Bath Barnsey

Brewed by Bath
Style: Bitter
Bristol, England

Serve in English pint

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Bottle. Sour milk and toffee malt aroma. Dark chestnut color with minimal head. Sweet chocolate/toffee malt flavor. Good body. Very nice beer.

Bottle (from New Zealand bar), poured a dark brown with a thin bubbly off white head. A sweetish malt aroma, molasses with some pine and ash notes. A full mouthfeel and toasted malt palate, with coffee, chocolate, and increasing hops and bitterness through the swallow. Delicious.

Cask handpull at The Guildhall, Folkestone. Very deep ruby colour with thick lasting beige head. Maybe getting towards the end of the barrel as it took a bit of pumping to get the pint, which killed some of the carbonation in the glass. Very nice dark ale though. Juicy dark fruits, plums, but not sour and good choc flavours. Finish is really quite drying. Extremely drinkable. Lovely finish. Choc and ark fruit aroam. Some sweet blackberry. Brilliant pint. Full and rich with a bit of puckering of the mouth on the finish.

Deep brown colour. Aroma is intensely malty and fruity. Quite a thick, rich texture. Full malty flavour, a little bit roasted. Sweet caramel. Nice bitterness in the finish.

Dec 2009, Barnstormer: Brown 500ml bottle, poured into a vase shaped pint glass. Deep, dark mahogany red/brown body with a thin biege head on top. Sweet malt aroma, bicuits and molasses, brown toast and thick cut marmalade. The sweet malts rule the roost in the flavours, but not as sweet as in the smell, there is a subtle bitterness from the hops which stops the malt from taking over completely. A good rich depth to this beer, a bit more alcohol and some spices, it could be turned into a very good winter warmer. Impressed, as I always am with Bath Ales, wish I could get their cask beers up here in Shropshire.

A - orange, chocolate, dried fruit and caramel A - dark gold with frothy head T - sweet with hoppy and roasted bitter P - mid and soft O - great bitter

Cask, Anne of Cleaves, Melton Mowbray. Dark red/brown with a dense cream head. Aromas are chocolate and roast malts. Bitter with hints of sulphur. Flavours are rich and malty with chocolate and winter fruit. Has raisins and yeast, also. Lots of hops bitterness with a dry finish. Tasty and addicitve.

1. Cask Handpump at the Pot Of Beer, Manchester 09/02/2002 Dark couloured beer that’s slightly rich on the palate. Malty with a lasting bitter finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the New Barrack Tavern, Sheffield 01/05/2004 Mid brown and fruity with a slightly dry crisp lasting malt finish. 3. Cask Stillage at the GBBF, Kensington Olympia 05/08/2005 Mid brown with some alcohol and spice aroma. Fruity slightly dry lasting malt finish.

Bottle. Dark brownish appearance. No carbonation and maltiness dominating.Slight bitter finnish. Nice.

Cask conditioned at the Ipswich Beer Festival 2004. Deep copper coloured. Roasted malts, fruit and chocolate. Flavourwise if fits in the gap between a premium bitter and a porter, proving that "styles" are not an accurate science. Good beer.