Chiltern Brewery Beechwood Bitter

Beechwood Bitter

 

Chiltern Brewery in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular
Score
6.42
ABV: 4.3% IBU: - Ticks: 27
Mid amber colour with a rich butter-toffee aroma. Fruity and slightly nutty.

Premium quality pale ale malt, with an extra proportion of crystal malt, and increased hops, gives this beer its renowned ‘nutty’ flavour and punch. Very much a cruiserweight, it catches up with you unawares! First brewed in 1982, the beer takes its name from the numerous beech trees synonymous with the area.
 

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6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
8/10/2021. Cask at the 43rd Bedford Beer and Cider Festival. Pours clear pale amber with a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma is malty, caramel, floral, herbal, dried fruit. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness. Moderate body, slight oily texture, soft carbonation.
Tried from Cask on 10 Oct 2021 at 14:11

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Great traditional bitter. Loads of Bramling Cross. Blackcurrants and marmalade jam. Super-drinkable.
Tried from Cask on 18 Sep 2020 at 18:04

7/10
Decent bitter
Tried from Draft on 25 Nov 2019 at 17:48

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask gravity at the Berko beer fest. A light hazed burnt orange amber coloured pour with a loose off white head, Aroma is nutty brown malts, little soapy cif lemon, tangy toffee apple. Flavour is composed of semi sweet malts, burnt toffee, tangy apple, little grassy hop, Palate is little. Pithy, decent cask condition. Semi sweet., ok.
Tried from Cask on 22 Apr 2017 at 09:49

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Gravi-cask at the brewery, 28/01/17. Copper golden pour with a decent off White cap. Nose is biscuit, light fruit rinds, malty notes, brown bread. Taste comprises light fruit loaf, biscuit, toffee, earthy notes. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close peppered with leafy hop bitterness. Decent enough bitter.
Tried from Cask on 28 Jan 2017 at 12:07

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
*Old rating, cask in the UK. Nice malty Ale. The typical yeast characteristics is there, the body is full with malty aroma, smooth and easy to drink. For the ABV nice and round, moderate bitter in the aftertaste with nice nuts and malt.
Tried from Cask on 05 Mar 2016 at 16:10

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
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Tried on 19 Aug 2013 at 06:28

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
From cask. Pours cloudy orange with a small tan head. Aroma is toasted malty, light fruity. Bitter, toasted malty and breadish. Bitter and dry, light herbal hoppy.
Tried from Cask on 16 Aug 2013 at 05:14

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
[Gravity cask at Chiltern brewery shop] Amber-brown with small white head. Earthy and woody, lots of crisp autumn leaves, hints of fruit and sulphur. Some bitterness in finish. OK bitter.
Tried from Cask on 05 Apr 2009 at 16:30

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask (gravity) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.Clear light to medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, roasted, rubber - gummy burnt. Flavor is moderate sweet and light heavy malt bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. (080808)
Tried from Cask on 24 Oct 2008 at 05:33