Light Ale
Greene King in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.77
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29/03/2008. BRAINTREE FOOTBALL CLUB BAR, Cressing Road Stadium, BRAINTREE, Essex, England
Tried
on 05 Dec 2022
at 16:48
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
275ml bottle from Factory Foods. Medium creamy white head. Clear amber pour. light bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2021
at 17:52
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2017
at 16:53
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from Champion of the Thames, Cambridge. Copper, clear. Tiny bit of head. Malty, metallic scent. Sweetish caramel malt taste. The forced carbonation gives the palate a bit of a boost. There’s not all that much to it, but that’s the point. It’s a light ale and more than lives up to its name. Better than GK IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2015
at 12:27
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at home in London. Pours clear, ruby-gold with a small, creamy white head. Nose holds some light, doughy-toasty malts, hints of leaves. Light sweet flavor, some ripe berries, dark dough, low bitterness, mild dry wood. Light bodied with high carbonation. Light sweet finish, toasty sugars, light sweet berries, some vanilla frosting, bread, low leafy bitterness. A touch watery perhaps, but overall it’s a fairly tasty, fairly harmless bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2012
at 15:47
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
275ml bottle from an Offie in Hastings. Amber with a thin cream head that laces the glass; aroma of stewed. over-boiled malts; thin, cardboardy malt flavour; and a malty finish. The carbonation is fairly low, and this isn’t bad for a Light Ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2012
at 15:29
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 1
Bottle Gardener’s Arms, GK pub, Oxford, RB Pub crawl 08. Amber with no head. Some fruit on aroma. No flavour. Some malt. So watery. Over carbonated. But not awful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2008
at 09:25
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Medium shiny coarseish offwhite head. Reddish brown body. Light caramelly aroma with hop notes. Dry grainy metallic roasty malt taste with fruity notes. Clean mouthfeel, slightly fizzy, but a bit watery. Dry roasty metallic aftertaste. Not bad. (0.275l bottle at the Plume of Feathers, Greenwich, split with Knut Albert.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2007
at 07:53