Brampton Wasp Nest

Brewed by Brampton
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Chesterfield, England

Serve in English pint

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   add pic

Cask (handpump) @ The Riverside, 1 Mowbray Street, Neepsend, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England S3 8EN.

Clear medium to dark amber color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, nutty notes, sweet earty honey, meat notes, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft. [20100424]

Cask, The Rising Sun, Fulwood, Sheffield. Chestnut brown, sweet nutty aroma. Sweet flavour, more nuttiness, and sweet caramel. A bit too sweet for my tastes.

Rich amber colour with a white head that sinks into the glass and disappears but for the residue clinging to the sides. Aroma tends toward malt with a distinct vegetal aroma coming from the hops. I want to think of nettles and thistles, but that may just be the theme of the beer. Other aromas of caramel slice, ginger, cereal, leather and other wonderful English bitter aromas.The flavour at first seems a little innocuous: cool and good mouthfeel and then there’s a surge of elegant bitterness, malt and buttery toast. Bitterness lingers on the palate and develops into an almost peppery flavour. A tasty drop and no doubt.

UPDATED: MAY 24, 2010 1. Cask Handpump at the New Oxford, Salford 07/12/2007 Some hop aroma. Amber mid brown coloured and slightly rich on the palate with a little bitterness in a crisp and dry malt finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Derby Tup, Chesterfield 02/02/2008 Floral and hop aromas. Amber coloured hoppy and fruity with a little bitterness in a crisp and dry lasting malt finish. 3. Cask Handpump at the Riverside, Sheffield 24/04/2010 Malty aroma. Amber mid brown coloured and a little rich on the palate with a fruity and bitter full malt finish.

Cask, Loughborough Fest 09. Amber brown with a small head. Aromas are weetabix malts with earthy hops. Flavours are sweet malts with peppery notes and dry tea. Lightly dry and bitter on the finish.