Williams Brothers Red (Bottle)

Brewed by Williams Brothers (Heather Ales)
Style: Bitter
Alloa, Central, Scotland

0.5 L bottle brought home from Meny Liertoppen. A dense, yellow shaded, beige head, over a red-brown body with good clarity. Rounded and complex aroma. Biscuity, or maybe bready malts, red berries and tin canned fruits. Floral, earthy and spiced hops. Taste is quite simular, with a broad range of fruity, malty and hoppy flavors, as in the aroma. Also tones of mild roast and pepper. Nice creamy texture, body could use some more fullness. Overall a very well-crafted and moreish Bitter.

Medium beigeish head. Lovely deep red body. Deep fruity malty aroma with floral wild berry notes. Dry-sweetish wooden roasty toffee taste with floral strawy notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, clean mouthfeel. Dry floral earthy wooden caramel aftertaste with roasty peas and dust notes. A roasty earthy taste lingers. Excellent. Extremely drinkable. Really has character, too. (0.5l bottle, Centra, Oslo.)

500 ml bottle at home, bought at Vaaland, Bryne. Clear dark amber/copper color, nice and big off-white head. Aroma is fruity hops, berries, caramel malt. Flavor is medium sweet, fruit, medium bitterness. Fine malty aftertaste. A really nice beer at 4,5%.

500 ml bottle, bought at Vaaland Spesialbutikken, Bryne. ABV is 4.5%. Copper coloured beer, big to moderate off-white head. Very nice aroma, first fruity hops with notes of various berries, then caramel, bakery and malts (some of them lightly roasted). The flavour is first malty, with notes of caramel and brown bread, then some moderate fruity hops. Not too sweet. The finish has a moderate bitterness, mixed with notes of slightly burnt malts.

Beautiful copper brown beer with a small creamy beige head. Aroma of grass, sweet fruits. Taste of dark malts,nuts, dry bitterness, without any lingering aftertaste at first, but as the beer warms up, it gets better and better. A good one.

(bottle) Hazy, copper colour with a light-beige medium-sized foamy head. Sweet and slightly toasted aroma with notes of caramel, liquorice and berry-fruity, slightly piney hops. Moderately bitter flavour, light to almost medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Toasty malty base, dry mouthfeel with a good dash of fruity and piney hops; dry and bitter fruity hoppy finish. Well-crafted brew. 22.XI.09

Beautiful copper brown beer with medium beige head. Grass, some sweetness and redcurrants in the aroma that is overally quite aromatic. Flavour is simpler than aroma and slightly dusty, malts, grass and dry bitterness; not-inspired. Quite nice to drink but unfortunately too light. Good looking beer with nice aromas, but light body with simple flavour is slightly disappointment.

Bottle from Tbone, thanks! Reddish brown color, frothy head. Candied cherry, toffee and flowers in the aroma. Malty flowery bitter flavor with hints of toffee and red fruit.