Brentwood Hope & Glory

Brewed by Brentwood
Style: Bitter
Brentwood, England

Serve in English pint

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Bottle 500ml.
Clear medium amber color with a small average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, bread, light coffee, toffee, light hoppy, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20100119]

Bottled. An amber beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma has notes of metal, malt, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, metal, alcohol, and a bit of spices.

Bottle 50 cl. Pours an almost clear amber with a creamy off-white head. Toffee and caramel in the nose - very sweet. Medium body, again loads of toffee notes and nothing much else really. No bitterness. 190110

Cask handpull at The County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. Copper colour, lasting beige head. Fruity best bitter some richness, some earthy hop. It’s in good condition. Good fruit and malt. Solid

UPDATED: OCT 27, 2009 1. Cask Handpump at the Church Hall, Frodsham 06/01/2007 Nutty aroma. Large white head. Mid brown amber coloured and nutty with some bitterness in a dry malt finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black JDW, Northwich 05/01/2009 Fruit aroma. White head. Amber coloured with some sour fruit flavour. A little dryness and bitterness in a full malt finish.

Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Chestnut with white head. Sweetish smooth beer with a slight nutty character. A little caramel character but just a little too thin, standard Spoons fare.

A Mes rate: cask at Baker St ’Sporks.
Copper coloured with a good creamy off white head. Slight apple in the aroma does it no favours. Pleasant nutty malt dominated flavour with a faint dusky bitterness. Good fruit and a little caramel add some depth. Good body. Decent chewy malt finish but let down again by some burnt plastic. The middle is good, shame it starts and ends poor.

Bottle. Amber brown with a thin head. Aromas are weetabix and dark treacle malts with some nuttiness. Chocolate with some citrus. Quite yeasty. Flavours are sweet toffee and chocolate with grapefruit and spicy hops. Herbal on the finish. Good.

Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol JDW, Bristol 24/1/09. Deep amber in colour with a moderate, off-white head. Aroma and flavour were sweet with plenty of caramel, some spicy hops and a decent bitter finish.

Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Dark amber with a small off white head. Faint vegetal aroma. Sweet spicy malt taste with a sharp bitter finish. I have mixed feelings about this beer. Being thirsty, I chugged this beer pretty swiftly, but I found the hops a tad dominant.