Oregon Best
Crouch Vale Brewery in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.70
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Light brown and hugely aromatic due to liberal use of West Coast America's finest Brewers Gold hops.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask conditioned at Cockney Pub, Århus
Hazy deep blond color; big creamy head (nitrogen?). It has at first a nice aroma of earthy hops. A smooth mouthfeel, with some malt and caramel flavor, and a good bitterness. Good, but not magic as the old Crouch Vale production.
Hazy deep blond color; big creamy head (nitrogen?). It has at first a nice aroma of earthy hops. A smooth mouthfeel, with some malt and caramel flavor, and a good bitterness. Good, but not magic as the old Crouch Vale production.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Jul 2008
at 12:17
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cast at Cockney Pub, Århus. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and heavy hoppy nice aroma. Heavy bitter fresh, grassy flavor. Long nice bitter finish. Creamy palate. Excellent bitter.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2008
at 02:22
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is light malty, toasted, moderate hoppy, flowers, grass, citrus - grape. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, refreshing. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (020508)
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jun 2008
at 16:40
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at Paisley Beer Festival 2008 ... Amber ... bright fruit hop ... sharp tart american hop ... quite smooth ... little grapefruit .
Tried
from Cask
on 04 May 2008
at 14:20
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Cask, gravity dispense at Woodford Beer Festival at The Duke, Woodford, Northants, 25-05-07. Poured light amber in colour with a nice hoppy aroma. Taste was initially a bit soapy, don’t know where that came from but I tried this twice at different times of the day and still got a soapy taste, once you got past that it was a reasonable bitter that had good hoppy characteristics but otherwise fell short in many other areas.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 May 2007
at 02:16
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask handpull at Dog & Bell, Deptford. Yeasty citrus aroma. Expected more hops. Has a bit of sherbertyness and tingly finish, but I wanted more.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Apr 2007
at 07:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask@Three Judges, Glasgow. Dark golden color, small white head. Nice pinewoody hoppy nose. Crisp, well-hopped flavor, some "dunk" notes somewhere there. Burnt, not roasted, malts.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Jul 2006
at 01:11
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
[Cask at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen] A hazy orange beer with a white head. The aroma is sweet and lovely hoppy - leaning a little towards flowers. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, on a dry hoppy backdrop, where even the hop oils makes their presence. An English re-make of an American IPA - a really good beer - to make it great the ABV should be higher.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Jun 2005
at 06:01