Beartown Bearskinful

Brewed by Beartown
Style: Bitter
Congleton, England

Serve in English pint

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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.

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: APR 10, 2003 Sampled cask conditioned at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Pale amber. Appley, flowery nose. Dry, rounded and fruity. Lightly resiny flavour. Bitter pine needle finish.

UPDATED: AUG 18, 2009 1. Cask Handpump at the Cross Keys, Knutsford 06/03/2001 A malty and fruity beer with some bitterness present. 2. Cask Stillage at the Civic Hall, Nantwich Beer Festival 26/09/2008 Fruity grapefruit aroma. Golden coloured hoppy and fruity with a crisp bitter and slightly roasted malt finish. (Champion Beer Of Cheshire Competition Beer Q3 Best Bitter Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Taste 6 Aftertaste 6 Total 27)

Cask, Black Bull Cockkermouth. Blonde like a Czech pilsener, slightly cloudy. Hardly any aroma, or maybe the wind has blown it away (I was sitting in a windy beer garden). Sweetish, citrusy and malty like a Crombé, but with less hop character. Grapefruity, hoppy aftertaste. Nice summer beer.

Cask at the Market Porter. Spicy aroma. Dark amber color with a white head. Medium body with smooth carbonation. Flavor is likely caramel malt, but it’s strongly overlaid with hottish spice - not pepper - ginger? Something like that. Really refreshing.

Cask Conditioned at The Turf Tavern, Oxford. Pale golden beer with little head. Light fruity malts with apple, orange refreshing flavours. Sharp and acid finish, quite balanced, good drinking light ale.

A Mes rate: cask at Baker St ’Sporks.
Clean golden colour with a slight brown tinge and a thin off white head. No sparkler! This place is definitely on the up... This is actually really good. A very well balanced blend of big grassy hops with a good citric bite on top of a well behaved biscuit malt base with just a slight hint of caramel. Lovely mineral note in the finish with a restrained but classy dryness on the palate. Superbly drinkable. A really good drop of English. I only stopped in for a quick one on my way home after a few Chimays with Alan but this was a really pleasant surprise. Served in very good condition (as is increasingly the case at this place) and certainly one of the best I have had from Beartown. Yum.

UPDATED: JUL 23, 2007 Appealing copper colour. A quite malty aroma and flavour, but plenty of tangy hop bite to offset the malt. Dry finish. A well made and well balanced bitter. 500ml bottle (bottle conditioned) from beersofeurope.co.uk

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.