4-4-2 (Bottle)
Shepherd Neame in Faversham, Kent, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.98
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TBone (30035) reviewed 4-4-2 (Cask) from Shepherd Neame 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Cask@The Parrot, Canterbury
Clear amber color, small white head. Honeyish, riped fruity nose. Light-bodied. Some honeyish notes, peach then leafy earthy hops, but this is not very bitter. Watery aftertaste. As lame as England’s game in EURO2016.
ShivanDragon (10899) reviewed 4-4-2 (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
bottle from supermarket....why...bright copper/golden with a minimal white head. aroma and taste of caramel, malts, grain. cheap Easten European malts. thin, watery, light caramel, weak bitterness, weak old hops, citrus, dull, biscuit, boring beer... --- Beer merged from original tick of 4-4-2 Ale on 25 May 2018 at 10:15 - Score: 5
BlackHaddock (17179) reviewed 4-4-2 (Cask) from Shepherd Neame 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
19th June 2016: hand-pulled pint in The Wrekin, Wellington Shropshire. Tired pint, mini-haze to the golden pour, weak head. Mild hop lead in both the nose and taste, but fairly bland all round: not impressed (should have taken it back really). Scored objectively.
jjsint (8566) reviewed 4-4-2 (Cask) from Shepherd Neame 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Handpull cask at Ye Olde Dolphin Inne, Derby. Rebadged as Yard No. 18 The Classic 4-4-2 but sounds like the same beer (10 hops and all that). Bright gold with a soapy white head and lots of lacing. Grassy floral hop with some sour yeast and an indefinable industrial smell. Taste confirms that it’s a competent but boring beer. Bittersweet with a touch of sulphur and more floral hop on the shortish finish. How very macro. But it is drinkable, even enjoyable.
Tommann (7627) reviewed 4-4-2 (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
500ml bottle, unretired and at 3.8%. Pours dark gold with a medium head. Aroma is caramel, tea and vanilla. Taste is caramel and boiled sweets. Don’t know where the hops are.
Olut (21691) reviewed 4-4-2 (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Distinctive Neame texture, sweet hopped with a soapy texture and a healthy golden colour.
berkshirejohn (10200) reviewed 4-4-2 (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
50cl bottle from Lidl, stated ABV 3.8%. Straw with a billowing off-white head; aroma of somewhat tired malts and English hops; soft with straightforward caramel malt flavours; and with a dash of hops gives a slight spice to the finish. Not bad for a bargain basement beer.
Deanso (15577) reviewed 4-4-2 (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
50cl bottle shared with my brother. Thin white head. Clear golden blond pour. Subtle bitterness.
BlackHaddock (17179) reviewed 4-4-2 (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Clear 500ml bottle, ’The Ten Hop Beer With A Kick’ according to the front label: poured into an Abbot Ale glass tankard 1st Nov 2011, the bottle being best before Jul 2012. Orangey, amber colour, clear and bright, on top a lovely full head of snow white bubbles, extra bubbles can be seen rising through the body to replenish the crown. The smell is hoppy (well what did you expect?), but not overly so, those un-named varieties obviously counteract each other in the aroma department, as they did in the taste! I thought I was going to get some sort of West Coast of the US hop monster brew, this isn’t anywhere near that, in fact it isn’t even a standard UK hoppy IPA for hop content. It isn’t even really bitter, not even at the end of the mouthfeel. Strange taste, the malts try and blend in with those aforementioned hops but don’t really mix too well. Couldn’t take to this beer at all, it’s another of Shepherd Neames cheap supermarket brews and it shows. It seems to me they’ve found some old half sacks of hops and crystal malts: thinking we’ll not waste these, lets brew another beer to fill supermarket shelves and make some easy dosh.
yespr (55607) reviewed 4-4-2 (Bottle) from Shepherd Neame 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is slight citrusy and mild herbal hoppy. Sweet and fruity flavoured. Mild herbal touch into a dry and slight bitter finish. Ends crisp citrusy finish.