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 - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle from Sainsburys in North Watford, Herts. An amber coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Biscuity malt, caramel, dark fruit taste and aroma. Quite a drinkable English bitter, went down rather well mowing the lawn in spring like weather.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Cask gravity at Tonbridge Rugby Club Winter Festival 2024. Pale brown colour thin white head. I rather liked this. Good showing of Fuggles hop. Good hedgerow fruit and grapefruit. Decent malt to carry it all. Decent condition a classic English bitter.
Bottle from Sainsburys. Pours slightly hazy amber with a medium sized fluffy white head. Aroma is toasty bread with some caramel, biscuits and hints of citrus. Taste is bready and biscuity with more caramel, some peppery spice and a grapefruit pith bitterness on the dry finish. Thinnish body, light fizzy carbonation and slightly oily mouthfeel. Decent.
Classic bitter on cask
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled. Amber colour, mediumsized foamy white head, which leaves some lace. Aroma is floral, some biscuity and caramelly tones with some fruits as well. Flavour is caramel, some fruits, mild biscuity tones with some nutty and some floral tones too. Smooth and easy going.
330ml bottle as a gift - clear golden to copper body with a thin layer of foam. Nose is malty with a hint of grassy hop. Slightly sharp hoppy bitterness at the start with a little metallic tang.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Sainsburys, Eltham. Amber pour with a white head. Nose is grapefruit, digestive biscuit, lime, quite herby. Taste is digestive biscuit, grapefruit, bitter herbs. Long bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Had a couple pints on cask at the Clapton Hart - Hackney. Pours clear gold with a large, foamy white head. Nice earthy and leafy hop character, mellow sweetness, lightly toasted grains. Light bodied with fine, massaging carbonation; good condition. Nicely balanced finish, tasty, easy-drinking.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Cask at Earl of Essex, Islington, London, 28 May 2022) Amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty, hoppy nose with notes of caramel, apricots, toast and earthy hops. Malty taste with caramel, nuts, toast, apricots and a balanced earthy bitterness. Medium body, with a slight sweetness. Tasty and well balanced bitter. Nice one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from the Low Cost Beer online shop. Pours clear amber with a thin off-white head. Aromas of light herbs, light caramel. Taste is orange and bread. Grassy bitter finish with a malty linger.