Bays Topsail

Brewed by Bays
Style: Bitter
Paignton, England

Serve in English pint

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Bottled 0.5l ; Devon ; UK ; Malty,cereal,fruit and citrus aroma ; Dark amber color with smaller head ; Medium sweet and bitter taste ; Refreshing ; Medium body ; Pleasant bitter.

Some hops on the nose, weak bodied bitter in the palate, not much in the way of flavour.

Best of the Bays catalogue so far. An excellent well balanced beer, nice colour and palate.

Bottle. Golden brown with a thin foam. Aromas are caramel and toffee with tea. Lemon and lime with weetabix and earthy hops. Flavours are sweet toffee malts with brown sugar and ripe pear. Hints of lemon and lime. Dry tea on the finish. Decent.

Bottle. Pouts a rusty amber with a thin off-white head. Malty nose with a little citrus, some raisins, some biscuit. In the mouth getting more dried fruit, some candied orange peel, more crumbled biscuits. Steady drinker, with a mid-dry palate with a little spice and bitter.

Cask-conditioned at the Seven Stars, Bristol 2/5/2012. Amber with a slight, off-white head. Citrus and grassy hop aroma with some rich tea malts. Flavour had more fruit, biscuit malts and a decent, bitter finish. Good.

Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.

Clear medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, toasted - caramel, fruity, light to light moderate hoppy, orange - citrus, lemon - lime notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110430]

Hand pulled at the Anchor, Birmingham. Reasonable hop blend, not tremendously flavoursome, but with a subtle blend of UK hop and a hint of US. Some tiny biscuit near the finish. Pleasant Bitter.

Cask, handpump @ The Powder Monkey, Exmouth, Devon.
Feigntly hazy, tawny copper with a solid, lasting, white head of foam. Marmalade, dry fruitcake nose, peppery, earthy and musty. Roasted nuts, big, bold peppery bite, adhering, drawing, dry. Nice long malt and spicy, bitter hop swallow. Quite woody, oaken, with hints of smoke and dried prunes, dates and fruit mince. Light in body so you can slam it back, bold flavours for a beer of modest strength. Lucky to get a go on this one as a mere 2 hours later it was pulled off the pumps here. Nicely balanced, characterful and well crafted session bitter.

[Cask at the First and Last, Penzance] Deep amber with a moderate creamy head and a slight fizz. Dominated by a woodland mulch flavour, this is surprisingly dry and refreshing for a darker bitter. A lasting dry, bitter finish with a hint of pepper. Nice, and a little bit different.