Hen's Tooth
Morland in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.41
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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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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
500ml bottle - Seriously, why is with so many English brewers and their clear bottles? Fortunately this one seems to have escaped light damage to the contents, but many bottles aren’t so lucky. Pours mostly clear light amber with a big, off-white head. It has a mild aroma of malt and English hops. The flavor is sweet caramel malt up front and some good, balanced hops later that ends in a pleasantly bitter finish. It’s light to medium bodied and overall a very session-able bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2009
at 15:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear amber with large off white head. Sweet fruity with caramel,peach and mild hoppy notes. Ends bitter.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2008
at 01:29
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
50cl clear glass bottle from Country Club Liquors; nose is mild grassy hops and light caramel malt mixed with some nuts and light fruitiness; amber with a big, glass- lacing, yellow-tinged head; flavor is lightly bitter with lots of nuttiness; finish is light bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2008
at 19:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
50 cL clear bottle. Pours slight cloudy orange with a slowly collapsing off-white head. Ligth fruity nose with a mild brett-ish dryness. Dry malt flavour with again a light brett note providing this distinct wooden flavour to the beer. Dry malt flavour and leading into a rather dry and not so hoppy finish. Nice one despite it may have been un-intentionally with brett-like bacteria.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2008
at 17:49
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml clear glass bottle. Slightly hazy copper colour with a moderate off-white head that left rings of lace down the glass. Red fruit and caramel aroma with a touch of spice. Flavour was slightly sweet with some doughy malt, grassy hops and a short, bitter finish. Alcohol was fairly well-hidden. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2008
at 03:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled(500ml). –Clear amber coloured, medium to big head, pleasant malty and fruity nose. Sweet malty, nice hoppy and fruity aroma with notes of alcohol. Much better than similar beers that I’ve tried. Lot of sediment at the bottom. Very nice ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2007
at 09:43
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Cardinal. Caramel, malt, sweetness and some hops in the aroma. The flavor is quite malty and sweet, with hops coming stronger towards the finish, which is quite hoppy and pleasant. There’s something pleasant about this beer that I couldn’t get, but maybe it’s just that. Pleasant that is. (070623)
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2007
at 12:12
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours deep, dark amber into an English pint. Fluffy off-white pancake batter head with excellent retention. Caramel aromas. Creamy fruity caramel upfront with a dry, crisp bitter metallic finish. Not fond of the metal -- thought it would subside as it warmed...
Tried
on 24 Jul 2007
at 17:52
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pour is a bright orange with a big white head with lots of floaties. Aroma is fruity and almost like wine with some malts and candi sugar. Flavor is super vinegar and bitter with lots of dark fruit and some mustyness. Kind reminds me of a red wine. Tasty especially if you like you beer tart and sour.
Tried
from Can
on 04 May 2007
at 17:54
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle conditioned. Very lively with lots of sediment, but poured a crystal clear caramel colour with a loose white head; yeasty aroma; malty body with heavy carbonation, some fruit; full and well-balanced finish with moderate bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2007
at 18:40