Boddingtons Draught Bitter (Can)

Brewed by Magor (InBev UK)
Style: Bitter
Caldicot, Wales

Serve in English pint

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I notice that the version exported to America has a higher abv. The whole point of a session beer is that it is low in alcohol so that a lot can be drunk. It should be soft in body and flavour so that it doesn’t intrude on the pub or party atmosphere and conversation. Boddy’s certainly scores on that count. Unobtrusive to the point that it slips down completely un-noticed. Did I have a beer, or did I just inhale wet air? They’ve been brewing this stuff in Manchester for over 200 years, but no one noticed until Worthington bought the brewery and started promoting the beer nationwide. There are genuine beer-loving people (mostly those from the Northern part of England, where they have developed a taste for soft, creamy beers with large frothy heads) who hold a fondness for the cask (not keg) version of this beer. Now under Interbrew’s control, the future of the cask version is constantly in doubt and is not often seen in pubs. However, the canned and kegged versions are all over Britain like a rash, and are spreading like some insidious, silent disease all over the planet. I’m in somebody’s house - ’Would you like a drink?’ I’m asked. ’A beer would be nice,’ I reply. A can of Boddy is produced and thrust into my hand. My smile of gratitude is very thin indeed. It’s a bit gorgeous? I think not!

caramel, roasty, floral, grass, cheese, cooked vegetables, raisin, pale, cloudy, white foam, light sweetness, very bitter, lightly sour, medium body, creamy, lively, soft carbonation, bitter,

Can at home in London. Pours clear, pale orange-gold with a weak, creamy head. Aroma gives off some light leaves, toast and honey. Light sweet flavor with some toasty bread, toasty sugar, faint stale leafy bitterness and hints of caramel. Light bodied and flat. Mild sweet finish with some dry and toasty malts, weak and dry caramel, faint wet leaves. Just an all around mediocre bitter. A bit disrespectful, really.

440ml can of 3.5% of blandness. Poured into a dimpled pint mug, it looked OK once the ‘widget’ had done its business, clear and golden with a creamy head on top. Not anything to report on the aroma front at all. To call this bland is unfair to bland stuff; this is just rubbish and although I’m sure the liquid in the can had been shown some hops and malts: they didn’t actually get to meet each other long enough before they were boiled to death and pasteurised. This is great pity because when this beer was formally brewed at the Strangways Brewery it was a lovely bitter, didn’t travel too well but in its heartland you couldn’t have asked for a better pint of cask bitter. It would appear JW Lees have contract brewed a really poor product (as I believe they now produce this liquid). Cost me a pound at a works beer call, managed to drink it all, but would have trouble spending that much on such a brew again.

In can, thanks Rich! Drank this one while watching the first round of AFL. Pours a dark golden colour with a thick beige head. I remember enjoying this beer when I was younger, in the1990’s, but it’s just not the same. Aroma is a little metallic with bready yeast, caramel and barley. Similar flavours with a sweet finish that I don’t enjoy. Good to retry but not going to be a staple that’s for sure.

Not great. The aroma is sweet malt with some mild sulfur and floral hops. The beer is golden with a small white ring. The taste is mild hops with sulfur and some sweet malt. The beer is medium with a creaminess and a fairly flat body.

ONe of my favorites. Beautiful to wath the beer settle and stay with creamy head. Smooth taste, perferct somewhat twinkling taste.

The can technology today is great, keeping Boddingtons creamy white head and golden blonde colors. The beer is good for what it is.

Got this from the English shop in antwerp. very clear ber, no bubbles @ all. Nice cramy head, thanks to the ball in a can trick. Smell caramel, a little bit of hops and a little bit sweetness.Very soft and easy drinkable beer. The bitter flavor is there, but it is all the flavor you will get. Kinda dissapointed in the beer, is like water with taste :-(

Faint aroma of beer. Barely any flavour. Somewhat of a creamy texture. Not very interesting at all.

Frothy light orange yellow colour with a thick lasting creamy tan head. Smells of malt and sulfur, probably from the widget. Some caramel. Light thin flat body. Starts with a faint sweetness and moves to a unpleasent bitterness. Light feeling of cardboard and alcohol. Not sure why its so popular.