80/- (Cask)
(Batch of 80 /- (Bottle))
Belhaven in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.94
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80 Shilling is Belhaven’s classic, hand-pulled, cask-conditioned ale - just like great great great grandpa would have had. It has a classic red appearance in the glass, rich and smooth. An Austrian Emperor once described 80/- as ’the burgundy of Scotland’. Not sure how many he’d had, but the man clearly had taste.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at The Gordon Highlander, Inverurie. 75p for a a half! It pours clear mahogany brown with a decent frothy white head. The aroma is sweetish, toffee, dried fruits, brown bread, fruit cake and twig. The taste is dryish upfront, firm, bitter - sweet, dusty, dull toffee, brown bread, twiggy and leafy hop. Finish is short, dry and kinda woody. Light body and soft, but lively carbonation. I actually expected a fair bit worse. Yes it's not the most exciting beer in the world, but it is certainly quenching. Nae bad (especially for the price).
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jun 2022
at 11:27
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On cask at Golden Acorn (JDW) in Glenrothes - Clear brown body, long lasting creamy head. Malty and nutty on the nose, sweetish malt at the start, bit of grassiness and fruit, quite decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Mar 2022
at 09:45
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Cask at The Bull, Newmarket. Pours dark amber/brown with a cream head. Aroma: fruity, sour berry, caramel, malt, bread. Taste: light to moderate sweet & light bitter, malty, fruity, a touch sour. Light to medium body with soft carbonation. Not great.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Jan 2021
at 14:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
An unusual nice cask bitter Nutty in the glass with a fine tan head Good lacing Pleasant intensity in the aroma Balanced sweetness and a fine mellow carbonation level Pleasant to drink Bready, nutty, malty and fruity flavor [Cask at Mallard in Doncaster, England]
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Aug 2019
at 08:32
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ Albanach, Edinburgh. Clear brown with a lasting off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and dark bread. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 140419
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Apr 2019
at 20:05
5/10
Tried
on 19 Nov 2018
at 16:09
4/10
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Aug 2018
at 17:51
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask at the Plough, Ipswich. Pours dark amber/brown with a small lasting off-white head. Aroma of fruit, sour berry, caramel, malt, bread. Medium sweetness, light bitterness, touch sour. Light to medium body, slightly oily and watery texture, soft carbonation. Not great, and not what it used to be.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Mar 2017
at 14:55
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Hereward, Ely. Reddish brown, pancake flat, almost no head. Hint of biscuity malt aroma. Taste is sweet with a medicinal woody bitterness. Finish is more balanced, with an attractively savoury tannic note at the end. Weak body. Not a complete shambles, but the bad outweighs the good.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jul 2015
at 23:00
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
4.2% Cask gravity at Planet Thanet BF 2015. Clear mid brown colour disappearing head. Brown twiggy bitter. Headgerow fruits. Good fruit I thought somewhere between strawberry and rhubarb. Enjoyable enough. Ok condition decent drying hop on the finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Apr 2015
at 06:30