3B
(has 2 batches)
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
Cask (handpump) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, nutty sour notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light heavy bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. (070808)
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Oct 2008
at 03:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (White Hart Hotel,Whitechurch) - Copper brown with a small head. Fruity aroma with raisins. Malty and fruity taste with raisins featuring again. Refreshing but nothing special.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Aug 2008
at 18:48
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@GBBF2008. Amber colour, not much head. Aroma is yeast, some dough, wood and also some mild wooden notes. Flavour is wood, yeast, some mild licorice as well as mild herbal notes.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Aug 2008
at 00:24
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear amber with tiny white head. Sweet aroma with caramel notes. Sweet flavor with caramel and hoppy notes. Ends bitter.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2008
at 17:43
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
[i] Cask at the Talbot, Swinford Toll bridge, Enysham, Oxon, 03-11-07 leg three of the Thames Tipple.[/i] Dark amber with a small white head, poured far too cold unfortunately so aroma difficult to detect initially. Malty and quite sweet but reasonable fruitiness as well, not great but makes a change from the sea of GK beers on offer today.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Nov 2007
at 03:24
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Jolly Anglers, Reading. Chestnut coloured with a small white head; heady malty aroma; full bodied with a sweet fruity malttaste; short slightly bitter finish with a hint of roasted almonds. Pleasant but not outstanding.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Jun 2007
at 08:21
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask conditioned at the Victoria, Eastleach Gloucs 8/5/2007. Amber coloured bitter with a slight aroma of caramel. Flavour is predominantly of sweet malt with a short, dry finish. An ok session beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 May 2007
at 14:18
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Cask @ GBBF 2006. Dark amber colour with an off-white head. Fruity slightly floral aroma with some hints of apple. Fruity malty flavor with some hints of apple. Malty aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Aug 2006
at 09:52
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 5
A hazy light to dark brown in color light brown head. Has a somewhat nutty but also dry. The taste was a dry metallic malty flavor.
Tried
on 05 Aug 2006
at 14:16
4.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
[Cask at GBBF 2005] A hazy brown beer with no head. The aroma is nutty with light notes of alcohol. The flavor is slightly sour with notes of metal and nuts, but the body is thin.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Jan 2006
at 16:07