Tommann (7637) reviewed Mild from Bathams 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Cask at the Bull and Bladder, Brierley Hill. Pours dark orange brown with a small head. Aroma is sweet, cake and bread. Taste has a sweet raisin start with a sweet, yeasty bready finish. Some dark berries also.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Best Bitter from Bathams 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask at The Vine, West Bromwich on the evening of the Baggies Chelsea match :-) Poured a clear medium to light amber with a frothy white head and a little broken lace. The aroma is light malt. The flavour is medium bitter with a super smooth rich malt light hop palate and a short bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. If I had to die in the middle of a session this is probably the session beer I’d choose to die drinking. It’s just an English session bitter but these guys do such an amazing job. Cask is MUCH better than the bottled version.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Best Bitter from Bathams 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
I have drunk this beer in the brewery tap and other well known Black Country Real Ale pubs, always cask. I was very pleased and surprised to find it in a shop window (Tanner’s, Bridgnorth, Shropshire). Brown 500ml bottle, best before Feb 2008, drank April 2007. Poured into a sraight sleeve pint glass (what else would you use?). Pale amber, light for an English bitter, but it is known for its brightness and lightness, the small white left before I got my lips to it. The aroma was very floral, freashly cut grass and hops. Lovelly, wonderful, easy drinking bitter-cum-thirstquenching-quaffable-ale. I liked it (a lot). Slight fizz to it, but this is a very, very good, the tastes stay and tickle your tonsels. A fine bottled version of a great West Midlands (Black Country) bitter.
Kermis (23416) reviewed Best Bitter from Bathams 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask. Clear golden pour with a white head. Aroma of sweet malts and fruit. Flavour is sweet with malt and citrus.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Brown 500ml bottle, best before the end of June 2011, drank and reviewed on a snowy afternoon, 30th Nov 2010. Poured into a ’Batemans’ badged UK pint sleeve. Good amber body with a creamy, light tan coloured head of foam. The head left some good lacing as the beer level dropped. Aroma reminded me of sultanas and raisins, so a Rum hint within the smell, along with a heavy wiff of yeasts and alcohol. The taste is sharp and crisp, with the currents already mentioned coming through in the aftertaste. The alcohol is just about held in check, but not quite. A tinge of cinnamon also appears as the initial flavours fade in the mouth. In other words a Winter Warmer sort of beer. Very drinkable and a good warming brew, it fortified me for the walk into town through the cold and falling snow.
Tommann (7637) reviewed Best Bitter from Bathams 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the Robin Hood, Amblecote. Pours light gold with a medium head. Aroma is light floral, bready malt and a touch of sulphur. Taste has bready malt and floral notes to start. Bready malt and a touch of grapefruit in the medium bitter finish.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Best Bitter from Bathams 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle at home with stephen... golden amber....thin white head ... soft sweet light lemon light grassy hop ... soft sweet toffee malts ... light grassy hop ... ok as a bitter ... light lemon linger
Downender (11275) reviewed Best Bitter from Bathams 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Tuckers Maltings. Amber coloured with plenty of carbonation and a slight white head. Light, malty aroma with a touch of caramel and grassy hop. Cereal malts in the flavour, with some citrus fruit, Slight mineral edge and long, bitter finish. Very enjoyable.
CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed Best Bitter from Bathams 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask. Clear golden with a creamy white head leaving laces. Sweetish fruity nose. Medium body, low in carbonation, sweet fruit and a little citrus. Dry and lightly hoppy finish. 160110
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Best Bitter from Bathams 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
50cl bottle from Bernie’s, Solihull, ABV 4.5%. Straw with a thin white head and lightly carbonated; malty aroma with a touch of citrus; sweet malt flavours to start, then becoming drier with a shortlasting burst of hops. An acceptable bitter, but nothing more.