Skiffle
Shortts Brewery in Thorndon, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.25
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A premium bitter with complex, rich and malty flavours.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2018 - Day 2 🇬🇧 [ Great British Beer Festival 2018 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.
[ As Shortts Farm Skiffle ].
ABV: 4.5%. Clear medium to dark amber colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, caramel, fruity malt, light nutty. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average duration, sweet malt, caramel, fruity malt, malty, light nutty. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20180808]
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Tried
from Cask
on 12 Aug 2018
at 13:25
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
8th August 2018
GBBF Day 2. Cask. Clear amber beer, small cream colour head. Smooth and mildly dry palate, modest fine carbonation. Slighty tangy caramel malts. Modest dried fruits. Light dry and mildly floral spicy finish. Clean but dry and utterly unremarkable.
GBBF Day 2. Cask. Clear amber beer, small cream colour head. Smooth and mildly dry palate, modest fine carbonation. Slighty tangy caramel malts. Modest dried fruits. Light dry and mildly floral spicy finish. Clean but dry and utterly unremarkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Aug 2018
at 12:01
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask hand pump at the Murderers - Norwich. Pours clear, burnished gold with a foamy, white head. Bready malts on the nose with a bit of toffee, butterscotch and berries. Medium sweet flavor with lightly toasted bread, buttery toffee, very slight leafy bitterness, grain. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes sweet with further toasty bread, toffee, dried berries. Tasty ESB.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Nov 2015
at 07:39
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Handpull cask from the Townhouse, Ely. Light brown, translucent like very strong iced tea. Only a tiny bit of head. Light malty aroma, a bit nutty with candied apple and forest fruit. Intense and almost artifical sweetness in the taste, almost cloying. Some unbalanced bitter on the finish. Weak body. I don’t care for this all that much.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Oct 2015
at 16:00
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle from Beautiful Beers, Bury St. Edmunds for the train home after a day at the East Anglian beer festival. Poured a dark amber colour with an average sized white head. Aroma of caramel, malt and fruit. Light sweetness, medium bitterness. Malty bitterness to finish, medium bodied but with a thin weak texture. Carbonation quite flat. Not the best beer to finish on.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2015
at 07:35
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at The Ale House, Colchester. Poured a dark amber with a frothy white head. The aroma is red berry fruit and malt. The flavour is medium bitter with a weak sweet malt hop bitter slightly woody palate. Medium bodied with flat carbonation. An interesting, flavour packed ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Dec 2013
at 09:56