Best Mates Alfies

Formerly brewed at Best Mates
Style: Bitter
Wantage, England

Serve in English pint

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Bottle, Milletts Farm Shop, Oxon 28-05-08 Golden pour with white head. Nice earthy hops on the nose, very fresh smelling beer! Light fruit in mouth but with a great hoppy bitterness, some streaks of honey finish this off marvellously. Careless pouring at the end turned this into a hazy gold light amber colour but nonetheless it still tasted excellent.

Cask conditioned at The King Alfreds Head, Wantage, Oxon. Gold with white head. Good deep malty body, fresh barley notes, quite drying on the palate leading to a bitter, grapefruity hop. The beer is thirst quenching and lasting making good use of English hops. A very decent start for this brand new brewery.

Cask (gravity dispense) at Reading Beer Festival, May 2008. Pale, bright clear gold. Decent condition. Herbaceous aroma. Clean, dry, fresh, some citrus. Decent effort if not particularly distinctive.

On gravity at the brewery, Ardington 30/7/2011. Deep amber with a decent, off-white head. Fruity arona with caramel and earthy malts. Flavour had some marmalade, redcurrant and bready malts, leading to a lengthy bitter finish. Enjoyable.

Bottle. Hazy gold with a white head. Aromas are malty and clean with some cream. Also has light citrus. Flavours are toffee malts and cream with floral notes. Dry tea with bitter grapefruit. Earthy hops and dry on the finish. Smooth on the palate.

A Mes rate: Bottle at the Oi Oi Saveloy tasting at Chris O’s.
Hazy blonde, some floaters and a thin white head. Dusty hops that are a little on the tart side. A little overly malty and it puts it out of balance. I get the feeling either this bottle was slightly out of order or the bottle hadn’t traveled too well and the sediment had got mixed in with the rest of the beer.

Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, light to moderate hoppy, grass. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. (020508)

500ml bottle. Clear copper with unstable small white head. Sweet malt aroma, some fruit, peach, apricot. Taste is fresh, dry, yeasty, a minimal watery fruit and citrus note gains ground in the middle part, dry bitter finish.

Bottle at home thanks to Fin for this one ... copper ... little woody hop... fruity dry grassy hop ... light malt ...

Bottle at Chris_o birthday bash 08. Gold, bit hazy, thin beige head. Little bit dullish, bit plasticky. Hop is ok.