BannockBrew Wild Spaniard Best Bitter

Formerly brewed at BannockBrew
Style: Bitter
Central Otago, New Zealand

Serve in English pint

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It’s a nice copper color and the head is small. The aroma is sourish, leading my thoughts in the infected beer direction, but I became pretty convinced that it’s supposed to be like this in both aroma and flavour, even if it’s not becoming. I also find notes of caramel and towards the finish a nice and unexpected touch of roasted malt with notes of licorice. The bitterness is way to modest.

Tasted 2006. No aroma, clear amber bronze. Poured with a thin head but fades quickly. Served warmer to give this a chance but doesn’t develop. Not overly flawed (well perhaps a touch) but just has no redeeming charactistics

Very little aroma , slight acidic notes. Big burnt astringant flavours on the pallet, hints of acetaldehyde. . Highly flawed. oh dear. very disapointing after searching out this brewery.

Deep orange with a fizzy white head. Little aroma except for a hint of horse blanket, or is that Wild Spaniel? Body is slightly sour and thin with a bitter astringent finish. Quite disappointing.

Brown in colour with no head, No aroma of any note. Hints of rasin but burried deep in sulphourous tatse. Dissapointing after discovering this beer from new South Island brewer.

What a great surprise! Found these three "Wild Spaniard" brews in the supermarket in Lake Wanaka on the South Island of New Zealand. This pours clear red-brown with a thin head. Prominent sweet toffee nose. Faintly smoky, nutty, and a little thin. Not a very bitter finish at all, but not bad.