Butcombe Gold (Bottle)

Brewed by Butcombe
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Bristol, England

Serve in English pint

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Copper amber coloured, next to no head but has a lovely smooth texture in the palate. Has a slightly grainy character but its bitterness is also evident.

Bottled 0.5l ; Devon ; UK ; Caramel,toast,citrus and grassy aroma ; Amber color with bigger head ; Medium sweet taste ; Nice bitter finish ; Very pleasant beer.

This review is exported from olutopas.info with no comment. Original rating date 9.7.2010

50 cl bottle @ home. Rated on 18.03.2010
Aroma is slightly sweet with toffee, some English hops and hints of honey. Flavour is sweetish with toffee, English hops, hay, some honey, biscuits and caramel. Not my kind of ESB.

From old backlog. 500ml bottle. Clear amber colour with 2 finger fluffy head. Aroma is malt, hops. Flavour is floral hops and malt.

The head is ok. It smells hoppy, aromatic and a bit sour. The taste is bitter and a bit sour. In the aftertaste hoppy-bitter and sweet. Interesting and nice one! 11/10/10/11/11/10

Not a stunning beer, but on a really hot afternoon, very refreshing. A little sweetish in taste, but I was surprised at how nice it was. I wouldnt go out of my way to find it, but Im glad I got to taste it.

Brown 500ml bottle, best before 2nd Nov 2010, drank and reviewed on a bright, sunny but chilli Sunday afternoon, 24th Oct 2010. Poured into an ’abbot Ale’ tankard: light orange/golden amber in colour with a good solid head od foaming bubbles on top. The beer showed a slight haze and bubbles ambled up through the beer to the head all through the tasting. Fuggles are used, but although I could taste them, their presence in the aroma was minimal. There wasn’t much malt content in the smell either, in fact there was very little smell to talk about. The taste was a pleasant blend of hops and malts, evenly distributed in a well balanced way. Sweetish upfront with a refreshing hop bite in each sip. The 4.7% ABV is evident as the beer warms in the glass, but doesn’t effect the flavours too much, just adds an extra dimension to them.

Bottle at Monks Sveavägen Stockholm. Pale amber colour with a small white head. Flowery aroma. Slightly sweet, fruity taste.

Bottled 0.5L. Malty and hoppy nose. Pale fast disappearing head. Clear golden colour. Malty and fruity and hoppy taste. Some hints of nuts in the taste. At the end hoppy bitterness.