Brewers Union Wotcha (a la Chinook)

Brewed by Brewers Union Local 180
Style: Bitter
Oakridge, Oregon USA

Serve in English pint

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Cask (gravity dispense) at Great British Beer Festival, day 4 on 5 August 2011. I have to say, I didn’t find the prospect of sampling a 4.4% best bitter, brought all the way from Oregon to a festival that was chock full of similar beers of a more local provenance, a particularly enthralling prospect. I’m not sure it survived the trip to well. There was some rather grainy, biscuity malt here and overall impression was a bit dull. Said to be part of a series of "Wotcha" beers with different aroma/finishing hops, in this case Cascade. But I didn’t think the Cascade made much of an impression. Nothing particularly wrong here, just not very attention-grabbing.

5th August 2011
GBBF. Cask. Light haze on this amber beer. Light dry palate. Horrible raw pale malt - tastes like bird seed. Foul!

Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear medium amber colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, nutty, earthy. Initial flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter, finish flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, malt dusty, nutty, earthy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft. [20110805]

Cask@GBBF2011. Goldeny amber colour, no head. Aroma is fruits, toffee, sweet malts, some mild wood and also some mild resiny notes. Flavour is mildly smoked malts, caramel malts, toffee, grass and some slight floral bitterness as well.

GraviCask (GBBF2011, Friday) Black tea, honey, hints of vegetables with its husky graininess. Delivers the grainy veg in spades. Milky malts too. Pretty messed up, but deep down it seems like a formula I should like.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Clear amber coloured with a small white head. Fruity aroma of caramel, hops and cooked vegetables. Fruity flavour of hops, grass and cooked vegetables. Hoppy finish.

From cask at GBBF 2011. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and slight caramelish. Sweet, malty, breadish, toasted and light caramelish. Subdued hoppy. Light bitter and sweet malty finish.