Beartown Brewery Skinful

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Beartown Brewery in Congleton, Cheshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular
Score
6.54
ABV: 4.2% IBU: - Ticks: 36
Traditional hop forward bitter with a dry finish.
 

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Cask up the White Lady. Pours clear golden with a thick, creamy and inviting head. Aromas of stewed fruit, red apple. Taste is toffee and more hedgerow fruits. Dry, bitter finish.

Tried on 15 Sep 2025 at 14:58


6.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at the moon under water Watford Jdw. A clear orange amber coloured pour with a beige head. Aroma is semi sweet, apple, jammy stewed fruits, toffee. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, toffee malts, jammy fruit, spicy,. Palate is semi sweet cask condition. Ok.

Tried from Cask on 28 Aug 2025 at 13:17


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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Sample at the gate house on cask.
Medium creamy white head. Clear golden pour. Light bitterness

Tried from Cask at Gate House (JDW) on 18 Jul 2025 at 16:51


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Clear amber gold with a creamy / frothy white head and a faint aroma of fruit malt. Fresh and a little bit fruity, some chewy malt with a click of floral bitterness and a dry finish.

The Vault, Ellesemere

Tried from Cask on 17 Jul 2025 at 14:30


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

As 'Bearskinful' - Old rating from 2013 - 500ml bottle from the Beartown Tap, poured at home in Jersey, it's caramel with a white head. Aromas & tastes of berries, caramel, flora, herbs & malt. Medium body. Moderate bitter finish

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2025 at 17:38


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask. Copper beer with a dark cream head. Light caramel aroma. Caramel and light spice flavor with light earth. Medium bodied. Caramel and light spice linger with light earthiness.

Tried from Cask on 28 Feb 2024 at 17:27


7.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at Bull & Stirrup, Chester. Pours golden amber with a small scummy off-white head and good lacing. The aroma is mainly fudge and toffee mixed with the expected malts. In the mouth it starts off sweet with toffee to the fore again. However, some underlying bitterness soon comes through and this increases to become dominant. Flavour has floral hops and traces of orange and ginger. Bitterness lasts into the finish. I’m not too keen on Beartown beers, but this is decent.

Tried from Cask on 10 Feb 2024 at 22:48


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading. Amber with a white head and a light to moderate fizz. Excellent condition, well done 'Spoons. Nice and fruity up front, a little caramel, and then a dry twiggy finish with a lasting marmalade bitterness. Very drinkable, very moreish, a decent bitter this.

Tried from Cask on 19 Jan 2024 at 22:20


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Hand-pulled pint in the Shrewsbury Hotel (Spoons) on 27th February 2023. Clean amber body, off-white crown. Decent enough Bitter with a dry hop bitterness on a malty base.

Tried on 27 Feb 2023 at 18:36


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask, third pint. @The High Cross , Leicester (UK). 16/02/2023 [#5.820 Global - #606 England - #1 Beartown Brewery (My English brewery #181)] Pours clear amber with a thick white head. Good lacing. Aroma: biscuity malts, mild honey and earthy hops. Taste: biscuity malts and leafy earthy hops. Solid bitterness. Next one please!

Tried from Cask on 27 Feb 2023 at 09:25