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Burton Bridge Top Banana

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Formerly brewed at Burton Bridge
Style: Bitter
Burton-on-Trent, England
Serve in English pint

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RATINGS: 3   MEAN: 2.43/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.65   SEASONAL: Special   EST. CALORIES: 135   ABV: 4.5%
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Cask; Special (Gold Medal Ale series) - April 2009.

Gold Medal Ales are produced monthly in recognition of some of the ’greats’ of history. This month’s story :-
Thomas Johnson was a Yorkshireman who migrated to London as an apothecary and botanist. He is considered as ’The Father of British Botany’. In 1633 he hung a large hand of bananas for sale in his Snow Hill shop window. They were the first to be seen in this country, probably coming from Bermuda. How they got here in good condition remains a mystery. During the Civil War, Thomas was conspicuously brave in supporting the King at the Battle of Basing House in 1644 before falling mortally wounded.

Colour: Light Gold
Nose: Fruity
Taste: Well rounded with dry finish
Hops: Amarillo, Pioneer & First Gold


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   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
Kestral (494) - Årnes, - MAY 6, 2009
Cask at Wenlock Arms. Pours clear golden, a fizzy ring of head. Aroma is sweet malts, a bit skunked, some fruity notes. Flavour is skunked, sweet fruits, dry finish. Basically no carbonation, flat, thin. Think it might have been a bit too old, this one.

2.5
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
madmitch76 (6193) - , Essex, ENGLAND - MAY 21, 2011
22nd April 2009
Clear gold beer. Soft dry palate. Medium malt with a slight dusty note. Nice zesty mild hop fruit provides some interest but overall thebeer feels tired. This was a Gold Medal winner???

2.5
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
hughie (3992) - Bedford, Bedfordshire, ENGLAND - MAY 17, 2009
Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Another in the seemingly endless series of ’Gold Medal Ales’. This one commemorates Thomas Johnson who sold the first bananas in Britain in 1633. Good for him. The beer was an oddity. Gold. Creamy, sweet toffee malt aroma. I wrote ’toffee’ and I meant it, but later the aroma showed distinct notes of Coffee, to be precise the cans of German iced coffee you can get in Lidl. Taste is buttery with some sourness. Mid bitter finish. Didn’t really like this. It had an odd oily deepfried flavour.


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