Prehistoric Creatures - Best Bitter

Staggeringly Good in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular

Score

6.87

ABV: 4.2%

IBU: 25

Ticks: 18

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)

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6.5

Olut (21769) reviewed Prehistoric Creatures - Best Bitter from Staggeringly Good 5 months ago

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

AndySnow (19631) ticked Prehistoric Creatures - Best Bitter from Staggeringly Good 6 months ago

Tried from Can on 14 Jul 2025 at 21:23

6.6

WingmanWillis (38284) ticked Prehistoric Creatures - Best Bitter from Staggeringly Good 10 months ago

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

Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Prehistoric Creatures - Best Bitter from Staggeringly Good 10 months ago

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.

Tried on 04 Apr 2025 at 09:38

7.2

Peter_L (2599) reviewed Prehistoric Creatures - Best Bitter from Staggeringly Good 1 year ago

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

Vignale (8386) reviewed Prehistoric Creatures - Best Bitter from Staggeringly Good 1 year ago

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