80 /- (Bottle)
Belhaven in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.02
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One of Scotland’s favourites thanks to its distinctive and full-bodied flavour. Pale malt gives satisfying ‘Horlicks’ maltiness and black malt adds balance to the sweetness. Challenger provides the bitterness and base note herbal hop character with Goldings adding a hint of orange peel.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at The Gordon Highlander, Inverurie. 75p for a a half! It pours clear mahogany brown with a decent frothy white head. The aroma is sweetish, toffee, dried fruits, brown bread, fruit cake and twig. The taste is dryish upfront, firm, bitter - sweet, dusty, dull toffee, brown bread, twiggy and leafy hop. Finish is short, dry and kinda woody. Light body and soft, but lively carbonation. I actually expected a fair bit worse. Yes it's not the most exciting beer in the world, but it is certainly quenching. Nae bad (especially for the price).
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jun 2022
at 11:27
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On cask at Golden Acorn (JDW) in Glenrothes - Clear brown body, long lasting creamy head. Malty and nutty on the nose, sweetish malt at the start, bit of grassiness and fruit, quite decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Mar 2022
at 09:45
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Cask at The Bull, Newmarket. Pours dark amber/brown with a cream head. Aroma: fruity, sour berry, caramel, malt, bread. Taste: light to moderate sweet & light bitter, malty, fruity, a touch sour. Light to medium body with soft carbonation. Not great.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Jan 2021
at 14:13
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Adding in my 300 Beers To Try ticks because I want to see how they impact my stats and some of them I will never see again. Will however re-rate them when practical. Winerack, West Byfleet. Bought a mixed box for a BBQ so I could tick this.
Tried
on 06 Aug 2020
at 11:15
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
An unusual nice cask bitter Nutty in the glass with a fine tan head Good lacing Pleasant intensity in the aroma Balanced sweetness and a fine mellow carbonation level Pleasant to drink Bready, nutty, malty and fruity flavor [Cask at Mallard in Doncaster, England]
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Aug 2019
at 08:32
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Leicht eingetrübt bernsteinfarben mit weißer Schaumkrone. In der Nase Toffee und Malz, leicht fruchtig. Geschmacklich malzig mit Toffee und Karamell. Mittlere Süße mit mittlerer Bitterkeit, sanfte Kohlensäure, mittlerer Körper.
Tried
on 15 Apr 2019
at 17:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ Albanach, Edinburgh. Clear brown with a lasting off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and dark bread. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 140419
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Apr 2019
at 20:05
5/10
Tried
on 19 Nov 2018
at 16:09
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle. Clear nutty brown with a small off white head. Toffee aroma. Nutty, toffee flavour. Average
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2018
at 22:52
4/10
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Aug 2018
at 17:51