Banks’s Bitter (Cask)

Brewed by Banks’s (Marstons plc)
Style: Bitter
Wolverhampton, England

Serve in English pint

Hand pulled cask in Crows Nest, Seaham. Lager-like amber with decent white head and lacing. Hoppy nose and malty and mild on the tongue. Nothing special, but drinkable. Finish peters out as quickly as it came.

UPDATED: FEB 1, 2012 Cask at Chaplins pub, Liverpool. West Brom fans should not drink this :-) But it was a decent and fine bitter. Deep golden colour with a white head. Light caramel aroma with some fresh hoppy notes. Caramel, toffee and moderate hoppy flavour

First tasted this in the Hogshead, Paisley in September 1999. Cask, hanpump dispense. Clear orange amber in colour with a thin white head. slight hint of sweet malt in the short aroma. Thin mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a surprising note of wood smoke with the redcurrant fruit? Bitter resins give a metallic tang to the long aftertaste. Bitter sweet finish. Nothing spectacular here.

Cask at The Kingsbridge, Bourton-on-the-Water. Pours a clear golden-orange with an average size creamy off-white head. Aroma of light floral hops first followed by caramel malt. Flavour: Same old, same old -- another mediocre UK Bitter. Finish is actually bitter at least. Average bodied. Basically an average Bitter with a hint of extra hops, just O.K.

Cask. Amber colour with a small slightly off-white head. Aroma is bready and grainy malts along with some floral and grassy notes. Flavour is bready and grainy malts, some slight toffee as well as some floral and grassy hops. Stereotype bitter.

Cask. Some pub in Sheffield. Thin white head. Bitter, yeast. Dry finish. Average to crap.

On tap at The Wych Elm. Pours golden amber. Aroma of biscuit and caramel. Mild flavour, not too distinctive. Easily forgettable.

On tap at The Wych Elm in Burntwood, pours golden. Aroma of biscuity malts and floral hops. Flavour of bland, character-less toasted malt and bittering hops. Not good.