Take Courage Best Bitter
Courage in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.40
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With over 200 years of brewing pedigree, Courage Best Bitter retains its widespread popularity. Best is available in both cask and keg meaning even if your local isn’t a cask beer stockist, you can still enjoy the great taste of Courage Best.
Pale brown in appearance with a bitter after taste, Courage Best Bitter consumers enjoy its lower ABV of 4% that allows them the opportunity to enjoy their favourite ale for longer.
Pale brown in appearance with a bitter after taste, Courage Best Bitter consumers enjoy its lower ABV of 4% that allows them the opportunity to enjoy their favourite ale for longer.
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4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Clear copper coloured ale with no head out of the bottle. Sweetened aroma but bland character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2012
at 13:18
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
500ml bottle. Clear amber colour with small to average, frothy to macropore, diminishing, white head. Grainy, fruity, malty hop aroma, red currant, gooseberry, a touch of honey. Taste is dry malty, minimally nuttily, strawy; a bit light and watery. Concerning taste pretty much far from the aromatic promise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2012
at 10:58
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
(cask@The Summerfield) A medium dark amber, with a creamy off white head. Aroma/taste caramel malt, nutty, only slightly fruit hop undertones, body is medium and almost 0 carbonation. Used to like this many years ago, now tastes distinctly average for my palate.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Dec 2012
at 06:25
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
500ml bottle cheapie at £1 from Morrisons. First pour looks really good, a red body, nice white head. That goes to leave a thin froth, letting a bit of hoppiness through in the nose. Taste is a bit bland, very thin on the mouth. Ordinary.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2012
at 14:59
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Soapy in texture and aroma, and soapy bitterness for its taste. Not too pleasant.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2012
at 15:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
A nice medium brown session bitter. Quite plain with only a light hoppy finish. Not bad.
Tried
on 04 Sep 2012
at 12:05
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Cask at The metropolitan in London
Appearance: Cloudy golden with a off-white head and good lacing
Aroma: Rotten fruit and bready
Taste: Tart citrus and herbal
I couldn’t finish a pint, not for me.
Appearance: Cloudy golden with a off-white head and good lacing
Aroma: Rotten fruit and bready
Taste: Tart citrus and herbal
I couldn’t finish a pint, not for me.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Aug 2012
at 15:09
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2012
at 16:26
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Half pint from cask. Golden amber pour with a small white head. Light malty aroma with some toffee and a little fruity. Same aspects in flavour, medium sweet and bitter. Light to medium bodied with soft carbonation. (offline rating from April 2012)
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jun 2012
at 03:29
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
500ml brown bottle (3.8% ABV) poured into an ’Old Speckled Hen’ vase shaped pint glass. Best before 10-10-2010 and drank while watching the England v Algeria World Cup match (2010). The body was a clear, almost bright amber/light brown colour, on top was an off-white, thin foaming head. Very little aroma, some slight hop esters and hints of malted biscuits, typical mass produced English Bitter to be honest. The taste is a good enough mix of malts and hops, nothing spectacular, but nothing wrong with it either. A bit thin in the body stakes, even for a 3.8% beer and a little too fizzy for my liking. Pleasant enough, but not a beer I could recommend to anyone.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2012
at 23:22