Buckleys Best Bitter

Brewed by Brains
Style: Bitter
Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales

Serve in English pint

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Tasted this in The Esquire House, Glasgow (JDW) in May 2005. Cask, Handpump dispense. Clear pale amber in colour with a thin white head. Slight hop note in the short nose. Thin mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malt base gives a digestive malt with a hint of redcurrant fruit. Dusty hop resins give aslight citric tang to the aftertaste. Finish is dry and has a note of grapefruit. Nothing too exciting in this standard type bitter.

Attractive deep and clear, dark amber body supported by spotty lacework. Smooth malty aroma. Satisfying flavour of caramel malts mixed with fruits. Malt bitter finish. Half, cask in fine condition at Red Deer, Sheffield 2 Oct 10.

Cask (handpump) @ Market Porter, 9 Stoney Street, Southwark London, Greater London England SE1 9AA.
[ As Brains Buckley Best ]. Clear medium amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, molasses, mash, toffee, overriped apples. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is light medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat to soft. [20081231]

Cask at The Market Porter London Bridge 5 Feb 08. Golden brown colored. A tiny off white creamy head. Sweet fruity aroma. Plums. Disappointing flavor of dried fruit. Modest sourish bitter finish.

Cask @ The Harp, Covent Garden. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head, Fruity malty aroma with some hints of caramel. Sweet malty nutty caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.

Cask on handpump. A dark session beer, fairly sweet and full bodied. Fairly pleasant but ordinary, could do with more hops to balance.

Cask conditioned - handpump - JDW Northampton. A mid brown coloured beer with some light malt on the nose and an average bitter beer taste. Really quite boring and served far too cold.

Cask at County Hotel, Ashford, kent. Chestnut brown, light malty nose with some flowery hops. Good sweetish malt in mouth, leading to some red fruit malt and a dryish finish which is quite bitter. Off white head with good lacing

Draught in wales. Dark redish color big creamy head. Fresh bitter aroma. Flavor is sweet and malty Average beer.

Tastet in Llstafan in Wales. Dark redish color big creamy head. Fresh bitter aroma. Taste is sweet and malt, but needs a little bit power. But a nice beer.