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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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Burk. Kola, knäckebröd, lite mjölig, mandel, lite pigg pomerans, låg bitterhet, mjuk munkänsla. Det här var trevligt och gott!
Tried
on 22 Nov 2024
at 15:33
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
440ml Can - Copper red with a foamy head. Caramel, berries and some biscuity notes in the aroma. Toffee, dried fruit, berries and some slightly biscuity and earthy notes in the taste. A decent bitter, even if it is from Portsmouth!
Tried
from Can
on 15 Nov 2024
at 20:18
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at The Green Goddess, Blackheath Royal Standard. Mahogany coloured pour with a light beige head. Toffee apple, caramel & nuts in the nose. Taste is toffee apple, caramel, bitter malts. Tidy, tasty best bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Sep 2024
at 04:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
440ml can - Pours an almost clear chestnut amber colour with a small frothy beige head. Aroma is malty, caramel, toasted malt, light dried fruit and floral hops. A moderately sweet and malty taste, toasted malt, caramel, orange peel and leafy hop flavours with a moderately bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 02 May 2024
at 18:14
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can ordered from the brewery. Aroma is malty. Citrus notes. Hazy-opaque brown. Thin foamy white head Sweet start. Floral and yeasty. Followed by a citrus edge for light sourness. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft carbonation... slightly prickly. Long dry slightly astringent finish. Nice. Sweet and malty so makes me think of Finnish NA homebrew. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Feb 2024
at 18:13
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask @ Tap and Can. Pours a clear chestnut amber, off-white head. Nice dark look for a bitter, bringing some Autumnal twig with a mellow bitterness, lovely leafy warmth, toffee 🍁🍂 Like it
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Dec 2023
at 16:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear mahogany brown with a frothy off-white head and a leafy, slightly nutty aroma. Light bodied, on the watery side, with sweet malt, some caramel/toffee and old school floral hop bitterness, finishes pretty dry
Tried
from Cask
at
Tap and Can
on 06 Dec 2023
at 18:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Gravity cask at Pigs Ear 2023, day 5 - Hackney. Pours clear chestnut-gold with a frothy, light khaki head. Light sweet flavour with notes of biscuits, toasted malts, spicy grains, leafy hops, nips of citrus peel. Light bodied with fine carbonation; good condition. Well balanced finish, crisp, right amount of bitterness. Sound.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Dec 2023
at 15:12