Hop Back Brewery GFB (Gilberts First Brew)

GFB (Gilberts First Brew)

 

Hop Back Brewery in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular
Score
6.20
ABV: 3.5% IBU: - Ticks: 28
GFB our Golden, with the sort of light clean tasty quality which makes an ideal session ale. Tasted to destruction by our brewers, GFB our Golden Best has a hoppy aroma and is packed full of the very best East Kent Goldings, leading to a good dry finish.
 

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6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

9/3/2023. Cask at the Wyndham Arms, Salisbury. Pours clear dark golden with a small frothy white head. Aroma of citrus, grass, flowers. Medium sweetness and moderate bitterness. Slightly oily and watery, soft carbonation.

Tried from Cask on 24 Mar 2023 at 18:24


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask @ Wyndham Arms, Salisbury. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and caramel. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 090323

Tried from Cask on 09 Mar 2023 at 19:58


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask @ Wyndham Arms, Salisbury. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, fruits, flowers and hops. Sweet malty finish.

Tried from Cask on 09 Mar 2023 at 19:52


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

On cask at the Haymarket. Appearance - golden amber with not much head. Nose - biscuit, spice and apple. Taste - more apple and spice with biscuit too. Something a bit like strudel. Palate - crunchytexture and medium bodied. Dry astringent finish. Overall - so so.

Tried from Cask on 13 Sep 2018 at 16:00



6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at the Hop and Barley, Lincoln. Golden colour with a thick white head. Aroma floral and light citrus, Taste bittersweet. Medium body.

Tried from Draft on 18 Nov 2017 at 14:28


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Cask at PoW, Farnborough. A feint and sour floral aroma. Bright gold. Blotchy white head. A sharp bitterness is most immediate. An underlying sweet honey and malts taste then appears. The bitterness continues through in to the finish. Light in body and carbonation. Refreshing. More interesting that your average bitter.

Tried from Cask on 10 Feb 2017 at 12:21


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ Fox & Goose, Hebden Bridge. Golden with a small head. Light session ale with a small malt-hop fusion.

Tried from Cask on 05 Aug 2014 at 07:51


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Hand-pulled pint in the lovely old tourist pub ’Haunch of Venison’, Salisbury, on 12th Oct 2013. This comes a real pale golden colour, almost Lager-like and with the same white head s you’d expect on a Lager/Pilsner. The aroma was both ’grainy’ and hoppy in about equal measures, the hops just winning in the taste stakes with a mild citrus hint coming through. Dry finish to a pretty average brew that was almost boring and lacking any robustness of flavour or body depth. Subtle for some, bland for me.

Tried on 15 Oct 2013 at 00:00


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask at The Brownswood, London. Pours clear yellow with a fine, white froth head. Grainy malt nose, wet leaves. Light sweet flavor, toasted grains, dirt, leafy bitterness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Moderately sweet finish, toast, more dirt and leaves, grainy malts. Wholly uninspiring.

Tried from Cask on 12 Dec 2012 at 12:19