80 /- (Bottle)
Belhaven in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.05
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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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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle@Hotel Motel, Edinburgh - dark copper pour with white head. sweet malty with notes of caramel and toffee, some treacle, twiggy and slight herbal hoppy into the finish. Not bad. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2016
at 14:37
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
0.5l bottle. Clear amber body, thin white head. Aroma of caramel, nuts, toast and floral hops. Taste of caramel, toast, grains, floral hops and some orange peel. Quite nice session beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2016
at 02:55
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Boxing Day 2015: clear 500ml bottle into a UK pint sleeve at home. Light mahogany brown body, off-white topping: sadly the head soon fell away to a wisp and collar very swiftly. Malts rule the aroma and taste with a hop bitterness in the finish. Thin bodied considering it’s supposed to be ’Rich, Smooth and Rounded’: not like the old 80/- Scottish beers I remember from the 1980’s which were deeper in flavour and body. .
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2015
at 10:15
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled 500ml (K-City, Pori)
Clear copper color, small beige head. Aroma is nutty and a bit skunky (clear bottle!). Light-bodied, decent for ABV. Nutty, a bit fruity chocolaty. Sweetish with some grassy (and even skunky) hoppyness in the finish. Decent.
Clear copper color, small beige head. Aroma is nutty and a bit skunky (clear bottle!). Light-bodied, decent for ABV. Nutty, a bit fruity chocolaty. Sweetish with some grassy (and even skunky) hoppyness in the finish. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2015
at 12:33
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Hereward, Ely. Reddish brown, pancake flat, almost no head. Hint of biscuity malt aroma. Taste is sweet with a medicinal woody bitterness. Finish is more balanced, with an attractively savoury tannic note at the end. Weak body. Not a complete shambles, but the bad outweighs the good.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jul 2015
at 23:00
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at some random scottish place at Tallinn. Pours clear copper with beige head. The head stays for a moment. Aroma is sweet, malt, caramel, toasted. Flavor follows the nose. Overall: ok brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2015
at 14:18
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
4.2% Cask gravity at Planet Thanet BF 2015. Clear mid brown colour disappearing head. Brown twiggy bitter. Headgerow fruits. Good fruit I thought somewhere between strawberry and rhubarb. Enjoyable enough. Ok condition decent drying hop on the finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Apr 2015
at 06:30
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Coppery color with a quickly diminishing white head. Aroma has notes of light earthy and slightly caramel. Flavor is slightly cardboard with hints of caramel. Light bittery final.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2015
at 12:35
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
500 ml bottle. Pours copper coloured with medium head. Smooth and pleasant. Not a bad beer. Could drink this again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2014
at 11:08
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
50 cl bottle @ home, no BBE info
Aroma is a bit metallic with nuts and toffee. Also butterscotch. Flavour has toffee, nuts, some harsh malt and metallic tones. Too metallic and harsh.
Aroma is a bit metallic with nuts and toffee. Also butterscotch. Flavour has toffee, nuts, some harsh malt and metallic tones. Too metallic and harsh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2014
at 07:54