Belhaven Best (Bottle and Keg)

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: Bitter
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

Serve in English pint

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Nitro-tap (Pint):

Reddish amber with a creamy white head that stays for about five minutes before being reduced to a thickish lacing.

Smell wasn’t the strongest really. It has some caramel, very light summer fruits that could have been stonger and some malts too.

Could have been a lot stronger. It also has some caramel & malts with the background summer fruits but none of these dominate & a watery taste is apparent when drank.

Light to medium bodied with low carbonation & a very smooth texture that goes down easy due to the watery taste probably.

Average really & not at all what I was expecting; it was nice for a change from the pale lagers that where the only other beers on offer in the pub but not a beer I’d be inclined to get all that often.

1001 Beers Blog:

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Draught @ Sherlock Holmes Pub, Århus
Pours clear dark golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, butterscotch, grassy and floral hops. Taste is light to medium sweet and light to medium bitter. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.

Pours deep golden with an off-white head. Aroma of caramel, butter,fruitiness, apples,malt and hay. Flavor is sweet and malty with some fruitiness and caramel. Medium body, average carbonation. Ok English beer.

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Keg @ Claymore, Grantown-On-Spey......Thick, creamy white head, golden, clear.....not much aroma, bit of cereal malt....Taste of malt wheat cereal, bit of hop bitterness, rather watery and very boring......Palate is bitter and rather dull..average to high carbonation.....Overall - Not undrinkable, not unpleasent, nothing bad about it, but lacking in taste, very boring and watery ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

creamy smooth bitter. not terribly strong so this makes for a good session beer. widely available on draught in scotland. in can form not anywhere near as good.

440 mL can. Never seem a 440 mL can before, that I can recall. Anyhow. Copper. Nitro widget, so it does that foaming thing. Not sure why that’s necessary for this beer. Looks good, though. Maybe that’s why. Smells simple, malty, nutty. Tastes the same. Nothing special.