Prehistoric Creatures - Best Bitter
Staggeringly Good in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.87
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As the dig unconvered more evidence of past life on the planet, our Palaeontologists were ecstatic to uncover a forgotten species that goes back as far as life existed on our shores. A group of prehistoric brews from the Tradassic period. The first fossil recipe to be gently excavated was a Best Bitter, a style that dominated the land for 140 million years, or at least for as long as CAMRA can remember.
It slashes at your taste buds, here, or here.
Or maybe across the belly, spilling your into your intestines.
The point is, you are alive, when you start to drink it.
So ya know, try to show a little respect...
(4.2% Chestnut brown Best Bitter, with bittersweet roast notes of caramel, toffee, fruit, malt complexity, hopped with British Fuggle)
It slashes at your taste buds, here, or here.
Or maybe across the belly, spilling your into your intestines.
The point is, you are alive, when you start to drink it.
So ya know, try to show a little respect...
(4.2% Chestnut brown Best Bitter, with bittersweet roast notes of caramel, toffee, fruit, malt complexity, hopped with British Fuggle)
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Isle of Wight Holiday Beer#15. Dark clear copper colour with a small head. Hoppy, malty, more the former but the red ale 'bitter' influence is very evident. Not really bitter in taste. Grainy aroma, which is appealing.
Tried
from Draft
at
Staggeringly Good Taproom (The Rex's Arms)
on 05 Sep 2025
at 23:50
6.4/10
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jul 2025
at 21:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Tried
from Cask
at
The Tuppenny
on 04 Apr 2025
at 16:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at The Tuppenny, Swindon, 04/04/2025.
Deep mahogany brown topped with a beige cap that stays for the show.
Nose is fruit slice, dates, biscuit, brown bread.
Taste comprises biscuit, fruit loaf, herb, grains, brown bread, toffee.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close.
Tidy flavoursome bitter.
Deep mahogany brown topped with a beige cap that stays for the show.
Nose is fruit slice, dates, biscuit, brown bread.
Taste comprises biscuit, fruit loaf, herb, grains, brown bread, toffee.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close.
Tidy flavoursome bitter.
Tried
on 04 Apr 2025
at 09:38
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Mörkt bärnstensfärgad vätska med småbubbligt beigefärgad skumkrona. Arom av fruktkaka, karamell och örter. Framträdande maltfyllgihet utan kladdkantring. Påtaglig blommig beska i balans med sötman.
Tried
on 29 Jan 2025
at 14:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Grumlig bärnstensfärgad vätska med en rejäl skumluva. Rejäl matig kropp med mjölig munkänsla. Säd, bröd, örter, gräs, maskros, löv och rostade nötter. En ovanligt fyllig och stabil bitter. Gott
Tried
from Can
from Systembolaget webbeställning
on 25 Jan 2025
at 16:54
5/10
Tried
from Can
on 29 Dec 2024
at 00:41
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Brown, slightly hazy, full head at first. Chestnut and malt aroma. Malt, earth and walnut taste, well balanced bitterness ending.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2024
at 19:44
6/10
Tried
from Can
on 30 Nov 2024
at 22:20
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Systembolaget. Quite interesting aroma like light flowers and cosmetics. Amber bitter colour. Very crunchable.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Nov 2024
at 16:05