Big Lamp Bitter

Brewed by Big Lamp
Style: Bitter
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask conditioned handpump Althorp Coaching Inn Great Brington 03/04/13. A brown beer with a white head and lace. A malty note to this with a thin fruity nose but lots of character in the mouth. Lots of chocolate flavour. Interesting and tasty. Just needs a better nose.

Full-bodied, thick textured bitter with little bitterness and dry character. Deep golden copper in colour.

cask at cloisters ... deep copper ... thin tan head ... soft sweet toffee roast nose ... light sweet woody toffee malt ... soft roast

Pint at The Wheatsheaf, Felling. Clear amber with a rocky white head. I think the sauvingon flavour must be part of the house style, because its there again in this beer, but there’s a decent toffee flavour. Thin texture, a bit ordinary to be honest.

First tasted this in the Bon Accord, Glasgow in April 1995. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear gold in colour with a thin white head. Floral hops in the short aroma. Thin mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a slightly citric note of grapefruit and lime. Floral hop resins impart a bitter aftertaste. Well balanced finish. An ok session bitter.

Amber colour with a thin head, not much aroma, malty taste but not very good.

Quayside, Lloyds No1 Bar, Newcastle. This was a crackin’ pint, good clean amber in colour with a fine bubbled long lasting head. Well hopped with a malty sweetness, but it’s the hops that dominate, and these linger well on the finish.

Cask conditioned at Harbury Beer Festival ’07. Amber with big white head. Dry, fuller bitter with a ric malty body, however there is a slight sourness, graininess in the flavour too. Good old fuggles finish I reckon. A reasonable beer.

Cask Handpump at the Star Inn, Huddersfield 26/07/2003 Amber coloured and slightly rich on the palate. Some fruitiness and slight bitterness in a lasting malty finish.

An amber coloured "ordinary" bitter. Fresh and crisp with plenty of bitterness and some citric notes. Not hugely complex but just the job for a session bitter. Cask (handpump), Market Porter, February 2005.