Strange Brew
Twickenham Fine Ales in Twickenham, Greater London, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.60
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A dark golden ale with a big, hoppy aroma and flavour over a fine malty base - well-balanced, with a hint of spiciness from the hops. A strange brew indeed and fitting for Halloween, as this beer only came into being because of a mistake by our maltsters that led us to blend two beers together. Now a separate brew with five hops and four different hop additions to the brew kettle.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask@Shakespeares Head (JDW), London (02/11/2022) - Twiggy grassy hoppy with some notes of citrus fruit, malty backing, cereal, grain, bitter hoppy close.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Nov 2022
at 17:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a clear amber colour with a small white head. Aroma is malty with some fruit and citrus hops. A moderately sweet malty taste, biscuit malts and overripe fruit flavours with some spice and a leafy hop bitterness in the finish.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2020
at 18:47
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Swan Inn, Farnborough. Sweet caramel aroma, but weak. Bright amber, decent white head. Sweet, with an underying bitterness. Smooth. Thirst quenching, with a dry and chalky finish. Sugar, caramel, malts, some ghostly hops. Not really strange, more quiet and unassuming.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Oct 2016
at 12:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Gravity cask at the Wandsworth Common Halloween Beer Festival - Le Gothique, London. Pours mostly clear gold with a fine, filmy white head. The nose has moderate citrus, basic pale bread. Light to medium sweet flavor with bitter grain husks, orange, dry bread, a bit of citrus rind. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Mellow rindy bitterness in the finish with dry bread sweetness. Basic but fine.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Nov 2013
at 00:18
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Pakenham Arms, Clerkenwell 1 Nov 12. Gyldenbrun med et lavt skum. God plommearoma. Smaken syrlig mørk frukt.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2013
at 01:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask at the Sussex Arms, Twickenham Green - 13/10/12. Clear dark amber/light brown with a thin frothy off white head that retains well. Nose of toffee, biscuits, ripe fruit and a touch of spice. Tastes of biscuit malt, toffee, bread and a little spice. Medium bodied with a bit of bite leading to a bitter dry finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Oct 2012
at 09:13
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From gravity cask at Bree Louise. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is crisp hops fruity, light peachy and citrusy. Grapefruity, citrusy and rather bitter hoppy. Peach, grapefruit and citrus hops crisp, dry and bitter finish
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Nov 2010
at 04:01
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at the RealAle.com shop in Richmond Pleasing golden amber with an attractive hoppy aroma, and even better hoppiness to the taste. An extremely well-constructed bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Oct 2010
at 01:17
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Cask at The Harp, London) Now this was a pleasant hoppy bitter. The bitter characteristics were there but on the top of them I could find scent and flavour of pine and clear bitterness. Hoppiness was also nicely balanced.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Oct 2010
at 11:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask @ Market Porter, Borough SE1. Pours a clear yellow color with a longlasting white head. Has a fruity malty floral hoppy aroma. Fruity malty slightly hoppy flavor with some hints of caramel. Has a fruity malty hoppy finish with a slightly bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 May 2009
at 06:50