Brains Willy Nilly (Bottle)

Brewed by Brains
Style: Bitter
Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales

Serve in English pint

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500ml bottle from Sainsbury’s, Prestwick - clear dark brown, foamy beige head, vanilla, malty aroma, initial sweetness, moderate bitter hop finish

500ml bottle courtesy of mr_h. Medium brown, decent head. Grassy toffee malt aroma. Vanilla toffee malt flavour. Bitter aftertaste. Unbalanced & not very good.

Bottle from Sainsbury’s, Team Valley. This is a ruby red coloured beer with malty, red fruit and nutty flavours with a sweet slight roasted chocolate finish.

Bottle. Pours a dark ruby colour, with a moderate size head, aroma is malty with some dark fruits, taste is sweet malts and some toffee with a dry finish.

Bottle reddish chestnut brown with beige thin head that lingers aroma is brown bread malt with dates. Taste is mostly bitter with slight caramel undertone. Bitterness increases at the finish. Mouthfeel is watery and very dry. Low carbonation.

Hmm. Slightly weak in flavour but not unpleasant. Solid, easy to drink workmanlike bitter

50cl bottle from the Sainsbury’s beer hunt range. Copper with a thin white head; malty aroma; thin at first with a dry, malty, caramel taste; and a trace of fruit and chocolate towards the finish. A straightforward bitter.

Bottle, from Sainsburys,Lincoln. Chestnut brown, thin but lasting off white head and moderate condition. Hints of caramel sweetness and a figgy fruitiness in the nose, quite dry in the mouth with a gentle chalky bitterness over a light caramel note and suggestions of woodiness, finish is brief and mostly chalky bitter.

Bottle at home in London. Pours clear, ruby-brown with a soft, creamy head. Nose is mostly light berries, some mellow, lightly toasted dough. Light sweet flavor, some bready, dark doughy malts, cherries, grapes and other berries, almost no bitterness, but perhaps some light leaves. Light bodied with average carbonation. Somewhat bland to finish, a bit more of the berry character, some jammy fruits, lightly toasted dough, faint lingering leaves. Extremely basic, but not really offensive or anything. It’s easy.

500ml bottle. Pours deep red with a small head. Aroma is fruity malt, treacle and boiled sweets. Taste has bready malt with a bitter, boiled sweet finish.