Arundel Stronghold

Brewed by Arundel
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Arundel, England

Serve in English pint

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Handpulled cask at JDW Hatch End, Harrow. Copper red with a health off white head. Fruity toffee malts with a earth corky subtle hoppiness. Drinks rather like a strong mild. It grew on me after a couple of pints.

Cask in a Witherspoons. Light amber with a skim of head. Flavour is heavy malt fruit, alcohol notes, dry palate, 

Cask @ Crosse Key, JDW, Bank EC3. Pours a dark amber color with a small longlasting off-white head. Has a fruity malty weak earthy caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with weak hints of licorice. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.

Strong looking and strong in its fruity aroma and taste. Very pleasant to drink.

Cask - The Bell Hotel (JDW), Norwich. Small beige head with good retention, creamy & slightly lacy. An initially murky but clearing deep mahogany coloured body. Good roast, coffee & dark malt profile. Some milkiness on the nose. Dark fruits come through on the tongue. Slightly dusty and muddy on the palate. A robust medium body, lingering ashy, malty bitterness, soft mouthfeel.

Cask at the Blue Boar, Billericay. Pours a lovely chestnut / dark ruby red with an inviting bubbly beige head. Biscuity malt and dark fruits on the nose with a little tart sourness in the background immediately after pouring. Quite strong and assertive on the palate. A woody bitterness fills the mouth disolving into a watery gap in taste. Some plummy fruit flavours then become apparent. Further down the glass, toffee apple flavours and aroma dominate. A little dark chocolate and a hint of black cherry are hiding in the smooth aftertaste.

Cask, handpump at The Moon Under Water, JDW, Cheltenham, Glos weekend of Cheltenham Folk Festival Sat 11th Feb 2012 Pours chestnut with a creamy white head. Some dark fruits showing initially, sweetish but quite decent. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.4

Cask, The Francis Newton, Sheffield, UK. Dark chestnut brown, long lasting tan head. Sweet caramel aroma, brown sugar and a slight metallic background. Very sweet, more brown sugar, then the hops kick in and start to balance things out slightly. Medium length finish. Perhaps some more hops could balance it further?

Cask in brighton endland. Tastes malty, fruity and bready. Not my favorite style. Girlfriend said it tastes like tar

First tasted this at the Paisley Beer Festival in April 2007. Cask, gravity dispense. Dark copper red in colour with a thin loose white head. Fruity malt evident in the short aroma. Thin mouthfeel and poor lacing. Pale malts deliver a robust digestive malt base with crystal malts in there. Slight redcurrant fruit with dry woody notes merging well with the hop resins in the aftertaste. Dry hoppy finish. A good session bitter.

cask at cloisters ... ruby copper ... thin tan head ....juicy berry malt nose... soft tofffee roast ... deep berry fruit ... light roast light toffee ...