Alton's Pride
Triple fff Brewery in Four Marks, Hampshire, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.29
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A traditional English bitter brewed using water from the Hampshire chalk hills. Full and clean tasting, initially malty then tangerine fruit and resinous hop build to a quenching bitter finish.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
A beautiful sunny afternoon on Friday 7th September 2012 saw my father and I join in R.A.T.2012 (Rail Ale Trail part 2). Split between three bars along the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury railway line: they had over 50 different beers to try: this was one of them. Half-pint, gravity fed in the fest tent behind ‘The Odfellows’ in Shifnal. Light amber, golden brown, you choose: a white head tried to sit on top, but failed to stay around too long. Not too sure how this became CAMRA Champion Beer a few years back as it wasn’t any better than other beers on the day I tried it. Nice blend of flavours with the hops foremost in the smell and taste stakes. Well balanced and a pleasant enough session beer but nothing to set it apart from the rest of the field.
Tried
on 17 Sep 2012
at 06:08
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at a Nicholson pub. Pours clear amber with a creamy head. Nice, spicy hop aroma with soe bready malts. Sweet flavor with earthiness, along with grass and dandelion bitterness. Medium in body with fine carbonation. Finishes bitter with hay, grass and light caramel. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Sep 2010
at 03:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Medium coarse offwhite head. Brown body. Faint malty sugary aroma. Delicate sweet-dry malty roasty wooden taste with resiny floral notes. Mild, smooth mouthfeel. Mid-bodied. Dry roasty caramelly aftertaste with dandelion floral notes. Nice, subtle, and drinkable. (0.33l cask at Akkurat, and at some Bishop’s Arms pub.)
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Mar 2010
at 06:00
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at the Cask Pub & Kitchen on 29th January 2010. Copper with lasting small white head. Plenty of malt: biscuit and caramel notes. Rich hop, citric and herby notes on the tongue. Bittersweet finish, slightly creamy texture. A pleasant, warmly rounded beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Feb 2010
at 15:28