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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6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at the Dove Street Inn Winter Festival, 2017. Pours dark amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramel, roasted malt, and Christmas brandy butter with a touch of light spice. Moderate sweetness and bitterness. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation.
Tried from Cask on 02 Dec 2017 at 12:06

5.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Cloudy rust coloured, huge head of foam despite being pulled from the fridge and poured carefully.

Bitter hops and sourness in the smell.

Very bitter starting off, moves to the sour side, actually goes back and forth during the session, with some funky notes thrown in


Champagne like carbonation doesn’t help.

I don’t see any dating of any sorts on the bottle.

Weird drinking experience.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Apr 2015 at 16:09

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
500 ml bottle from Beermongers. Pours a somewhat cloudy orange color with a large white head. lots of slow gushing on this one so be careful. The aroma is barnyard straw and fruit. A big soft bretty flavor, berries, light sugary malts. Very funky. An interesting brett sweeter IPAish beer. Good.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Feb 2015 at 01:48

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle. Sugar, cherry, and caramel malt aroma. Hazy orange-brown with small head. Sweet orange, caramel malt and mildly bitter grass/hay flavor. Body pretty light. Moderate carbonation. Pretty tasty.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Oct 2014 at 17:14

3.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Sampled from a 19 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark toffee color with a medium sized foamy orange-white head that lingered and left a bit of lacing. The aroma was tart and sour Pez. The flavor was dry, tart and sour Pez, chalk and had a medicinal presence. Long dry, tart, medicinal, Pez finish. Somewhat overcarbonated and thin. Pretty awful.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Feb 2013 at 13:58

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
On tap at The Wellington in Birmingham, pours dark amber / orangey brown. Aroma is light - of toffee and toasted malt. Flavour is more full and complex, featuring toffee, brown sugar, spices (nutmeg, cinnamon) and toasted malt.
Tried from Draft on 30 Mar 2011 at 10:38

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
3rd February 2011
Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival. Clear amber beer, residual white head. Light dry palate. Nice dried fruits. Trace of dust. On okay malt base. Semi dry finish. Was hoping for more from this - a bit meh!
Tried on 13 Feb 2011 at 07:46

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel as well as lighter notes of alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and honey, leading to a dry and bitter finish.
Tried from Cask on 12 Feb 2011 at 04:49

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask (gravity) @ NWAF 10, National Winter Ales Festival, The Venue, Sheridan Suite, Manchester, England.Clear medium amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, sweet malt. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100120]
Tried from Cask on 31 Aug 2010 at 22:50

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Cask. Clear amber golden with a small off-white head. Rather neutral aroma - perhaps a little nuts. Medium body, nuts and a little caramel with a vaguely fusty edge. Rather alcoholic finish. 200110
Tried from Cask on 22 Apr 2010 at 12:39