House Ale / Landlord's Choice (Name varies)
(has 18 batches)
Greene King in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.88
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Greene King brew a 3.9% bitter for use by pubs in their portfolio to label as their house beer. Names include: Eagle DNA, The Bull Finest Ale, Assembly House Landlords Choice, Whiteley Best Bitter Landlord’s Choice, Jude The Obscure, Queens Head Bitter, Balaclava Bitter, etc.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
From cask at the Hare and Billet, Blackheath, London, 30.01.22. Amber golden. Fine beige head. Aroma and taste of crystal malt, pale malt, brittle, mellow hops and meadows. Good!
Earlier Rating: 5/7/2015 Total Score: 3.3
Pint from cask at Lass O’Gowrie, Manchester 07.05.15 and The Beer House, Victoria Station, Manchester with JFE 19.01.18. Clear dark golden. Dense and persistent beige head and lacing. Moderate aroma, with malt, grains and porridge. Lots of sweet malt, as well as porridge, grains and fruits in taste. Decent quaffability. Low bitterness. Perhaps a bit waterish.
Earlier Rating: 5/7/2015 Total Score: 3.3
Pint from cask at Lass O’Gowrie, Manchester 07.05.15 and The Beer House, Victoria Station, Manchester with JFE 19.01.18. Clear dark golden. Dense and persistent beige head and lacing. Moderate aroma, with malt, grains and porridge. Lots of sweet malt, as well as porridge, grains and fruits in taste. Decent quaffability. Low bitterness. Perhaps a bit waterish.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Feb 2022
at 23:33
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at the Ram, Kingston. The barmaid told me that this was brewed by a local brewery and not available elsewhere. I suspect she was bullshitting and this may well be Landlords Choice. Their other two bitters were GK. Malty aroma, slightly sour. Clear amber. Frothy foamy off-white head. Light bitter. Big sour - I'd say intentionally - Citrus streak. Underlying sweet doughy malts. Malty aroma, slightly sour. Clear amber. Frothy foamy off-white head. Light bitter. Big sour - I'd say intentionally - Citrus streak. Underlying sweet doughy malts. It was OK.
Earlier Rating: 11/9/2018 Total Score: 3
As 'The Wyvern's Bollicks [sic]' at The Wyvern, Church Crookham. Malty aroma. Chestnut. Frothy off-white head. Light malty. Some caramel. Light bodied. Some slickness to it. Average carbonation. Abrupt finish. Bang average bitter.
Earlier Rating: 11/9/2018 Total Score: 3
As 'The Wyvern's Bollicks [sic]' at The Wyvern, Church Crookham. Malty aroma. Chestnut. Frothy off-white head. Light malty. Some caramel. Light bodied. Some slickness to it. Average carbonation. Abrupt finish. Bang average bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Nov 2021
at 19:13
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
As Greene King On the Head. A cask beer, amber copper coloured pour with a thin halo white head. Aroma.a is sweet nutty malts, tangy apple, terrible diacetyl flavour is semi sweet terrible brown sugars, raisin bread. Fucking terrible.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Sep 2019
at 20:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask halfpint, as Bankside Inspector Morse IPA, at The Townhouse, Ely. ABV 3.9%. Copper colour, white head. Malty aroma, some toffee notes. Flavour of a standard bitter, some bittering hops, hints of berries, but not an IPA by any stretch of the mind. Not bad though.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jun 2019
at 18:11