City of Cambridge Brewery Boathouse Bitter

Boathouse Bitter

 

City of Cambridge Brewery in Dereham, Norfolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular
Score
6.18
ABV: 3.7% IBU: - Ticks: 17
A light copper coloured session bitter with a pleasant aroma.
 

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7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

23rd April 2015: 500ml bottle shared with my wife in bright sunshine on our patio. Really enjoyed this beer: light brown body with full heads on our two half-pint glass tankards (old Home Ales countryman glasses). Malty lead with a good hop content stopping any real sweetness from showing. Fruity and interesting, belies it’s 3.7% ABV with a flavoursome taste and aroma.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Apr 2015 at 12:40


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from Waitrose. Light brown. Clear with reasonable head & lots of lacing. Negligible aroma: bit of fruit, wood, freshly mown grass. Taste is an improvement, with a hearty hoppy bitter taste and a slight bitterness in the finish. Nothing special but certainly a drinkable bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Feb 2015 at 16:52


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

Bottle from Cambridge Wine Merchants, Cambridge. Copper with an amber glow and a thin head. Has a rich grainy-malt taste with a fruity sweetness.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Oct 2014 at 16:02


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask gravity at Planet Thanet BF 2014. Clear amber thin white head. Fruity on the aroma. Decent session bitter. English fruity bitter. Ok condition. Some bitterness on the finish some hedgerow which is attractive. Drinkable and distinctive. Dome apple fruit. Interesting.

Tried from Cask on 19 Apr 2014 at 08:03


3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5

Bottle from the brewery (I believe). Poured a hazy amber with a thin, white head. Aroma of floral hops, hay and synthetic fruit. Very bitter initial flavours; metallic with some dry straw. Finish was astringent with copper and bitter hop resin. I could not recommend.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Jan 2014 at 11:54


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

Bottle. Amber color with small white head. Malt, caramel and floral hops. Medium sweet taste with caramel malt, bready notes, citrus hops. Light bitterness in caramel sweet finish. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jun 2013 at 09:03


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

7th April 2010
Bright clear amber beer. Modest head. Crispy palate, a little dry. Nicely balanced clean malt with a little toffee. Then clean juicy hops providing some very minerally citrus. Refreshing light bitter, goes down very easy. A little tea in the bitter aftertaste.

Tried on 16 Jun 2012 at 02:44


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

Cask at the London Drinker BF. Pours a clear amber with a moderate, white head. Mostly malts in the nose, hints of caramel and floral hops. Light to medium sweet flavor, some bread and mild citrus bitters. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Reasonably well balanced on the finish, bit more bread, and notes of grass and citrus hops. Decent.

Tried from Cask on 21 Apr 2011 at 23:24


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle 500ml. @ Fastelavnssmagning, Ulfborg.Clear medium orange amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toffee, moderate hoppy, orange. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20100220]

Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2010 at 14:39


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

Bottle @ Fastelavnssmagning, Ulfborg. Pours clear amber with a small off white bubbly head. Floral and bready nose and flavor. Medium to thin palate. Dry end

Tried from Bottle on 26 Feb 2010 at 10:10