McColl's Brewery Best Bitter

Best Bitter

 

McColl's Brewery in Evenwood, Durham, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Bitter Regular
Score
6.46
ABV: 4.4% IBU: 56 Ticks: 8
Our traditional Best Bitter is made with 100% British ingredients. It delivers rich and resinous malts with spicy marmalade hop flavours and deep citrus aromas building to an assertive bitterness (56 IBUs) but counterbalanced by a sweet body. Ingredients: Malted Barley CaraMalt and Flaked Barley Hops: Bittering Hops: Pilot and Admiral Flavour Hops: Pilot, Admiral, Minstrel and Brambling Cross Aroma Hops: Admiral and Brambling Cross Yeast: A fruity, softer ‘house’ ale strain Water: A Burtonised profile
 

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6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

16/5/2018. Bottle from CentrAle, Newcastle. Pours pale amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of fruit, flowers, caramel, biscuit and hops. Moderate sweetness with medium bitterness. Moderate body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Bittersweet fruity finish.

Tried from Bottle on 16 May 2018 at 20:33


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Half-pint, cask ale at Flying Horse Hotel. Creamy white head leaving spotty lacing down the glass. Hazed warm golden body. Moderate malt-fruity aromas. Mixed taste of herbal hops and toffee followed by a rounded bitter finish. Likable. Nice partner to a well made tuna sandwich at the pub. (Rochdale 05.05.208).

Tried from Cask on 15 May 2018 at 19:24


6.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

500ml bottle. Orange golden colour, creamy white foam head leaving lacing and metallic citrusy aroma. Taste is malt & grain, light toffee, straw, some marmalade citric, and a strong metalic bitterness. Medium bodied, soft to medium carbonation, dry astringent bitter finish. Quite OK.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Nov 2017 at 13:13


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at the Guildford arms... Copper... Thin tan head... Soft sweet toffee fruit.. Juicy fruits.. Light biscuits toffee fruit.. Very sweet finish

Tried from Cask on 11 Nov 2017 at 11:53


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Guildford arms. Pours clear golden, nose is cheesy, pine, herbal, taste is juicy pine, fruity, cereal.

Tried from Cask on 10 Nov 2017 at 03:28


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Guildford Arms. Pours crystal clear golden with a thin white head. Nice marmalade aromas, faint chalky note though. Light rich tea biscuit sweetness. Taste is light orange and more rich tea. Thin finish.

Tried from Cask on 09 Nov 2017 at 13:21


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2017 [ The 42th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 10th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As McColl's Best Bitter ]. ABV: 4.4%. Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy - fizzy, good to fair lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity malt, citrus, fruity hops. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, citrus - peach, fruity, pale malt, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20171012] 7-3-7-3-14

Tried from Cask on 12 Oct 2017 at 22:44


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Handpull cask at Broood at the Prince of Wales, Hinckley. Dark gold bordering on copper, incredibly clear. Low aroma of caramel and orange peel. Taste is a bit bitter and spicy with grainy and vegetal notes nearer to the finish. It has a nice mouthfeel for the strength: oily but far from thin. Not a bad beer by any means but it has issues that keep it from being the beer it could be...

Tried from Cask on 14 Sep 2017 at 10:30