3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Handpump at the Bull’s Head, Burslem 04/11/2006
Some hop aroma. Golden coloured and fruity with a crisp and bitter malt finish.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled.One of the better ones from this brewery.Honey smoothness dominates with traces of citrus.Just a taste of spiceness.Well balanced and well worth
searching out.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle Conditioned. Orange amber, no head, little condition. Fairly single minded beer, narshish bitter notes with a little peachy notes but not well consructed. Overall disapointing.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
UPDATED: FEB 15, 2005 Bottle.Dark yellow,no head,some malt,twigs,wet clothes,no thanks.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: JUL 6, 2004 Bottled. On the whole I’ve been pretty unimpressed with the Batram’s. I’ve tasted many a home-brew better then these beers they’ve knocked out. Foggy orange colour with a thin, sharp white head. Sharp sour aroma. Bitter/sweat taste with no backbone at all. No bitterness, no hops. Poor them. (5,2,5,2,9:2.3)
Re-rated: 6/July/04. Had a second bottle of this thanks to chris_o and I must say. This one was richer and smoother and rather nice.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bartrams produces a very wide range of bottle-conditioned beers, most of which are rarely, if ever, available on draft, so you will have to track down the bottled versions if you want to try them. Barwells, a food store in Bury St Edmunds, stocks most of them. Beer Elsie Bub is brewed with Fuggles & Goldings hops and flavoured with honey and coriander. Quite pale coloured and the flavourings are fairly subtle. Plenty of hoppy bitterness to balance things up. Very nice. Bottled, October 2003
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