Bitter - Simonds 1880 (Fifth Iteration 5.3%)
(Batch of Bitter Simonds 1880)
The Kernel Brewery in Bermondsey, Greater London, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
7.07
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
--Sample, thanks fonefan! -- Clear orange/brown, mid sized head. Leafy, bready nose. Mid dry with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Leafy wuth hay and bread, Mid bitter finish. Harmonious and pleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample (thanks fonefan!). Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is floral, toffee, some some mild toasted tones too. Flavour is nicely wooden with some floral, sweet malty and mild black currant bushes to it as well. Really nicely dry and bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Has to be worse than the previous. Treasures like s thick yeast cloudy slurry. Mikkeller ams
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at the kernel tap room. A clear reddish amber coloured pour with a a lasting beige head. Aroma is semi sweet, sticky brown sugars, liquorice, brandy snap sugars, singed sugars. Maynard reaction. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, sticky brown sugars, treacle, liquorice, singed pine, cake end, burnt raisin. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, some tannin, toasted grain husks, spicy carbonation. Really good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Draught at Mother Kelly's Bethnal Green, London, 10 May 2024) Amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty, hoppy nose with citrus, black-currant, orange peel and caramel. Malty, hoppy taste with notes of crisp-bread, orange peel, black-currant, toffee, dried fruit and a balanced citric/earthy bitterness. Medium body, quite dry. Tasty and well balanced bitter, with a good hop presence. Very nice.