Best Bitter
Badger Brewery (Hall & Woodhouse) in Blandford St Mary, Dorset, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.97
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A thirst-quenching beer that combines our finest Flagon ale malt with a small amount of crystal malt to give a subtle malt character.
Inspired and developed with the hop growers and merchants Charles Faram, the Celeia, Bobek and Dana hops provide a refreshing hop that is both thirst-quenching and characterful.
The hops are added both in the brewhouse and dry hopped in the fermentation vessel to ensure this classic beer retains its character to the last drop.
Inspired and developed with the hop growers and merchants Charles Faram, the Celeia, Bobek and Dana hops provide a refreshing hop that is both thirst-quenching and characterful.
The hops are added both in the brewhouse and dry hopped in the fermentation vessel to ensure this classic beer retains its character to the last drop.
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6/10
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Jun 2025
at 00:42
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Creamy off white head on a copper coloured body. Malt, berries & sweet stone fruit tastes with a tangy finish. Easy going.
Tried
on 25 May 2024
at 15:19
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
From cask at Ship & Shovel with Sindre and Sigurd 15.02.24. Golden. White head and lacing. Aroma and taste of old and dry lemons, pale malt. Slightly metallic.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Feb 2024
at 18:15
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On handpull. Pours golden copper. Biscuit, floral hedgerow, little nutty; clean finish. Nice soft body. Good.
Tried
on 04 Jul 2023
at 12:46
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Half-pint, cask ale, outside at Goffs Manor. Bright amber body, scattered lacing from a dissipating pearl white head. Smell of mid-sweet malts and some green hops. Quite well balanced taste of mild caramel malts, earth, and leafy hops. Has got a short, bittersweet tail. Drinks well. Pretty good English bitter. (Crawley 13.07.2022).
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jul 2022
at 08:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Hornbrook Inn, Horsham. Pours dark orange with a small head. Aroma is bready malt and hedgerow fruit. Taste is quite bready, hedgerow fruity malt. Pretty stock bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jan 2020
at 09:48
3/10
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Aug 2019
at 13:49
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
The Ship Inn, Weymouth - Pours an almost clear golden amber colour with a small lasting white head. Aroma is grainy malt, some floral and spicy hop notes. A biscuit malt taste, sour cherry flavours, a light bitterness with a dryish finish.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2018
at 17:25
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Fox and Hounds, West End (nr Woking not that London). Floral and malt aroma. Dark amber gold. Thin white head. Light bitter. Berries and biscuits. Slightly sour. Thin. Slick but watery. Flat carbonation. Dry finish. Best? Nah. Drinkable but other than sour berries It's just bland.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 May 2018
at 16:50
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pint on tap at The White Hart, Henfield. Golden amber beer with thin white head. Zero carbonation, patchy lacing. Light nose of sweet malt. Easy-drinking sweet malty bitter. Slight sourness in the finish balances it out. Average in all respects.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Apr 2018
at 18:29