Belhaven Best (Bottle and Keg)

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

Serve in English pint

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Clear orange color, medium creamy head. Aroma of toffee, caramel. Smooth bitter taste. Lingering toffee palate.

Keg at O’Brien’s, Ayr (7 Apr 12) - clear copper drink, creamy off-white head, very mild malt, smooth, creamy malty drink, very refreshing

On tap at several Scottish places. Malt and sweet aromas. Pours light copper colour, with nice thin creamy light brown head, persistent, with poor lacework. Medium body and flat carbonation. Taste is basically malty, with some hint of grass and caramel. Finsih is short and sweet. Easy to drink, but a bit plain.

2 finger creamy head gives off a nice show of it gfoing down and forming cus its a widget can. Looks red to light orANGE away with a creamy head. It’s like a milkshake and a beer together. YUMMY. The ale part has like an orange fruity taste but the head is creamy smooth and leaves a taste on the tounge. Its also has a little bittierness. This is a nice treat to come across a beer like this every once and a while. I do like this one! CHEERS! :)

Keg in Edinburgh. A rubbish beer - brown coloured with a thick white keg head. No aroma. Little taste, other than a hint of malt in the background, ten nitrofoam, then nothing. Amazingly I’ve had worse, but not much.

Le profil sucré d’une cream ale, une infime amertume et un corps moyen mais agréable.

Its light creamy head with lacing to the bottom of the glass gives you a taste that’s refreshing and moreish with a hint of hop.

Surprised to see this in a bar down at Bewdley while on a pub crawl Oct 2011. Took a half pint purely to review: Good amber body with a large, deep white head. The aromas given off were few, the beer being dispensed so cold, when it warmed some dark, malty fruity smells appeared. The taste was also on the malty side, pleasant without setting the world alight. I little on the fizzy side, like most keg bitters, but I still enjoyed this: the only non-cask ale I had during the crawl.

On tap. Deep golden brown color with a thick offwhite head. Sweet malty aroma, fruits malty, very lightly hoppy flavor, almost no carbonation - very creamy and smooth mouthfeel. Very light bitter aftertaste, but overall very drinkable.

Keg at the Premier Inn, Aberdeen. Yep. Clear gold with an extremely tight, creamy head. Some wimpy malts throughout, mild leafy bitterness, light sugar. Light bodied with creamy carbonation. Lightly sweet finish, some wet bread, faint leaves. Bland and not especially pleasant.

I drank this one a long time ago. I’ll update this rating if I have the chance to drink it again