Butcombe Rare Breed

Brewed by Butcombe
Style: Bitter
Bristol, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at The Harp, London. Pours clear gold with a fine, foamy white head. Light toast aroma, some fruits. Medium sweet flavor, and quite a rather fruity bitter. Light grains, grapes, and melon. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish with some juicy, citrus bitters, some bready malts. Very nice.

500ml Brown bottle: best before 19 Sept 2012, poured into my ’La Chouffe’ tulip glass twice on 18 May 2012. Light amber body, clear and clean looking: on top a closely knit head of bubbles. Aroma is of citrusy hops, but not strong or overpowering: just enough strength to let you know the hops rule this beer in the smelling stakes. The taste is a well balanced blend of those aforementionrd hops and the malts, the flavours just about evenly matched. Malts to the fore then the hop bitterness kicks in gently after the initial sweet feel. Crisp tasting, almost sharp for a UK bitter, very drinkable.

Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate hoppy, citrus, light lime. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120113]

Cask conditioned at The Royal Sun, Begbroke, Oxon. Amber to gold with white head. There was a lovely condition about this, fresh, bitter, nice and refreshing, dry right through to the close and quite full. Really liked this one.

Bottle. Golden with a well balanced bitterness, Well balanced and well bottled but just a tad too bitter for my taste.

disticntly unimpressed. probably more to do with the condition of the beer and its service than the beer itself. scummy head on a slightly orangey body. weak aroma and tasted like cold tea/cat waz! cask. white lion. clifton. bristol.

50cl bottle from the Wine Company, Slough. Golden amber in colour with a scummy looking off-white head; rich fruity aroma - apricot jam comes to mind; deep fruity flavour to start with a deep hoppy bitterness and a peppery hop finish. Really enjoyable.

Well balanced pale ale with a slight but nice fruity aftertaste in the palate.

500ml bottle. Pours dark gold with a large head. Aroma is bready malt, vanilla and spicy hops. Taste is mostly bready malt with a medium bitter finish. A little spicy hop on the finish. Nothing wrong, just unexciting.

UPDATED: DEC 24, 2011 Cask-conditoned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol October 2011. Solid biscuit malt backbone, a hint of citrus fruit and lingering bitter finish with a hoppy kick. Enjoyable. Note the bottled version of this is called "Adam Henson’s Rare Breed".