Bristol Beer Factory Exhibition

Brewed by Bristol Beer Factory
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Bristol, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask@Melton Mowbray Beer Festival 2007. Black beer with a reddish tinge. The aroma is roasted and the flavour is roasted and quite bitter. Overall a nice dry, bitter and roasted beer.

Bottle conditioned, 500ml. Chestnut with a fine beige top. Aroma mouldering red apples off the lawn cooking in a hot black sack; coal smoke, cooked rhubarb, clove spiciness, cinder toffee. Good simple taste with a spiced rhubarb and apple strudel character; clove hints, toffee, hazelnut. Some coal dust and milk chocolate digestives, peppermint. But the overall feel is nothing that complicated. Fine bitter, difficult not to drink very quickly.

Bottle from Rehills in Newcastle. Dark hazy brown in colour with chocolate and red fruity flavours with a nutty and roasted finish.

Bottle@home from Ales By Mail, Thanks Paul! Pours deep garnet red with pale tan head that soon dissipates. Rich fruit shortcake nose with sticky treacle undertones. Quite highly carbonated, the palate is predominantly malt based with a touch of blackcurrant and robust English hop bitter-finish. Some of that shortcake makes it through and perhaps a touch of astringent chicory there too.

[500ml bottle, Nina’s, Edinburgh] Deep reddish ruby brown, with a thin, off-white head. Toffee and molasses on the nose. Same on the flavour – rich, sticky molasses with rising sweetness. Chocolate on the finish, which is soft and welcoming. A soother [03042012]

Pours dark, white head, lasts a little time. Malty aromas, malt predominatrs at first, with chocolate hints followed by some hops at the end.

500ml Bottle - Dark brown in colour. Dried fruit, marzipan and malt in the aroma. Fruity and bitter taste with notes of chocolate, raisins and marzipan.

Bottle from Nina’s. Pours an amber brown colour with a fair light tan head. Aroma of chocolate and caramel. Similar flavours, quite malty overall, with a nice bitter character also. Alcohol is present as are grassy hops. Moderate carbonation. Very nice.

Cask (CWAF2012, Thursday)
Quoth Anna: Well balanced, a touch of choc in the taste. Lovely copper, loose head. A bit of an old ale style. Not too sweet, and fills out in the mouth nicely.

Bottle at DSG 2011. Dark amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is malt, caramel, fruit, dried fruits. Flavour is sweet, roasted malt, caramel, alcohol, raisin, hop. Medium body. Ordinary beer.

bottle at home ... thanks to Freya for the Home Delivery ... deep copper .. thin tan head ... sot toffee malts ... little metallic nose ... juicy toffee malts ... figs plums and a touch metalic.