Batemans Gemini Double Trouble

Formerly brewed at Batemans
Style: Bitter
Skegness, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask Handpump at the Plough, Houghton Green 30/05/2009 Some malt aroma. Amber coloured and a little fruity with a hint of dryness in a lasting malt finish.

This is one of Bateman’s ’Mystic Brews’, they are producing beers for various signs of the Zodiac during different times of the year. This beer was tasted at the bi-annual beer festival held at the brewery (May 2007). Hand pulled in the windmill, brewery bar. The pint sleeve glass had a dark amber beer with an off-white topped head, it looked good. The smell was most offputting, an almost fowl aroma of sulphur and farmyards almost made me take the beer back. Luckily the taste and mouthfeel made up for the aroma, a solid English bitter flavour, not a fantastic, must have another straight away sort of beer, but fine none-the-less.

Cask, Swan and Rushes, Leicester. Amber brown with a small head. Aromas are earthy berries with toffee. Flavours are toffee malts with tea and dry hops. Spices with citrus and traces of salt. Fruity and clean with pear. Very dry on the finish.

After Bateman’s Taurus, the first in their series of ’Mystic Brews’, I was looking forward to this month’s offering. Expectation was justified by this amber beer with a malty aroma and taste, balanced with pear fruit, a little smokiness and a crisp bitter finish. Beautifully served at the Wellington Arms, Bedford.