Festive Cheer
Brains in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.36
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berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Festive Cheer from Brains 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at the Old Gaolhouse (JDW), Winchester. Golden amber with a thin cream head that leaves lots of lacing; sweet malty aroma; soft, grainy malt taste; with a decent bitterness to finish and an aftertaste of digestive biscuit. A better than average brown bitter.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Festive Cheer from Brains 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hand-pulled pint on 11 Dec 2012 in my local Wetherspoons. Mid-amber to copper coloured body with a good off-white head that stayed the distance and gave some heavy lacing on my glass. Semi-sweet malty brew with hints of winter extras added: traces of spices and nuts, some fruitiness and grain in there somewhere too. It beat the socks off the other two Christmas offerings available that night (Lymestone Pudding Stone and Thwaites Good Elf) for the wintery feel and flavours it had. I was on a mission, so couldn’t have another: pity.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Festive Cheer from Brains 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask handpull at County Hotel Ashford. Mid brown amber clear colour. Lasting off white head. Its a bitter. Not exactly ground breaking. Its a brown bitter.
RichTheVillan (12489) reviewed Festive Cheer from Brains 13 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Cask at JDW Charlie Hall; standard bitter dressed up as an Xmas beer to draw in the punters and I’m one them.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Festive Cheer from Brains 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (handpump) @ The Masque Haunt - JDW, 168-172 Old Street, Old Street, Greater London, England EC1V 9BP.Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, spices, toffee, light hoppy, orange - citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, spices, warm malty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110101]
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Festive Cheer from Brains 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Has a light, fruity aroma. At first a little sharpness but that gives way to a drier and slightly nutty finish.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Festive Cheer from Brains 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
cask at AGBell ... copper ... creamy offf white head ...light cinamon soft fruit malt nose ... toffee malt ... light dry roast ... light clove ... light bitter linger