Ward's Best Bitter (Bottle)
(Batch of Ward's Best Bitter)
Maxim Brewery in Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.57
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The beer uses English Goldings aroma hops and the colour and flavours are derived from a specialised crystal malt.
Brewing involves a unique secondary fermentation process. This is instigated by adding a hopped priming sugar at a late stage in fermentation. This gives Wards Best Bitter a distinctive malty aftertaste that lingers on the palate.
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Grumbo (24387) reviewed Ward's Best Bitter (Bottle) from Maxim Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Ward's Best Bitter (Bottle) from Maxim Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
From file last updated 2010. Bottle. Pours light amber with a white head. Slightly floral aroma. Flavor is light malt and a little hop.
Olut (21769) reviewed Ward's Best Bitter (Bottle) from Maxim Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from Home Bargains. Clear bottle and already skunky after removing the top. Golden with a thin head and a high dry bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Clear 500ml bottle obtained from a local B&M store: BBD 28 Jan 15, drank in my back garden on 1 June 14. I remember drinking Ward’s beers in Doncaster and Louth many, many moons ago and was really pleased to see their name again after such a long absence. This beer however isn’t like the old beers that I can recall. Anyway it comes a pleasing amber colour with a head that stayed around. The nose and taste are toffee flavoured, the whole beer being fairly sweet and malt led. My sweet tooth took to it straight away and I would have happily had another bottle or two if there were more about. I shall certainly be buying some more on my next visit to B&M’s.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
500ml bottle - reddish brown body, with thin white layer of froth on top. Aromas of caramel, a bit of hops sneak in. Taste is metallic, and a little unpleasant, nothing like the Wards of Sheffield I used to know, A poor pale imitation of something that was once a local legend round here. Very sad.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Ward's Best Bitter (Bottle) from Maxim Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle 500ml. clear glass bottle.Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toffee, sugar. Flavor is heavy sweet and light light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100428]
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Appearance: Amber brown, nice amount of head. Aroma: Malt and hops. Taste: Quite malty and bitter. Bitter aftertaste Info: 500ml bottle, 29/3-2007
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
500ml bottle from Sainsburys. Deep hop aroma as soon as tghe bottle is opened; pours a copper/gold colour with a large off-wjhite head; aroma is now of stewed malt; light and refreshing in themouth with malt sweetness, and then a light bitter finish with some caramel. Full bodied, but not overpowering - a well balanced bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
(Bottle 50 cl) Pours a clear, dark amber with a small, off-white head. Lightly nutty nose.. Medium-bodied, sweetish malty with basically no bitterness. Comes through pretty much like a macro Brown Ale. A bit sad. 070606
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
50cl bottle from Morrisons. Dark orange with thin beige head. Bit of orange peel and bit of caramel, some hop, bit farty really. Dull in mouth and some boiled sweet.