Bittings Best Bitter

Brewed by J.J. Bitting Brewing Co.
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Woodbridge, New Jersey USA

Serve in English pint

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Draft. Pours amber. Nose and taste of bitter hops, earth and malt. Creamy bitter finish. Medium body.

Draft at the brewpub. Poured a good looking orange body with a fluffy mostly white head. Aroma was lousy and weak, barely detectable aroma of grains and vomit, yuck. Flavor was dry with notes of lots of ceral and grains along with a touch of chocolate. Body was medium with strong carbonation. Meh, it was okay but nothing special.

Cask Conditioned - Poured muddy copper with a fairly large small bubbled white head. The head quickly dissappears to a small white lacing. The aroma was warm and a bit orangy. The flavor was much of the same - not as bitter as I would have liked and not as good as the ESB’s that I love.

I thought that this was Bitting’s best offering at the Split Rock beerfest. And it was that great. But is was decent and easy to drink.

Golden amber, with a small white head and almost no lacing. It looks nothing like a true English bitter, and the aroma and flavor was more along the lines of a pale...and a weak one, at that. Not hoppy, not malty, not horrible, but not impressed.

This was an okay beer. I had this at the Split Rock Beer Festival 2007. Not something to remarkable, but okay.

Cask. Pours a slihgtly cloudy deep muddy copper with a thin lasting head and very fine cobweb lacing. Aroma is fruity, light yeast, some herbla and tea-hops- very english like with a light toasty malt backbone. Smooth flavor- light bready malts, yeast, fruity esters- becomes a bit muddled, but finishes pretty smooth.

Cask at brewpub. Pours pale golden amber with lacing off white head. Orange and caramel aroma, but faint. British Caramel and toffee malt flavor, finished by a mild bitterness. Even for a bitter, this was tad thin. Plus this lacked the earthiness of a true bitter. Still respectable in my book.

on tap-pours a creamy offwhite head that laces with gold color. Aroma is mild hop, grain. Taste is creamy grain, grassy, caramel, mild hops bite.

Cask... Poured a golden color with a large, white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of diactyl, toasted dough, toffee, and light citrus. Taste of citrus, toffee, grains, and more diactyl. Somewhat disappointing.