Burton Bridge Brewery Old Expensive

Old Expensive

 

Burton Bridge Brewery in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Traditional Beer - Old Ale Winter
Score
6.57
ABV: 6.5% IBU: - Ticks: 31
November to January.

An award winning Burton Bridge Brewery winter warmer.

A tongue in cheek take on another well-known winter beer. Brewed when the weather gets colder, this barley wine flavoured beer is a favourite over the festive season.
 

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Definitely has a bit of barleywine character. Mildly spiced, finishes a little bitter, and FAR too carbonated.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:05


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask, third pint. @CAMRA GBBF Winter Festival 2023, Burton-On-Trent (UK). 17/02/2023 [#5.861 Global - #638 England - #1 Burton Bridge Brewery (My English Brewery #207)] Pous amber to brown with a tiny tan head. Aroma: dried fruits, caramel malts, tannins and mild earth. Taste: tannins and wood leading to a dry and sweet finish. Next one please!

Tried from Cask on 06 Mar 2023 at 21:30


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Gravicask, one-third pint, shared with Finn at GBBF Winter '23. Next-to-clear amber body, fair lacing from a filmy layer. Rather sweet smell of dried fruit and mid-sweet malts. Caramel, earth, and dried fruity flavours. Mid-sweet malty-fruit ending. Well bodied. Pretty good. (Burton upon Trent, 16.02.2023).

Tried from Cask on 06 Mar 2023 at 19:22


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Gravity cask at the GBBF Winter 2023 Festival, day 2 at Burton On Trent Town Hall, 17/02/23. Chestnut brown with a beige cap. Nose is fruit slice, caramel, dates, brown sugar dusting, nutty. Taste comprises dried fruit esters, toffee, light spice, biscuit, grains. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with a light kiss of booze. Not bad.

Tried from Cask on 21 Feb 2023 at 09:24


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Sample pour at GBBF Winter. Clear brown pour with a sparse off-white head. Arma is malty, plums, pit fruit. Taste features the same, sweet with mild tannic notes, fruity cake

Tried on 17 Feb 2023 at 13:12


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at the great British winter beer festival. A clear nut brown coloured pour with a lasting loose off white head. Aroma is dried fruits, plum, earthy malts, nutty. Flavour is composed of semi sweet layered malts, toast, nutty, dried fruit cake... Palate is semi sweet, rounded,, good cask condition. Good.

Tried from Cask on 17 Feb 2023 at 12:46


5.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Delt med Rune på GBBF Winter festival i Burton-Upon-Trent.Mørk gylden. Nesten ikke skum. Søt fruktaroma. Smaken vanilje. Lett tørr bitter avslutning.

Tried on 16 Feb 2023 at 14:10


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at Standing Order, Derby. Pours a dark burgundy with a small off-white head and good lacing. There are complex aroma of dark fruits, cake and toffee, all diffused with alcohol. In the mouth there is briefly some sweetness before alcoholic strength overrides it, with dark fruits and spices. Traces of malts and leather too, but on the whole a little watery. Finish is spicy and boozy. This is rather nice – and not expensive either ! (Only £2.29 a pint).

Tried from Cask on 29 Dec 2022 at 21:03


28/11/1987. WHITE HORSE, 1 Parsons Green, LONDON, SW6, England (CHARRINGTON)

Tried on 15 Nov 2022 at 11:59


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Tried from Draft on 25 Nov 2019 at 17:48