Black Sheep Best Bitter

Brewed by Black Sheep
Style: Bitter
Ripon, England

Serve in English pint

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Clearish golden ale covered by a lasting white cover. Sandy, floral and quite bitter beer with a rather generic maltiness. No real toastiness shows hop, it hesitates on a strawy character that lacks confidence. Nevertheless, it packs a fair bitterness and finishes with punch and length.

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.

Orange amber colour with a creamy white head. Smell of sulphur and caramel. Medium light crisp body. Bitter taste of wheat, water, malt with a light sour feel. Very simple.

In cask , Londra, potabile è potabile ma a parte che è uguale a tutte le altre bitter, poi meno male che è well hopped

A - fruit and floral A - mid copper with thin head T - light sweet with mid bitter P - mid to thin O - not much there

Cask @ Crown’s Nest, Newcastle.
Rated on 20110724.
Pours clear golden colour with small lasting head. Aroma of fruits, grass and malts. Flavour is pretty much the same .Smooth palate.
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A subtle hop aroma, but overall I just find this beer way too thin. The only characteristic I can discern is a sharp bitterness. Not the best ’ordinary’ I have ever tasted by a country mile.

a classic english pint. lovely golden brown colour. great fruity flavour with a hop back. not breaking any boundries but a very well executed pint.

First tasted in the Overflow, Glasgow in November 1993. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear copper red in colour with a thin white creamy head. Dry roasted grain in the short aroma. Thin but clean mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a fruity marmalade flavour with citric undertones. Dry bitter hop resins in the short aftertaste with a slight metallic tang. Finish is dry and bitter. An ok session bitter but I do prefer Theakstons best bitter in comparison though.

On cask at Greyhound Hotel, Shap. Pours copper, it’s a nice enough best bitter, rather bland though.