Brew Wharf Bitter

Formerly brewed at Brew Wharf
Style: Bitter
London, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at the brewpub. An orange beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel and brew mash, like a steeping mash tun. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, leading to a bitter, hoppy, and dry end.

Draught at the Brew Wharf, London
Hazy golden color. In the aroma, some fruity hops. The mouthfeel lacks some structure, but the hopping is quite good. Quite different from the English ones, I would treasure the hop and improve the malt impact. The final is a bit watery.

Cask handpull at Brew Wharf, , London Xmas Pub Crawl. Hazy pale copper colour. Toffee hop earthy aroma, bit wet in the body as Maeib might say. Could do with a bit more oomph. Pleasant enough though. I just hope that this brewery continues to improve its products.

Cask Stillage at the Victoria Leisure Centre, Nottingham 20/10/2006 Hop aroma. Golden amber coloured and hazy in appearance. Hoppy and crisp on the palate. Some dryness in a bitter lasting finish.

Cask conditioned (probably under gas) at The Brew Wharf, Borough, London. Golden to brown with bubbly head. Dry and light bitter but with a tinny CO2 whack within the beer. Once it settles there is a malty smoothness. Early days yet, but not one to return to.

Cask (handpump) at the Brew Wharf, Southwark. Slightly darker amber colour than the Best. many of the same concerns arose with this one - served too cold, a bit to much like hop juice on the palate, slightly thin mouthfeel. There’s maybe a little more earthy and toffeeish character here, but it still could do with something a bit more mellow and a little more body to smooth out the sharp hops.

Cask at the brewery in London. Lightly fruity nose, mildly grassy hop scents, some fruity grains and sugars as well. Very sweet overall, gummy bears and sugar. Crisp up front, fruity, chewy sweet. Decent.

Cask@Brew Wharf, Borough, London. Pretty boring, subtle hoppy, citric characters, with a grainy, thin, almost watery mouthfeel.

Cask at Brewpub. Partly cloudy golden-copper body with a very small white head. Generic malt character. Lacks hop presence, especially for a Bitter. Some citrus notes and almost no bitterness. Name was changed to Wharf Ordinary, there was a big sign at the bar that read “In anger about the closure of London’s oldest brewery our Wharf Bitter shall now be named Wharf Ordinary and our Wharf Best shall become Wharf Special”. And ordinary it was.

Cask at the brewpub: Brew Wharf London SE1 16 Sep 06. Golden colour. No head. Fruity aroma. Hints of fruit in the flavour. Some bitterness in the aftertaste.