Original (Cask)
(Batch of Old Original)
Everards Brewery in Glenfield, Leicestershire, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.28
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Also known as Old Original.
Ingredients: Maris Otter malt; Fuggles, Challenger, and Goldings hops.
Ingredients: Maris Otter malt; Fuggles, Challenger, and Goldings hops.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at The Heathcote Arms, Croft, Leicestershire. Pours clear brown with a thin off-white head. Aromas of caramel, toffee, butterscotch. Taste is malty, faint chalky note. Sweet toffee finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Oct 2015
at 10:15
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at JDW Charlie Hall; clear amber pour with creamy off white head, fruity aroma, fruity taste mostly of the dried variety, feint hint of malts a bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Jun 2013
at 06:25
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Small white head. Clear amber body. Earthy vinous aroma with spicy grainy notes. Dry fruity earthy spicy taste with floral grainy notes. Mid-to-light body. Mild, soft, flat mouthfeel. Dryish earthy spicy fruity aftertaste with honey and vaguely funky notes. Interesting and unusual, but not that good. (0.568l cask at John Scott’s Pub, Göteborg.)
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Jun 2013
at 07:09
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Cask pulled. Smooth with a creamy head. Is a copper coloured ale with a berry aroma.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Feb 2013
at 12:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at John Scotts Pub cons 2012-12-07 Göteborg AR: wee caramel, wee wee fruitiness AP: amber hazy, no head F: wee carbonation , watery, burned caramel, mild and smooth caracter, wee plum
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Dec 2012
at 02:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at John Scott’s Pub, Göteborg. On September 21, 2012Pretty much clear amber to copper color, white to off-white head. Fruity, floral, malty, sweet, some caramel taste. Bitter, grainy, dry aftertaste. Medium to smooth mouthfeel. Medium bitterness, herbal and floral. Sweet, berry, fruity, esters scent. Nice and very drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Sep 2012
at 03:23
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
5th Sep 2012 and I’m in The Fighting Cocks, Oakengates: the only pub owned by the Ironbridge Brewery. Everards were involved with setting up this joint venture; hence their beers are always available in this pub. I had a hand-pulled pint in a straight UK sleeve glass. Amber bodied; with an off-white head. The nose and taste was a good mix of flavours: hoppy and malty at the same time, fruity hops, nutty malts with a semi-sweet start and a mildly-bitter finish, both to the smell and taste. I’d forgotten how good this was: not had a pint of this for years, I’ll try and rectify that a lttle more often now I’ve re-visited it.
Tried
on 11 Sep 2012
at 07:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
A slightly fizzy pint with a foamy head that reduced to a thin film. Sweet but not overly so, a slightly bitter taste to balance it out. Refreshing but at 5.2% it’s not one I’d choose as a guzzler.
Tried
on 04 Sep 2012
at 06:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Tram Depot, Cambridge, UK on 13th August 2011. Copper with whitish thinning head and some lacing. Initial sweet berry flash. Malty and a little fruitiness in aroma and liquid taste. Cooked veg - broad beans cabbages - along with grassiness. Spicy kick. End taste bittersweet, upper mouth citrus and some bitterness linger.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Sep 2011
at 11:15
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask handpump at The Wheatsheaf (I think) Edith Weston, Rutland 14.05.11 Copper in colour , I think, though I never described the colour. Malty tasty bitter, loads of toffee, bit chewy but bags of flavour. Nice bitterness, a good beer, really liked this , cannot believe I hadn’t rated it. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov14 3.5
Tried
from Cask
on 17 May 2011
at 13:51