Batemans Spring Breeze

Brewed by Batemans
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Skegness, England

Serve in English pint

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Bottle from Sainsburys Brown bitter with some floral hops and burnt malt/boiled sweets. Fairly sweet and ’dirty’ - not clean tasting. Boring beer boiled to death.

From BA (Sept 2006): New bottle design, the label now has Demeter, the Godess of Spring and Fertility on it. Poured very nicely, good clean light amber colour with a solid white foaming head, which stayed for the whole pint. Floral, slight hoppy aroma, nothing heavy, but pleasant and almost sweet. The Maris Otter barley gives the whole beer a slightly sweetish flavour, which in my taste, gave it a weaker mouthfeel than I had hoped for. The beer is still very, very drinkable.

Malty, some hop bitterness only really comes through a bit in the aftertaste. Drinkable session beer but a long way from being inspiring and I’d expect a spring seasonal to be a bit more refreshing.

5.0% pale amber colour with a thin head, malt aroma, refreshing hop taste a very nice and tasty ale.

(Bottle) Clear copper, good head. Bready malt aroma. Light body. well carbonated. Flavour starts malty but has a disappointing thin sharp bitter finish. Ok, but not great.

Bottle @ 4.3% Medium white head, amber body. Caramel, fruity, Marris Otter malt, grassy. Bittersweet. Dry finish. Moderate carbonation. Okay.

Clear bottle, 4.3%. Another one that got away. I’ve been given this one several times and scoffed at it thinking it was rubbish and I’d already rated it. Only one of those assumptions was correct. Gold under a slim white slick. Standard aniseedy, boiled sweet Bateman’s aroma. I’m trying to turn my normal rating procedure on its head and only drink beers like this when I’ve already had a couple, and they can’t hurt me. It’s damp and slightly sulphurous like uncooked dough sprinkled with fennel seed, like every other Bateman’s beer I’ve ever tasted. Just can’t be bothered drinking it. Dead beer. The formula is getting deeply tedious.

Attractive dark golden beer, thin off-white head.Didn’t get much aroma, which should have given me a clue. I was expecting lots of light, juicy floral elderflower or similar flavours, and while there’s a hint, It didn’t deliver the refreshing spring experience I was hoping for.So , a light medium bitter that is perfectly acceptable, but neither offends or excites.

26th February 2009
Clear amber beer. Soft and smooth - nicely balanced smooth malt and very mild hop fruitiness. Fresh and enticing.

small fizzy offwhite head. fair lacing. fully diminishing. clear thick amber body. aroma: moderate malt, caramel, moderate hops, flowers. if and ff: moderate sweet and bitter; average duration. palate: medium body, watery/creamy texture, soft carbonation and metallic finish. bem saborosa, amargor de lúpulo, dulçor caramelizado Nota: 50 skol

[500ml bottle] A nicely dark coloured bitter (although the taste in my opinion seemed more akin to a pale ale), It was stronger tasting than i expected with a very earthy flavour, it also seemed to have a slight spicy kick deep within.