Best Mates Alfies

Formerly brewed at Best Mates
Style: Bitter
Wantage, England

Serve in English pint

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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.

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.

Cask at the Jolly Anglers, Reading. Slightly hazy amber with a shortlived white head and some yeast sediment; musty grain aroma; also a slightly musty grain flavour with some caramel and citrus; the finish is lightly bitter, and sustained.

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.

Cask Newcastle Arms. Wotsitallabout. Dark orange with a thin beige head. Bunged up and fluy so pass on the aroma. Muted hop and malt in the flavour and a slight smoky edge into a dryish finish but nothing that interesting. Drinkable though.

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

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)

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

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.

At May Ratebeer London Gathering at Chris O’s. Gold, slightly hazy, with a white head. Fizzy and slightly metallic. Some sourness, very slight bitterness. Wasn’t convinced by this one.