Brooklyn Best Bitter

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Bitter
Brooklyn, New York USA

Serve in English pint

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On draft at George Keeley’s. A good English style mild bitter. It tastes very much like something you might have in a pub in the U.K.

Cask...pours hazy gold with a medium creamy white head. Aroma is earthy and grassy with mild hoppy spice. Flavor has some pale malt backing and earthy/grassy hops. Mouthfeel is light and the finish is earthy/bitter and dry.

On Cask at the brewery.

Pours an orange color with a small head and some lace.

The aroma is of wet malt and some nondescript fruit. A little butter is slightly off-putting but I kind of like the almost briny character that’s going on.

The flavor is mildly bitter and hoppy with some light marmalade and toasty malt. Some fruit character, specifically red apple is bright and pleasant.

As expected the beer has a very low carbonation, which isn’t bad but this does carry the beer as a little watery on the palate.

UPDATED: OCT 24, 2011 Location: Cask at the Brewery, 10/22/11

Aroma: It has a faint nose of caramel sweetness and some light pine
Appearance: It pours a clear caramel color, small ring of cask style head
Flavor: Taste is balanced, lots of caramel sweetness, some earth/pine, light bitter
Palate: This one has a fairly smooth cask feel, a touch watery and light of body
Overall Impression: Decent bitter, solid on cask, but nothing super special. I wanted it to be a little bit better then it actually was.

Cask at Get Real NY - Your basic bitter. Light sweet caramels, dry piny hops with a bitter finish. Quaffable and solid.

Cask at Get Real NY. Clear amber. Aroma is pretty typical bitter with some light hops, earthy, bit of citrus, some tea. Not bad.

Pouring at Get Real NY. Pours a clear orange golden amber with a thin white head. Sweet caramel, toast. Malty and sweet toast. Easy drinking, sweet and light. Nice sessionable beer.

Cask at the Get Real NY Cask Ale Event with Andrew, Streets, Brendan, and Linh. Pours an amber body. Muted aroma and flavor - most likely due to the cask conditioning.

Cask. Lightly hazed amber body with soft off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, lemon, bread, some orange. Taste is medium sweet, lemon, bread, some orange, light spicy. Soft light body, very easy drinking. Would make a nice session beer.

Sampled on cask at Churchkey, Washington D.C. Pours a slightly hazy, translucent orange with a frothy, lacing white head. Dry, bready, crackery aroma. Flavor is dry, crackers, biscuits, bread, lemons, orange rind. Finish has a lingering bitterness, dry. Sessionable. Nice.