Original Bitter (Bottle)
(Batch of Original Bitter)
Greene King in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.69
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Has a fresh floral hop aroma from Golding hops with a strong character.
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BlackHaddock (17491) reviewed Original Bitter (Bottle) from Greene King 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
March 2008: clear 500ml bottle, no BBD found, it must last forever! Poured into a pint sleeve. Good healthy looking copper/amber colour, clear with a few bubbles rising up to the white foaming head. A sweet almost candy aroma hits your nose at first, it peters away to not much of anything, almost aroma-less towards the end. Fairly bitter and refreshing taste, like a good English Bitter should taste. Hops and malted barley both evident, a good strong flavour when first tasted. Although it has bite to it, there is a flaw in the beer. It doesn’t have enough umph to stay flavoursome in the mouth, it fades away very quickly to a nothingness. Better than I anticipated, and not bad really.
Cunningham (15791) reviewed Original Bitter (Bottle) from Greene King 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Amber colour with a thin white head. Sweet aroma. Caramel and som hop in the flavour. A bit waterish.
Harrisoni (26309) reviewed Original Bitter (Bottle) from Greene King 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
500ml bottle from Morrisons. Amber clear colour with disappearing beige head. Lots of candy sugar on aroma with some faint hop. Bit of yeast. It’s a dullish bitter in the mouth with poor pasteurised flavours. Some yeast flavour. Very faint hop presence on end. Bit of toast.
berkshirejohn (10300) reviewed Original Bitter (Bottle) from Greene King 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
500ml bottle from Morrisons. Gold with a white head, heavily carbonated; grassy hop aroma; caramel malt flavours with more grassy hop; underwhelming dry finish. Refreshing, but boring.
fonefan (85107) reviewed Original Bitter (Bottle) from Greene King 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (handpump) as The George Inn Ale @ The George Inn, Southwark, London SE1, UK. Clear medium to light dark amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity, moderate hoppy, orange, grass, light toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (271207)
Fin (18516) reviewed Original Bitter (Bottle) from Greene King 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
[i] Cask at the Maybush, Newbridge, Oxon and, Watermans, Osney Island Oxford leg three of the Thames Tipple[/i] Amber pour, a bit fruity and with some hops and bitterness but overall quite dissapointing. [/i]
Anders37 (30297) reviewed Original Bitter (Bottle) from Greene King 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Cask @ The George Inn, Southwark. Pours a clear copper color with a small white head. Sweet malty hoppy aroma. Sweet malty fruity and hoppy flavor. Long fruity malty hoppy finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
bhensonb (22726) reviewed Original Bitter (Bottle) from Greene King 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at The George Inn, Southwark. Not much aroma. Nice amber color with ferocious white head. Starts a bit fruity, seems peachy. A little malt follows, and the finish is rather dry and nicely bitter.
CloakedDagger (37568) reviewed Original Bitter (Bottle) from Greene King 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
(Bottle 50 cl) Beautiful clear, dark amber colour with a very small, off-white head. Lightly caramelish nose. Rather light-bodied with notes of roasted malt and caramel without any real sweetness. Lacks some character - appears like a cheapish version of Newcastle BA. 310805
Ungstrup (52239) reviewed Original Bitter (Bottle) from Greene King 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
An orange beer with a small disappearing off-white head. The aroma is sweet malty, but also with notes of caramel, hops, and brunkager ("browncakes"). The flavor is hoppy and spicy - I pick up cinnamon - but I also pick up an off-note I can’t put words to, before a dry end sets in.