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Marston's in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.81
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Home Bargains, Manchester. Deeper golden with a very thin head. There’s some grainy malt in its nose, but more in its taste, although certainly not heavy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2015
at 14:26
6/10
Dog & Pheasant, Shrewsbury
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Oct 2014
at 19:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ Bow Legged with Brass, Halifax. Copper with a small head. Has a sugar sweet berry fruit flavour. Medium to full bodied.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jun 2014
at 15:19
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
B&M Bargains, a cut price supermarket chain, is where the 500ml bottle came from. BBD 31 Jan 2015. Poured into a pint vase (Old Speckled Hen badged) on 16 May 2014. It looked quite impressive, clear light amber with a full foaming head of white bubbles. Nice blend of flavours, but nothing to get excited about. I think Elbow should start singing songs written and produced by brewers: they would then quickly realise they must leave brewers to make beer and them to make music. The beer is more malty than hoppy with a semi-sweet fruity note here and there, crisp and well carbonated in body feel. Not unlike a lot of Marston’s other bottled supermarket selections.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2014
at 15:19
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle from Bernie’s Real Ale Off Licence, Shirley. Poured a clear light amber with a frothy white head. The aroma is malt citrus hop. The flavour is moderate to light bitter with a light watery hop bitter palate. Light bodied with average carbonation. It’s rather amazing that a brewery the size of Marston’s can’t do better than this. I could barely drink it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2014
at 13:27
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500ml bottle from B&M. Colour is amber with limited with head. Minimal aroma, with a slight sweet biscuit taste. Ok. Maybe Elbow should stick to their great music.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2014
at 13:44
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Cask at the Conan Doyle (Nicholson’s), Edinburgh. Pale amber with a thin white head; malty aroma; thin with a malty taste; biscuity finish with some warming spices. A very ordinary bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Mar 2014
at 11:45
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Cask handpull at The Old Buttermarket Canterbury Nicholson pub. Clear pale brown lasting white head. It’s a pale bitter. Nothing wrong with it just that it’s a bitter. Straight up. Bit watery in the mouth. Some hop on the finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Mar 2014
at 14:32
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at the Bridge, Kingswinford. Pours dark orange with a medium head. Aroma is very eggy sulphur. Taste has bready sulphur.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Mar 2014
at 13:33
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask at the haymarket... Light copper... Thin off white head... Soft toffee fruits nose... Soft malts... Light tiffee fruits
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Feb 2014
at 08:54