Original Bitter
Davenports Beer in Smethwick, West Midlands, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.65
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A blend of pale and crystal malts, supplemented with torrefied wheat and no. 3 invert block sugar. Bitterness is provided by First Gold, Cascade and Styrian Golding hops.
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BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Original Bitter from Davenports Beer 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
My brown 500ml bottle has a best before date of May 2009, it is being consummed mid Feb 2009 (now). Poured into a UK pint sleeve glass. It looks fine and is the copper colour claimed on the label, there is a hint of a haze and the white foaming head sets it off very nicely. Very English hop, malts and yeast aroma, maybe on the sweet side as the malts assert themselves in the glass. Oh dear, they forgot to put any taste in the brew. Where has the 4% ABV gone, where have the ingrediants that gave me the aroma disappeared too? I am drinking a fizzy, watery, slightly malty glass of dishwater. No body and a sad, sad beer indeed. First impressions can obviuosly be wrong, looks and smells OK, pity about everything else. I’ve still got two thirds of the pint left, I’m off to find some cheese to help me finish the beer off, can’t drink it on its own!
Tommann (7637) reviewed Original Bitter from Davenports Beer 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle. Pours dark amber with a medium head. Aroma is bready malt. Taste is the same as the aroma, breaded malt throughout. Medium bitter finish.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Original Bitter from Davenports Beer 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
4th March 2009
Gold beer, slighlty hazy. Mild hop and some obvious caramel sweetness. Tastes aged but is 3 months inside BBE. Semi dry finish. A grower.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Original Bitter from Davenports Beer 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - roasted, marzipan mase, malt extract. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20100115]
CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed Original Bitter from Davenports Beer 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 50 cl. Pours a clear deep golden with a dense and frothy white head leaving laces. Sweetish fruity aroma with very classic British hops. Light body, lightly sweet fruit and some nutty accents. Dry and lightly hoppy finish. 150110
Hermod (17967) reviewed Original Bitter from Davenports Beer 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
50cl bottle, CM Vantaa. Pours light amber color, small head. Fruit and toffee aroma. Flavour has some malty sweetness to it and some candy. Aftertaste has a little taste of hops, but not nearly as much I had expected from a bitter. Bit of a dissapointment really.
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Original Bitter from Davenports Beer 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottled. Golden colour, big white creamy head, that leaves nice lace. Aroma is fruits, wood, some earth and mild bready and caramelly malts. Flavour is sweet fruits, some sugar and mild honey. Rather rubbery and grainy aftertaste and finish.
TBone (30139) reviewed Original Bitter from Davenports Beer 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottled (Citymarket Sello, BB 04/2010). Pale amber color, small white head, lots of bubbles. Toffee-nutty aroma. Very watery palate, at first like drinking mineral water. Then some candy-toffeish notes (bottle says "supplemented with torrefied wheat, honey, no. 3 invert block sugar and high-maltrose syrup") and late nutty bitterness with tea flavors. Totally useless flavor. Aftertaste has some hops - saves from the disaster, otherwise this is a kind of lemonade drink.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Original Bitter from Davenports Beer 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
An amber ale, with a sweet malty nose., sweet malty with a very slight aniseed tinge.
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Original Bitter from Davenports Beer 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
"Soon you’ll know why folks all say ... beer at home means Davenports" OK, so I’m old enough to remember the TV advert from the 1960’s, but that doesn’t mean I’ve ever drank it before.
A pleasant surprise; a light golden colour, long-lasting white head; malty taste and a long-lasting restrained bitter finish. Not complex, but straightforwardly good.
[500ml bottle]