A Thorny One
Garage Beer Co in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 🇪🇸
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.61
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Making variations on simple beer styles is always a lot of fun. We have made 6 or 7 bitters over the last year and a half and have continuously explored different malts, hops and yeasts while staying true to the style. This time we have used a blend of two caramelized malts to achieve both the caramel flavours but also to contribute some of the maltier biscuit notes. German Carabohemian achieves the latter. It carries caramel malt flavours but it is not overly sweet and has plenty of biscuit and bready notes with an ever so slight toasty quality. With a base of Maris Otter and flaked wheat and hopped solely with Fuggles, this should please all lovers of this low abv beer style.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Canned, 440 ml at Ambasada, Zagreb. Cloudy orange with small off-white head. Malty, caramel, sweetish, vague nuttiness, slightly herbal. Tad sweet.
Tried
from Can
from
Ambasada.
on 12 Sep 2023
at 20:42
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Caña en el Gato Valladolid 6 julio 2023 Color amarillento dorado con poca espuma de color blanco. Sabores bastante pronunciado para su escaso alcohol. Toques de cereales y maltas. Levaduras. Refrescante y buena.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Aug 2023
at 14:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Canned, shared with Hrabren and the Matoteks (thanks!) at Ambasada. Clear coppery-amber, off-whtie head. Perfumey aroma, caramelly as well. Creamy caramelly taste, bready, ending a bit herbal. Quite nice and pleasant.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jul 2023
at 19:53
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
0.44 l can shared with Irena Matotek, MM and Marko at Ambasada. Zagreb. Clear amber, small off-white head. Malty, caramel, candy, mint. Light body, bready, herbal, bitter. Finishes slightly sweet, a bit thin. Nice bready profile.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Jul 2023
at 17:24
5/10
Tried
on 09 Jun 2023
at 15:34
7/10
On tap @Fogg Bar Birras & Cheese, Madrid. 06/05/2023. Color ambarino corona de espuma blanca aromas y sabores malta, caramelo, cuerpo medio.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 May 2023
at 11:18
7/10
Tried
on 04 May 2023
at 17:53
6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Apr 2023
at 20:16
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Canned 440ml. -at Ambasada Zagreb. Clear amberish coloured, medium sized airy off-white head, mild malty caramel nose. Sweetish malty, light caramel, herbal and some bready touch with sweetish bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Apr 2023
at 20:34
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft, half pint. @SinDueña, Compostela 03/04/2023 [#6.044 Global - #1.281 Spain - #60 Garage Beer Co.] Pours orange with an off-white head. Aroma: clean caramel malts, light toffee and nutty. Taste: caramel and toffee. Clean and malty. Next one please!
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Apr 2023
at 13:21