3B
Arkell's Brewery in Swindon, Wiltshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.86
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Arkell's Best Bitter Beer, as it was originally known, was first brewed in 1910 and has been affectionately known as BBB or 3B by customers ever since. (One Swindon landlord will tell you that 'BBB' stands for "Big Boy's Beer"). Today, 3B is renowned by Britain's beer lovers as a superb, amber brew with a very distinctive taste and a sweet scent of malt beneath the hops. Pale malt makes up 88% of the dry ingredients along with 10% crystal malt. According to the 'Real Ale Drinker's Almanac', 3B has "delicate, beautifully balanced malt and hop with lingering dry finish and hint of nut"
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Bell Inn, Aldworth. Very old pumpclip which calls it BBB. Aroma has grains, berries, cork. Light chestnut. Thin foamy off-white head. Grainy light-medium bitterness. Sour berry edge. Underlying dusty malts. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Average carbonation. Long astringent finish. Punchy bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Sep 2023
at 17:11
Many historic check-ins
Tried
on 04 Nov 2022
at 14:07
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Cask pour at Golden Lion (JDW), Newmarket Oct 2019. Pours clear amber with a beige head. Aroma: caramel malts, twigs, hedgerow hops. Taste: light sweet & light to moderate bitter, subtle fruity, hint of nuts, more caramel malts. Medium body, average carb, light sweet fruity finish. Very dull overall
Tried
from Cask
at
Golden Lion (JDW)
on 14 Jun 2020
at 09:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask at GBBF'19, day one, 06/08/19. Golden amber with a decent off white head. Nose is bitter fruits, biscuit, crackers, grains. Taste comprises light breads, toffee, dried fruits, malty bite. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Decent no frills bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Nov 2019
at 21:48
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask up the White Lady. Pours deep amber with a thin off-white head. Aromas of malt and toffee. Taste is light sweet, faint balancing hoppy bitterness. Sweet, thin finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Oct 2019
at 09:05
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tried at JDW Tollemache, Grantham. Amber colour with an off white head. Aroma malty caramel. Taste moderately sweet fairly dry finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Oct 2019
at 23:00
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gyldenbrun. Middels høyt tett skum med litt farge. Teppelacing. Plommearoma. Smaken fiken. Tørr avslutning.
Tried
on 17 Oct 2019
at 09:41
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Copper coloured Bitter with thin head. Classic style. Light maltiness and dry floral hop.
Tried
on 14 Oct 2019
at 20:16
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Half pint on cask at the Wetherspoons in Victoria station. Pours clear brown with a small white head. Aroma is biscuit, butter. Taste is malt, caramel, subdued hops.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Oct 2019
at 16:55