North Wall
Hop Kettle Brewery in Swindon, Wiltshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.29
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Best Bitter – 4.3%
Deep brown beer with rich and complex malt flavours, a smooth and rounded body, and a lightly balancing English hop character that provides a gently bitter finish.
Malt: Maris Otter, Crystal, Torrified Wheat, Carafa
Hops: East Kent Goldings, Fuggles, Challenger
Available in: Cask, Bottle
Deep brown beer with rich and complex malt flavours, a smooth and rounded body, and a lightly balancing English hop character that provides a gently bitter finish.
Malt: Maris Otter, Crystal, Torrified Wheat, Carafa
Hops: East Kent Goldings, Fuggles, Challenger
Available in: Cask, Bottle
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2014, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Hop Kettle North Wall Bitter ].ABV: 4.2%. Clear medium to dark brown amber color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, nutty, caramel. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, caramel - roasted - toasted, nutty notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20140812]
Tried
from Cask
on 16 May 2015
at 04:20
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From cask. Pours hazy dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty and breadish. Roasted, mild acidic. Bitter and slight herbal. Hard roasted breadish dark malty. Lasting dry, acidic and roasted.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Dec 2014
at 08:48
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ GBBF 2014. Pours a dark amber color with a longlasting off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with bitter hints. Fruity malty bitter caramel finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Oct 2014
at 05:12
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
12th August 2014
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Clear deep amber beer, residual pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry. Modest fine carbonation. Light dry malts with a little unsweet toffee. Bitterish dried fruits and floral flavours. Dry finish. Standard stuff but clean.
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Clear deep amber beer, residual pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry. Modest fine carbonation. Light dry malts with a little unsweet toffee. Bitterish dried fruits and floral flavours. Dry finish. Standard stuff but clean.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Aug 2014
at 05:06
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at GBBF
Clear dark amber with a medium sized beige head, some lacing. Aroma of malts and caramel. Flavors of caramel and floral
Ok
Clear dark amber with a medium sized beige head, some lacing. Aroma of malts and caramel. Flavors of caramel and floral
Ok
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Aug 2014
at 16:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask (Lamb & Flag, Oxford) - Dark brown with some orangey tinges. Nuts, and dried fruit are in the aroma whilst the taste is fruity and nutty with notes of almonds and carmael. The finish is quite dry.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Aug 2014
at 23:02
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sampled @ GBBF. Clear autumnal amber to red-brown color, small beige head. Smell and taste malts, caramel, bitter, nuts, a slight hint of chocolate. Average body and carbonation.
Tried
on 18 Aug 2014
at 10:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask - Grapefruit and pine. Clear gold with a thin head. Woody and resinous with a long deep bitterness.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Aug 2014
at 04:32
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the 2014 GBBF. Amber red colour with a halo of off white head. Aroma is subdued, nutty and raisin with English yeast esters. Flavour is nutty, raisin, medium sweet caramel. Medium sweet palate low carbonation. Fairly standard fare.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Aug 2014
at 05:43
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Casper is back tasting. Clear brown lasting beige head. Some malt. Some milk chocolate. Ok
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2014
at 09:14