Bowland Oak

Formerly brewed at Bowland
Style: Bitter
Clitheroe, England

Serve in English pint

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Gravity, Reading Beer Festival. Dark amber diacetyl best bitter with an earthy hop finish. Old school, but not quite up to standard. Butterscotch all over the place! Hmm.

Served at perfect drinking temperature at The White Star in Liverpool. Low, white head. Slightly foggy, copper-brown body. Fruit-floral aroma. Hop resin and lemon in the flavour added by notes of sweet roastiness. Brief moments of bitterness in the aftertaste. Light in the mouth. (cask, half pint 04.05.2009).

Cask, Cellar Bar, St Andrews. Hazy orangey-amber-chestnut, reasonable off-white head. Very acetic nose, balsamic. Disguises the hops, stale nose. Bitter and strong malty, touch of malty biscuit. Generic beer taste, some fluffy taste (like drinking head, but not actually drinking head). No palate, watery, boring, uninspiring. Don’t think it was at its best, but still, really really dull.

Cask Stillage at the Community Centre, Frodsham 07/05/2004 Amber golden coloured hoppy and bitter. Crisp slightly dry finish which lasts.

Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - Rugby BF. An amber coloured bitter with a malty, fruity aroma. The taste is reasonably fruity and there is hops in the aftertaste.