Trawlerboys Best Bitter
Green Jack in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.32
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Trawlerboys Best Bitter is a full-bodied, copper coloured, premium bitter brewed with English whole cone hops, rich and malty with fruity hopy hop flavours. The pump clip features the Lowestoft-built stern trawler (1978) the Boston Sea Stallion, launched by none other than Mrs Thatcher.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Old rating from 15-11-15 - Had at the Apple & Pears tap house in St Helier, Jersey. Aromas of apple & sultana with malt. Taste is of apple, caramel, sultana and malty hops with a rich fig & plum base with malt & roast overtones leading to a strong finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 May 2025
at 09:58
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Briar Rose, Birmingham. Clear dark amber with nice smooth beige head with good retention. Nice smooth bitter with malts, hedgerow spice and berries. Medium bodied. Tasty cask.
Tried
from Cask
at
Briar Rose
on 17 Feb 2025
at 22:30
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Standing Order, Derby. Pours a dark copper with a small off-white head and good lacing. There’s malts and autumn fruits in the aroma. In the mouth it is quite sweet with malts, berry fruits and some traditional hops. Some bitterness in the finish. This is reasonable – but not particularly memorable.
Tried
from Cask
at
Standing Order (JDW)
on 06 Feb 2025
at 00:00
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a clear amber colour with a small, thin, frothy, off-white head. Aroma is malty and fruity, light caramel and orchard fruit. A moderately sweet and malty taste, sweet malts, caramel, fruit, and sweet hop flavours with a light bitterness.
Tried
on 30 Dec 2024
at 14:46
6.4/10
Cask at Thred Tuns in Bungay. Clear deep goldencolor, few bubbles. Lightly fruity caramel aroma. Taste has subtle stonefruit and more caramel. OK
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Dec 2022
at 19:55
Historic check-in
Tried
on 05 Dec 2022
at 06:30
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask ale, half-pint shared with Finn at Rupert Brooke (JDW) in Rugby. Naked at the surface, hazy amber-orange body. Dotted spots on the glass. Toffee nose. Restrained taste profile of caramel malts and biscuit. On the sweet side of a bittersweet finish. Accepted. (12.02.2019).
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Feb 2019
at 10:07
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Delt med Rune. Mørk gyldenbrun. Filmskum. Lett nøttearoma. Smaken fruktkaramell. Søt. Behagelig tørr bitter ettersmak.
Tried
on 12 Feb 2019
at 10:24
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
28/4/2018. Bottle from the Suffolk Food Hall. Pours almost clear deep amber with an average sized off-white head. Aroma of malt, caramel, hop, light nut, flowers and fruit. Medium towards heavy sweetness, moderate bitterness. Moderate body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Traditional bitter, though with a sweeter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2018
at 19:32
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask at The Old Contemptibles; clear amber pour with a thin white head, aroma has light malts, taste has some sweet malts, light fruit, hint of caramel. --- Beer merged from original tick of Trawlerboys on 20 Dec 2017 at 14:54 - Score: 5
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Dec 2017
at 08:50