : bronze, claire, pas d’effervescence, petit anneau de mousse, dentelle moyenne; nez : houblon, léger malt, léger caramel; bouche : houblon, caramel, eau, âcreté, finale légèrement amère avec présence de malt et caramel, corps léger, carbonatation moyenne, légèrement amère, mince; en résumé : décevant
Tried
on 07 Feb 2011
at 12:41
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bought this one in Edmonston, N.B. when I was on tour with my band (summer 2009 - sampled January 2010). Pours a caramel-orange colour with a huge off-white head, long retention, foamy-cream texture and lacing all-around. Fruity nose with a touch of apples and grapes. Then, after breathing, notes of vanilla, malt and hop present themselves. Beautiful tiny bubble carbonation at an average pace and mouthfeel is wet, but not too watery... meaning, refreshing with a little stickiness and medium-bodied. Nutty and fruity malts, with some light bitterness in the finish and some grain malt in the aftertaste. It even gets hazy near the end of the bottle. Lots of aromas and flavours in this one. Just a wonderful Canadian version of the ESB that I would have anytime (if we could get it here).
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2010
at 16:52