Brodies Bumble

Brewed by Brodies
Style: Bitter
London, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask-conditioned at the Old Fountain, Old Street 11/02/10. Hazy amber with a slight white head. Slightly sweet, fruity aroma with a suggestion of honey. Flavour was much the same with plenty of bitterness and the honey becoming evident in the aftertaste. Forgettable.

500ml bottle from the brewery, drunk at home, 20th Dec 2010. Hazy yellow with a small white head. Quite cheesy taste, honey is subdued (due to old bottle?) Medium palate. Yeasty nose.

6th September 2010
Bottle at home. Hazy gold beer, good white head. Dry crisp palate. Creamy even malt. Bitterish grapefruit and a little smoke! Just a trace of honey sweetness before more smoke and bitterness in the very dry finish. Oddly enough it all works!!

Bottle at home. Pours a slightly hazy, glowing gold with a foamy, white head. Light, crispy malts on the nose with some tangy hops, perhaps citrus. Flavor has some good sweetness, faint bread and sugars, straw bitters. Light to medium in body with fine and effervescent carbonation. Has a crisp, clean bite to finish, maybe some hints of honey but mostly just straight sugar, with more straw bitters and some citrus that hits the throat. Alright.

500ml bottle at 4.6% (best before 20/12/2010) @ Christmas tasting on 28 December 2010. Golden amber colour. Good condition. Clean and a little sharp. Not a huge honey presence but that’s not necessarily a bad thing in my book. Quite refreshing but not one of Brodies’ more memorable beers.

Bottle 500ml. @ ChrisOs - Christmas Tasting.

Clear medium yellow color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate yeasty, sharp, honey. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20101228]

500 ml bottle - Chris O’s pre-NY tastings - thanks to whomever got this. Banana, toffee, yeast and cinamin on the nose. Taste is lemons; spice, banana, tofffee, cinamin, dry and rather fruity after taste. At the end of the bottle so would have to re-rate at the Brodies’ pub sometime.

UPDATED: NOV 2, 2010 Flaske 0,5l fra Waitrose Bloomsbury. Mørk gylden. Uklar. Høyt luftig skum. Sedimentene vises tydelig i glasset: På grensen til kunst! Tung, fruktig aroma. Litt tynn og svakt fruktig smak.

Murky body with special artworks from the sediments. Rocky, white tophead reduced to a small layer. Malt-honey smell. Dry, semi-sweet taste of dark honey. Rounded bitter endnotes. Bottle 0,5l bought at The King William IV and shared with Finn at a hotel room, London 29.09.2010

500ml bottle bought at William IV consumed at home. Hazy gold, lasting white head. Some yeast, some honey, some spice on aroma. More honey in mouth, with a touch of rubber you get some British bottle conditioned beers. Ok finish. Fine.