Best - Fuggles Hops
Five Points Brewing Company in Hackney, Greater London, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.89
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Five Points Best is a single-hopped Best Bitter, brewed with Fuggles hops from Hukins Hops. Refreshing and smooth, Best has notes of caramel and biscuit, and a lovely grassy, herbal freshness that makes you want to reach for another one.
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?
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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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
550ml bottle. Poured a slightly hazy medium amber colour with a mostly lasting frothy white head. The aroma is malty, light woody hops. The flavour is moderate bitter, very light sweet, with a smooth, fresh, malty, green hop, light dry pepper spice, woody hop bitter palate. A good example of the style with some spiciness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2025
at 23:36
7.6/10
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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...
Tried
on 26 Aug 2025
at 17:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2025
at 21:49
6/10
Spicy, citrus, bitter, crisp
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Jan 2025
at 17:16
7/10
Vesine,kanepine,kuiv, mõru, linnaseline. Ok, mõrudus meeldib
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Jan 2025
at 16:59
7/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:06
6.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Marks and Spencer (Various Locations)
on 24 Dec 2024
at 00:00
8/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2024
at 16:59
7.6/10
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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.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Jul 2024
at 19:20
7/10
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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
Tried
on 29 Jul 2024
at 13:35