Barley Johns Little Barley Bitter

Brewed by Barley Johns Brew Pub
Style: Bitter
New Brighton, Minnesota USA

Serve in English pint

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TAP: clear gold pour, medium head. Sweet aroma, butter and toffee on taste. Pretty mild, borderline bland.

On tap at Barley Johns on 05/26/2009. Very clear copper body with a medium creamy off-white head. Sweet graham cracker aroma with some faint floral hops. Sweet gram cracker flavor with light floral hops. Medium full body with moderate carbonation.

Winterfest 2009 - On cask, Poured a gold. The nose was quite floral with a lot of hops. Comes across the palate rather weak and disappointing. I was expecting a bigger bitter bite and yet it was watery. I was not impressed.

Tap @ the brewpub. Comes to the table with a clear dark golden color. The clarity allows one to see the carbonation bubbles just flying through the beer. On top of that is a thick, glorious, foamy, non-fading head. It looks pillow-y and as you drink the beer it leaves a sticky lacing on the side of the glass. Really the head makes this look amazing. The beer is brightly hopped, not sure how to describe it, not American but strong. The aroma also has a light malt creaminess to it. Taste is similarly a hopped up flavor and it is all easy drinking, just quaff it down like nothing. Should really be a Pale Ale and not a Bitter.

Enjoyed on-tap at the brewpub. An odd bitterness, an OK aroma. Medium yellow with a bit of head. Low a.b.v. appreciated.Nicely carbonated. OK for its style or as a beer. Sweetish malt, though not rich. There are much better elements in the product line.

Light caramel with an off white head. Light citrus aroma. Sweet crystal malts flavored with just a hint of hops in the aroma. Medium bodied. All right beer.

Starts with fruit yogurt, which is then covered up by some cigarette smoky ’bitter’ malts. Flavor is moderately sweet w/ more yogurt. Slightly bitter.

Growler from Andy pepsican! I had this over a year ago and loved it--I think I had it somewhere around a 3.8. I’ll enter it in 15 years with the rest of my backlog. Poured into my Barley John’s tulip. Clear honey amber with a 1 1/2 finger off-white head, fading to a half finger before long. Aroma of some sweet caramel and grain, green leafy hops, and the same honey graham cracker Andy got. Also some light grapefruity hops. Flavor has a little less hops than I remember (as did the aroma), but still plenty of malts--caramel, honey and graham--and doesn’t really get that sweet. Finishes with bitterness peaking around a 2-3 with some dried leafy hops. Light to moderate carbonation with light body. I could drink so much of this stuff--a wonderful session beer, though I’m not quite sure it’s as good as it was last year (just like everything else!).

Gold pour with a tall white head. Mild citrus aroma. Flavor of green tea, honey, and graham cracker. Crisp refreshing finish.

golden color. scent of malt and barley. taste is the same with an average finish. a decent bitter.