Topsail
Bays Brewery in Paignton, Devon, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.28
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Launched in June 2010, Topsail is a well balanced beer, deep amber in colour with a subtle sweetness throughout.
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4/10
Tried
on 26 Mar 2016
at 20:47
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the haymarket. Pours clear golden, nose is grassy, vegetive, floral, taste is sweet toffee, floral.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Feb 2016
at 10:44
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle at friends. Amber colour with an off white head. Deep malty fruit and hop aroma. The taste is refreshingly bitter with a moderate bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2015
at 23:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Guildford. Pours clear copper with a thin off-white head. Aromas of biscuit, some citrus. Taste is more biscuits. Crisp finish, decent bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2014
at 09:14
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
On cask at the Guildford Arms. Appearance - deep copper with a nicely proportioned head. Nose - biscuits going into ginger cake. Taste - toffee and biscuit. Some spice. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy yet biscuity texture and a long dry finish. Overall - interesting and slightly challenging bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Oct 2014
at 08:12
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Some hops on the nose, weak bodied bitter in the palate, not much in the way of flavour.
Tried
on 11 Sep 2012
at 14:04
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Best of the Bays catalogue so far. An excellent well balanced beer, nice colour and palate.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2012
at 07:03
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Seven Stars, Bristol 2/5/2012. Amber with a slight, off-white head. Citrus and grassy hop aroma with some rich tea malts. Flavour had more fruit, biscuit malts and a decent, bitter finish. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 May 2012
at 06:26
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.Clear medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, toasted - caramel, fruity, light to light moderate hoppy, orange - citrus, lemon - lime notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110430]
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Mar 2012
at 09:22
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
[Cask at the First and Last, Penzance] Deep amber with a moderate creamy head and a slight fizz. Dominated by a woodland mulch flavour, this is surprisingly dry and refreshing for a darker bitter. A lasting dry, bitter finish with a hint of pepper. Nice, and a little bit different.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Sep 2011
at 14:34