Cask @ Railway Inn, Greenfield. Dark golden with a small head. Its smooth texture is its dominant characteristic but also has a mild malty-fruitiness to it, and a strong bitter finish.

Cask at Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Colour is reddish brown with small white head. Aromas and flavours are grass, honey, sweet malts and hops. Nothing special.

Cask @ Hallamshire House, Sheffield
Dark amber, clear, frothy white head with good lacing
Aroma of soft spicy english hops
Taste of caramel malts, bitter spicy english hops, touch of fruity dark malts, bitter hops, getting some black tea, slightly tannic
Palate - soft carb, thin body. Finish as main flavour with some slight tannic bitterness, not sure about that
Overall - It’s really a standard English bitter, quite ordinary for Thornbridge but I suppose that was the aim
Earlier Rating: 10/28/2012 Total Score: 3.5
Gravity @ Haymarket, Edinburgh 261012
Caramel amber, clear, no head
Aroma - light caramel malts, soft bitter hops, touch of spicy hop, light aroma
Taste - soft bitter spicy hops, soft caramel, light toffee malts, touch of floral hops, orange, good flavours
Palate - soft carb, light body. Finish as main flavour, really nice finish, well made beer
Overall - Really good well made traditional bitter...that’s how it should be done

Cask at CASK with Sarah. Pours a clear amber with a tan head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has notes of bread and biscuit with a nice note of grass underlying. Flavor is has notes of drinkable light bread with some grass notes and a nice underlying biscuit.

5th August 2009
Cask at GBBF. Clear light brown beer. Softish semi dry palate. Light malt and very light hop. Somewhat watery and dull.

Pint served at a Wetherspoons in Worcester (Sat 26th Jun 2010). The beer looked a dark brown colour and had an off white head on top, the head produced some great lacing as the beer was consummed. The smell was of roasted/toasted malts, semi-sweet treacle and molasses, couldn’t pick up any hops or other aromas. Although this is a supposed to be an English Bitter, I closed my eyes and let my imagination run wild while drinking it and came up with a strange quarter beer: A quarter Best Bitter, a quarter Mild, and a quarter each of both weak Porter and thin Stout. I liked it, but couldn’t pin down what I enjoyed about the beer, should have had another I suppose, but I was on a mission (again) and had to move on.

From cask at Charlies. Pours hazy orange with a small off white head. Aroma is light toasted malty and slight breadish. Bitter, toasted malt and slight breadish flavoured. Bitter finish. Rather dry. Nice lacing head.

Drucken på Charlie’s i Köpenhamn. En rejäl bitter precis som den ska smaka. Maltig, bröd och lite karamell, bra humletoner, lätt blommig, liten in beska och eftersmak. Mycket drickbar.

Cask at the Euston Tap. Pours clear copper with a thick, creamy white cap. Malty, lightly nutty nose. Flavor is lightly sweet with faint toast, brown sugar, nuts and a delicate,earthy bitterness. Light to medium in body with soft carbonation. Mild finish with lightly toasted malts and very faint hops. Average.