Black Sheep Best Bitter

Brewed by Black Sheep
Style: Bitter
Ripon, England

Serve in English pint

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Slightly smooth ale with a sweet aroma, similar in taste but not as stated. Golden coloured.

Cask at Harrow RFC, it’s a great feeling coming off the pitch and spotting the Sheep lurking on the home team’s bar. Clearly carrying much of the brewery’s house style, this is a lighter beer than the bottled Ale, a slightly less robust version of that dry maltiness and peppery fruitiness. As a lighter session beer though, it is supremely drinkable. One of my favourite basic bitters.

On tap @ the Starbank Inn, Edinburgh. Pours golden to amber. Nice head. The nose is of hay and lemon. The taste is of more lemon, hay and some honey. Also, a bit of a cardboard note, unfortunately. The palate is light to medium in body and texture with a clean finish. Overall, so so!

Most common problem you get in English pubs is that you have to drink very average bitter cause the only the worst of the worst lagers are available.

Pours clar amber small bubbly off white head lace. Aroma fruity malty dry grass. Flavor is fruity malty dry bitter. Finishes bitter dry.

Dry biscuity and fruit aroma. Pale copper with cream head. Slight malt flavor with crisp hop bitterness.

Dark amber, thick head but a weak body. Not much in the way of bitterness and its certainly not the "best" of anything. Tried with the parents at the Three Tuns in Canterbury in 2012.

amber colour with a loose white head . light fruity aroma , some hop . It is a classic bitter - lightly sweet with balanced hop bitterness . A standard decent quality bitter .

Dec 2006: A Saint Barabara’s Day lunch, first course, 4 pints of Black Sheep (I wont tell you what else I drank). Very lively, but once it settled down, it looked a treat, off white foaming head on a body of pure delight, a fine amber brown. The hop aroma isn’t overly strong, but is there if you search for it. Well balanced taste, a true bitter in every sense. Taste stays for a while, a mid-sweet-mildly-bitter flavour. Very drinkable. 2011 Update: 1st course at this years Saint Barbara’s function, only 3 pints this time. Still a well balanced easy drinking session bitter: ideal before the onslaught of the wines and port which followed.

Deep amber color with little head. A classic bitter in appearance. The nose is sweet and biscuity. The taste is moderately bitter with a light balancing sweetness. This is a pleasantly dry bitter. Sure, this is a bit boring, but it’s a classic.