Botley Old Cooperage

Brewed by Botley
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Southampton, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask-conditioned at the Hampshire Beer festival, the Seven Stars, Bristol 4/05/2011. Copper coloured with a decent, off-white head. Sweet, red fruit and caramel aroma with a touch of dusty hop. Flavour of berry fruits and slightly earthy malts with a dryish finish. Good.

Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.

Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, sweet malt. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, malty, sweet caramel malt, canned mandarins notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110430]

Cask at the Hobgoblin, Reading. Poured bright reddish copper with a thin scummy-looking beige head; rich purple fruit aroma; full bodied with a rich purple fruit flavour, but lacking the sweetness that I’d expected; then a solid, dry finish. Very drinkable.