Hen's Tooth

Morland in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular Out of Production

Score

6.42

ABV: 6.5%

IBU: -

Ticks: 96

Pipkin pale malt, Crystal malt and maltose syrup. Challenger and Goldings hops. Morland’s original yeast. A quite unique, strong, bottle-conditioned ale with an original gravity of 1059, full of flavour and character with a richly malted aroma and a nice, smooth finish. From a blend of Pale Ale and Crystal malts, this is a rich and satisfying beer with good presentation. A strongish beer in terms of alcohol, but there’s no bite from this Hen’s Tooth!

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6.9

Maverick (5074) reviewed Hen's Tooth from Morland 8 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. Bit of a rank aroma giving way to toffee. Buttery biscuity notes, can taste the goldings.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 00:50

6.9

tnkw01 (4059) reviewed Hen's Tooth from Morland 10 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Deep copper-amber in color. Small head. Aroma is slightly sweet, caramel. Taste is butterscotch, cereal, and caramel.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2025 at 06:53

5.6

Robinvboyer (8037) reviewed Hen's Tooth from Morland 11 months ago

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

No hops, not even some grassy notes. Just pale, caramely malts. Some bread notes, cereals, and some deep caramel notes. Solid body, and mouthfeel. Finish is medium bitter, and a tad roasty, with some nuts. Its a nice beer, but a touch of hops would have been nice.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:16

6.4

jerseyislandbeer (5899) reviewed Hen's Tooth from Morland 1 year ago

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

Old rating from 2017 - 500ml bottle, pours amber with a off white head. Aromas & tastes of dried fruits, caramel, grain, earth, bread & malt. Medium body. Malty finish

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2025 at 22:42

eurosoba (18570) ticked Hen's Tooth from Morland 3 years ago

Check-in dates from when Morland were an independent brewery, before acquisition and closure by Greene King

Tried on 09 Jan 2023 at 14:55

Marduk (26467) ticked Hen's Tooth from Morland 7 years ago

Tried on 17 Jan 2019 at 14:44

Franclh (7477) reviewed Hen's Tooth from Morland 8 years ago

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

Fles 50cl thuis. Maltig, zoeten, kleffig, droppig, ook bittertonen, syrup. (1-2018).

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jan 2018 at 12:57

jimgreen (21510) reviewed Hen's Tooth from Morland 8 years ago

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

500ml bottle. Poured a clear copper colour with a frothy white. The aroma is malt, rich sweet red berry fruit, woody hop. The flavour is moderate bitter light sweet with a rich sweet malt, fruit, dry crisp woody hop bitter palate and a long bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2017 at 14:56

6.2

Troopie (5667) reviewed Hen's Tooth from Morland 8 years ago

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

Bottle. Orange amber with white head. Malty aroma. Balanced flavor no alcohol notes. Long malt finished. Is bottle conditioned an attempted to make cask ales in bottles?

Tried from Bottle on 15 Sep 2017 at 17:01

5.9

Grumbo (24387) reviewed Hen's Tooth from Morland 8 years ago

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

Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Sep 2017 at 16:33