Coach House Blueberry Classic Bitter

Blueberry Classic Bitter

 

Coach House in Warrington, Cheshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular
Score
5.70
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 45
A wonderful straw coloured beer with a light hoppy aroma and a distinct blueberry aftertaste. A multi award winner across the country.
 

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

Bottle from Tesco Metro, Manchester Piccadilly. As you’d expect it has a fine blueberry aroma to savour. There’s plenty of the fruit in its taste too. Has a golden body but no head.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2013 at 13:12


6.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Pale golden almost straw colour. Fruit aroma, obviously but also: leather? Paint? Something different. Taste: fruit is superimposed on rather than blended with traditional ale taste. Still pleasant if a tiny bit saccharin. Good enough beer but not spectacular. Full marks for trying.

Tried on 17 Aug 2013 at 23:00


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

Cask at the Old Manor (JDW), Bracknell. Slightly hazy amber with a thin white head; blueberry aroma with some grain in the background; fresh fruity blueberry flavour but rather sweet, and more like a cordial than fresh fruit; the drier to finish with some tarter, lasting, fruit. Interesting and refreshing.

Tried from Cask on 09 Aug 2013 at 09:52


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

Cask at JDW Charlie Hall; clear pale yellow pour with soapy white head, fruity berry aroma, some berry tartness in the taste with a bitter finish.

Tried from Cask on 24 Jul 2013 at 05:36


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Cask @ The Standing Order, Edinburgh [090713]
Golden, clear, reasonable white head
Nose of red berries, sweet pale fruits
Taste of soft berry fruits, soft pale lager malts, boring, lacklustre flavour for the abv
Palate - thinnish body, slight dry in the finish, slightly metallic
Overall - Rather dull tbh

Tried from Cask on 14 Jul 2013 at 17:35


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at Ealing beer festival 2013, London. A golden coloured pour with a thin white head on top. Malty, blueberry aroma. Tastes of blueberries, slightly malty, slight sweetness. Quite pleasant.

Tried from Cask on 14 Jul 2013 at 15:30


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

18th June 2010
Clear pale gold beer. Tiny white head. Fresh blueberry nose. Light palate, a little soft and a little dry. Fresh blueberry well integrated with creamy malt. Starts like a fruit beer, back end is like a bitter. Finishes semi soft and semi dry with more fresh blueberry. Not bad at all.

Tried on 19 Jun 2012 at 17:14


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Nov 2010: Brown 500ml bottle, poured into an Abbot Ale tankard. The beer is a pale golden colour, dull rather than bright, the head was thin and white, but that might be because I poured the beer very slowly and didn’t allow any head to really form. The label claims they have used Blueberries and natural Blueberry flavourings and they can certainly be found in the smell and the taste. The label doesn’t lie! The taste is slightly sweeter than the smell, but not sickly sweet considering the ingrediants I suppose. The 5.0% ABV sits well within the brew and although it isn’t a beer I’d rush out and buy a crate of, I can see some people loving it.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Apr 2012 at 05:16


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

Cask@GBBF2011. Golden colour with a small white fluffy head. Aroma is fruits, berries, wood and mild sweet maltyness as well. Flavour is berries, quite sweet malts as well as some resiny and wooden notes. A bit watery palate.

Tried from Cask on 26 Sep 2011 at 11:33


3.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Cask at GBBF 2011. It pours straw yellow, with a thick, fluffy white head. The nose is dominated by sweet ripe blueberry, as well as: farmyard, green apple and sulphur. The taste is very sweet, ripe blueberry, hay, grass and bubblegum, with dryness in the finish. Body is thin and carbonation is low. Far too sweet and one-dimensional to enjoy.

Tried from Cask on 08 Aug 2011 at 05:23