Suffolk County
(has 2 batches)
Nethergate Brewery in Long Melford, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.12
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Originally Nethergate Best Bitter, this is our oldest recipe first created in 1986. It was showcased in the Cambridge Blue as Dew Drop. It has won many awards in its time, most recently the SIBA Gold Medal for Best Bitter 2014. A Chestnut coloured best bitter, biscuit malt dominates the warm, well-rounded roasted background with a wonderful bitter finish.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Biggish beige lasting head. Deep dark red-brown body with light carbonation. Fruity roasty earthy aroma with notes of dried plums, caramel, and chocolate. Dry-sweet earthy dried plums taste with roasty malty chocolate notes. Dry metallic chocolate aftertaste kind of jars with the fruitiness. It’s not bad, but I didn’t enjoy it much. (0.5l bottle, Centra, Oslo.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2008
at 05:35
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Fruity malty and slightly bready caramel aroma. Sweet malty bready caramel flavor. Has a dry malty bready finish with a slightly bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2008
at 08:32
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Deep amber with tiny off white head. Malty aroma with caramel notes. Sweet fruity flavor with caramel and toasted malt.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2008
at 11:13
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Århus2008. 50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a lacing white head. Mild malty aroma with a subdued spice note. Flavour is mild fruity and hoppy with a light bitterness. Toffee like malt base. Light bitterness into the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2008
at 01:01
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ The Black Bull, Whitechapel, London E1, UK. Clear medium brown color with a small, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, caramel, toffee, buttery. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (291207)
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jan 2008
at 10:28
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ GBBF 2007. Pours a clear amber color with an off-white head. Fruity malty caramel aroma with some hoppy hints. Roasted malty fruity caramel flavor with some weak hints of hops. Roasted malty finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Oct 2007
at 01:55
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@GBBF2007. Dark amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is caramel malts and some very fruity hops. Flavour is the same with enormously bitter fruits. Aftertaste is mainly mild wood.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Aug 2007
at 04:46
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Copper with a small white head. Caramel and some butter in the aroma. Sweet with a dry bitter finish. Quite boring.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2007
at 11:21
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at GBBF 2007 ... Dark amber ... a musty hop nose ... a standard fruity hop bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Aug 2007
at 14:28
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Dark brown beer with a strong head. The aroma is quite vinous. roasted, fruity and deepy dry, and the flavour is deeply roasted, very well hopped, toffee and very dry. Overall a good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2007
at 19:39