Original Bitter (Can)
(Batch of Original Cask / Cask Bitter)
Tetley Brewery in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.44
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Tetley's Original Bitter is an amber bitter ale, which has sweet toffee apple flavours balanced with distinctly bitter dry flavours and a lingering dry bitter finish.
The ABV has slightly reduced over time.
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Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Original Bitter (Can) from Tetley Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Can. Sweetish, grainy aroma. Sweetish flavor, fizzy with some caramel. Slight bitter aftertaste. Drinkable, but not worth a retry.
Biruski (4902) reviewed Original Bitter (Can) from Tetley Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Reddish copper with a thick white head. Bread, lightly sweet, malty, earth. Full smooth body. Easy.
Downender (11275) reviewed Original Bitter (Can) from Tetley Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can. Deep amber in colour, with a slight, off-white, head. Caramel aplenty, slightly bready malts, a touch of leafy hop and slightly bitter finish. So so.
Grumbo (24387) reviewed Original Bitter (Can) from Tetley Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
21/10/2018. Can of the Original Bitter, 3.6% abv, from a skanky mini-market in Skegness run by a very rude chap indeed. The buying experience was marginally worse than the beer. Poured clear amber with a foamy off-white head. Aroma malt, toffee, fruit, berries and metal. Medium plus sweetness, moderate but slightly unpleasant bitterness. Moderate body, slight oily and watery texture, soft carbonation. Metallic, berry bitterness to finish. Just fair.
danlo (13133) reviewed Original Bitter (Can) from Tetley Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
440ml can of Original from B&M Darlington. Amber colour, off-white foam head leaving some lacing and malty yeasty aroma. Taste is malt, toffee, yeasty with earthy bitterness. Light to medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry tangy bitter finish. OK.
TedE (2767) reviewed Original Bitter (Can) from Tetley Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
440ml can into pint glass. As Tetley's Smooth Flow. Widgety gush leads to a still golden bronze beer with a two finger tightly packed creamy head. Excellent lacing. Smells of caramel lollies being eaten in the next room. Smooth texture, toffee malt taste. Short finish. Standard English lunchtime pub bitter.
Hanoi (1998) reviewed Original Bitter (Can) from Tetley Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Can. Nose is caramel, musty, fruit. Taste is caramel, berry, slight butterscotch. Smooth Mouthfeel. I?ve had worse. Edit: Smoothflow is a completely different beer, I am not sure why it's under the same listing. It's a muted version of the above with a wert cardboard finish. despicable.
mithe (4550) reviewed Original Bitter (Can) from Tetley Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(can 0,44l)
Aroma: Malty.
Appearance: Clear dark golden color. Minimal, white head.
Taste: Medium sweet, malty, toasty, light caramel, light bitter.
Palate: Medium body. Long light bitter finish.
Overall: Average Bitter.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can of the "Original" version at a work quiz night, poured repeatedly into a small disposable plastic water cup- not one of my classiest drinking experiences! Was quite surprised to see it’s a separate rate to the keg version- had assumed I’d just be doing a re-rate. It’s a slightly murky amber-brown brew with a thick off-white head. A surprisingly fruity flavour with caramel and tea on the side. Sweetish, smooth and very easy-drinking. Very little hop presence at all. It’s not great, but it’s much better than I expected (although I should stress that my expectations were pretty low). It’s also much better than I remember the keg version being (and I’ve had the keg quite a few times) so maybe it is different enough to warrant the separate entry. Anyhow, it powered our team to winning the quiz, so it can’t be all that bad.
Pre-flight beers. Back to the states with us.