Best Bitter Ale
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.37
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Cask gravity at GBBF 2014. It pours clear golden-amber with a small white head with a tiny head. The nose is woody, earth, toast, leather, honey, stone fruit and such like. The taste is taste is oily, thick, stone fruits, straw, grainy and honeyed fruits with a dry finish. Medium body and low carbonation. Oily. OK.
saxo (29721) reviewed Best Bitter Ale from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Tap @ the brewery. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are fruits, caramel, toasted malt and hops. Nice dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at Falling Rock - quite authentic and surprisingly restrained in hop character for this brewer - very dry, Biscuity malt backbone, with a fair amount of hard water/mineral/burtonized character that compliments this well - malts are snappy and crisp - hop character is a bit stale - not sure if this is intentional, but I find a lot of British beers to have this quality, so possibly? - a bit of toasted bread and light caramel on the tail end, but mostly dry, crisp and seriously quaffable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap @ Falling rock, Denver. Pours golden with a small white head. Aroma of malt, grassy and floral hops. Taste is floral hops with a caramal malt in the background. Medium body, low carbonation. OK bitter, nothing outstanding. 260211
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours clear copper with a nice foamy/creamy white head. Flroal aroma. Med body. Light malt (but not pale) with a lot of flora hop. Smooth. Nice understated malt backbone, and a lot of floral hop. Smooth. Moderately bitter. Finishes clean and bitter with a touch of malt.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
@Bierkraft, Brooklyn. Copper with a decent head. Aroma of bready malts, light earthy hops, and a bit of caramel. It was a smooth brew, easy to swallow big gulps (was in a hurry). Solid bitterness but very understated overall. A pretty good session.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask version at Winking Lizard’s 2nd Annual Real Ale Fest (03/27/10): Pours a hazy light orange color with a medium thin white head that dissipates steadily. Spotty lacing on the glass. Toasted malt and fruit in the nose. Light body with flavors of malt, mild hops, and fruit. The finish is grainy malt with a short fruity aftertaste. Average overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ GBBF 2009. Pours a clear copper color with a small off-whit ehead. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma with some hints of citrus. FRuity malty hoppy grapefruit flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear medium yellow orange color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, hay, toasted, moderate hoppy, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20090804]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
At GBBF 2009. Really deent bitter, good hop, tastes like a 4% British bitter. Not over the top. A British bitter. Good