Battledown Brigand

Formerly brewed at Battledown
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Cheltenham, England

Serve in English pint

Cask conditioned at Far from the Madding Crowd, Oxford. Dark gold with white head. Dry, hoppy beer with a heavy perfumed note, apricot fruity type of thing. Drinks well, nicely fragrant and bitter on the finish. Pretty good.

Cask Stillage at the RUFC, Bromsgrove 15/07/2006 Fruity aroma. Golden coloured (?) hoppy and fruity with some pale malt present. Crisp and slightly dry lasting malt finish.

Cask at the New Inn, Gloucester, 02-09-06. Poured red/brown and was immensly fruity, I mean very berry! fruity, quite an interesting and very tasty beer but maybe a bit of a one trick pony because after the fruit I struggled to think of much else about it, still keeping it simple just about worked on this occasion and I would have it again, though not necessarily again the same night.

Cask gravity Notts BF 05. Russet colour, bit hazy, no head. Some good red fruit on nose, but then acidic in mouth. Fruits on end, red apple, strawberry and a touch of caramel

Cask conditoned - gravity dispense - Nottm BF. A reddy brown coloured beer with a wierd nose starting off vinegarish and then turning crisp apply. The taste is also on the tart side and seems either infected or just past it. Having said that it goes down alright and is worryingly drinkable.