Batemans XXXB (Cask)

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

Serve in English pint

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Cask conditioned @ Green Man, Winchester. Fresh cask. Fruity caramely bitter with some nutty tones. Well rounded body. Pretty average.

Aug 2006 (from BA): One of my all time favourite beers. I have been drinking this beer for many years and when ever I see it on draught, I have some. Morrison’s and sometimes Aldi (in the UK) stock it in bottles, but it does not hold a candle to the cask conditioned draught. This review is from my last tasting, at the 30th Cotswold CAMRA Beer Fest, straight from the barrel which was inside a 15th Century Tithe Barn. The location of this fest is just great, you can’t help but enjoy the scene and beers on offer. Dark Amber, copper coloured, with a fine white head which stays for a long time within the glass, it looks the part. Fruity, both in aroma and taste, the brewer got everything right in my opinion, and they haven’t messed around with the brew since it was first introduced (whenever that was?). This is a classic British beer, and long my it be so.

Very normal bog standard bitter. Nothing to write really. What you’d expect.

Amber coloured with small beige/gold head. Aroma is very sweet, creme brulee, malt, bit of coffee, caramel. Taste is equally sweet and sugarry. In fact pretty much the same as the smell. In spite of myself, I quite liked it, but it was definitely nothing that special and got a bit sickly the second time round.

Cask. The Three Legged Mare, York. Medium white head. Copper body. Biscuit, malt, hop, fruity. Bittersweet. Bitter finish. Oily palate. Boring.

Pint at the Crispin in Wokingham. Amber brown with bubbly head. Hop and red fruit aroma. Quite bitter, fruity and palatable.

First tasted this in the Tap & Spile, Harrogate in April 1991. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear red amber in colour with a thick foam white head. Smooth caramel notes in the lingering aroma. Creamy robust mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a shortbread note with sweet vine fruit and golden syrup. Good booming notes from the dry hopped resins compliment the malt well. Finish is dry and slightly roasted. A powerful session bitter back then.

Cask at the Willow Walk (JDW), Victoria. Golden amber with a tight cream head; malty aroma; rich, fruity, malt-lead flavour with some caramel towards the end; and a dry lightly hopped finish. A solid premium bitter.

Cask @ Edward Wylie. Amber colour, off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts, bit fruity. Flavour is caramel malts, toffee, and slight hops. Bland.

Cask at GBBF 2010. Pours a light chestnut brownish colour, with a thin , off-white head. Loads of dark malt with hops in the aroma, the taste is light roasted malts with a bitters sweet finish.

Cask@GBBF2010. Amber colour with small off-white head. Aroma and flavour is quite much those of a typical bitter with just some slightly more bitterness added.