Gem
Bath Ales in Bristol, Bristol, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.19
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Cask ABV: 4.1%
Bottle ABV: 4.8%
With its rich aroma of hops and malt, and a long, deep, bittersweet finish, Gem has been carefully crafted into an exceptional best bitter. A quintessentially English beer, brewed with skill and passion, Gem is Bath Ales' flagship brand.
Bottle ABV: 4.8%
With its rich aroma of hops and malt, and a long, deep, bittersweet finish, Gem has been carefully crafted into an exceptional best bitter. A quintessentially English beer, brewed with skill and passion, Gem is Bath Ales' flagship brand.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Copper colour with firm, foamy head. Nose is malty, fruity with a bitter-sweet hoppiness and hints of sewage (in a weird but nice way). Taste is fruity (hints of dried apricots) and malty with a metallic, earthy, bitter and dry finish. Complex.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Apr 2006
at 13:53
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Amber orangey coloured, hazy, thin stable white foam; malty, fruity to vinous (sherry) nose, touches of hops and sulphur; taste is malty and fruity too with a faint herbal hoppiness, becomes drier and more bitter at the end, light bodied; quite complex ale, well rounded.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2005
at 00:13
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Deep copper colour with no head. A balanced aroma between malt and hops. Has a malty taste and then you get the bitter hops in your mouth, leaving you with a nice bitterness in the aftertaste.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2005
at 16:47
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Fine best bitter, good hoppy aroma balanced by tasty slightly fruity malts leading to a hoppy end. Does exactly what you would expect a best bitter to do
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2005
at 04:14
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pour is a nice red with a small white head. Aroma is fruity with a touch of malt. Flavor is roasted malts,slight fruit with a woody backbone. Finishes very dry. Nothing really great but worth the $1.99 a pint I paid for it.
Tried
on 12 May 2005
at 20:18
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Reddish brown. Nutty and lightly roasty. Sweet and light bodied with clean mouthfeel. Short finish with slight saltiness. Very mild. Understated.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jan 2005
at 02:59
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottled - an unimpressive looking copper ale pours, headless from the bottle - the aroma isn't much more encouraging, faint hints of yeast and dough - body is thin, but the flavor slowly reveals notes of bread, biscuits, a touch of gingerbread and a subdued sweetness - toasty hop finish - not all that complex, but it is a decent bitter
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2004
at 19:39
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
4.8% ABV
Amber color. Smooth, also since it's undercarbonated (which is a good thing…), but the light malt nose and the caramel flavor, the light sweetness, the low hopping are not enough convincing.
Amber color. Smooth, also since it's undercarbonated (which is a good thing…), but the light malt nose and the caramel flavor, the light sweetness, the low hopping are not enough convincing.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2003
at 11:36
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A light nutbrown or amber beer with no head. The aroma is weird with notes of hops, anise and pretty fresh. The flavor is carbonated, flat and pretty sweet of an OK maltblend containing münchner and caramel malt - the aftertaste is somewhat dry with a good bitterness. A pretty light beer.
Tried
on 25 Mar 2003
at 16:36