Brains St Davids Ale

St Davids Ale

 

Brains in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

  Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular
Score
6.16
ABV: 4.1% IBU: - Ticks: 11
Named after the Patron Saint of Wales, and Brewed specially to celebrate St.David's Day on March 1st. A light and thirst quenching ale. Dry hopped with Styrian Goldings hops.
 

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

Cask @ The Windmill, Stansted Airport. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are fruits, malt, hops and honey. Sweet finish.

Tried from Cask on 12 Mar 2023 at 10:20


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ Windmill, Stansted. Clear yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity and light hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 120323

Tried from Cask on 12 Mar 2023 at 09:55


6.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at Picture House, Stafford. Pours a pale straw with a large white head and good lacing. Not much of an aroma, just some hints of floral hops and malts. Sweet malts to the fore at first in the aroma, but later some bitter hops come through along with grains and traces of orange peel. Sweetness returns at the finish. It’s OK, nothing more.

Tried from Cask on 01 Mar 2023 at 21:33


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

Hand-pulled pint on St Davids Day (1st March) 2023. Thomas Botfield (Spoons). Pale blonde body, clean and clear; large white crown that lasted. Not much going on to be honest, mild grassy aroma and taste, light bitterness and a hint of sweet malts, let's go for 'subtle' rather than 'bland'.

Tried on 01 Mar 2023 at 15:22


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Penhelig Arms, Aberdovey. Pours light brown with a small head. Aroma is slightly acrid bready caramel. Taste is bready throughout with a sweet nutty caramel finish.

Tried from Cask on 08 Apr 2018 at 16:39


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Cask at the William Webb Ellis (JDW), Twickenham - 02/03/13. Clear golden with an off white head. Nose is pale malts, grain, citrus. Taste comprises pale malt, light orange notes, citrus fruit, caramel, grain, background ho presence. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, some bitterness in the finish. An Ok average kind of bitter.

Tried from Cask on 03 Mar 2013 at 04:31


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

Cask at The William Morris, JDW, London. Pours clear gold with a moderate, white foam head. Hay, straw, light grass and pee in the nose. Has a pleasant, lightly sweet flavor with hints of dough, wet hay and grass. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Mild dryness in the finish, more wet hay, some light sweet dough, very mild bitterness. Not at all bad, if I’m honest with you.

Tried from Cask on 03 Mar 2012 at 09:51


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Fine looking golden ale, has a mild hoppiness in aroma and taste and a great full body.

Tried on 01 Mar 2012 at 11:53


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at the London Welsh Centre. Straw coloured with a dense white head; honey and grain aroma; lighted bodied with some citrus and fairly sweet; gentle bitter finish. Not bad.

Tried from Cask on 19 Feb 2009 at 05:01


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

[i] [b] Cask conditioned at The Gardeners Arms, Plantation Road, Oxford on the Ratebeerian day around Oxford 09-02-08 [/i] [/b] Mid gold in colour with white head, bit hoppy but bland an uninteresting found it a bit cardboardy.

Tried from Cask on 14 Feb 2008 at 01:49