Bridgetown Albert Ale

Brewed by Bridgetown
Style: Bitter
Totnes, England

Serve in English pint

fantastic rustic traditional beer, drunk 20 metres from where it was brewed at the Albert Inn Totnes

On gravity at the Portcullis, Bristol 10/12/09. A solid session amber session beer with a slight, off-white head. Aroma of biscuity malts, red fruit and a hint of earthy hop. Flavour started with some sweet malts, more fruit and a decent, bitter finish. Ok.

a very strange aroma that almost puts one off drinking it at all. odd, slightly chalky texture, with a weird chemical taste. maybe it just doesn’t travel well, but on the evidence so far I won’t be heading to Totnes to try it again

Cask@Nottingham Beer Festival, 2008. Amber beer with a chlorine aroma, and a mildy toffee and weakly hopped flavour. Overall a very disappointing beer due to the aroma.

Cask conditioned at The Albert Inn, Totnes, Devon. Amber with white head. What a pleasant surprise, this is an archetypical quaffing bitter, just doing it slightly better. Biscuity dry malt with a floral, pleasingly standard tea like hop. The locals had suggested that the brewer hadn’t quite got his beer right yet, well on this evidence, he has.