Beartown Bearskinful

Brewed by Beartown
Style: Bitter
Congleton, England

Serve in English pint

Tasted this in The Esquire House, Glasgow (JDW) in September 2008. Cask, handpump dispense. Opaque amber in colour with a creamy white head. Floral hops in the short aroma. Good resiny mouthfeel and decent lacing. Pale malts give a warm bread dough flavour with marmalade fruit notes. Bitter hop resins present in a long aftertaste and this continues into the dry woody finish. An ok session bitter.

Cask@Spoons in 2010. Copper colour, small, but steady off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts, some nuttyness as well as some mild wooden notes. Flavour is nutty, caramel malty, mild wooden and some slight crisp maltyness as well. Pleasantly balanced. Good session bitter.

UPDATED: NOV 5, 2011 Cask at Wetherspoons, Chippenham, also bottled from Beartown shop. Light brown / copper, well carbonated (bottle). Strong malt aroma, becoming a tasty but not overpowering fruitiness, slight hint of fruit cake. Good balance of bitterness/flavour.

Gravity, 3rd Hinckley BF. Oooh, ’slight haze’ says the sign on the cask. Like I give a shit. Fully clouded, headless bronze but the aroma and flavour are there. This is a ringer for Corfu Real Ale Special believe it or not; bright apricot and violet-accented floweriness over a bittersweet, nut-hinting digestive biscuit base. Hints of mushroom and chocolate; flowery, jellied orange fruit aroma. Hops and malts dovetailed sweetly. Excellent.

Cask Conditioned handpump Globe Hotel Kings Lynn. A copper coloured beer with a whitish head and lacing. A leafy earthy aroma and a yeasty dishwater type taste with some fruit. Served way too cold and very average.

Cask @ Edward Wylie, JDW. Slightly hazy golden colour, white dense head. Aroma is sweet fruity and malty. Flavour is slightly dry and bitter, light fruited and malty. Dry finish. Good stuff.

Cask at the Plough and Harrow (JDW), Hammersmith. Amber with a dense cream head; orange aroma; smooth with slighty sour, fruity malt flavour; and a lightly bitter finish. An OK bitter.

Cask at a Spoons in Manchester. A hazy amber beer with a dense off-white head, due to being served thru a sparkler. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of straw, malt, caramel, and grain, leading to a bitter citrusy finish.