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

Bottle from Asda Llandudno. Color: Clear orangish golden, off-white head. Aroma: Floral hop. Taste: Floral hop, malty backbone, hints of biscuits. Light hints of caramel. Long lasting hoppy and very dry bitterish finish. Medium body, just below average carbonation. Moderate sweet and bitter. Ok.

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

Widget can to pint glass. Pours copper and clear with ivory head. Aroma is grainy and floral. Flavor is bready and grain. Mouthfeel is moderately thin. Sweetness sticks around on the finish.

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

354ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, April 24. Thanks Jeremy for plucking this dusty relic from your beer shelf. Aroma of strong toffee, barley wine, caramelised malt. Quite thin as expected. Actually bizarrely not undrinkable for a 43 year old beer.. no cobwebs or dust.

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

354ml bottle shared by me with four others on 1st April 2024, in Chez Sophie during our monthly tasting. Deep and slightly murky brown, no head. Soft and smooth body, mellowed sweetness and booziness, just about drinkable. It was 43 years old (and I have looked after it).

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

500ml bottle; BBE August 2024, drank at home on 21st December 2023. Clean and clear amber body, white crown. Malty nose and taste, sweetish caramel with a slight fruity hop undertone. Surprised it's average score is so low as it's a decent traditional beer, even if it's been changed a few times over the years.

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

7/11/2023. Bottle shared by Colin, cheers. Pours very dark brown with a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma is boozy, dusty, cocoa powder, chocolate, dark malts, dried fruits and nut. Moderate sweetness and aged bitterness. Medium bodied, quite smooth, average carbonation. Boozy bitter cocoa finish. Warmed to it.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Asda. Clear amber body with an off-white head. Low carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of bread, earth and caramel. Flavour of berries, toast and grassy hops. Medium body with a slick texture. Soft fizz. Very ‘British beer’ tasting.

Dark gold pour. Thin foamy head. Predominant flavor of banana with bitter finish.

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

Ah, good old Boddington's - the Manchester ale so justly accused by CAMRA of killing 'real ale' back in the sixties and seventies with their still popular Pub Ale... Apparently though, there are a few other versions, now produced by AB InBev, including this draught bitter, a canned bitter with nitrogen widget trying to fabricate the creaminess of a true cask-conditioned bitter. Thanks to my girlfriend Goedele for bringing this tick over from northern England. In spite of its reputation and it being owned by AB InBev, I will try to remain as unbiased as possible. Snow white, frothy and dense, quite thick and regular, indeed nitrogen-fuelled head (with the tiny nitrogen bubbles merging into it immediately after pouring, a sight more familiar in e.g. draught Guinness); crystal clear 'old golden' robe with 'metallic' pale orangey tinge. Aroma of breakfast cereals, that typical 'cooked cloth' smell of pasteurisation throughout, rusk, margarine, unsugared chewing gum, kitchen towels, bitter green tree leaves, rubber, leftover dough, grass, wallpaper paste, wet white paper. Slightly sweetish onset but very low in esters, rather neutral actually, with fine-bubbled nitrogen creaminess but in an 'empty' and thin kind of way, over a slender cereally core with light toasty bitterishness round its edges; very slick and thinnish, the nitrogen adding a bit of body against better judgment. The toasty edge makes it a tad more interesting than the ordinary Pub Ale in this infamous brand, while the hops do add a certain grassy bitterishness in the end - but no refinement or complexity at all. Ends rather neutral and watery, with plaster-like effects overruling any malts and hops that went in here. Cooked to death, cheaply and very industrially made and ultimately thin and boring: as much as I love a good cask-conditioned English bitter, this clearly has very little to do with it and is barely more than a bland, fake, macro-industrial imitation of it. Just a notch better than that awful Pub Ale perhaps, but I am not even convinced of it, it has been a very long time since I had that one. In any case unworthy of the name 'bitter'!