Best - Fuggles Hops
Five Points Brewing Company in Hackney, Greater London, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.86
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Five Points Best celebrates both the history of British brewing and the modern craft beer movement. It showcases the Five Points take on beer: influenced by the past but brewed very much for the present. Because, we reckon, why should modern beer always mean new beer styles?
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Bottled English "best" bitter brewed in London with what is probably the single most classic hop variety in the genre, Fuggle. Off-white, moussey, medium thick, stable, lacing head over a clear deep golden robe with orangey glow and vague olive-greenish shades; small and 'natural' disparate bubbles everywhere. Aroma of Duyvis 'borrelnootjes' and toasted peanuts, Graham crackers, old cheese rind, rusk, dry rosemary-flavoured crostini, cumin seed, Tuscany ragù stewed for hours, croissants, dried tomato peel, toasted shallot. Restrainedly fruity onset, dried apricot, roasted pumpin and tamarillo, medium carbonation with soft, smooth body; bread-crusty, rusk- and peanut-like soft-toasty maltiness, mildly bittering under a growing grassy, ever so slightly cheesy hoppiness, adding further peppery bittering effects as well as general quenching dryness. The whole maintains a perfect balance between the soft toasty bitterishness of the malts and the more spicy and outspoken bitterness of the hops. The Fuggle shines here in all its aspects, more so than it usually does (as it has a reputation for being a bit dull) and the beer in general shows no flaws, only balance, smoothness and downright tastiness. Excellent best bitter - but given that I had it from a bottle, I wonder what this would taste like fresh from the cask...
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Spicy, citrus, bitter, crisp
Vesine,kanepine,kuiv, mõru, linnaseline. Ok, mõrudus meeldib
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from lowcostbeer.com, consumed 3 months past BBE. Light hazy amber with small off-white head. Aroma of earthiness, caramel, bread, grass, hint of spice. Taste has a nice balance to it, semi-sweet, earthy malts, caramel, orange zest, bread, grass-herbal hops, decent bitterness. Nice bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from M&S, Brooklands. Aroma is malty, woody. Clear brown. Thick foamy delicate white head. Woody, herbal hops. Big Malta. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish. Hoppy bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home. Long weekend of middle daughter's birthday madness, but we all had a great time. Enjoyed this quietly on the sofa as a bit of me time. This is a textbook bitter, with exceptional balance of malt and hops at a great low abv. I really like this.
gave a cheers!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at at The Woolpack in Bermondsey. Amber orange pour. Creamy white head. Mild citrus hop aroma. Creamy mouthfeel. A hint of bitterness upfront followed by notes of tangerine and grapefruit. Peppery hop finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
[October 2022] Slightly hazy golden amber with a frothy white head. Malty nose, light bodied, fruity and malty with some mellow floral bitterness
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Against The Grain. Hazy deep golden body with an off-white head. Low carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of earth and dried leaves. Flavour of cranberry, brown bread and earth. Medium body with a slick texture. Light fizz. A nice earthy Bitter.