Bathams Best Bitter

Brewed by Bathams
Style: Bitter
Brierley Hill, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask (handpump) @ Robin Hood, DY8, Amblecote. Clear medium yellow orange color with a small creamy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, butter. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to creamy, carbonation is flat.

[Cask at GBBF 2003] An orange beer with no head. The aroma is very slight but has notes of hops, malt, and fruit. The flavor is nice; a malt sweet fruitiness with a good fruity hoppiness rolling along the side of the tongue and lingering. It is a little cask flat, but it has a good palate. A good beer.

Cask. Clear golden with a creamy white head leaving laces. Sweetish fruity nose. Medium body, low in carbonation, sweet fruit and a little citrus. Dry and lightly hoppy finish. 160110

Cask Stillage at the Mill At The Pier, Wigan 09/03/2001 Golden coloured beer with some bitterness. Very clean tasting.

bottle at home with stephen... golden amber....thin white head ... soft sweet light lemon light grassy hop ... soft sweet toffee malts ... light grassy hop ... ok as a bitter ... light lemon linger

Draught at The Vine, Bull & Bladder (Brewery Tap)Brierly Hill. Light golden yellow with a fluffy white head. Sweetish and smooth with plenty of fruit character turning late to hops. A refreshing decent quaffing bitter.

Clean amber colour. Rather murky, dull, bready malt aroma. Dry palate with a reasonable balance of malt and hops, but this was really just too soft for my taste. Not too impressed. Cask, GBBF 2004.

Cask conditioned - no sparkler - Malt Shovel Northampton. A disappointment as I’m sure I remember this as a full tasting bitter with some good caramel notes. This beer seemed madly conditioned as there was a big creamy head in spite of the dispense. The colour is very light. There are buttery notes in the aroma and the taste is very bitter but also yeasty. Must re-rate next time I drink it.

Cask@GBBF04’. Butterscotch, too start (not a good start), dries out a bit, becomes grainy. Pretty thin and boring, next.

Cask, The Griffin Inn, Shustoke. Soft, sulphuous and lacy. Straw half wafting with Pedigree-type snatch, hint of apple fruit. Vaguely lemony with grainy malt and cask notes. Vanilla-sweet, clinging, doughy Digestive afters. Bit hopless and Honey Nut Loops milk for me. Mealy with mushy biscuit softness, but inoffensive enough.