Beartown Bruins Ruin

Brewed by Beartown
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Congleton, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask (handpump) @ J.D.Wetherspoons, Manchester, Greater Manchester England.
Clear medium yellow amber color with a average to large, creamy to frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, fruity, light nutty, light to moderate hoppy, flowers, apple, licorice - anis notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090122]

Cask. A hazy amber beer with a dense off-white head. The aroma has notes of malt and nuts. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of nuts as well as medium notes of citrus, leading to a dry nutty finish. The mouthfeel is quite sparkling for a cask ale.

Bottled (from Utobeer, London). Amber colour, small beige head. Aroma is caramel, some floral and fruity notes as well as mild toffeeish notes. Flavour is caramel, fruits, floral and wooden notes.

Cask handpull at Thomas Rigby, Liverpool. Pale chestnut colour with lasting beige head. Bit of sickly malt on aroma, but mostly rich strawberry/raspberry and malt aroma. Full in mouth with more strawberry, morphs into creamy hop finish. Hop is balancing and shows some lemon acids to do battle with the rich malt. Rich and hoppy premium bitter and rather stunning.

Cask Handpump at the Navigation, Stockport 31/12/2001 Amber golden coloured beer with some bitterness and a hint of whisky flavour. Some malt in the finish.

A Sim rate (Gravity cask at Pembury Tavern): Aroma of caramel, maple syrup, golden syrup and marmalade. Golden colour with a relatively impressive head. Malty, creamy, bitter flavour. Some vanilla, some cream. Hmm.... it’s banana cream. Not a great finish though.

Cask (handpump), Brunswick Inn, Derby, July 2005. This is supposed to be a winter beer, so I’m not sure what it was doing out and about in the middle of summer. Perhaps its brewed occasionally at other times or is now a regular beer. Anyway, this is a mid brown, quite full bodied strong bitter at the malty end of the spectrum. Caramel and toffee dominate, with plenty of underlying hoppy bitterness. Despite what’s in the brewery’s description, I did find some residual sweetness which detracted from the appeal for me. Still a decent beer but perhaps it didn’t show at its best on a hot day.

Cask conditioned - handpump - Brunswick Derby. An amber to mid brown coloured beer. The aroma is malty with maybe a little toffee. The taste is crunchy and malty and maybe a little creamy in texture. Tasty.

Bottle that dad picked up from Congleton brewery tap (cheers dad), consumed Dinmore, Herefordshire 27-12-09 Pours warm gold with white head. The nose is a little soapy hops. There is some citrus in the mouth, its pleasantly bitter and another step up from the Barnsley beers that we’ve just had. A6 A4 F7 P3 Ov13 3.3

Cask@The Pembury tavern. This was an averagely drinkable slightly stronger bitter. Typical earthy balance between hops and malt, some light caramel and grainy malt notes, subtle hops in the finish, some light bitterness, drinkable.