Joshua Jane
Ilkley Brewery in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.49
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Yorkshire bitter, Yorkshire's best. Named after Mary Jane’s suitor, representing everything that is great about traditional Yorkshire bitter. Rich nut-brown colour and the soft caramel flavour is fused with our unique hop character.
Malts: Golden Promise, Caramalt, Crystal, Munich & Imperial (All UK)
Hops: Brewers Gold, Archer, WGV & Minstrel (All UK), Saaz (CZECH), Fruggle (FRA)
Malts: Golden Promise, Caramalt, Crystal, Munich & Imperial (All UK)
Hops: Brewers Gold, Archer, WGV & Minstrel (All UK), Saaz (CZECH), Fruggle (FRA)
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Booths. Pours clear copper, thick, rocky white head. Aromas of vanilla, caramel, dried orange peel. Taste has a light, almost spicy bitterness, and a mellow dark sugar sweet. But thin, but decent finish. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2014
at 11:07
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at Craft Beer Co Clerkenwell, 10/10/13. This rating shouldn’t have happened - should have been sarf of da river drinking Croydonian dark at this point !!! Clear copper with a thin off white head. Nose is bready malts, biscuit, fruit tang, light toffee. Taste comprises toffee, dark fruit, subtle hops, light grassy notes, strong tea bag tang. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, bitter notes in the finish. Decent enough bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Oct 2013
at 02:27
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
0.5l bottle. A clear, crystal clear actually deep dark golden, almost wood brown with a nice medium sized lasting and lacing bubbly off-white head. Smells of light thin caramel, it has some nice light fruity elements of apples and a nice malty sweetness with a hint of earthy hops. It's absolutely not bad tasting this. Light and not to impressive on the mouthfeel, and the carbonation level is nicely prickling and average. Good earthy bitterness, a little bit of birch bitterness also with hints of darker malts, something a little burned perhaps and a lasting aftertaste. Not to exciting, but surprisingly tasty for such a lightweighter. 26.06.2013
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2013
at 02:21
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
500ml bottle from Beer Hawk - A very pretty looking beer, deep amber, thick white head. Goes down hill from there, very bland aroma, a bit of caramel there but little else. Taste is too bitter, unpleasantly so. Too thin as well. I’ve had so much better from this brewery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2013
at 11:57
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ Craft Beer Co., 82 Leather Lane, London, Greater London, England EC1N 7TR.Clear medium orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, marzipan malt, light nutty, light earthy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20130118]
Tried
from Cask
on 27 May 2013
at 11:00
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask via handpump at CASK Pub & Kitchen, London on 4th January 2013. Copper with lasting head and no lace. Richly malty and spicy aroma. Malty then very bitter-sweet in-mouth, with some leafy herbs. Bitter end. Light texture and medium body.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Jan 2013
at 13:14