Brampton Best Bitter

Brewed by Brampton
Style: Bitter
Chesterfield, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask-conditioned at the Derbyshire beer festival, Seven Stars, Bristol 6/12/10. Amber with a slight, off-white head. Sweetish caramel and hedgerow fruit, with decent bitterness in the finish. Ok.

Cask (gravity dispense - I think) at the Great British Beer Festival Day 2, August 2009. Amber colour. Moderate condition. Not much aroma. Straightforward, quite firm bitter. Good level of bitterness. Fairly traditional in style.

Cask @ GBBF 2009. Pours a pale amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma with some hoppy hints. Fruity malty caramel flavor with some hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.

Cask @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear light to medium amber color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, fresh nutty. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20090805]

A Mes rate. Gravicask at GBBF.
Darkish gold with a very thin white head. Earthy malt, lots of fruit and wood plus some late lingering caramel. Are there any hops in this brew at all?

Cask at GBBF 09 ... amber ... light toffee and fruit hop nose ... fruity orange ..

(Cask at GBBF, London Earl’s Court, 5 Aug 2009) Pale amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with apricots, biscuits and dusty hops. Malty, fruity taste with notes of peaches, biscuity malt and dusty hops in the finish. Medium body with some lingering malt sweetness. Decent but hardly exciting.

Cask@GBBF2009. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is wood, earth, mild dark fruits as well as some sap. Flavour is wood, fruits, caramel malts, grass and some slight bready malts.

Cask@GBBF 2009 "as Best Bitter". Deep amber color, small off-white head. Light, lime hoppy aroma. Some caramel, resiny hops. Solid malt base. Decent all around bitter.

Cask Handpump at the Derby Tup, Chesterfield 02/02/2008 Hoppy aroma. Golden coloured hoppy and slightly fruity with some dryness in a crisp malt finish.