Beartown Bruins Ruin

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

Serve in English pint

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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 at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Golden amber with a small white head. Grassy hop aroma with some buttery malt developing. Delicious sweet malt taste with some spicy nuttiness in the background as well as some sour fruits. Mid bitter finish. Mixed messages on this bear. I thought it was a cracker: so much better than Ginger Bear, presently representing Beartown in the ’Spoons fest.

Pint in the Harker Arms, Chester. Great amber colour with a creamy head. Tangy fruitness and very smooth to drink. This is my second beer from this brewery and im very impressed.

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

Bottle from Booth’s, Ilkley, West Yorks. Pleasant-drinking, fat-bodied bronze bitter with a fullness of character and a shortbread and faint Turkish Delight quality that reminds me of a) most (non-BrewDog) bottled Scottish beers of 4-5%, b) a crappy, powdery US IPA and C).... peach flavoured Smarties? The peachiness tires quickly I can’t tell tell you what a relief it is after the bottle of Tirril Academy Ale I’ve just poured down the sink.

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.

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.

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 (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.