The Ordinary Bitter
Anspach & Hobday in London, Greater London, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.98
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The original session beer, Ordinary Bitters formed a cornerstone of English drinking culture. Perfectly balanced between malt sweetness and hop bitterness, our interpretation is brought up to date with the use of US Chinook hops. Delicate hop aromas of pine, spice and dark fruits are followed by a smooth, full bodied palate with notes of biscuit and caramel. Brewed with EKG and Chinook.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Handpull cask at the King's Arms, Waterloo. Now 3.4%. Light reddish brown and clear with a small ring of off-white head. Woody, almost slightly funky aroma, some discarded orange peels. Tastes bittersweet with light vegetal notes, oak, overripe citrus. More bitterness in the long finish. Light body but not as light as I expected, soft to no carbonation. A lovely ordinary bitter.
Tried
from Cask
at
Kings Arms
on 18 Jul 2026
at 15:32
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg Bryggan 2026-06-13 Göteborg
AR: bitter, bready fresh, caramel
AP: amber clear, creamy nitro beige foam
F: bitter, bready fresh, caramel
AR: bitter, bready fresh, caramel
AP: amber clear, creamy nitro beige foam
F: bitter, bready fresh, caramel
Tried
from Draft
at
Bryggan Stigbergets Bryggeri (Ringön)
on 12 Jul 2026
at 20:35
6/10
Vesine, magus, mõru, karamelline, linnaseline, nats happeline, must tee. Ok
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Aug 2025
at 20:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
keg at the Great Exhibition 2025 . .dark amber ...soft sweet caramel woody herbal fruit nose. soft sweet caramel floral fruit ..soft Caramel toffee malts
Tried
on 02 May 2025
at 17:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6
Nitro version at BXL. Fasza balansz karamellás keksz és herbális kontinteális komlókeserű között, vedelhető mint a veszedelem, hozza amit a műfajtól várok.
Tried
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:05
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Crewe Dog, Crewe (at 3.4%). Pours “bitter brown” with a medium sized foamy cream head and good lacing. There’s malts and caramel in the aroma, plus hints of fruit and nuts. In the mouth it is slightly sweet with a creamy texture and flavour of malts and marmalade with some spicy hints. After a while some traces of nuts come through leading to a slightly singer finish. This is decent – a simple beer done very well.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Sep 2024
at 20:33
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at the Prague Beer Fest 2024. Full golden body, creamy ivory head. Grainy-malty and slightly herbal aroma. Subtle taste, pleasant earthy Maris Otter-style malty notes, bit grainy, with light citric hoppy touches to round it out. Can't score immensely high, but do I respect it a lot as a whole? I do!
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Apr 2024
at 20:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pint pours a clear orange with plenty of creamy white head. Nose has tea and malt and treacle, yeast. Flavor follows, tea and orange and honey and malt. Creamy finish.
Tried
on 14 Apr 2024
at 15:26
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
31/1/2024. Cask at the 15th Colchester Winter Ale Festival. Pours very slightly hazy pale amber brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is malty, sweet, hoppy, stone fruit, bread. Quite sweet with light to moderate bitterness. Moderate body, oily watery, fizzy. Not a top 50 of its style for me.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Feb 2024
at 10:49
7.4/10
Oh baby it’s definitely top notch in there style category. Smooth. __ Billie’s craft beer fest 2023__
Tried
on 11 Nov 2023
at 15:40