6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Have enjoyed many a pint of this during my time living in the West Mids so good to finally catch up with the rate! Cask at the Great Western, Wolvo on the RB Black Country Bus affair - 06/07/13. Clear pale golden with a decent white head. Nose is toasted malts, caramel, grass. Taste comprises bready malts, sugars, caramel, fruits. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, light bitterness in the finish - in cracking form. A solid bitter!
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Jul 2013
at 13:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
6th July 2013
Black Country Beano. Cask in the Great Western. Clear gold beer, little white head. Light palate, softish and dry. Mellow carbonation. Bitters round here are clearly Goldens! Mellow sweet malt, light lactose. Mellow marmalade hops with a refreshing touch of lemon. Light dry finish.
Black Country Beano. Cask in the Great Western. Clear gold beer, little white head. Light palate, softish and dry. Mellow carbonation. Bitters round here are clearly Goldens! Mellow sweet malt, light lactose. Mellow marmalade hops with a refreshing touch of lemon. Light dry finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jul 2013
at 04:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Great Western Wolverhampton. Clear gold lasting white head. Decent beer. Nice enough easy drinking bitter. A little light in flavour . Decent toffeeiah Re rate Britainnia good condition good bitterness. Could taste the bitterness running up the road.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Jul 2013
at 03:56
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Stirchley Wines; clear amber pours, white head, malty woody aroma, light bitter taste a bit smokey, buttery malty can’t really fault this classic bitter. Satisfied!
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2012
at 07:52
7.2/10
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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.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Oct 2012
at 12:57
7.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Oct 2012
at 16:24
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Tuckers Maltings. Golden colour, mid-sized white head. Malts start, the Hops grow more important then, dusty, dry hops,especially in the finish. The beer has a slightly bitter-sweet character. Good stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2012
at 11:32
7.9/10
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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.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 May 2012
at 05:15
6.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Apr 2012
at 09:17
8/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2012
at 04:33