Headlander
Southbourne Ales in Bournemouth, Dorset, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.34
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What an English beer should taste like with Fuggles hops giving floral aromas and full bitter flavour.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre near Christchurch. New brewery for me. Nice clear bronzey-amber colour with a white head. Maybe a tad too much fizz. Crisp autumn leaves and a little toffee. It's ok - a pretty big standard bitter. No doubt better on cask.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2023
at 12:10
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Maltingsfest, Newton Abbot 23/04/2022. Pours clear amber with a beige cap. Aroma: malt, caramel, chocolate hints. Taste: light to moderate sweet and bitter, bread, caramel, hedgerow fruits. Medium body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Apr 2022
at 21:25
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
As Poole Hill Headlander. Tried at the Nottingham Beer Festival 2019. Deep amber colour with a white head. Aroma and taste caramel malty. Medium body.
Tried
on 11 Oct 2019
at 08:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
14/7/2019. Cask at the Poole Hill Brewery (home of Southbourne Ales), Bournemouth. Pours dark amber with a small lasting off-white head. Aroma of caramel, moderate malt, hops, light chocolate and syrup. Medium sweetness and moderate bitterness. Moderate body, slight watery texture, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jul 2019
at 21:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ the brewpub. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are fruits, malt, caramel, hops and has a nice hoppy finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jul 2019
at 21:23
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
6 3 6 3 12 Cask at The brewpub. Clear amber with a small off white head. Aroma of butter, malt, , toffee and grain. Flavour is above light sweet and bitter. Above light bodied with very soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Dec 2017
at 08:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (gravity) @ 33th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2016, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England. [ As Southbourne Headlander ].Light unclear medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, hay, caramel, sweet malt, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, fruity malt, hay, caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20161130] 6-3-6-3-11
Tried
from Cask
on 07 May 2017
at 10:49
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Gravity dispense at Pigs Ear ’16, 29/11/16. Pale golden blonde with a decent off white cap. Nose is pale malts, biscuit, straw, toasted grains. Taste comprises light caramel, furit rinds, biscuit malt, grains, straw. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Whelming meets inoffensive!
Tried
on 12 Dec 2016
at 08:48